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TURNING Ph.D DISSERTATIONS OF PEOPLE I KNOW INTO DANCES.
TURNING Ph.D DISSERTATIONS OF PEOPLE I KNOW INTO DANCES. I have a number of friends and relatives with Ph.D’s, and I wonder what dances they would make out of their dissertations. Of course, the competitions apparently have come into existence … Continue reading
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TURNING A Ph.D THESIS INTO A DANCE.
TURNING A Ph.D THESIS INTO A DANCE. Melissa Korr had an article in the Wall Street Journal (November 13) about an annual competition for dance performances of Ph.D theses. Here is a YouTube video of an aerial dance for a … Continue reading
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THE GOLD IN MY WEDDING RING AND NEUTRON STAR MERGERS.
THE GOLD IN MY WEDDING RING AND NEUTRON STAR MERGERS. Lee Billings reports on a major conclusion from the “overwhelmingly mammoth series of papers” published about the gravitational wave discovery—an explanation of the origin of the heavy elements, such as … Continue reading
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GRAVITATIONAL WAVES.
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES. I began this blog on November 20, 2006 with this post on the evidence of the Big Bang in the night sky. On February 14, 2016, I posted here on the discovery and measurement of a gravitational wave … Continue reading
FLAVOR NOTES FOR BOG BUTTER.
FLAVOR NOTES FOR BOG BUTTER. Joshua Levine article discusses the speculation that bog dwellers must have known that a bog would preserve a body buried in it because they made a practice of burying large amounts of butter in bogs. … Continue reading
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IDENTIFYING ANCIENT DNA IN MUD.
IDENTIFYING ANCIENT DNA IN MUD. This article by Michael Le Page on the New Scientist website offers hope for a new archaeological tool. Scientists have had some success in looking for the DNA of early humans in ancient sediments in … Continue reading
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EFFORTS TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BOG BODIES.
EFFORTS TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT BOG BODIES. The title of Joshua Levine’s article is optimistic: “Europe’s Famed Bog Bodies Are Starting to Reveal Their Secrets.” However, the secrets and mysteries remain. The article describes ingenious efforts which have led … Continue reading
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THE UNCANNY NATURE OF BOGS.
THE UNCANNY NATURE OF BOGS. I posted here about how I believe that my Danish and Irish ancestors were bog people. I also believe that they lived in bogs because this was land that nobody else wanted. I had not … Continue reading
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HORSESHOE CRABS DONATING BLOOD.
HORSESHOE CRABS DONATING BLOOD. Horseshoe crab blood is harvested in much the same way that human blood is donated. There is a good picture in Caren Chesler’s article (in the section captioned “The Catch”) of a row of horseshoes crabs … Continue reading
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HORSESHOE CRAB BLOOD.
HORSESHOE CRAB BLOOD. The kids loved the “critters” that are on the shore of Long Island Sound from when they were infants. They especially loved horseshoe crabs from the beginning, even at an age when some of their friends were … Continue reading
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