Monthly Archives: May 2002

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Posted on Saturday, 2002 May 04 by Anton

Ultimate Bizarro Awareness (uses Flash)

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hey, I can see where your house was!

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 03 by Anton

New NASA Satellite Zooms in on Tornado Swath – May 2, 2002

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the name of the word for it is called Haddocks’ Eyes

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 03 by Anton

Thousands of Inca Mummies Raised From Their Graves About 40 of the large mummy bundles are topped with false heads, known to archaeologists as falsas cabezas. Can’t quarrel with that! (Cabeza is Spanish for ‘head’.)

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SIDS

Posted on Friday, 2002 May 03 by Anton

Cringely asks for volunteer talent in a research campaign against Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

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where they stood

Posted on Thursday, 2002 May 02 by Anton

Animation of Congress. For those three of you who haven’t seen it: Keith Poole‘s team at U.Houston tabulated the roll-call votes in Congress from 1879 to 1998 and did a factor analysis; the two dimensions shown in the animation are … Continue reading →

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light-dark-light in the sky

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 01 by Anton

One of my favorites from Astronomy Picture of the Day: time exposure of a lunar eclipse.

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exegesis of intelligence

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 May 01 by Anton

Stephen Jay Gould, in one of his Natural History essays, wrote: I believe that any solution to this key puzzle in Darwinian biography must begin with a proper exegesis of intelligence – one that rejects Charles Spearman’s old notion of … Continue reading →

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