You bet scientist are keeping undescribed ("new") species of fish to themselves. The name of the person who wrote the original description is always associated with the species. Linneaus described the european pearch, so in scientific literature the name is given as Perca fluviatilis Linneaus.
An ichtyologist I know were interviewed by a journalist during a collecting trip in South America. He held up a specimen of an undescribed fish he had just caught for a picture.
Later, an unknown german guy read the article and published a description of the new species based on the picture in the magazine! The ichtyologist that had collected the specimen hadn't ever started to work on his description.
What is remarkable about this tree is not its age, but that it is a recently discovered species only known from a few specimens. This species could not be placed within any of the described groups within Auracariacacae, so it has been placed in a new genus, Wollemia.
The Auracariacae are a group of conifers, just like pine trees and spruces. The best known is the monkey puzzle tree grown in temperate regions all over the world.Conifers are hard to clone, i.e. it's difficult to make the cuttings grow a root system.
There is an untapped geek factor in plants. Here's a chance to own a clone of a very rare species of a strange tree. As a biologist, it sound pretty cool to me!
Migrains are a very specific type of headache. The symptoms can span from just severe headache to nausea and visuals (aura).I have never had any visuals. An onset typically comes soon after being relieved of stress, such as after handing in an essay or finishing a project with a deadline.
I am fortunate to have a mild form of migraines. I get a severe one-sided headache, and light and sounds become intolerable. I take aspirin and lie down in a dark room for a few hours.
The worst about migrains is the feeling of despair during the attack. Like a temporary depression, it feels like nothing is worthwhile and nothing good will ever happen again. The feeling is still there, even if I know it's just a side-effect of the migraine.
Tha part of the tree you refer to is unresolved , a polytomy.
What is important in a phylogenetic tree is branching order. When the branching order is uncertain or ambiguous, a polytomy is put in place. The placement of the branches in a polytomy are usually arbitrary, or in alphabetical order.
From the tree, you can tell that primates are most closely related to tree shrews, and that the group (primates + tree shrews) in turn is most closely related to bats and colugos.
Finding articles has begun to become a real big problem. Cheap universities cut down on subscriptions. My place of work, the University of Stockholm, canceled all science journals at the main library this year Online periodicals are still very expensive.
The problem with free online journals is getting an ISSN number for your journal. Without this, it is not even counted as a publication, and won't appear in any reference databases. To get an ISSN, the journal has to be printed and submitted to something like 50 libraries.
So, to publish an online journal you still have to kill trees...
There are already posts compaining about releasing the source for an outdated game. I'd say take a look at what happened to DooM since the source release...
A number of new ports for a variety of platforms. Ports that improve the engine, as well as those that add eye candy.
Most Linux books for newbies reminds me of that Monty Python sketch one how to play the flute: you blow in one end, and just move your fingers up and down the shaft.
they go over in great detail on how to partition the HD, networking, file rights, the concept of root etc.
but no real-life trouble that the newbie (like me) will run into like:
1. what to do when you hosed your Xfree86 config file when trying to install the nvidia drivers.
2. what the hell is glibc, and how do you upgrade it!:)
actually..I found out what glibc was eventually...and that I should just update the entire system!
Sabre Wulf was a great game! But...Ultimate changed their name to Rare. Rare actually still uses their old stuff in newer games. They even used the name Sabre Wulf for a charcter in beat-em-up Killer Instict. The killer app for the original 16k Spectrum, Jetpack, appeared as a mini game in Donkey Kong 64
Note that Rare was recently purchased by Microsoft. Not very likely that they'll release their old Speccy titles for public use.
Firefly.com was also a good internet community back in 96-97. Then they build a new bug-riddled javascript bloated system that was so slow the chatrooms and community pages became unusable.
Spent many many hours chatting on FFly. You had to refresh the window to load any updates!
Any other old Firefly people on Slashdot? My FFly id was Assar, and I used to hang out in the Save Ferris and Witty Repartee venues.
There is actually a controversy which is the 300:th episode.
There at least three clip shows (Another Simpsons Clip show, All Singing, All Dancing, Gump Roast) that I can think of, so removing them from the count doesn't make sense either.
The problem of asexually reproducing crops
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The kind of bananas the we buy in our stores are triploid hybrids. This means that they are sterile and produce no seeds. They are reproduced from cuttings of the creeping underground stem, the 'banana trees' are actually upshoot from this.
They downside is that all cuttings are genetically identical, so if a new disease or pest comes along, ALL commercial bananas are threatened. With other crops, crossbreeding with other strains can improve the resistance to the pests.
Introducing resistance genes in commercial bananas can only be done by genetic engineering. Remember that there are still wild sexually reproducing bananas out there, so maybe we will be eating hybrids of other species in the future.
You could try running the PSX version in an emulator like epsxe. Other than that you only need a playstation bios and the old CDs. The backgrounds will still be in PSX resolution, but the polyogons will be rendered by hardware in any resoultion you want!
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that should have been alt.tv.simpsons.
You bet scientist are keeping undescribed ("new") species of fish to themselves. The name of the person who wrote the original description is always associated with the species. Linneaus described the european pearch, so in scientific literature the name is given as Perca fluviatilis Linneaus.
An ichtyologist I know were interviewed by a journalist during a collecting trip in South America. He held up a specimen of an undescribed fish he had just caught for a picture.
Later, an unknown german guy read the article and published a description of the new species based on the picture in the magazine! The ichtyologist that had collected the specimen hadn't ever started to work on his description.
What is remarkable about this tree is not its age, but that it is a recently discovered species only known from a few specimens. This species could not be placed within any of the described groups within Auracariacacae, so it has been placed in a new genus, Wollemia.
The Auracariacae are a group of conifers, just like pine trees and spruces. The best known is the monkey puzzle tree grown in temperate regions all over the world.Conifers are hard to clone, i.e. it's difficult to make the cuttings grow a root system.
There is an untapped geek factor in plants. Here's a chance to own a clone of a very rare species of a strange tree. As a biologist, it sound pretty cool to me!
..autorun on CDs is bad, mmkay!
Migrains are a very specific type of headache. The symptoms can span from just severe headache to nausea and visuals (aura).I have never had any visuals. An onset typically comes soon after being relieved of stress, such as after handing in an essay or finishing a project with a deadline.
I am fortunate to have a mild form of migraines. I get a severe one-sided headache, and light and sounds become intolerable. I take aspirin and lie down in a dark room for a few hours.
The worst about migrains is the feeling of despair during the attack. Like a temporary depression, it feels like nothing is worthwhile and nothing good will ever happen again. The feeling is still there, even if I know it's just a side-effect of the migraine.
The multiple branches reflect an unresolved relationship or an uncertainty. See my other post for more info.
Tha part of the tree you refer to is unresolved , a polytomy.
What is important in a phylogenetic tree is branching order. When the branching order is uncertain or ambiguous, a polytomy is put in place. The placement of the branches in a polytomy are usually arbitrary, or in alphabetical order.
From the tree, you can tell that primates are most closely related to tree shrews, and that the group (primates + tree shrews) in turn is most closely related to bats and colugos.
Anyone tried Somari?
I'm a biologist, and I think I am the only one at my department that uses LaTeX.
Still, for collaborations I would *ugh* use Word, because I simply can't demand that others read my cludgy neophyte LaTeX code.
LaTeX with BibTeX and natbib.sty is a great replacement for EndNote and other expensive programs.
Did you check the link? The name isn't actually too bad a description of the flower!
There is a genus of flatworms called Gonocephalus! Check that in your latin dictionary.
Finding articles has begun to become a real big problem. Cheap universities cut down on subscriptions. My place of work, the University of Stockholm, canceled all science journals at the main library this year Online periodicals are still very expensive.
The problem with free online journals is getting an ISSN number for your journal. Without this, it is not even counted as a publication, and won't appear in any reference databases. To get an ISSN, the journal has to be printed and submitted to something like 50 libraries.
So, to publish an online journal you still have to kill trees...
..are his contributions to childrens cartoon Dr. Snuggles and Monty Python's Flying Circus!
Check IMDB!.
The real link should of course be kodocha.isgreat.net
The list of anime to be shown makes envious...why are there never any anime festivals here in Sweden...
Is Kodocha ever shown at anime festivals. This is the funniest shoujo anime I've seen. There a a bunch of torrents over at Animesuki.
Enjoy!
There are already posts compaining about releasing the source for an outdated game. I'd say take a look at what happened to DooM since the source release...
A number of new ports for a variety of platforms. Ports that improve the engine, as well as those that add eye candy.
Nothing but good can come of this!
Most Linux books for newbies reminds me of that Monty Python sketch one how to play the flute: you blow in one end, and just move your fingers up and down the shaft.
:)
they go over in great detail on how to partition the HD, networking, file rights, the concept of root etc.
but no real-life trouble that the newbie (like me) will run into like:
1. what to do when you hosed your Xfree86 config file when trying to install the nvidia drivers.
2. what the hell is glibc, and how do you upgrade it!
actually..I found out what glibc was eventually...and that I should just update the entire system!
Sabre Wulf was a great game! But...Ultimate changed their name to Rare. Rare actually still uses their old stuff in newer games. They even used the name Sabre Wulf for a charcter in beat-em-up Killer Instict. The killer app for the original 16k Spectrum, Jetpack, appeared as a mini game in Donkey Kong 64
Note that Rare was recently purchased by Microsoft. Not very likely that they'll release their old Speccy titles for public use.
A ner Alien8 would be fun though...
Firefly.com was also a good internet community back in 96-97. Then they build a new bug-riddled javascript bloated system that was so slow the chatrooms and community pages became unusable.
Spent many many hours chatting on FFly. You had to refresh the window to load any updates!
Any other old Firefly people on Slashdot? My FFly id was Assar, and I used to hang out in the Save Ferris and Witty Repartee venues.
There is actually a controversy which is the 300:th episode.
There at least three clip shows (Another Simpsons Clip show, All Singing, All Dancing, Gump Roast) that I can think of, so removing them from the count doesn't make sense either.
The kind of bananas the we buy in our stores are triploid hybrids. This means that they are sterile and produce no seeds. They are reproduced from cuttings of the creeping underground stem, the 'banana trees' are actually upshoot from this.
They downside is that all cuttings are genetically identical, so if a new disease or pest comes along, ALL commercial bananas are threatened. With other crops, crossbreeding with other strains can improve the resistance to the pests.
Introducing resistance genes in commercial bananas can only be done by genetic engineering. Remember that there are still wild sexually reproducing bananas out there, so maybe we will be eating hybrids of other species in the future.
I used metylene chloride (CH2Cl2) as a solvent in organic chemistry class. It has smells like something you would dilute paint with (duh!).
Not very unpleasant really, but nothing you would want to smell the first thing in the morning!
Slightly off topic, but I thought this might be a good place to mention TextNes, the text mode Nintendo emulator.
Site seems to have disappeared, but is available from web.archive.org
File is still available from Zophar.
Try this with some old roms like Super Mario Bros!
You could try running the PSX version in an emulator like epsxe. Other than that you only need a playstation bios and the old CDs. The backgrounds will still be in PSX resolution, but the polyogons will be rendered by hardware in any resoultion you want!
>Taurine is a bull protein, in the same way that Lactose is a cow protein.
Taurine is an amino acid. A building block of proteins.
Lactose is a carbohydrate or sugar.
Both of these are naturally present in human bodies. Lactose intolerance is an inability to break down lactose into simpler sugars.