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Wednesday, 23 June 2004
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Reader-Submitted: Seven of Nine Vaporizes Republican Senate Candidate. Yet another God-fearing straight-arrow family-values Republican
caught being rather naughty. And with actress Jeri Ryan, no
less.
It's like something you would find in fiction or in tabloids,
but apparently it's legit. Republican Jack Ryan (no relation to
the Tom Clancy character) is now running for a Senate seat to
replace retiring Republican Senator Fitzgerald. But he might... [morons.org headlines]
10:57:31 PM 
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"When he wasn't experimenting with lightning or overthrowing the British
Empire, Benjamin Franklin found time to fool around with mathematics,
inventing a variant of the magic square called Franklin's squares. Now
Maya Ahmed, a mathematics graduate student at UC Davis, has come up
with a way to construct both Franklin's own squares and others of the
same type. The methods could have applications in computer programming
for business."
The full release
[David Harris: Science news]
9:14:50 PM
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Introducing the ratfish. I love any sort of animal that has a name consisting of the
juxaposition of two other animal names. It's pretty common among fish,
because fish is a more generic descriptor than most species names (e.g.
catfish, dogfish, sharkfish, cowfish, mousefish, frogfish, horsefish,
etc.) Right at the moment, I can't think of any other conjunction of
animal names not involving a fish. Leave examples in the comments
below...
Brazil Scientists Discover Prehistoric Ratfish (Reuters). Reuters - Brazilian scientists have
discovered a species of fish, related to sharks, that has been
swimming the seas since dinosaurs walked the Earth, a
researcher involved in the project said on Thursday.
The fish, which is a kind of chimaera, or ratfish, is about 12
inches to 16 inches long, has large, wing-like fins, a
whip-like tail and exposed nerves along its body that help it
navigate in the deep, dark waters where it lives. [ Yahoo! News - Science]
[David Harris: Science news]
12:13:04 AM
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