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The latest issue of
Yellowstone Science quarterly is devoted to 5 articles chronicling the history of the management of grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park, from the 1950s era "garbage dump bears," to listing as an endangered species, to de-listing as endangered, to current management. Many excellent photos, maps, charts and graphs make this a great resource for people interested in the fate of grizzlies in the lower 48 states.
Part 1 of the issue.
Part 2. [links to PDF files] (
via)
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at 6:33 AM on July 22, 2008
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The National Odd Shoe Exchange
is a non-profit organization that is a source of footwear for those requiring single shoes or pairs of differing sizes. Many have this need due to injury, disease or genetic disorders.
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at 4:18 AM on April 13, 2008
(11 comments)
Mecca's Executioner.
A 2006 interview with Abdullah Bin Said al-Bishi, a man who wields his sword as one of Saudi Arabia's official executioners. (11:30 minute .wvx Windows Media file or
written transcripts.)
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at 12:35 AM on March 14, 2008
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Even Astronauts Commit Suicide.
Former Navy doctor,
astronaut and
Space Shuttle mission specialist,
ham radio operator, and one time flight surgeon of The Blue Angels,
Dr. Chuck Brady,
was denied a hip replacement by the Navy shortly before he took his own life in July, 2006, and, according to his friend Dr. Ed Drum, this was a pivotal point in the depression that led Dr. Brady to apparently take his own life.
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at 8:04 PM on September 20, 2007
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R.I.P Paul B. MacCready
Paul MacCready, inventor of the
Gossamer Condor, the first human powered heavier-than-air aircraft, and the
Gossamer Albatross, the first human powered aircraft to cross the English Channel, has died, according to
AeroVironment, the company he founded.
"You can do all kinds of things if you just plunge ahead," he said in an interview with Science in 1986. "It doesn't mean you're any good at them, but you can be good enough."
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at 4:36 PM on September 1, 2007
(13 comments)
Foldschool offers free downloadable PDF patterns you can use to make children's furniture and "fun objects" out of 4mm corrugated cardboard.
via
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at 8:13 AM on April 29, 2007
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The Brine Pool,
at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, is a salt pond more than 50 meters in length, whose water has such a high concentration of methane gas, that it supports surrounding mussel beds resembling a beach shoreline, around its entire perimeter. Called by some "
one of the strangest places on earth", The Brine Pool also provides habitat for hag fish and other creatures who dive into and out of its salty water for cover and camoflage, as well as some weirdo worms that live on the
strange frozen methane hydrates that can form in, or adjacent to such pools. In some photos,
"waves" can be seen on the "surface" of The Brine Pool, as its heavy salt water remains distinct from the seawater of the Gulf above.
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at 6:56 PM on September 19, 2006
(38 comments)
Either you
liked them or
you didn't, but for 60 years, the
National School Lunch Program has been feeding American school children
low cost, nutritious meals. Personally, from the 1960's, in small town Kansas, I miss the
fish sticks, the thick oil crust sheet
pizza, and the corn bread. And
subsidized milk, at 2 cents an 8 ounce carton.
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at 6:57 PM on September 3, 2006
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August 6, 1945 Hiroshima, Japan
"... Father Siemes' account is now given below without any editing or modification. His eyewitness account is a priceless insight into this event, as are his thoughts on the implications of total war and its application."
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at 11:34 PM on August 5, 2006
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"Every war becomes a proving ground for new tactics and new technologies."
... "...The Pentagon began this war believing its new, networked technologies would help make U.S. ground forces practically unstoppable in Iraq. ... But now, more than three years into sectarian conflict and a violent insurgency that has cost nearly 2,400 American lives, an investigation of the current state of network-centric warfare reveals that frontline troops have a critical need for networked gear—gear that hasn’t come yet. " [more inside]
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at 3:18 AM on May 20, 2006
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A new book collecting unpublished poems of Elizabeth Bishop
offers us unpolished views of work in progress, by one of the 20th century's greatest literary perfectionists. But in doing so, it raises again "An issue as old as the printed word: Is work that a writer chose not to publish during her lifetime fair game after she dies?" [more inside]
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at 11:11 PM on April 28, 2006
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What is going on with all the FPP doubles the last couple of days? [
here,
here, and
here] How scary does the posting page need to be?
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at 5:11 PM on February 27, 2006
(7 comments)
Columnist and Pulitzer Prize winning author
Art Buchwald is dying. On today's
The Diane Rehm Show on NPR, he was interviewed in the Washington hospice he has moved to, about many topics, including his decision to suspend treatment for his advanced kidney disease, and live out his life in hospice.[more inside]
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at 8:47 AM on February 24, 2006
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Get your game on with Kaneva.
Billing itself as
"The world’s first digital entertainment marketplace!" Kaneva is a beta launch of a concept that maybe interesting to gamers, media creators, and consumers as well. An Atlanta based company, Kaneva.com aims to be an exchange/market portal for game and media creators, who can directly create Massively Multi-player Online (MMO) games using the Kaneva Framework, and for digital media creators seeking distribution. The business model is innovative, and has been described as
"a kind of multi-media flickr (pre-fame) meets eBay on steroids, or an online marketplace for folks hyped on digital entertainment. An Intertainment Hub. A platform and host." The company recently presented its concept at the June meeting of the International Game Developers Association, and back in April
Computer Gaming Magazine had an article. During the beta test phase, the site's tools are free to all comers, and there is already a limited amount of content available for those who just want to play something new.
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at 7:12 PM on June 18, 2005
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Slow 'em down.
"Traffic calming is the combination of mainly physical measures that reduce the negative effects of motor vehicle use, alter driver behavior and improve conditions for non-motorized street users." If you are a frequent pedestrian user of a residential street with high traffic volumes, or speeds, you may be interested in
strategies and
data from various community projects to alter traffic flow.
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at 6:09 PM on June 17, 2005
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