tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5417958730636579902024-02-19T04:46:38.700+00:00Jewels made out of neuronsOh, no! Another "original" perspective of biological sciences. ...but, yes! It is a completely odd one.patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.comBlogger244125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-79441496785829931502011-02-22T13:08:00.000+00:002011-02-22T13:08:01.760+00:00The revenge of Comic Sans.<div style="text-align: justify;">History, English and science students performed better in the relevant class assessments when the study materials were printed in Comic Sans Italicized, Haettenschweiler or Monotype Corsiva than did the pupils who learned from the original teachers' fonts.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokna-Uk818Y-Hpy-FtZ4vxUsi_DGmpPE-9ch7NjcdO2nwrKPhyd6TOn9QvO8V1PZgbHhqcaF5AnU021QFxIcX50sf8ku53bWDdRZYnViNCGwohDrMpHcgUa5cNZiaF9n6lVVeUZ2hKZf8/s1600/comic+sans.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgokna-Uk818Y-Hpy-FtZ4vxUsi_DGmpPE-9ch7NjcdO2nwrKPhyd6TOn9QvO8V1PZgbHhqcaF5AnU021QFxIcX50sf8ku53bWDdRZYnViNCGwohDrMpHcgUa5cNZiaF9n6lVVeUZ2hKZf8/s400/comic+sans.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574688908591628754" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/12/harder-to-read-fonts-boost-student.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "></span></a><a href="http://bps-research-digest.blogspot.com/2010/12/harder-to-read-fonts-boost-student.html"><span class="Apple-style-span">More things on the Bold and the Italicized</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-81352389545582549172011-02-21T13:22:00.005+00:002011-02-21T13:22:00.477+00:00Many Consumers Believe 36 Months Is Longer Than 3 Years.<div style="text-align: justify;">Remember, remember... </div><div style="text-align: justify;">...the arbitrary nature of the unit in which information is expressed.</div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhflTeDZgK9uu8QSz9TsqrZmB8s8FyxSx8wWkEwQlSq69xjDCfDI2pXUvYsNLowaGavqAu-jX-1rFrbXGUJwVDhp5wYQEzySFqFHGxM0fp1fvfbohfF6QXTGP5S28vP6EoQ71ulHKOIk6vP/s1600/3+years+and+36+months.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 301px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhflTeDZgK9uu8QSz9TsqrZmB8s8FyxSx8wWkEwQlSq69xjDCfDI2pXUvYsNLowaGavqAu-jX-1rFrbXGUJwVDhp5wYQEzySFqFHGxM0fp1fvfbohfF6QXTGP5S28vP6EoQ71ulHKOIk6vP/s400/3+years+and+36+months.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574677904081596034" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.jcr-admin.org/forthcoming.php?issue=43">Where else?</a></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-32202728482008776422011-02-18T10:45:00.000+00:002011-02-18T10:45:01.082+00:00Brains.Even cheaper than printer ink.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAUv8GvnUETsB8mobfLCJcfe9JmfsfH0hiAIb0FM-mZnvEqCegjXKXeavqBzuYjSqzSE5CqfbB8TVxhV-vjloMDXoouB6Et4CHNmixUdlb0X2uVIVZS4F8V3JgfE_qeE0Z3yGNwxwfAZK/s1600/Brains+25c.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 262px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeAUv8GvnUETsB8mobfLCJcfe9JmfsfH0hiAIb0FM-mZnvEqCegjXKXeavqBzuYjSqzSE5CqfbB8TVxhV-vjloMDXoouB6Et4CHNmixUdlb0X2uVIVZS4F8V3JgfE_qeE0Z3yGNwxwfAZK/s400/Brains+25c.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574610677613661506" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-13810041827414092002011-02-17T13:15:00.000+00:002011-02-17T13:15:00.358+00:00Terra incognita."A library or a single book can be compared to a virgin land that can be reached by some colonizing organisms that behave like pioneer species on a nude soil."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_RiGv2m59aV80guikvsStW05c7bvcVrgRhOzowXegAUPL5J_MKev3x1o-B-mwpC0kr_SBfqhPm-oH_eL9Hvx90Z1ofRxtfhcCs0mHZAnqcIfiJCwRiXvDa12bL9wKu4t5zdWR9JH9_AXd/s1600/medium_manuscriptbugs.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_RiGv2m59aV80guikvsStW05c7bvcVrgRhOzowXegAUPL5J_MKev3x1o-B-mwpC0kr_SBfqhPm-oH_eL9Hvx90Z1ofRxtfhcCs0mHZAnqcIfiJCwRiXvDa12bL9wKu4t5zdWR9JH9_AXd/s400/medium_manuscriptbugs.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574345723015104738" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" ><a href="http://hubs.plos.org/web/biodiversity/article/10.1007/s00248-010-9667-9">Technicalities here.</a></span> </div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-69282398724110631582011-02-16T15:00:00.003+00:002011-02-16T15:10:15.097+00:00Professor Badass by himself:<div style="text-align: justify;">In 1958, B.F. Skinner and Erich Fromm attended the same California symposium. Skinner found that Fromm “proved to have something to say about almost everything, but with little enlightenment,” and “when he began to argue that people were not pigeons, I decided that something had to be done”:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"On a scrap of paper I wrote ