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g it a big success the advantage that solar planes have is that they have the ability to hover over a location without having to orbit like a satellite or return to base for refueling like another plane according to qinetiq solar airplanes are exciting because they have a variety of uses including monitoring forrest fires military communications and tracking locating pirates off the coast of africa maybe even though this is unrelated to the concept of solar planes i have to admit that what drew my attention to this article was the fact that the winning airplane was named zephyr i love that word so for those who don t know a zephyr noun is 1 poetic literary a soft gentle breeze 2 historical a very light article of clothing its origin is late old english zefferus denoting a personification of the west wind via latin from greek zephuros god of the west wind it also happens to be in the title of one of my favorite songs so here s the zephyr song by the red hot chili peppers posted by unknown at 2 25 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday december 27 2010 what is the what while i was snowbound i read dave eggers what is the what i d read his book zeitoun for j669 this past semester and i d heard a lot of good things about what is the what so i decided to check it out for myself ultimately i liked zeitoun more but i do think that what is the what is a great read especially for someone who knows little about the civil war in the sudan the novel tells the story of valentino archak deng s life note he is a real person from the years before sudan s civil war reached the southern region where he lived which were prosperous and happy to his experiences after he fled his village and left his family whom he believed were dead to seek refuge in ethiopia and kenya before being chosen to be resettled in america what is the what is a novel because eggers was forced to reconstruct scenes based on deng s memory of events that began when he was only 7 years old when he fled his home in the sudan and became one of the lost boys the book flips back and forth between deng s present life at 27 and his childhood having to go back 20 years deng couldn t remember all the details that would have been necessary to write the book as is but don t let the novel status fool you what is the what is a true story i have a lot of faith in eggers as a writer so i m confident that the events described are as close as can be to the real events experienced by deng i learned a lot about african history and the civil wars and conflicts that have plagued the continent in my j620 international communication class but i still wouldn t say i m well informed reading what is the wha t solidified my opinion that the majority of conflicts are incredibly complex politically economically and socially which few clear cut solutions the writing is clear cut and easy to understand because eggers does a really good job at explaining complex situations in a concise and comprehendible way the sheer volume of death and violence witnessed by deng and the other children of southern sudan is rattling and reading this book has certainly made me want to find out more about what the current situation is in sudan posted by unknown at 12 34 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday december 23 2010 technology takes a look at a pliosaur skull source flickr the article colossal pliosaur fossil secrets revealed by ct scanner caught my attention because it describes an interesting new use for existing technology researchers took the skull of a pliosaur a creature that lived in the oceans during the jurassic period and scanned it to learn more about the fossil remains which may belong to the largest pliosaur yet to be discovered the creature is estimated between 10 16m based on the skull which is 2 4m long by comparison a killer whale is 5 8m and a human is only 1 5m needless to say these things were big according to the bbc article a pliosaur would have had the jaw strength to bite a car in half the ct scanner used for the research belongs to the university of southampton in the uk the machine is one of the largest of its kind which was necessary to beam through the dense fossil to form a 3d image of what the inside of it looks like the findings may be able to help researchers establish if their fossil is a different species or just an abnormally big example of a pliosaur posted by unknown at 2 44 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday december 22 2010 elephant species source wikimedia commons photographer johnny liunggren researchers have put an end to debate about whether the african elephant is one species or two new findings published in the journal public library of science biology show that the african elephants that dwell in the savannah are a distinct species from those that dwell in the forests loxodonta africana the savannah dwellers are much larger and in some cases twice as heavy as loxodonta cyclotis the forest dwellers the debate about whether the elephants were separate species has been going on for at least a decade the research shows that the two species diverged from their common ancestor around the same time that humans and chimpanzees evolved how long ago the species split was a surprise for the researchers posted by unknown at 2 33 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 21 2010 what happened to amelia earhart source wikimedia commons bones found on an island in the south pacific are being tested against surviving members of amelia earhart s family to see if the remains could belong to the famous aviator earhart disappeared in 1937 during an attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world her mysterious disappearance has been the topic of books movies and enough speculation to make her a household name even today along with other artifacts found on the island including makeup and glass bottles a dna confirmation that the bones belong to earhart would finally put to rest the mystery of what happened to her if the bones are earhart it would be valid to conclude that her plane crashed and that she survived as a castaway for some time before dying on the island if dna can give an ending to the story of amelia earhart it will definitely be a win for genetics and scientific research in general the question that would be left at least for me is what happened to her plane or her navigator for that matter posted by unknown at 4 32 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday december 19 2010 woodpeckers from space the article space laser spies for woodpeckers by jonathan amos for the bbc caught my eye today due to the way that i woke up this morning i m home in new jersey for the holidays and the back side of my parents house is wood so we ve had a few woodpeckers stop by in the past source new jersey birds com this morning i fell out of bed startled by what sounded like an attack from robotic woodpeckers i stumbled out into the hall only to figure out in my half asleep state that the noise was radiating from the inside of the house from the plumbing following the noise i found my mom in the basement doing laundry apparently the noise the sink next to the washer makes is very similar to a robotic woodpecker attack i