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Why $2 Gas Is Amazing

Why $2 Gas Is Amazing 05/22/2004 03:24 PM
Why $2 Gas Is Amazing Gasoline is now selling at more than $2 a gallon, which, after inflation, is higher than it's been since 1981. But that's not the amazing part. Actually, there are three amazing parts.

Infrasound animals

Infrasound animals 01/03/2005 10:02 PM
"Infrason ic Symphony" Intrigued by reports of tsunami-avoidance behavior in Sri Lankan wildlife? Science News offers a timely antidote to simplistic mumbo-jumbo about the "mythical power" of animal earthquake detection with a detailed look at the latest research into low-frequency sound. The Elephant Listening Project is particularly interested in elephant rumblings that produce Rayleigh waves. "Mammals, birds, insects, and spiders can detect Rayleigh waves," notes The Explainer. "Most can feel the movement in their bodies, although some, like snakes and salamanders, put their ears to the ground in order to perceive it."

Tool Use in Animals

Tool Use in Animals 05/03/2004 06:43 AM
“Tool Use In Animals”, a tidy little informative set of pages from Dr. Robert Cook's much larger “Animal Cognition & Learning Website” at Tufts University. See also (worth repeating because it’s the coolest thing ever) the previously featured “Betty the Crow”.   ◊via milovoo in Ask MetaFilter◊

Weightless Animals

Weightless Animals 05/06/2004 11:07 PM
Weightless Animals: soundtrack to space.

"the animals we face"

"the animals we face" 05/12/2004 05:27 PM

Animals on the Underground

Animals on the Underground 02/15/2004 03:45 PM

Sometimes it is a totally obvious and simple idea that is the most brilliant. Animals on the Underground is just that sort of brilliant, simple idea. Constellations of stars have been illustrated for centuries using the connect the dots technique, but applying it to the underground station map is clever and the animals are adorable. Maybe I'll dig out my underground map and try to find a few new ones.

Glass Animals 1.0

Glass Animals 1.0 05/17/2004 10:32 AM
Cute and shiny animal icons.

When animals go to school

When animals go to school 08/31/2004 09:52 AM
Maybe we can save endangered species, but can we teach animals to be wild? Salon contributor Susan McCarthy talks about her new book, "Becoming a Tiger" -- and debunks the 100th monkey theory along the way.

FDA says it's OK to eat cloned animals

FDA says it's OK to eat cloned animals 10/31/2003 08:33 PM
USA Today Oct 31 2003 7:53PM ET

On The Emperor's Animals...

On The Emperor's Animals... 10/29/2003 12:10 AM

So here's a concept for a new Typepad weblog, inspired by the quirky and immensely pleasing post categories on a friend's weblog. The concept is called The Emperor's Animals and is basically a collection of funny animal links and stories from around the web. The site is designed to resemble 18th/19th Century illustrated guide to fabulous beasts and uses as post categories the The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge typology of animals outlined in Jorge Luis Borges' The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. Please please will someone make this. I'd read it every day! Just in case you don't know them off-by-heart already, these categories are:

1. belonging to the Emperor
2. embalmed
3. trained
4. pigs
5. sirens
6. fabulous
7. stray dogs
8. included in this classification
9. trembling like crazy
10. innumerable
11. drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
12. et cetera
13. just broke the vase
14. from a distance look like flies

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Stuffed Animals

Stuffed Animals 04/24/2004 05:03 AM

A few pictures from a trip to the Helsinki Hall of Taxidermy, a.k.a. the Finnish Museum of Natural History.

Ok, it's true, we were bored while Jarkko was on 2 weeks of holiday that didn't include a trip somewhere and also featured the 4-5 day Easter holiday. What do you do when you've got a few days to kill, no car, no plane tickets and don't want to sit at home answering email or aimlessly surfing the web from the couch? The Finnish Natural History Museum seemed like a good idea one afternoon. We went, we saw, we were impressed by the taxidermic skill and then we went to dinner. If you're into taxidermy and dioramas, head straight for this museum as it has them both in abundance.

An amazing Year!

An amazing Year! 06/06/2005 12:01 AM

A Year ago I was laying in a hospital bed overseas having just come out of surgery that resulted in some stainless steel in my back with 4 wicked screws, and a severely damaged vertebrae. This would be the start of 13 days in the hospital, being fit with a full body cast, then graduating to a clam shell device that cost my insurance company 7k, and a heavily medicated patient for 8 weeks following the surgery.

The day I quit my pain meds I went cold turkey on a Friday, told my Doctor on Tuesday after having a very agonizing 3 days, and nights. I obviously needed the pain meds early on, and having remembered laying on a hospital emergency room bed screaming for about the first 9 hours because the morphin they gave me didn't really help I was reluctant to go down that road again.

I returned to work after 8 weeks off and within a week, was back in a Airplane on a 6 week business trip. My Doctor lost his mind but hey when it was time to get back to work you have to dive back in. The hardest part for the 3 months was the clam shell was not being able to pick my kid up.

