October 2011
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First-ever photos of triple and quadruple rainbows
Amplify’d from earthsky.orgWe now have the first scientifically accepted photos of triple and quadruple rainbows. For some, it’s as if we’ve captured a picture of a real unicorn.Credit: Michael Theusner/Applied Optics.Click here to expand this imageA scientific journal has accepted the first photos of a triple (tertiary) rainbow and a quadruple (quaternary) rainbow, both taken in summer 2011 in...
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Environmentalists pitch voyage in sea of tsunami...
Amplify’d from www.google.comWASHINGTON — Fancy a holiday in a sea of junk? Environmentalists in the United States are offering “eco-adventurers” the chance to do just that.From May 1 next year, the Sea Dragon will sail for two months through sections of the North Pacific Ocean swirling with debris from the March 2011 tsunami that devastated Japan, organizers said...
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First comet found with ocean-like water
Amplify’d from www.labspaces.netNew evidence supports the theory that comets delivered a significant portion of Earth’s oceans, which scientists believe formed about 8 million years after the planet itself.The findings, which involve a University of Michigan astronomer, are published Oct. 5 online in Nature.
This is the comet Hartley, as imaged by NASA’s EPOXI spacecraft. Credit: ...
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Lungfish Provides Insight to Life On Land: 'Humans...
Amplify’d from www.sciencedaily.comA study into the muscle development of several different fish has given insights into the genetic leap that set the scene for the evolution of hind legs in terrestrial animals. This innovation gave rise to the tetrapods — four-legged creatures, and our distant ancestors — that made the first small steps on land some 400 million years ago.Pectoral fin...
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Scuba Diver Costume For Halloween
I LOVE IT!Amplify’d from www.parenting.com
Scuba Diver Costume
Your child will make a splash in this no-sew costume
By Ellen Goldberg; photo by Squire Fox
Scouring pads, a soda bottle, and other household products give you a deep-sea diver’s duds. Scuba gear:
3 yards black nylon webbing
1 yard self-adhesive...
September 2011
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Gamers Vs. Scientists
Amplify’d from www.lockergnome.comWhen you’ve got a problem that ten years of trying has failed to solve, it’s time to consider another approach. So recently, when scientists at the University of Washington Department of Biochemistry, led by Dr. Firas Khatib (a featured Gnomedex speaker a few years back), failed to configure the structure of a retrovirus enzyme even after a decade of trying, they...
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Giant crabs make Antarctic leap
Amplify’d from www.bbc.co.ukThe crabs are large and dominant organisms, able to crush other animals King crabs have been found on the edge of Antarctica, probably as a result of warming in the region, scientists say.Writing in the journal Proceedings B, scientists report a large, reproductive population of crabs in the Palmer Deep, a basin cut in the continental shelf.They suggest the crabs were...
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Zac Brown Band - Knee Deep
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Radioactive cesium from Fukushima on tour of...
I wonder how long before it reaches here…..Amplify’d from www.telegraph.co.ukRadioactive cesium from the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant is circulating with the currents in the Pacific Ocean and will wash up on Japan’s shores again in between 20 and 30 years.
A TEPCO worker checks radiation levels around piping at the Fukushima nuclear power...
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Dive journey Philippines
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August 2011
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Cosmic rays may influence cloud formation
Amplify’d from www.cosmosmagazine.comGENEVA: The very first steps of cloud formation have been revealed in unprecedented detail, exposing gaps in current global climate models. The CLOUD experiment at CERN.The CLOUD experiment at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) was designed to study the effect of cosmic rays on the formation of atmospheric aerosols. The first results have...
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Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue?
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Three men doing time in Israeli prisons recently appeared before a parole board consisting of a judge, a criminologist and a social worker. The three prisoners had completed at least two-thirds of their sentences, but the parole board granted freedom to only one of them. Guess which one:
Case 1 (heard at 8:50 a.m.): An Arab Israeli serving a 30-month...
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Pay attention to penguins!!!
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Dyan deNapoli: The great penguin rescue
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I AM GIFTED
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Tsunami in the sky
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Lotsa' Underwater Wallpapers
This is just a small sample of what’s there….Amplify’d from wallbase.ccSee more at wallbase.cc See this Amp at http://bit.ly/pWZHLg
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Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Sensory...
