Science Tidbits

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Monday June 11, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/06/11 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include microbes found in extreme environment on South American volcanoes, why does not the mother reject the fetus as foreign material, scientists uncover huge phytoplankton bloom in ice covered waters, floating dock from Japan carries possible invasive species, Arctic ice melt sets the stage for more severe winters, and warming turns Tundra to forest.

Pull up that comfy chair and grab a spot on the porch. There is always plenty of room for everyone. Another session of Dr. Possum's science education, entertainment, and potluck discussion is set to begin.

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Monday June 04, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/06/04 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include vertebrates share ancient neural circuitry for complex social behaviors, the Milky Way is on a collision course with Andromeda, silkmoth inspires novel explosives detector, Sierra Nevada 200-year megadroughts confirmed, human hands leave prominent ecological footprints, and humingbirds begin to disappear as their flowers bloom earlier.

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Monday May 28, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/05/28 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include how plants know when to flower, gourmet butterflies speed north, new chipset for high speed data transmission, a record number of young scallops in the mid-Atlantic, ancient Bethlehem seal unearthed in Jerusalem, and public apathy over climate change unrelated to science literacy.

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Monday May 21, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/05/21 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include coffee drinkers have a lower risk of death, fragile land-sea ecological chain at risk, ancient history of circumarctic peoples, rabies evolves more slowly in hibernating bats, Scotland passes turbine test to harness tidal power, and many Western Hemisphere mammals will not be able to outrun climate change.

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Monday May 14, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/05/14 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include habits and hidden journeys of manta rays, potential instability in the West Antarctic ice sheet, low cost nanocatalyst to split hydrogen from water, a push from the Mississippi kept the Deepwater oil slick off shore, increasing predator-friendly land can help farmers reduce costs, and archeologists discover evidence of a lost language.

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Monday May 07, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/05/07 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include the largest known crocodile once roamed Africa and could swallow a human, early Spring brings more bat girls, using nanoclays to build better asphalt, a new coelocanth find changes the history of the ancient fish's evolution, the Iceman mummy holds traces of the oldest blood known to science, and the densest waters of Antarctica are reducing due to climate change.

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Monday April 30, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/04/30 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include urban 'heat islands' may hint at trees of the future, birds cultivate decorative plants to attract mates, ocean trash is worse than we think, wearable electronics, Pacific shark losses, and a nano-safety and ethics problem.

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Monday April 23, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/04/23 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include summer temperature variation may increase mortality for elderly with chronic disease, sunshine plus lime juice makes drinking water safer, parental exposure to air pollution linked to childhood obesity, mild winters are detrimental to butterflies, detailed maps of African groundwater show scattergun approach to borehole drilling is not likely to be successful, and a new purple crab species is found in the Phillippines.

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Monday April 16, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/04/16 · 12:30

Science talk returns to brighten your day one more time. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include first ever census of emperor penguins in Antarctica using images from space, questioning if water is essential to life, baby foods may be lacking in micronutrients, maybe multitasking is not so bad for you after all, duck-billed dinosaurs endured long,dark polar winters, and a method to produce cement without carbon dioxide emissions.

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Monday April 09, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/04/09 · 12:30

Monday, Monday and the magic of science talk is here once again. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include use of common pesticide linked to bee colony collapse, invasive pythons are eating the eggs of birds in Florida, a new study links rising CO2 levels to global warming during the last deglaciation, a newly discovered relative of T. rex is the largest known feathered dinosaur, and thawing permafrost 50 million years ago led to extreme global warming events.

Pull up that comfy chair and grab a spot in the sun. There is always plenty of room for everyone. Another session of Dr. Possum's science education, entertainment, and potluck discussion is set to begin. And as a special treat beginning this week a picture will be offered from the collection of a fellow DKos'er, Knucklehead for your viewing pleasure.

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Monday April 02, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/04/02 · 12:30

Monday, Monday and the magic of science talk is here once again. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include west Antarctic ice shelves are tearing apart at the seams, signs of thawing permafrost revealed from space, corals which survived heat stress in the past may have a better chance of future survival, volcanic plumbing exposed, converting carbon dioxide into alternative fuel using electricity, and another vertebrate species reported extinct from the Hawaiian Islands. Pull up that comfy chair and grab a spot in the sun. There is always plenty of room for everyone. Another session of Dr. Possum's science education, entertainment, and potluck discussion is set to begin.

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Monday March 26, 2012 · 12:30 PM PDT

2012/03/26 · 12:30

Marvelous Monday arrives once again here in Possum Valley and the time has arrived for science talk. New discoveries, new takes on old knowledge, and other bits of news are all available for the perusing in today's information world. Over the fold are selections from the past week from a few of the many excellent science news sites around the world. Today's tidbits include T. rex's killer smile revealed, most invasive plants grow in areas with a climate similar to their native origin, why humans began to walk upright, new light shed on wandering continents, monarch butterfly numbers continue to drop, and Venice hasn't stopped sinking after all. Pull up that comfy chair and grab a spot in the sun. There is always plenty of room for everyone. Another session of Dr. Possum's science education, entertainment, and potluck discussion is set to begin.

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