Finally in Feb of this year, I was given the green light to start light exercising. I podcasted my hospital experience and you can find the audio clip on this p ost you can take a look at the h ardware I carry around here.

I am not complaining, as I am very blessed to be walking, and even though I live in a constant state of low level pain life is good. The wife had expected me to be rolled off the airplane as the initial prognosis was really bad and instead I walked off.

One thing though because I flew back from the middle east only 15 days after being injured, I had to lay flat as much as possible so I enjoyed 1st class on 3 consecutive flights and enjoyed the food but had to decline the liquor, as the Roxicet and the Oxycodone I was prescribed was enough bad stuff in my blood stream.

Thus having spent my 40th birthday in that hospital bed contemplating life, and having really looked forward to 2004 being in my rear view mirror the road ahead is a bright one and I am happy to be have faired as well as I have. So their may be times when I get excited about stuff and jump in with both feed but the reason for that is simple I was given a second chance to make profound changes in my families and people I come in contact withs life.

My Wife, and Kids were champions and my extended family and friends prayed and took car of my wife when I was half a world away. Thank you for being here during the past year also.

Todd..

Amazing Inova X-5 at 25% off

Amazing Inova X-5 at 25% off 09/02/2004 05:54 AM
The Mother of all Torches at a bargain price

Apple I: the Mac is amazing

Apple I: the Mac is amazing 01/07/2004 02:43 PM
So months after wondering what this integrated "Rip, Mix, Burn" technology in OS X is all about, I finally got around to making a movie -- Mr. Willem's First Christmas. It was astonishingly easy to make. It took a couple hours of shooting with a Sony DV Cam, and then a couple hours editing. Sound directly integrates with iTunes. Photos directly integrate with iPhoto. And the result directly integrates with iDVD. All that's missing is a simple way to integrate Creative Commons licenses, the way, e.g., MT does, and Adobe will (as announced at our party, at which the latest cool Flash! was shown as well).

The amazing napper!

The amazing napper! 04/13/2004 08:49 AM

Since last Monday -- no not yesterday, Monday April 5th -- I have had a nap every afternoon lasting in duration from one to over two hours! That's eight straight days of napping, and frankly I'm about done with all the tiredness. I'm ready to get back to the business of living.

An Amazing Feat

An Amazing Feat 07/25/2004 12:21 PM
Lance Armstrong, winner of his sixth consecutive Tour de France may be the best athlete of our times. A great champion.

Amazing Images

Amazing Images 06/29/2004 07:29 AM
Amazing Images - the BBC has a series of 10 pictures of fetuses at various stages of developments. There's no information about how they were obtained, but they are pretty striking. I imagine they must have been taken with one of the new ultrasound techniques (which are apparently called 4D imaging now).

More amazing Down and Out news

More amazing Down and Out news 12/18/2003 01:03 PM
This week's Entertainment Weekly lists the 10 Best Novels of 2003. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is number five. It's also one of Sunday, December 28th's NYT's "New and Notable" paperbacks. Link

Amazing Mr. Bickford

Amazing Mr. Bickford 04/01/2005 02:22 PM
The Amazing Mr. Bickford. Most Zappa fans know of Bruce Bickford for his claymation work in Baby Snakes and other Zappa movies. Recently a documentary was made of him and now he has his own web site which features a small sampling of his story board work. For some other claymation samples (not by Bruce Bickford), try here.

20 Amazing Facts About

20 Amazing Facts About 12/31/2004 12:54 PM
20 Amazing Facts About Read this and cry. Or move to another country.

The view from up here is amazing

The view from up here is amazing 04/11/2005 02:45 PM
It's truly incredible what you can see when you look down from the heights of idiocy -- the vistas are breathtaking. Right now I'm looking at a wad of virus-generated mail bounced back to me because it failed an SPF check at the receiver's end. Yep, that's right. Someone configured their mail server to check and see if inbound mail had a forged From address and, if it found that it was, bounce it back. Back to the forged from. You know, the one you just checked and found thatit didn't come from. Some days people truly puzzle me....

Animals Saving the World

Animals Saving the World 09/24/2004 10:04 AM
Gift a goat to help lift more families out of poverty forever.

Woman to Surrender More Than 130 Animals
(AP)

Woman to Surrender More Than 130 Animals
(AP) 06/15/2004 04:43 PM
AP - A woman found with more than 130 animals in her two-room house and on her half-acre lot has been ordered to surrender the pets to an animal rights organization.

In Sri Lanka, animals seem to have
survived

In Sri Lanka, animals seem to have
survived 12/29/2004 02:36 PM
Xeni Jardin: Strangely, amid massive loss of human life, there seems to be little or no dead wild animals in Sri Lanka. Snip:

Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.

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Where Are All the Dead Animals?
(Reuters)

Where Are All the Dead Animals?
(Reuters) 12/29/2004 12:15 PM
Reuters - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.

