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Galaxy Zoo Catalogs the Universe

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:36:40 GMT

Pictured above, a group of vibrant mergers found by Zooites demonstrates the diverse zoo-like nature of many interacting galaxies in the universe.

You, too, can Zoo. The Galaxy Zoo project has been enabling citizen scientists -- inquisitive people like yourself armed with only a web browser-- to sort through the universe. Specifically, after a brief training session, volunteers are asked to use the superior image-processing power of their minds to classify and measure properties of galaxies in the vast Sloan Digital Sky Survey. In its two short years of existence, millions of galaxies have already been inspected by thousands of enthusiastic volunteers.

Using Galaxy Zoo data, for example, the universe has been discovered to create no preferred spin direction, an unusual and unclassified object was found that is still being investigated, and a whole class of small galaxies dubbed Green Peas were uncovered where star formation occurs at an extraordinary high rate.

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Sweden burns bunnies for warmth

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:55:08 GMT

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Fri, 10/23/2009 - 12:26pm

Move over ethanol, there is a new bio-fuel in the world... bunnies.

Thousands of stray rabbits in Sweden are being shot, frozen and then burned for heat. Stockholm even hires rabbit hunters for the task, like Tommy Tuvuynger, a modern day Elmer Fudd.

"We are shooting rabbits in Stockholm center, they are a very big problem," he said. "Once culled, the rabbits are frozen and when we have enough; a contractor comes and takes them away."

Tuvunger is leading the fight to continue sniping bunnies for warmth. Several animal rights groups in Sweden have come out in opposition to the practice, saying that if the rabbits are a problem there are non-lethal ways to deal with them. But Tuvunger is having none of that, "If you do that you only move the problem 100 meters away."

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The World Famous Capybara Caplin

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:50:30 GMT

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The World Famous Capybara Caplin

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Capybara Caplin lives in Texas and he is the most famous capybara in the world.
The capybara is the largest living rodent in the world.

at 7:33 AM

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15 Beautiful Microscopic Images from Inside the Human Body

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:15:13 GMT

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15 Beautiful Microscopic Images from Inside the Human Body

1. Red blood cells

2. Split end of human hair

3. Purkinje neurons

4. Hair cell in the ear

5. Blood vessels emerging from the optic nerve

6. Tongue with taste bud

7. Tooth plaque

8. Blood clot

9. Alveoli in the lung

10. Lung cancer cells

11. Villi of small intestine

12. Human egg with coronal cells

13. Sperm on the surface of a human egg

14. Human embryo and sperm

15. Coloured image of a 6 day old human embryo implanting

Wish You Were Beer

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:02:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, it is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Remember: "I" before "E," except in Budweiser.

I drink only to make my friends seem interesting.

Everybody should believe in something; I believe I'll have another drink.

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

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Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.

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Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

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A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

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I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

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Draft beer, not people.

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The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.

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Wine is bottled poetry.

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If drinking is interfering with your work, you're probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you're probably an alcoholic.

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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

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I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

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This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.

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Here's to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!

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Tags: beer, cbgc

Kisses !!

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:05:03 GMT

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Tags: photography, emotions, feelings, expressions, pictures, photographs, photos

Italy Pictures: Visiting the Charming Land

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 16:37:22 GMT

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Italy Pictures: Visiting the Charming Land

"The Creator made Italy from designs by Michaelangelo"

~ Mark Twain

"You may have the universe if I may have Italy"

~ Giuseppe Verdi

"Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy."

~ Bertrand Russell

"What is the fatal charm of Italy? What do we find there that can be found nowhere else? I believe it is a certain permission to be human, which other places, other countries, lost long ago."

~ Erica Jong

Fully Loaded Bees

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:01:45 GMT

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Stunning Images of Fully Loaded Bees

Tags: bees, nature, science, photography, visual, cool, images, honeybees

The Same Color Illusion

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:32:14 GMT

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Explanation: Are square A and B the same color? They are. Are too. To verify this, click here to see them connected. The above illusion, called the same color illusion, illustrates that purely human observations in science may be ambiguous or inaccurate. Even such a seemingly direct perception as relative color. Similar illusions exist on the sky, such as the size of the Moon near the horizon, or the apparent shapes of astronomical objects. The advent of automated, reproducible, measuring devices such as CCDs have made science in general and astronomy in particular less prone to, but not free of, human-biased illusions.

