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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 25, 2013
Categories
News
Origin Of Life

Early life built Earth’s continents?

News
November 25, 2013
News, Origin Of Life
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If Spohn and Höning’s model turns out to be persuasive, it will impact sky’s-the-limit claims about life-friendly planets outside our solar system. In the traditional model, we look for planets hospitable to life. In their model, life creates the hospitality, at least on land. So life comes first. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 25, 2013
Categories
Ecology
Evolutionary biology
News

New fossil discovery: Get lost, tyrannosaur punk. The Seeatch just spotted you!

News
November 25, 2013
Ecology, Evolutionary biology, News
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Let’s not lose sight of this: Before the Siats fossil was found, a whole narrative existed of late Cretaceous ecology that got started entirely in ignorance of this top predator. That would be like trying to understand the northern wilderness without the wolf or the bear. Read More ›
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post
Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 24, 2013
Categories
Mathematics
News

Sunday fun: Math genius (and Subway sandwich jockey) discovers new theory of prime numbers

News
November 24, 2013
Mathematics, News
1
Says article, His finding was the first time anyone had managed to put a finite bound on the gaps between prime numbers, representing a major leap toward proving the centuries-old twin primes conjecture, which posits that there are infinitely many pairs of primes separated by only two (such as 11 and 13). Read More ›
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post
Author
Salvador Cordova
Date
November 23, 2013
Categories
Humor
News

Little Richie Dawkins

scordova
November 23, 2013
Humor, News
1

This video attempts to portray Dawkins during his childhood years, but it seems to accurately depict him as an adult! warning: Dawkins uses a swear word in this cartoon