An Off-and-On Switch for Controlling
Animals?

An Off-and-On Switch for Controlling
Animals? 04/11/2005 05:29 PM
Researchers at Yale can make fruit flies walk, leap or fly by shining a laser at the insects, a discovery that could, in theory, lead to a sort of animal remote control.

"Your Mommy Kills Animals"

"Your Mommy Kills Animals" 12/18/2003 08:39 PM

Animals laugh says scientist

Animals laugh says scientist 04/06/2005 12:36 PM
David Pescovitz: Dogs, chimps, and rats laugh when they're having fun, according to psychologist Jack Panksepp of Bowling Green State University. Reporting in the journal Scien ce, Panksepp suggests that laughter may be an ancient emotional response older than humans. From BBC News:

Young chimps "play pant" as they mischievously chase and tickle each other.

And when rats play, they make chirps which some scientists associate with positive emotional feelings.

When rats are tickled in a playful way, they become socially bonded to humans and are rapidly conditioned to seek tickles, the US neuroscientist explains in Science.

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Animals in classic art photoshopping

Animals in classic art photoshopping 06/08/2004 04:26 AM
Today on Worth1000's photoshopping contest: Cute ani-mules matted into classical paintings. Link

Animals escaped tsunami

Animals escaped tsunami 12/31/2004 10:26 AM
David Pescovitz: While tens of thousands of people along the Sri Lankan coast were killed by the tsunami, wildlife officials say that they haven't found any dead animals. The waves swept inland to the island's largest wildlife reserve but none of the elephants, tigers, jackals, crocodiles, or other animals drowned. From the BBC:

Debbie Marter, who works on a wild tiger conservation programme on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, one of the worst-hit areas in Sunday's disaster, said she was not surprised to hear there were no dead animals.

"Wild animals in particular are extremely sensitive," she said. "They've got extremely good hearing and they will probably have heard this flood coming in the distance. There would have been vibration and there may also have been changes in the air pressure which will have alerted animals and made them move to wherever they felt safer."

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How Did Animals Escape Tsunami?

How Did Animals Escape Tsunami? 12/31/2004 07:04 AM
No wild animals were found dead along the Sri Lankan coastline, adding credence to the belief that beasts have a sixth sense that warns them of impending disasters.

Did animals have quake warning?

Did animals have quake warning? 12/31/2004 06:41 AM
The BBC's Sue Nelson investigates claims that wild animals, who escaped the impact of the quake, may have a sixth sense.

Your Mommy Kills Animals

Your Mommy Kills Animals 12/22/2003 11:26 AM
PETA advises children to "ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes." While you're prying, kids, see if you can figure out why she owns so many vibrating rabbits. (12-22)

U.S. May Pay Farmers to Test Animals for
Mad Cow

U.S. May Pay Farmers to Test Animals for
Mad Cow 01/02/2004 09:55 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 2 2004 9:38PM ET

Tumors grow just like animals

Tumors grow just like animals 11/17/2003 05:46 AM
The same equations used to model animal growth also describe the growth of tumors:

As an animal's mass increases, so does the number of cells within it. But the blood supply that feeds those cells grows more slowly. As a result, an increasing proportion of the available nutrients go towards maintaining existing cells rather than the growth of new ones, so the rate of growth slows and ultimately comes to a halt...

When they compared their predictions to the growth of 13 rodent or human tumours, they found the tumours' growth closely followed the same universal law.

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Chiropractor Offers Help to Animals (AP)

Chiropractor Offers Help to Animals (AP) 01/03/2005 07:12 PM
AP - A chiropractor who applies his skills to animals as well as people is finding new ways to help four-legged patients.

It's amazing what you find in a mess

It's amazing what you find in a mess 03/14/2005 05:38 PM
Some of the things I had no idea were on my computer's desktop, discovered while cleaning it up: A recipe for Pickled Oysters with English Cucumber "Capellini" and DillA map of the Madaket (Nantucket) bus routeVarious torrents of things I never listened to, like Jon Stewart's Crossfire appearanceMore strange .pdf files that I must have inadvertantly downloaded than I care to admitAn Excel spreadsheet from 4/2003 comparing the costs of purcasing an espresso machine to going to the local coffee shop to making due with my French Press pot at homeMy brother's "updated" résumé from early 2004 From here on out, I resolve to be neater! Next job: cleaning up the 6,935 emails in my inbox (all either read or skimmed), oldest dating back to 9/13/01!

Amazing action figure art

Amazing action figure art 06/23/2004 01:53 PM
Amazing action figure art When I first saw the photos of this stuff, I thought they were taken from life. I've never been into war-toys based on humans, but this is really really breathtaking...

Survivors tell of amazing escapes

Survivors tell of amazing escapes 12/29/2004 02:17 PM
British survivors of the Asian tsunami have been involved in amazing rescues and heroic acts of bravery in the aftermath of the disaster.
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