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Sunday, 27 June 2004
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Little lemurs in that primate paradise of Madagascar find sub 30 degrees Celsius worth sleeping through for seven months or so.
[Scientific American]
11:27:07 PM 
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The latest results from a group doing fun work. I've interviewed them
previously and always been fascinated by what you can achieve with
"toy" experiments.
Extraterrestrial impact created in the lab.
Scientists in the Netherlands have successfully recreated a small-scale
meteoritic impact in the laboratory for the first time. The novel yet
simple experiment, devised by Detlef Lohse and colleagues at the
University of Twente, involves dropping a small steel ball onto the
surface of a sand bed. The results could shed more light on the
processes occurring during large-scale impacts on Earth and other
planets in the solar system (arXiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0406368). [ PhysicsWeb News]
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[David Harris: Science news]
4:05:27 PM
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[UPDATE: "After receiving a complaint from the publisher that (the article) infringed on the book's copyright, Slate removed the piece on the advice of counsel."]
The Juicy Bits in My Life. "It took him 957 pages. We do it in one."
[Paul Boutin]
3:59:20 PM
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It's always good to see the Hindustan Times's take on Australian cycling.
Hindustan Times Jun 23 2004 6:46AM GMT [Moreover - Sports: cycling news]
3:32:48 PM
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Moore's latest has some powerful images that are invariably overwhelmed by his jokey, faux-populist self-righteousness.
[Salon.com]
3:26:37 PM
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Moore is not just a traditional muckracker, but a crusading artist -- like Dickens, Solzhenitsyn and Springsteen -- and has become a signal artist of our time.
[Salon.com]
3:16:14 PM
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Monogamy may be traced to a gene.
Emory University scientists may have tracked a man's cheating
heart to a neurological level. Using rodents, prairie voles,
who are monogamous, and meadow voles, who are polygamous, they
tracked the differences in brain chemistry. After
discovering...
[morons.org headlines]
2:41:03 PM
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