Amplify’d from io9.comOn Fringe, a sensory deprivation tank can activate your mental powers and even open a gateway to another universe. But what can floating in a dark warm tank do for you in real life? And why would people even want to do such a thing?The sensory deprivation tank — a temperature-regulated, salt-water filled, soundproof, lightproof tank that can isolate its occupant from numerous...
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Why some people don't develop fingerprints
Amplify’d from news.discovery.comA fingerprint can identify you at birth, death and any time in between. But some people don’t develop unique dermal ridges on their fingers, and thus, do not have fingerprints.In the womb, a fetus begins to form fingerprints after 24 weeks. These patterns, called dermatoglyphs, remain the same throughout most people’s lives. But researchers suspect a...
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Akmonistion.
Amplify’d from www.lifebeforethedinosaurs.comAkmonistion (it used to be called Stethacanthus) is a genus of shark that lived from the late Devonian to the early Carboniferous. The male Akmonistion had an anvil-shaped crest instead of a dorsal fin. The crest had barbs on top and Akmonistion also had a triangular patch of spines on top of its head in front of the crest. The female Akmonistion...
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Animalcules in the water
Amplify’d from www.thehistoryblog.comToday I encountered an interesting little random historical coincidence while perusing Scientific American‘s Anecdotes from the Archive blog. A recent entry mentioned that last year a reddit user found an abundance of microscopic crustaceans called copepods in his New York City tap water. Scientific American, as it happens, had alerted its readership to this...
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VIDEO: A Whale’s Unforgettable “Thank You”
Amplify’d from oceandoctor.orgAs featured in The Ocean Doctor Radio Show, we’re pleased to present an amazing, inspirational video documenting the rescue of a nearly-dead humpback whale, hopelessly entangled in fishing gear in the Sea of Cortez. Michael Fishbach, co-founder of Earth Island Institute’s, Great Whale Conservancy, and his family and friends came to the whale’s rescue and were...
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Draining the Oceans
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Three fifths of the Earth’s surface is under the ocean, and the ocean floor is as rich in detail as the land surface with which we are familiar. This animation simulates a drop in sea level that gradually reveals this detail. As the sea level drops, the continental shelves appear immediately. They are mostly visible by a depth of 140 meters, except for...
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HOW TO use a tripod underwater, Underwater Video...
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In this underwater video tutorial we show how to build a tripod and show the use of it while underwater filming. The underwater tripod is a great help in a lot of underwater video tasks and surely improves the look of your video. Use it to minimize the negative impact on the environment, get rock steady shots of tiny macro life, shoot “above and...
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I LOVE TO DIVE
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Sharks Combined With Other Animals
Amplify’d from www.buzzfeed.com1. Cat SharkVia.2. Bear SharkVia.3. Squirrel SharkVia.4. Bird SharkVia.5. Human SharkVia.6. Loch Ness SharkVia.7. Polar Bear SharkVia.8. Horse SharkVia.9. Human Shark 2Via.10. Tiger SharkVia.11. Bonus! Plane SharkVia.Read more at www.buzzfeed.com See this Amp at http://bit.ly/ogbTS7
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Salt Water May Flow on Mars
Amplify’d from science.nasa.govAugust 4, 2011: Observations from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed possible flowing water during the warmest months on Mars.
Dark, finger-like features appear and extend down some Martian slopes during late spring through summer, fade in winter, and return during the next spring. Repeated observations have tracked the seasonal changes...
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Chari Pattiaratchi on the underwater river off...
Amplify’d from earthsky.orgHow can a river flow in the ocean? Underwater rivers saltier than surrounding sea water. That means the water is more dense and sinks to the ocean bottom.In June of 2011, a team of oceanographers announced the discovery of an underwater river off the coast of Australia, near the city of Perth. Researchers said it was the first time an underwater river had been...
July 2011
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DOLPHIN WITH ARMS – PREPARES FOR BATTLE
Amplify’d from weeklyworldnews.comTOKYO — Ginzo, the dolphin with human arms, is leading a dolphin fight against Japanese fishermen.