know you all appreciated that little anecdote but now on to the scientific side of woodpeckers researchers at the university of idaho are developing lasers that can be attached to satellites to woodpeckers in the state to determine which parts of the forests they favor the researchers hope the satellite guided lasers will be a better way to track the woodpecker which is an indicator species being an indicator species means that if the woodpecker is healthy and thriving in different parts of the forest then it is likely that the forest itself is healthy and doing well if the laser satellites prove to be a successful way of surveying for a species it could eliminate more labor intensive and costly means of surveying like sending people into the forest on foot to assess the environment s health this is an instance where i have to say even though we still don t have flying cars we are definitely living in the future posted by unknown at 9 58 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday december 16 2010 do flies exercise free will the question of whether or not organisms with less brain power than humans can exercise free will essentially the ability to think for themselves has long been a scientific curiosity new research out of berlin free university suggests that fruit flies may have some level of free will drosophila melanogaster source wikimedia commons the idea is that an organism that doesn t have free will always reacts in the same way to stimuli due to the way their brain has programmed them to react yet experiments with fruit flies show some unpredictability to the way that fruit flies react this suggests that fruit flies think on a different level that previously believed now the ability to react differently to stimuli does not mean that organisms with less brain power than humans are sentient sentience is the ability to be self aware and to understand and think critically about yourself and what goes on around you whether or not organisms are sentient and to what extent they may be so remains a controversial topic flying left instead of right when poked isn t the same thing at all but it does suggest that we still have a lot to learn about the brain even in teeny tiny organisms because researchers have only scratched the surface of understanding the ability to make choices and what it means about the capabilities of the brain posted by unknown at 2 07 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest glow in the dark snails bioluminescence is such a cool natural phenomenon victoria gill s article for the bbc snails flash a green alarm light discusses the newest organism to be discovered with bioluminescent abilities basically bioluminescence is the ability to glow neon colors like a living glow stick organisms use their glow to scare off predators and when that doesn t work to put the spotlight on the organism that is attacking them so that perhaps another predator will come after it the bioluminescent snail are interesting because the actual part of the snail that glows is located inside the shell the opaque nature of the shell amplifies the color so that its glow is increased and the glow spreads to the entire shell posted by unknown at 1 47 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday december 15 2010 the ever important role of facebook given that i check my facebook at least a dozen times a day i think its safe to say that i m an addict the more facebook changes and expands the more addictive it seems to become especially with the evolution of the news feed this week my professors and colleagues pointed out several examples of social media particularly facebook playing a role in how hard news stories are reported i think it is definitely safe to say that facebook is another tool in a reporter s arsenal to get the scoop on a story or even just to get a good feel for a situation one article that i found particularly jarring because of the way it used facebook is ian shapira s article for the washington post a facebook story a mother s joy and a family s sorrow in addition to seriously pulling on the heartstrings i think shapira s article also dances around the issue of what happens to your online presence after you die the issue of digital death was raised by my colleague in the uw pro track program marianne english in the article madison startup entrustet helps people control their digital assets from the isthmus things to think about posted by unknown at 1 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 14 2010 holiday gift guide every year biotechniques publishes a list of holiday gifts for scientists or just science lovers from the 2010 holiday gift guide my favorite is definitely the microbe ornaments but check out all the options there are definitely some cute ideas for either your own little scientists or your co workers source giantmicrobes posted by unknown at 2 16 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest leaving the solar system there was an interesting story today in the bbc about the nasa space probe voyager 1 and how it is nearing the edge of our solar system voyager 1 has traveled the farthest of all the vessel to be launched from earth it will be the first space probe to ever leave our solar system launch of voyager 1 source wikimedia commons what i found so interesting about the voyager 1 probe is that it was launched in 1977 making it 33 years old this machine has been collecting and transmitting data about space back to earth for longer than i have been alive i think that is pretty amazing and it is a testament to engineering that nasa s scientists were able to make a machine that could still function properly after all this time voyager 1 and its partner voyager 2 were initially launched to survey the outermost planets in our solar system jupiter saturn uranus and neptune voyager 2 is nowhere near the edge of the solar system however because after it was finished with the outer planets in 1989 it was put on a much slower course than voyager 1 according to researchers voyager 1 should cross the threshold outside of our solar system sometime in the next five years so this story will definitely be coming up in the news again in the future posted by unknown at 1 27 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday december 10 2010 advantages to being on the left as a left handed person i found this article left handed coiling snails survive more snake attacks by the bbc s victoria gill pretty interesting i love hearing stories of left handed superiority according to this article a certain species of snail that has shells that coil either clockwise or counterclockwise is experiencing natural selection due to their shell orientation due to the way snakes suck a snail out of its shell and the way snakes jaws are formed only snails that have shells that coil to the right are susceptible to predation snakes just can t suck a snail out of a shell that coils to the left ha left handed dominance according to researchers the snails are starting to branch off into their own species because eliminating the threat from snakes has been really beneficial for their population i d also like to take a moment to point out that the idea that left handed people are sadistic is a myth the word sinistrality is used to refer to left hand...