Leeeeeeeeeeerooooy Jenkinnnnns!

The deer trophy alone would be motivation enough for me to get good enough to reach it.

Where else could humans have obtained box technology?

Since it's grouped with "wake up 5 times an hour", I suspect it's related to a general restlessness when rest should be occurring.

These are Chinese coal plants, and the consideration is particulate matter (not carbon dioxide), both of which are going to help give coal the edge.

"Attention-getting, sympathy-generating photos on postcards and posters raising money for cancer research" is another way dogs can help out.

There's a few more weapons you can make with water, a battery, and pencils:

All (scaled) fish are covered in teeth. Fish scales are modified teeth.

"What the Force?"

That's a very light device . . . but the birds themselves are only 25 grams, so that's a 5% increase in weight (without any corresponding increase in wing area to offset). Across 18,000 miles round trip, that could really add up.

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There was an episode of Radiolab that dealt with babies and their "logarithmic counting abilities". [www.radiolab.org] Basically, 2-3 month old babies notice that 2 is more than 1, and 16 is more than 8 but have a hard time with whether 16 is more than 15.

Good point. The Pluto scandal alone would cost him 10% of the electorate.

I came down here to say something like that. Except I was going to use architects, bassoonists, and professional pilots as my examples instead of economists, historians and journalists (of professions that also don't get elected to office). It's nothing unique to scientists, or unique to America. Scientists are…

And they all have to fight each other in gigantic, steam-powered mecha. It is what it is.

Let's not forget the radiation resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans, and the dessication/hard vacuum survival abilities of the tardigrades!

The oceans aren't getting saltier anymore . . . the processes that remove salt from the ocean are in equilibrium with the processes that add salt to it, and probably have been for billions of years now.

The tiny frogs a month ago are still smaller (adult size of 8mm, vs adult size of 16mm in the chameleons), but yeah, these are incredibly tiny for vertebrates.

If this incredibly cute chameleon doesn't fill your heart with love this Valentine's Day, then *nothing* will.

No surprisingly appropriate-to-the-topic photo? I'm a little sad . . ..