Japanese fisherman are preparing for their annual dolphin hunt. Once again they are preparing for a slaughter like this:But, they have a formidable opponent this time – GINZO, the DOLPHIN WITH HUMAN ARMS.Ginzo is leading a battalion of angry dolphins in a...
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What Lies Inside Jupiter?
I wonder where I’ll be in 2016….. ;PAmplify’d from science.nasa.govJuly 29, 2011: Jupiter’s swirling clouds can be seen through any department store telescope. With no more effort than it takes to bend over an eyepiece, you can witness storm systems bigger than Earth navigating ruddy belts that stretch hundreds of thousands of kilometers around Jupiter’s vast equator....
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Dive, dive, dive! (A Gallery of Helmet Art)
Amplify’d from thescuttlefish.coma photo by David McCuddenDiving Heritage: The Mark V [diving helmet] was used by the US Navy from 1916 till 1984, when the fiber glass Mark XII that was introduced in 1979, finally took over permanently.Salvage diver working on the sunken Swedish warship Vasa, 1961 – via larboardwatch*see The Swedish Royal Warship Vasa by Chantal-Marie Wright for more on this...
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Video of Odori-Don: Dancing Zombie Squid Sashimi
Amplify’d from thescuttlefish.comOdori Don is a hakodate dish where a squid’s head is removed and its legs are served nearly fresh. So fresh that adding soy sauce to the squid causes its legs to dance, even with its brain detached. That’s right–this squid dances without its brain*.Odori-Don means: Literally “dancing squid rice bowl”. A live squid with its head removed is served on top of a bowl of...
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Florida's Tire Reef: 70's artificial reef proves...
Amplify’d from rtseablog.blogspot.comArtificial reefs serve as a possible remedy for natural coral reefs that have been damaged either by pollution, temperature (in the form of coral bleaching), or too much manhandling from snorkelers and divers, just to name a few. They can provide new habitats which can increase the populations of fish, from local reef fish to larger pelagics, and they can take...
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Penguins Take to the Air!
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An Emperor penguin leaps from the water (Image: Blue Planet, BBC)Penguins can’t fly. But they can get airborne.
In fact, taking to the air, for even a brief instant, is actually a
vital strategy penguins employ to avoid being eating by predators such
as leopard seals or orcas.
Now scientists have worked out the secret technique that penguins use
to...
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The Global Diversity of Sea Pens (Cnidaria:...
Amplify’d from www.plosone.orgRecent advances in deep-sea exploration technology coupled with an increase in worldwide biotic surveys, biological research, and underwater photography in shallow water marine regions such as coral reefs, has allowed for a relatively rapid expansion of our knowledge in the global diversity of many groups of marine organisms. This paper is part of the PLoS ONE review...
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Racing to the Bottom: Exploring the Deepest Point...
Amplify’d from www.theatlantic.comAt the southern end of the Mariana Trench, a deep scar that cuts into the bottom of the ocean floor, there is a point known as Challenger Deep. Here, just outside of the Marianas or Ladrones, a series of 15 islands made up of volcanic mountains that peak just above the water line, a small slot-shaped valley plunges nearly seven miles down. At 35,797 feet,...
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SPACE STATION TO BE SUNK AFTER 2020
Amplify’d from news.discovery.com The International Space Station will be directed into the ocean after 2020, a Russian Space Agency spokesman said. If it were left in orbit it would pose a debris risk in space.
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The International Space Station is seen with the docked space shuttle Endeavour...
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Sea Shepherd Investigates Secret Underwater Pilot...
Amplify’d from www.seashepherd.orgSea Shepherd diver analyzes a pilot whale skull found at the site. Photo: Simon AgerEarlier today, Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s crew aboard the fast interceptor vessel the Brigitte Bardot, investigated a massive underwater graveyard where pilot whale carcasses are discarded after grinds in Vestmanna and Leynar in the Faeroe Islands. The massive, secret...
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Scientists discover new types of water waves
Amplify’d from earthsky.orgWave experts at the France describe two newly discovered types of water waves in the July 2011 issue of Physical Review.As momentary order built from chaos, waves made of water appeal to the poetic imagination. Waves come in many varieties, and, in fact, scientists are still discovering new types of water waves. In July 2011, a few wave experts at the University of...
