Experiments in Life Because Sometimes Science Screws Up!

28Sep/050

More Tantalizing Squid News

This is truly turning out to be squid week or something. Anyway, thought this article was interesting too. They caught one of the giant squids on camera. That's a nice change from a dead one washed up on the beach. Check it out, it at least has a cool picture :D

Scientists capture giant squid on camera

Here is another article describing the same thing, only it has a couple of more pictures and a video you can watch. It's pretty cool. Go check it out :)

Live Giant Squid Caught on Camera

27Sep/050

Squid Anyone?

Below is a link to a very interesting article. Follow it if you dare ;)

Deep Sea Squids

Here's some more squid news :)

Giant Squid overthrown...
Colossal Squid

19Sep/050

A Connection with History

I think that it is fascinating that Harriet, the giant tortoise captured by Charles Darwin in the Galapogos Islands, is still alive. Unfortunately, Harriet currently lives The Crocodile Hunter's Austrailia Zoo, so there is virtually no chance of me ever getting to see her. Reading just a little about Harriet's story instilled in me a sense of awe over the scope of her lifetime. 175 years is a long time.

17Sep/055

Pure Nerd

Results of the Nerd? Geek? Dork? test:

Pure Nerd
86 % Nerd, 21% Geek, 21% Dork
For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.
A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.
A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Nerd, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd.

The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally
smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up
all of the traits and tendences associated with the "dork." No-longer.
Being smart isn't as socially crippling as it once was, and even more
so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be
replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.

16Sep/050

Oops!

Plague-infected lab mice missing in New Jersey

"...the rodents may have been stolen, eaten by other lab animals or just misplaced in a paperwork error..." (from the Associated Press article linked to above)

Richard Ebright, a Rutgers University microbiologist had this to say, "You have more security at a McDonald's than at some of these facilities..."

Somehow, that just doesn't make me feel any better about the incident.

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