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Science Etcetera Mercuryday, 20080416

Posted in Science Etcetera on April 16th, 2008
  • Ancient Kauri is 45,000 year old wood dug up from swamps in New Zealand, with trunks so large you can make a staircase out of it. (HT TGAW)

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    Te Matua Ngahere
    Kauri Tree, Second Largest Tree in New Zealand
  • As a blogger, is everything in my life a tax write-off?
  • Despite being nuked, the coral reefs at the Bikini Atoll are in good health. The coconuts are radioactive though.
  • John A. Wheeler, physicist who coined the term “Black Hole,” has passed away.
  • Earth Hour may have used less electricity, but warm weather produced more CO2.
  • Elephants have a semi-aquatic ancestry.

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    Moeritherium
    Illustration by Heinrich Harder
  • The leading arm of the Large Megellanic Cloud, pokes through the Milky Way.
  • Scanners predict people’s decisions seven seconds before they make them.
  • Toe-Shortening, Body Piercing, Grills, and Botox are just some of LiveScience’s Top 10 Crimes against Nature.
  • Pure is a new play about Alan Turing.
  • It keeps going and going and going, Boston Dynamics Big Dog:



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