This should be of interest to many of you. Winston Forwarded message: Evolution has been in the news lately, but is it really important to the mission of NIH?...
Asking on behalf of a friend: A friend of mine's looking for a job in the Leeds area. Microbiologist, currently works for a pharmaceutical company doing...
... Depends what they want to do. But Nature, New Scientist, The Guardian have science jobs each week. Also the PSCI-com list can be a sourse of jobs related...
Want to help shape the direction of a periodic table app I'm writing? See: <http://www.canicula.com/wp/?p=136> Ian -- Ian Robinson - Belfast - UK Soapbox -...
... Some predictions were made a couple of months ago, and I wrote about this. <http://level-head.livejournal.com/245169.html> Hurricanes are expected to...
... I haven't read your journal entry Keith, and this may be addressed there, but it'll be interesting to see if there are as many hurricanes in the Atlantic...
... The article I quoted from was one we discussed here before. It contained references to the number of hurricanes increasing since 30 years ago (misleading;...
... Last year was a record for tropical storms in the Atlantic. For that reason alone it'll be interesting to see what happen this year. Ian -- Ian Robinson -...
Does human hair actually obsorb water? or is hair "wet" simply because water gets trapped in between hair strands? Too lazy to google, and I thought it might...
Ok, makes sense ... but what about water animals that also have hair ... like polar bears? ... Ian ... Both. That's why we use foam/gel/water before shaving....
... Most animals that spend a lot of time in water secrete something to coat the hairs (or feathers in the case of birds). I don't know about polar bears. I ...
... Um... my mother had two sealskin coats, gorgeous soft fur. Seals have been hunted for their fur for generations. Just read "The White Seal" by Kipling......
... Actually, Polar bears do spend a fair bit of time in the water. The ones in the zoos probably more than those in the wild (because of the heat, you see). ...
... Roight. ];-) ... Many whales have hair as well -- though it's more properly described as "hairs" -- typically around the chin area, or elsewhere on the...
Many of you know that I think Marcus Chown's "The Magic Furnace" is the best popular science book I've read. Just got his new book, "The Quantum Zoo". Here are...
Forwarded message: Mark your calendars - May 24 and May 31st - for the last two lectures in the Evolution and Medicine lecture series, sponsored by NIGMS and...
... That's interesting! Thanks for the link. I'd heard of whale lice, but knew little more than the name. Never knew about callosities, though. :) So the...
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