October 15, 2004

Your one stop science shop: We've got dreaming dinos, disappearing amphibians, malaria vaccines, and Ig Nobel Awards. And don't forget to sample the latest images from Saturn. They're ringadingalicious.
  • as for the disappearing amphibians, of all the species that have once inhabited this earth, all but .2% of them have died off. and the .2% that have made this far, are microorganisms like bacteria. so its pretty clear that extinctions happen whether or not us humans are around to speed up the process.
  • This dinosaur was poco loco (by which I mean small). He tucked his nose behind his elbow in the same way birds will fall asleep. Birds dream. So why not he, saur-ing on forever, into eternity?
  • Bees, what a lovely poem for this post. Sweet little Mei long utterly captured my imagination.