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A carnivorous sponge ranks among the top 10 winners for International Year of biodiversity.

( Some self-analysis )

For some reason my practically perfect program keeps giving me blank output files, my printer is just sitting there with it's light on and 5 jobs pending not making a sound and definitely not printing, the determinant of a simple vbrational-thingy-matrix refuses to be worked out and the Optics tutorial is no closer to becoming any more legible.

Woe ( Read more... )

You know, this post started off with two interesting things from Arts and Letters plus something from new scientist and has now morphed into something random and spectacular. Just accept it as a token of my love that I am filling your f-lists with pages of links to places you'd probably rather not know existed. It's for your own good. And for the ( Read more... )

•  Enter the Matrix - this suddenly makes the prospect of Vector Spaces revision so much more worth it.
•   Mewonders if this is how the end of the human race will come about... beware, my friends, the Uprising!

And who else knew that Newsnight Review had changed to become 'The Review Show'? Oh, right, everyone. I'm an idiot. Well, I'll just rant about ( Read more... )

The Amazonian tribe that can only count up to five.

(links to the actual scientist for fear of April Fool's - http://www.hal.inserm.fr/inserm-00285215/en/)

And this article - the thrill of Science tamed by agendas - makes my inner crusty natural philosopher is priming to ( Read more... )

Oh, I can't believe I only found  this just now. I suppose that's my punishment for not keeping up with the New Scientist. Rather old, but genuinely amusing.

 ...did you know that Tyrannosaurus Rex lived in family groups? In the unlikelihood of  a 'Jurassic Park' scenario, I feel I'm safe in finding this fact rather endearing.

And I just got this from physicsworld titled 'The Quantum Life'. Pretty fascinating stuff. I'm a bit annoyed that that's the only one out of three articles I wanted to read that I ( Read more... )

Yet another awesome science-y website (the likes of which are the webpage/magazine equivalent to Discovery Channel Documentaries) called 'How Stuff Works'. Reminds me of the old 'The Way Things Work' series that had that mammoth mascott. Anyone? No? Well, I wanted one as a pet until someone crushed my dreams and told me they were an extinct species ( Read more... )