I recall some discussion a long time ago about prayer / meditation causing increased seratonin levels in the brain. I can't seem to find any studies via...
This year my area has 17 Year Cicadas hatching out! They're pretty cool. :) I took some pictures. http://buncombe.main.nc.us/~mbbweb/garden/cicada.html ...
Aged to perfection? ;-) ... From: Ian Robinson <net@...> Subject: Re: [TalkScience] 17 Year Cicadas! To: talkscience@yahoogroups.com Date: Sunday, May...
I'm not clear on the "crappiness" of their deal: for 95% of life it is "eat eat eat", then they get to fly and it's "sex sex sex" and then it's over. Perhaps...
I got goose bumps looking at that ... AMAZING! ... From: Ian Robinson <net@...> Subject: [TalkScience] Picture of Phoenix lander descending to Mars......
... There is a cleaner version at <http://phoenix.lpl.arizona.edu/05_26_pr.php ... Ian -- Ian Robinson - Belfast - UK Soapbox - <http://www.canicula.com/wp> ...
... And here is another HiRISE picture of the lander on the surface: <http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2008/details/cut/PSP_008591_2485_cut_a.jpg ... Ian ...
... There's Winston! How are you mate? Ian -- Ian Robinson - Belfast - UK Soapbox - <http://www.canicula.com/wp> [Non-text portions of this message have been...
... Sounds like it would be interesting. I'd love to have more time to read. Seems I'm just overwhelmed at the moment between my peculiar work schedule and my...
I picked up a book on speed reading the other day and hope to dive into it after these two current projects are completed. Of scientific interest - we enrolled...
... But will you have time to read it. Oh paradox alert. My brain hurts... ... I think that providing access to books that stretch kids is a big part in...
... *chuckle* ... My son seems to experience the same problems I did at his age - the visual mechanics of reading are no problem ... comprehension and...
Hi everyone, I am reading "Starving to Death on $200 Million a Year," by James Ledbetter. It's really good; I am almost finished with it. The book is about...
\That puts a different spin on the mechanism. I thought it was to mark positions of planets etc to aid in navigation. It had a capability of 'programming'...
I'll post it here but it will probably be all over the popular science mags pretty soon. :-) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7543776.stm She was using...
Quiet in here :-) Here's an actual science issue that's going to be huge over the next few years. it's going to be big science and it's going to generate a lot...
... The ethics behind whether certain things should be done is important. This rule was included originally to try to prevent the sort of back and forth...
http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12592240 Haven't seen any mention of this elsewhere but perhaps I am just not looking in the right...
The Royal Mint[1] is to celebrate the 200th anniversay of Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin Of Species with a...
... The criteria they use for coins probably stipulate that images have to be recognisable and simple. Darwin facing a chimpanzee is pretty simple. Ian -- Ian...