What an amazing dog shot! Happy Wednesday! Enjoy Portland-based photographer Car…
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Happy Wednesday! Enjoy Portland-based photographer Carli Davidson's hilarious freeze-frame shot of a dog mid-shake:
My views on anything
Skulls of early Homo erectus from the site of Dmanisi, Georgia, are all quite different
"Together with the fossilized bones of four additional individuals discovered in close proximity, the skulls indicates that populations of early Homo comprised a wider range of morphological variation than traditionally assumed, which implies a single evolving lineage with continuity across continents. "
So who knows, maybe H rudolfensis, H gautengensis, H ergaster and possibly H habilis are all H erectus! If true this would be a game changer as it could indicate that our predecessors at a specific time and place are way less similar to each other than was expected until now.
Read both papers in Science:
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/297.short
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/342/6156/326.short
#science #paper #homosapiens #evolution #homoerectus #Dmanisi #palaeontology
The people of America voted, good luck with that congress!
Fifteen per cent of those surveyed “strongly agreed” with the statement, “Being torn limb from limb by a grizzly bear or devoured by a pack of rabid hyenas is too good for these people. They should be eaten, very slowly, by a colony of hungry fire ants. Yes, that’s it—fire ants. That would be amazing.”.
Read the whole thing in the +The New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/10/poll-americans-divided-over-what-wild-animal-they-would-like-to-see-congress-mauled-by.html
Americans gave grizzly bears the highest job-approval rating, followed by polar bears, and by brown bears in a distant third.
Nifty video about +Research at Google and +NASA working on Quantum Physics using their first quantum computer!
We do it because we must. We do it because that is what it means to be human.
Finally a Nobel peace prize winner that is worth it!
After the debacle of handing it out to the EU and a president that loves going to war this year they decided to do it differently. This year the prize goes to an organisation that is actually working on making this planet more peaceful and the recent Syria issue shows the value of these kind of inter governmental institutes. Congrats +OPCW!
Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
On 28 June 2013 the Chemical Weapons Convention entered into force for Somalia, making it the 189th State Party to the treaty. Somalia had earlier deposited its instrument of accession with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, on 29 May, and 30 days later the Convention entered into …
Massive geek alert but this Helm's Deep made with +LEGO is awesome!
Check out the other pictures on this Flickr stream:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/68794378@N07/10126298715/in/photostream/
