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Monday, January 18, 2010
Every so often, you would see one waiting on a metro platform. When the train pulled up, the dog would step in, scramble up to lie on a seat or sit on the floor if the carriage was crowded, and then exit a few stops later. There is even a website dedicated to the metro stray (www.metrodog.ru) on which passengers post photos and video clips taken with their mobile phones, documenting the savviest of the pack using the public transport system like any other Muscovite. via ft.com Posted via web from "Here's to plain speaking and clear understanding." Labels: non-monkey animals, science 19:45 cdogzilla Thursday, December 31, 2009
Posted via web from "Here's to plain speaking and clear understanding." Labels: monkeys, robots, science 16:03 cdogzilla Monday, December 28, 2009
Facial Recognition, If This Is Any Indicator, Is Not Reliable Technology
Labels: feeling old, pictures, science 17:30 cdogzilla Friday, October 30, 2009
Labels: science, youtube goodness 23:27 cdogzilla Friday, October 23, 2009Megafauna Pon Farr: Whales are awesome. Labels: non-monkey animals, science 16:14 cdogzilla Wednesday, October 07, 2009MESSENGER Web Site: Awesome pix of Mercury. 21:15 cdogzilla Wednesday, September 16, 2009
weeklyrob ? Cheap Pics: "These guys spent just under $150, total, to send a camera into SPACE and take pictures. Or, almost space. Close enough for me. 23:55 cdogzilla
Gene Therapy Cures Color-Blind Monkeys: Scientific American Podcast: "In one type of squirrel monkey, the males lack a visual pigment called L-opsin. Its absence renders the monkeys color-blind, unable to distinguish reds and green. Most of the females, on the other hand, see in full color. So the scientists got to wondering: what would happen if they gave a boy squirrel monkey the same opsin that girls have. 23:48 cdogzilla Saturday, September 12, 2009Warren Ellis : Your AAA WHAT THE F-BOMB IS THAT Moment For Today: I'm not going to include the picture of the parasite that eats the fish's tongue, then takes its place. If you follow the link it will be looking right at you. It's going to give me nightmares. You may not want to click the link. Labels: non-monkey animals, science 20:47 cdogzilla Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Monkey-friendly tunes shed new light on evolutionary role of music - Times Online: "The idea that human musical appreciation stems from the same evolutionary root as the vocalisations that primates use to bond and alert others to danger is not new, but it has always been hard to test because monkeys do not generally respond to music. Labels: monkeys, music, science 07:08 cdogzilla Saturday, August 29, 2009
Basics - Finally, the Spleen Gets Some Respect - NYTimes.com: I have been telling Mrs. C-Dog for years that the spleen is the most awesome and powerful of our internal organs, and the most misunderstood. Now, this article doesn't touch on the spleen's more amazing properties (its ability to travel around the body, its ability to take on the function of any other organ) or its propensity producing sudden sharp pains wherever in the body it might be but it is still provides valuable lessons for skeptics. Labels: science 14:59 cdogzilla Thursday, August 20, 2009
Ads in Brazil promote peeing in the shower as water conservation method. Labels: science, shadowboner, TV 14:41 bone daddy Thursday, July 23, 2009Kim Stanley Robinson -- Exploring Space Can Help Us Protect the Earth - washingtonpost.com: "Another good reason for a vigorous space program is the immense potential of space-based solar power. This would entail infrastructure-building with a vengeance, but investing in a system of orbiting solar power collectors -- and ground stations to receive that power -- could stimulate the economy, much like building interstate freeways did in the 1950s. And gathering the sun's energy in space and beaming it down maximizes the harvest while minimizing the effects on the Earth." Labels: science 23:37 cdogzilla Saturday, July 18, 2009
Who Owns the Moon? The Galactic Government vs. the UN Dennis Hope, head of the Lunar Embassy Corporation, has sold real estate on the moon and other planets to about 3.7 million people so far ... via Dusty Trice 21:14 cdogzilla Sunday, July 12, 2009The Good News: A New Monkey Is Discovered; The Bad News: It Is Already at Risk: Scientific American: Fire ants, cockroaches, Fox News pundits -- soon to be humanity's only company on the planet. 21:16 cdogzilla Thursday, July 09, 2009Monkeys Recognize Poor Grammar - A new study suggests that monkeys can speak in accents, form sentences and recognize poor grammar. How many bloggers have language skills that advanced? (Link from Mrs. BoneDaddy, who hardly ever gives me a monkey link because she assumes c-dog already has.) 15:02 bone daddy Wednesday, July 01, 2009NOVA | scienceNOW | Auto-Tune | PBS: The inventor of auto-tune shows how it works. Labels: auto-tuning, science 22:09 cdogzilla Friday, June 12, 2009
All That's Missing is the Cow Labels: science, shadowboner, youtube goodness 14:36 cdogzilla Sunday, May 17, 2009
Nothing like the chilling tale of loose nukes to scare the poop out of a fella. If we can't keep track of ours, I wonder how many Russian nukes are lost? And how Pakistani nukes soon will be? Any way to squeeze that genie back in the bottle? Labels: science 09:20 cdogzilla Saturday, May 16, 2009
