Ants behave like fluids. Pretty awesome, pretty gross.
FDA will heed court order mandating that women, girls of all ages have over-the-counter access.
The Obama administration appears to have concluded that it could lose its case…
Nodosaurus (NO-doe-SORE-us)
where: Woodlands of North America
when: Middle Cretaceous, about 110 to 100 million years ago
who: Scientifically categorized by American paleontologist Othniel Charles Marsh
what: About 15 feet long and one ton, the Nodosaurus is a herbivorous ankylosaurid. It has an armored back with tough, scaly plates covering its body. The plates are laid out in bands along its back, and the bands often had bony nodules, giving the Nodosaurus its name. Its legs are short, and it has five toes on each foot.
This is the one I want.
Eclipse over the Washington Monument
Baltimore, Maryland
July 23, 1945
A. Aubrey Bodine (1906-1970)
5x7 inch negative
Bodine Collection
Baltimore City Life Museum Collection
Maryland Historical Society
B1387
Full image and detail. Click to enlarge.
"We can want to think only in the way we’re built to think! As the philosopher and psychologist Jerry Fodor has put it, “From in here it looks as though we’re fit to think whatever thoughts there are to think….It would, of course, precisely because we are in here. But there is surely good reason to suppose that this is hubris….No doubt spiders think that webs exhaust the options."
— Ray Jackendoff, Patterns in the Mind.
FYI: “Astronauts traveling to Mars, bombarded by the radiation of outer space, would face modestly higher risks of cancer, new NASA measurements confirm.”
When a droplet impacts a pool at low speed, a layer of air trapped beneath the droplet can often prevent it from immediately coalescing into the pool. As that air layer drains away, surface tension pulls some of the droplet’s mass into the pool while a smaller droplet is ejected. When it bounces off the surface of the water, the process is repeated and the droplet grows smaller and smaller until surface tension is able to completely absorb it into the pool. This process is called the coalescence cascade.
Oh no it keeps going.
Oooohhh noooo.
Soweto/Sowebo - Martha Cooper
Soweto is a big city on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Sowebo is a small neighbourhood in downtown Baltimore (where ‘The Wire’ is based on).
Like Soweto, Sowebo played a historic role in the fight for racial equality.
After the tragic assassination of Martin Luther King there was a massive black uprising in Baltimore leaving many white shop owners to flea the area. More than 40 years later most of these establishments remain abandoned. Because of it’s desolate nature, someone decided to nickname the neighbourhood ‘Sowebo’ after Soweto and the name stuck.
Today both Soweto and Sowebo are still fighting for decent housing, jobs and basic government service. In spite of difficult circumstances, everyday life goes on in the streets with neighbours gathering for informal barbecues and kids playing with toys that don’t require batteries.
