Copyright infringement? And who is this 'Easter Bunny' anyways?
3/31/05
3/30/05
SUNS: Paul Shirley’s Road Ramblings
Self-deprecating humour, some cogent observations and refreshingly unfiltered. Start at the bottom of the page.
Self-deprecating humour, some cogent observations and refreshingly unfiltered. Start at the bottom of the page.
PbsWiki - Desert Wild Flowers
My mother-in-law just headed for Death Valley on a photography trip. She'll be excited if it really is the best year ever for flowers.
My mother-in-law just headed for Death Valley on a photography trip. She'll be excited if it really is the best year ever for flowers.
3/26/05
New Scientist Breaking News - Camouflaged octopuses 'walk' on two tentacles
(Check out the video on the New Scientist site. It's amazing.)
If you are using your limbs to disguise yourself, how do you flee danger without giving yourself away? The answer, when you have eight arms, is to use six arms for disguise and to walk across on the seafloor on the other two.
That is the extraordinary behaviour observed for the first time in two species of octopus by Christine Huffard's team from the University of California, Berkeley, US.
Defying the notion that bipedal motion requires muscles attached to a rigid skeleton, the octopuses used the strong, flexible muscles in their back arms to walk across the seabed when pursued by camera-wielding biologists.
The two species have slightly different strategies. Octopus marginatus from Indonesia wraps itself into a ball while walking, perhaps to imitate a coconut rolling with the current.
Tiny Octopus aculeatus of Australia holds up six of its arms to disguise itself as a clump of seaweed, while walking at up to 14 centimetres per second - faster than it can manage using more than two arms.
Leading immediately to a deluge of "Why did the octupus cross the road jokes..."
(Check out the video on the New Scientist site. It's amazing.)
If you are using your limbs to disguise yourself, how do you flee danger without giving yourself away? The answer, when you have eight arms, is to use six arms for disguise and to walk across on the seafloor on the other two.
That is the extraordinary behaviour observed for the first time in two species of octopus by Christine Huffard's team from the University of California, Berkeley, US.
Defying the notion that bipedal motion requires muscles attached to a rigid skeleton, the octopuses used the strong, flexible muscles in their back arms to walk across the seabed when pursued by camera-wielding biologists.
The two species have slightly different strategies. Octopus marginatus from Indonesia wraps itself into a ball while walking, perhaps to imitate a coconut rolling with the current.
Tiny Octopus aculeatus of Australia holds up six of its arms to disguise itself as a clump of seaweed, while walking at up to 14 centimetres per second - faster than it can manage using more than two arms.
Leading immediately to a deluge of "Why did the octupus cross the road jokes..."
3/25/05
Oliver Schroer-On the Camino Trail
Heard an interview with this musician on cbc radio one. His violin playing is amazing. This link covers his pilgramage through france. Two months just walking and thinking.
Heard an interview with this musician on cbc radio one. His violin playing is amazing. This link covers his pilgramage through france. Two months just walking and thinking.
3/23/05
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3/12/05
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