I Get Cosmological Vertigo Watching These Hubble-Casts: Labels: science 17:42 cdogzilla Sunday, April 26, 2009Spider "Resurrections" Take Scientists by Surprise: Great. Zombie spiders. Just what I needed to give me nightmares after Mrs. C-Dog found that Black Widow in the backyard yesterday. Labels: non-monkey animals, science 18:01 cdogzilla Monday, April 20, 2009
Scientists Break Brain/Twitter Barrier - ReadWriteWeb: "University of Wisconsin-Madison biomedical engineering doctoral student Adam Wilson has successfully tested a 'brain wave monitor' to the Twitter publishing interface, allowing him to compose a message merely by thinking and publish it to the arguably too-popular microblogging service." 20:20 cdogzilla Tuesday, April 14, 2009Nothing To Do With Arbroath: Russian doctors find tree growing in man's lung: Ewww. I hope this is a hoax. Labels: science 17:08 cdogzilla Wednesday, March 25, 2009Somebody Set Up Him the Bomb. BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Man survived both atomic bombings: Upon certifying his experience, Tokyo Health and Human Services officials invited to Mr. Yamaguchi to, "just stay in Nagasaki. No need to come to Tokyo." Labels: science 17:32 cdogzilla Monday, March 16, 2009Dino Mites: A Diminutive Dinosaur in North America and a Rare Mass Death of Young Relatives in China: Scientific American - They headlined it for me. Although, I would've gone with the more dramatic "Dino-Mite!!" Double exclamation marks make is sound like J.J. Walker. Labels: non-monkey animals, science 22:07 cdogzilla Saturday, March 14, 2009McKinsey: What Matters: Time to end the multigenerational Ponzi scheme by Kim Stanley Robinson: "Does the word postcapitalism look odd to you? It should, because you hardly ever see it. We have a blank spot in our vision of the future. Perhaps we think that history has somehow gone away. In fact, history is with us now more than ever, because we are at a crux in the human story. Choosing not to study a successor system to capitalism is an example of another kind of denial, an ostrich failure on the part of the field of economics and of business schools, I think, but it’s really all of us together, a social aporia or fear. We have persistently ignored and devalued the future—as if our actions are not creating that future for our children, as if things never change. But everything evolves. With a catastrophe bearing down on us, we need to evolve at nearly revolutionary speed. So some study of what could improve and replace our society’s current structure and systems is in order. If we don’t take such steps, the consequences will be intolerable. On the other hand, successfully dealing with this situation could lead to a sustainable civilization that would be truly exciting in its human potential." Labels: science 18:40 cdogzilla Tuesday, October 21, 2008Forty foot snake found! Oh wait, fossil of a forty foot snake found. Still, pretty cool. Labels: cryptozoology, non-monkey animals, science 21:19 bone daddy Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Lost Time 08:24 bone daddy Thursday, December 13, 2007Cloned, glow in the dark cats. Y'know, in case you're hurting for Christmas gift ideas. Labels: cryptozoology, non-monkey animals, science 23:18 bone daddy Tuesday, December 04, 2007Chimps beat college students in memory test. Not really fair inasmuchas the chimps probably weren't stoned. 20:48 bone daddy Wednesday, November 21, 2007When we think of "survival of the fittest" we always think of biggest, meanest, strongest, etc., but it occurs to me when I read this article about giant, 8 feet long sea scorpions that the giant creature with the three foot claws is gone, but the horseshoe crab is still around in all its ugly, harmless glory. One scientist is quoted as saying he'd rather be in the water with a shark than a "eurypterid." Since it's not clear if the sea scorpions could swim or just crawl on the bottom like lobsters, I'd say that depends on 1) what kind of shark and 2) how deep the water is. (Link via Mrs. BoneDaddy) Labels: cryptozoology, science, sharks 15:51 bone daddy Friday, July 20, 2007
Q: Why Do the Super Wealthy Need Luxury Subs? Labels: cartoons, rich people, science 11:44 cdogzilla Monday, July 16, 2007
Not Dead Yet Labels: non-monkey animals, science 09:55 cdogzilla Friday, June 22, 2007
Nice Find Labels: non-monkey animals, science 07:57 cdogzilla Friday, June 08, 200722:36 cdogzilla Saturday, April 21, 2007
KSR's Next I've sold a book about the birth of science called The Galileans. It will have a science fiction element, but a strongly historical narrative as well. I researched the subject when I was writing The Years of Rice and Salt, which includes an alternative scientific revolution. Having done that, I thought, 'Well, what actually happened is fascinating.' So this new book is constellated about the figure of Galileo. Because he was famously put on trial by the Pope, he's still a good way to discuss the relationship between science and religion, and how those two can be reconciled (or not).He also recommends a historical novelist I've never heard of: Cecelia Holland. If he thinks she's one of our greatest novelists, I'm intrigued. Labels: Books, sci-fi, science 21:07 cdogzilla Friday, March 30, 2007Get the kids! Otters holding hands, be sure to watch to the end. Labels: cryptozoology, non-monkey animals, science 22:48 bone daddy Wednesday, March 14, 2007Eyetracking study reveals that men are checking out the crotches of George Brett, and animals. Labels: science, shadowboner 21:11 HD |
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