Fields of green wallpaper
Birdlike dinosaur boasted opposable fingers
Chalk up another evolutionary first for dinosaurs: Bambiraptor evolved opposable fingers 75 million years ago, long before our ancestors developed opposable thumbs.
Phil Senter at Lamar State College in Orange, Texas, US, made the discovery while investigating the arm movements that could have been made by a dromeosaur called [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Fields of green wallpaper, Opposable fingers found in dinosaur
Posted in News, Science on January 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Live brain coral photo, Student’s study warns of danger to coral
Posted in Environment-wildlife, News, Science on January 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Live brain coral
As you probably already know brain coral is not an undersea plant it is an animal. They belong to the phylum Cnidaria and the class Anthozoa.
Students delve into science
For his project, “The Influence of Human Impact on Water Quality in the Dry Tortugas National Park,” Seacrest High School junior Peter Borden, 16, collected [...]
Slot Canyon wallpaper, New biography of the man who invented the Richter Scale, New wind turbines for Wisconsin
Posted in Environment-Energy, Science, Society & Culture on January 27, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Slot Canyon Utah wallpaper
All shook up A Review of Richter’s Scale: Measure of an Earthquake, Measure of a Man
Susan Elizabeth Hough – 2007 Princeton University Press
The seismology in the book is handled with great assurance, though there is scarcely any attempt to provide the basic information that non-seismologists will require. But the personal aspects of [...]
Greater Flamingo in Africa, Eating less meat is better then a Prius
Posted in Environment-General, Environment-wildlife, Society & Culture on January 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
African flamingos on a lake
These birds are Phoenicopterus roseus.
Vegetarian is the New Prius
Last year researchers at the University of Chicago took the Prius down a peg when they turned their attention to another gas guzzling consumer purchase. They noted that feeding animals for meat, dairy, and egg production requires growing some ten times as much [...]
Retiree makes time to care for ducks, Google was angel invester in solar company
Posted in Environment-Energy, Environment-wildlife, News, Tech on January 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Ducks feeding at sunset wallpaper
Retiree makes caring for ducks his mission
YUCCA VALLEY — As a technical adviser for the Air Force, James Smith lived all over the country and flew all over the world. He’s been to China and India and North Africa, just to name a few of the exotic locales he’s put down [...]
