I did a search for expired domains containing the word 'slashdot'.
Guess there is no hope for us since slashdotsolutions.com went under.
Wonder what bizarro-slashdot.org would have been like? A bunch of healthy fashion designers whining about switching to Windows or trying to post sheepchastity.org links as last post.
Disclaimer: IAABBNAC (I am a biologist, but not an Cephalopodilog)
This is not stupid. The giant squids (Architeuthidae) are a genus of squid within the 10-armed cephalopods. This means that all the species of this group are each others closest relatives.
Pemberton probably means that this specimen is of an undescribed species of this group. 'Giant squid' is not a physical, but a taxonomical description.
I'm a PhD student in entomology, and I have collected insects in the tropics.
Usually collectors set traps that catch thousands of insects and then pick out the specimens they are interested in personally (usually a very narrow sampling). The rest of the insects usually just go all mixed up to a museum in a jar of alcohol. The label usually just say something like "Malaise Trap, Sumatra 1967 Collector E. Neuman".
At the Swedish Museum of Natural History, where I work, there are jars of assorted insects collected all over the world dating back to the 1930s, just waiting to be picked through.
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I love DooM! And I love it even more under an improved engine. The old gameplay is still there, but with more eyecandy. Hi-res, even openGL, and mouselook are supported now.
I am a PhD student in zoology, and I have an article in press about the phylogeny of winged insects. There are several theories about how wings originated, and where each steps is useful.
It has been suggested that wings were solar panels, turned into gliders and later, wings.
A theory that i find more plausible is that wings developed from gills in aquatic insects, and the transitional stages were used for skimming the water surface. Such gills are found on living insects like mayfly larvae, and they already have all the musculation and control nerves in place.
Evolution is dynamic process, where those most adapted to the environment tend to have more offrspirng than those less adapted. I'm sad to see that many people (including most journalists) still seem to think about evolution as a linear process, where a species becomes more and more adapted striving for perfection.
Has our environment changed? Well, humans are still adapted to live on the savannah. We are adapted to socially depend on a large extended family.
In genetic time, humans recently started farming, and even more recently started living in citites. We are subjected to an entire new environment: the indoors. We are living very close to lots of strangers. Still, we react to modern life as hunters/gatherers. Think of stress, road rage, people being burned out by 30.
Evolution works on all living organisms all the time. Maybe other factors are more important than genetics, in determining the number of offspring a human has. It is easier to imagine that those less (genetically) adapted tend to have fewer children. Those burned out from work by the time they're 30 probably have less energy for having a family than those who have the genetics (and social life) to cope with stress.
And for a good read about evolution that clears up a lot of popular misunderstandings about what evolution is and isn't I can really recommend Richard Dawkins.
Did you ever take any chemistry classes? It is used as a solvent, grease remover and makes a large part of cooking/technical alcohol. Methanol is pretty harmless unless you drink it. Of course, breathing a saturated atmosphere of metanol is dangerous, but then there couldn't be much more than a few millilitres in an electronic device.
There is also the environmental aspect. Methanol can be made from wood, so the net CO2 pollution is 0. I'd rather have a spill of some alcohol than undegradable heavy metals.
This however has nothing to do with primordial scum! Charales are advanced green algae that looks something like a submerged moss.
I need to read the article, but i suspect the reason Nature would publish this is that they used some new fancy algorith to calculate the phylogenetic trees.
1: If this is an ancient group, maybe the two longer arms on squid are a specialization.
2: Well, ordinary squid tentacles does get thinner toward the ends too.
3: Most jellyfish have several more than 10 tentacles. The two 'wings' looks like the same structure are the fins on squid and cuttlefish to me. There are other squid that have 10 equally long arms, the Belemnoidea.
I am a biologist, but not a marine biologist. I do hope someone catches one of these creatures. Wonder what its closest relatives (among other Cephalopods)are...
i got the new Eels CD 'souljacker' a few days ago. there is actually a label on the back that says 'IMPORTANT This compact disc can be played on any compact disc player.'
What scares me about this list of banned songs is that they have banned songs about peace as well:
Nina "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons" (Nena, really) John Lennon "Imagine" Simon And Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water" Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"
I am a zoological systematist, working in entomology.
The human genomes was sequenced by taking lots of DNA, cutting it up randomly sequencing the random pieces of cut up DNA.
In my field, we work with much smaller amounts of DNA. Sometimes I only have a single specimen of a tiny insect, or unique material (from rare or extinct species) to try and get some DNA out of. In older material, DNA is usually degraded and many times we end up with nothing but a destroyed or damaged specimen.
With small amounts of DNA to begin with, we have to amplify (PCR) single genes or regions by using general primers, which means that they don't only fit on the insect DNA, but fungi and human DNA too, making contamination of your material very real risk.
If this technology turns out to work on a larger scale, it's amazing news for me and my collegues.
The nanopore technolgy sequences single moleculer, which means the PCR step becomes unneccesary! This means that we can get sequences from specimens with severely degrades DNA, and we don't have to be as afraid of grinding up rare material in hope of getting sequences.
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I did a search for expired domains containing the word 'slashdot'.
Guess there is no hope for us since slashdotsolutions.com went under.
Wonder what bizarro-slashdot.org would have been like? A bunch of healthy fashion designers whining about switching to Windows or trying to post sheepchastity.org links as last post.
Disclaimer: IAABBNAC (I am a biologist, but not an Cephalopodilog)
This is not stupid. The giant squids (Architeuthidae) are a genus of squid within the 10-armed cephalopods. This means that all the species of this group are each others closest relatives.
Pemberton probably means that this specimen is of an undescribed species of this group. 'Giant squid' is not a physical, but a taxonomical description.
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There aren't any pretty flare effect like in JDooM, but you can play at high res and use mouselook etc.
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I'm a PhD student in entomology, and I have collected insects in the tropics.
Usually collectors set traps that catch thousands of insects and then pick out the specimens they are interested in personally (usually a very narrow sampling). The rest of the insects usually just go all mixed up to a museum in a jar of alcohol. The label usually just say something like "Malaise Trap, Sumatra 1967 Collector E. Neuman".
At the Swedish Museum of Natural History, where I work, there are jars of assorted insects collected all over the world dating back to the 1930s, just waiting to be picked through.
http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/BeOS/
I love DooM! And I love it even more under an improved engine. The old gameplay is still there, but with more eyecandy. Hi-res, even openGL, and mouselook are supported now.
Check out zDooM
I am a PhD student in zoology, and I have an article in press about the phylogeny of winged insects. There are several theories about how wings originated, and where each steps is useful.
It has been suggested that wings were solar panels, turned into gliders and later, wings.
A theory that i find more plausible is that wings developed from gills in aquatic insects, and the transitional stages were used for skimming the water surface. Such gills are found on living insects like mayfly larvae, and they already have all the musculation and control nerves in place.
Evolution is dynamic process, where those most adapted to the environment tend to have more offrspirng than those less adapted. I'm sad to see that many people (including most journalists) still seem to think about evolution as a linear process, where a species becomes more and more adapted striving for perfection.
Has our environment changed? Well, humans are still adapted to live on the savannah. We are adapted to socially depend on a large extended family.
In genetic time, humans recently started farming, and even more recently started living in citites. We are subjected to an entire new environment: the indoors. We are living very close to lots of strangers. Still, we react to modern life as hunters/gatherers. Think of stress, road rage, people being burned out by 30.
Evolution works on all living organisms all the time. Maybe other factors are more important than genetics, in determining the number of offspring a human has. It is easier to imagine that those less (genetically) adapted tend to have fewer children. Those burned out from work by the time they're 30 probably have less energy for having a family than those who have the genetics (and social life) to cope with stress.
And for a good read about evolution that clears up a lot of popular misunderstandings about what evolution is and isn't I can really recommend Richard Dawkins.
Did you ever take any chemistry classes? It is used as a solvent, grease remover and makes a large part of cooking/technical alcohol. Methanol is pretty harmless unless you drink it. Of course, breathing a saturated atmosphere of metanol is dangerous, but then there couldn't be much more than a few millilitres in an electronic device.
There is also the environmental aspect. Methanol can be made from wood, so the net CO2 pollution is 0. I'd rather have a spill of some alcohol than undegradable heavy metals.
For a long time, Charales has been one of the prime suspects in being the sister group of the land plants
This however has nothing to do with primordial scum! Charales are advanced green algae that looks something like a submerged moss. I need to read the article, but i suspect the reason Nature would publish this is that they used some new fancy algorith to calculate the phylogenetic trees.
It looks like a Cephalopod to me
a ls/mollusca/cephalopoda/coleoidea/coleoidea.html
1: If this is an ancient group, maybe the two longer arms on squid are a specialization.
2: Well, ordinary squid tentacles does get thinner toward the ends too.
3: Most jellyfish have several more than 10 tentacles. The two 'wings' looks like the same structure are the fins on squid and cuttlefish to me. There are other squid that have 10 equally long arms, the Belemnoidea.
Read more about Cephalopods at http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/eukaryotes/anim
I am a biologist, but not a marine biologist. I do hope someone catches one of these creatures. Wonder what its closest relatives (among other Cephalopods)are...
Good story, only it's not true! :)
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i got the new Eels CD 'souljacker' a few days ago. there is actually a label on the back that says 'IMPORTANT This compact disc can be played on any compact disc player.'
Will we see more of this from indie type bands?
What scares me about this list of banned songs is that they have banned songs about peace as well:
Nina "99 Luft Balloons/99 Red Balloons" (Nena, really)
John Lennon "Imagine"
Simon And Garfunkel "Bridge Over Troubled Water"
Louis Armstrong "What A Wonderful World"
I'm sure you can find other examples
I am a zoological systematist, working in entomology.
The human genomes was sequenced by taking lots of DNA, cutting it up randomly sequencing the random pieces of cut up DNA.
In my field, we work with much smaller amounts of DNA. Sometimes I only have a single specimen of a tiny insect, or unique material (from rare or extinct species) to try and get some DNA out of. In older material, DNA is usually degraded and many times we end up with nothing but a destroyed or damaged specimen.
With small amounts of DNA to begin with, we have to amplify (PCR) single genes or regions by using general primers, which means that they don't only fit on the insect DNA, but fungi and human DNA too, making contamination of your material very real risk.
If this technology turns out to work on a larger scale, it's amazing news for me and my collegues.
The nanopore technolgy sequences single moleculer, which means the PCR step becomes unneccesary! This means that we can get sequences from specimens with severely degrades DNA, and we don't have to be as afraid of grinding up rare material in hope of getting sequences.