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"100% No Modern Talking" - Finally! More from Knife Party

I remember when I first heard about these dirty gents. Wasn’t too long ago, maybe a few months, my buddy drops the “Dude, have you heard of Knife Party? It’s two of the guys from Pendulum…”I lost it. Pretty sure I pulled my phone out right there, threw in an earbud an... (original story)

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BatWorld

At nightfall I like to watch the bats wheeling and swooping over the housetops.  Except that Partner says they’re not bats.  “They’re birds,” he says.     “Look at them!” I say.  “Birds don’t fly like that!  Also,... (original story)

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Gnat Traps

A few weeks ago, with the acquisition of some orchids, we (my roommates and I) had a gnat infestation. Dreadful little things. They are too small and too quick to kill with your hands or with a swatter. I ended up killing many of them by spraying them with Windex. I assume most any household cleaner... (original story)

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Scott's Last Expedition, Natural History Museum – exhibition review

Scott's Last Expedition at the Natural History Museum reveals the challenges of conducting a scientific mission in such bitter conditionsAs I wait to enter Scott's Last Expedition, at the Natural History Museum, I check my phone. It's -27C but the wind chill makes it feel more like -38C. Not in Lond... (original story)

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The Exceptional Creation of Vladimir Nabokov

In the summer of 1984, I had a work-study job manning the checkout desk at the Library at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology.  The MCZ Library had long been a research resource for Harvard academics, including the late author Vladimir Nabokov.  I knew this because I had read Nabokov’s... (original story)

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Spatial Proximity between Newborns Influences the Development of Social Relationships in Bats

AbstractAlthough bats are highly social mammals, the mechanisms influencing the establishment of social structures are far from being fully understood. So far, no study has addressed the effects of spatial proximity between newborns such as that occurring in nursery clusters on the development of pr... (original story)

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The Cutest Place on Earth?? A Baby Sloth Orphanage!

Leave it to the soft-hearted little nerdlings at Wired Science (a sub-set of Wired.com) to come out with this article! Just when you thought you were all cuted-out during the pre-holiday cute-orgy that is the lead-up to Xmas, along comes these slow-moving bundles of cuteness! (An orphaned two-finger... (original story)

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Landscape requirements of a primate population in a human-dominated environment

IntroductionAs urban and rural land development become widespread features of the global landscape so an understanding of the landscape requirements of displaced and isolated wildlife species becomes increasingly important for conservation planning. In the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, rapid human p... (original story)

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Process into Practice.

My collection of print samples from my natural pattern project, focusing around zoology – skeletal structure and texture of teeth. Given the time i had i could only manage to produce a collection of four, however, given more time i could have produced more, developing the prints further. I cho... (original story)

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A Response to Peter Mullen on Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins says that David Cameron is “not really a Christian”. The fact is that it is only God to whom all hearts be open, all desires known and from whom no secrets are hid. So Dawkins has no means of telling whether Cameron is a genuine Christian or not. We can, however, know that Dawkin... (original story)

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