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The largest, oldest mass of water in universe
Amplify’d from earthsky.orgThe cloud of water vapor – 140 trillion times more water than in Earth’s oceans – is more than 12 billion light-years away and surrounds the black hole of quasar.An international team of astronomers has discovered the largest, oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe. The newly discovered cloud of water vapor, equivalent to 140 trillion times the water in...
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Saturn’s moon rains water onto Saturn
How cool would it be to stand on Enceladus and watch this….Amplify’d from earthsky.orgWater from Enceladus raining onto Saturn makes Enceladus the only moon in our solar system known to influence the chemical composition of its parent planet.Once again proving that the universe is not only curiouser than we suppose, but curiouser than we can suppose, the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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EarthSky’s meteor shower guide for 2011
Amplify’d from earthsky.orgComing up in 2011In 2011, if you’re in the northern hemisphere, the best time to watch meteors is late July and early August. Nights are warm, and two major showers – the Delta Aquarid meteor shower and the Perseid meteor shower – converge to put on a show. Watch in the first week of August to have moonless skies from midnight to dawn, the best time of night for...
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EarthSky’s meteor shower guide for 2011
Amplify’d from earthsky.orgComing up in 2011In 2011, if you’re in the northern hemisphere, the best time to watch meteors is late July and early August. Nights are warm, and two major showers – the Delta Aquarid meteor shower and the Perseid meteor shower – converge to put on a show. Watch in the first week of August to have moonless skies from midnight to dawn, the best time of night for...
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Dancing squid rice bowl
Amplify’d from www.foodjapan.net[food]* A small, live squid is freshly prepared and served almost-whole on a bed of sushi rice in this rather memorable (in many ways) Hakodate dish.What?Literally “dancing squid rice bowl”. A live squid with its head removed is served on top of a bowl of sushi rice, accompanied by sashimi prepared from the head (usually sliced ika (squid) and...
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The Great Dragon of the north, Draco
My favorite constellation!Amplify’d from earthsky.orgTonight for July 27, 2011Here is the constellation Draco the Dragon. Keep in mind that tonight’s chart covers a lot more sky than our charts usually do. This long and winding star figure can be found in the northern sky. Look for the Dragon’s tail to snake in between the Big and Little Dippers.I always notice the two stars in the Dragon’s head...
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Secrets of a commercial UW Photographer: Making...
Amplify’d from www.diverwire.comChris Crumley is a well-known underwater photographer who is in demand regularly. His images have graced the covers of a variety of books and magazines, in addition to being featured throughout the world in advertisements and online promotional campaigns.Crumley, who was profiled last year in a DiverWire exclusive – He’s Got the Job Almost Every Diver Wants, made...
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Scientists discover 662 new microbes — in 95 belly...
Amplify’d from www.smartplanet.comIn February, biologists and science communicators from North Carolina State University and the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences began collecting swabs of bacteria from people’s belly buttons to find out what microorganisms their bodies were hosting.The resultsAfter getting belly button swabs at science events in North Carolina and from science bloggers,...
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Scientist Report On A Tool Using Fish
Amplify’d from earthsky.orgResearchers say they have evidence of a fish using a tool. Diver Scott Gardner captured images of the tool-wielding tuskfish in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.Researchers from Macquarie University and Central Queensland University say they have evidence of a fish using a tool. The fish was captured on film by diver Scott Gardner in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.This...
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Peer toward the mysterious center of the Milky Way...
Amplify’d from earthsky.orgTonight for July 13, 2011Glenn wrote from Australia, “When is the best month to view the galactic center?” Glenn, the answer depends on what time of night you’re looking. But assuming you’re looking in the evening, July, August and September are grand months for gazing toward the famous Teapot asterism in the constellation Sagittarius the Archer – and imagining the...
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Scientific Diving: The Benefits of Being There
Amplify’d from www.whoi.eduAudio slideshows highlight how scuba extends researchers reach into the ocean “Shallow Water Diving: the benefits of being there” spotlights researchers using scuba in shallow water. These scientists, working on coral reefs, fish ecology, or seafloor topography, require uninterrupted lengths of time or close work in small areas, which are impossible to do by free diving...