Last week, Michele Banks took on the mantle of the RealScientists twitter account. In case you missed it, they have compiled her tweets here:
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Canadian Museum of Nature
If I remember correctly, the Canadian Museum of Nature in Ottawa was partly under construction when I visited in 2008, but I’m not sure which part I missed. I do recall the dinosaur exhibit, where I took this picture of an Archeopteryx.
I think it was in this room, which was awesome:
“Space Oddity” represents the best of humanity
As if it is not enough that a guy on a space station communicated regularly with the terrestrially bound of the species via Twitter, one of his last acts before coming home was to make a music video – IN SPACE. Continue reading ““Space Oddity” represents the best of humanity”
Collective Nouns
I’ve spent the week with a bunch of talented wordsmiths in Santa Fe. Among many discoveries, we learned that the terms used to describe groups of creatures can be wonderfully imaginative (eg, unkindness of ravens, murder of crows, etc); but they can also be dull.
We improved them:
OLD: A flight of dragons (also, weyr or wing).
NEW: A blaze of dragons.
Alternate: An ohshit! of dragon(s) (1 or more dragons).OLD: A blessing of unicorns.
NEW: A sparkle of unicorns.
We also came up with a few new ones:
A right of wrongs.
A quixote of science writers.
Any other ideas?
Science Caturday: Watch the Birdies
Today is World Migratory Bird Day! Kittehs love to watch the birdies. For science, of course!
As for the related subject of bird-assisted coconut migration, it’s a simple question of weight ratios:
The Finch and Pea 