Tags: illusion, interesting, informative, odd, mystery, visual, optical, cool

The London Tattoo Convention, In Pictures

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:09:13 GMT

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Coldest Place in Solar System: Our Moon

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:33:51 GMT

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Coldest Place in Solar System: Our Moon

Astronomers have found the coldest spot in our solar system and it may be a little close for comfort. It's on our moon, right nearby. NASA's new Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter is making the first complete temperature map of the moon. It found that at the moon's south pole, it's colder than far away Pluto. The area is inside craters that are permanently shadowed so they never see sun.

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"It's sort of like a faint glow and that's your only source of heat,"

"Right here in our own backyard are definitely the coldest things we've seen in real measurements."

Temperatures there were measured at 397 degrees below zero. That's just 62 degrees higher than the lowest temperature possible.

Pluto is at least a degree warmer even though it is about 40 times farther away from the sun.

The coldest temperatures on the moon were usually in craters that were within bigger craters, hiding farther from the sun

Tags: space-exploration, moon

Extreme Sheep Herding!

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:47:20 GMT

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Extreme Sheep Herding!

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Highest Glass Floor of the World in Chicago USA

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:50:44 GMT

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Highest Glass Floor of the World in Chicago USA

If you're scared of heights, it may be time to look away now.

Not content with having the tallest building in America, the owners of Sears Tower in Chicago have installed four glass box viewing platforms which stick out of the building 103 floors up.

The balconies are suspended 1,353 feet in the air and jut out four feet from the building's Skydeck.

Fearless: Anna Kane, five, spreads out on the floor of the 10ft square box which is 1,353ft up

Thrillseekers: The boxes jut out four feet from the building and were specifically designed to make visitors feel as if they are floating

'The Sears Tower has always been about superlatives - tallest, largest, most iconic,' he said.

'The Ledge is the world's most awesome view, the world's most precipitous view, the view with the most wow in the world.'

The balconies are 10ft high and 10ft wide, can hold five tons, and have glass which is 1.5 inch thick

Tags: glass floor, chicago, highest

When Your Insurer Says You're No Longer Covered

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:14:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "We do not rescind a policyholder's coverage because someone on the policy gets sick," said a spokeswoman for Anthem Blue Cross, a subsidiary of WellPoint. "We have put in place a thorough process with multiple steps to ensure that we are as fair and as accurate as we can be in making these difficult decisions."

In a pending case, Blue Shield searched in vain for an inconsistency in the health records of the wife of a dairy farmer after she filed a claim for emergency gallbladder surgery, according to attorneys for the family. Turning to her husband's questionnaire, the company discovered he had not mentioned his high cholesterol and dropped them both.

Yvette Thomassian of Glendale, Calif., lost her Blue Cross policy because she did not declare a deviated septum. She questioned why a common misalignment of the nostrils would disqualify anyone.

They cancelled her healthcare over a crooked nose bone! Shocking this is tolerated, in a supposedly civilized nation.

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When Your Insurer Says You're No Longer Covered

Rescission -- the technical term for canceling coverage on grounds that the company was misled -- is often considered among the most offensive practices in an insurance industry that already suffers from a distinct lack of popularity among the American public. Tales of cancellations have fueled outrage among regulators, analysts, doctors and, not least, plaintiffs' lawyers, who describe insurers as too eager to shed patients to widen profits.

"This is probably the most egregious of examples of health insurers using their power and their resources to deny benefits to people who are most in need of care,"

"It's really a horrendous activity on the part of the insurers."

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Officials from three insurance companies told a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee this summer they had saved $300 million by canceling about 20,000 policies over five years.

Britains Got Tale: Worlds Smartest Dog

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:50:14 GMT

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Galaxy Zoo Catalogs the Universe

Sweden burns bunnies for warmth

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The World Famous Capybara Caplin

The World Famous Capybara Caplin

15 Beautiful Microscopic Images from Inside the Human Body

15 Beautiful Microscopic Images from Inside the Human Body

Wish You Were Beer

Kisses !!

Italy Pictures: Visiting the Charming Land

Fully Loaded Bees

Stunning Images of Fully Loaded Bees

The Same Color Illusion

The London Tattoo Convention, In Pictures

Coldest Place in Solar System: Our Moon

Extreme Sheep Herding!

Extreme Sheep Herding!

Highest Glass Floor of the World in Chicago USA

Highest Glass Floor of the World in Chicago USA

When Your Insurer Says You're No Longer Covered

When Your Insurer Says You're No Longer Covered

Britains Got Tale: Worlds Smartest Dog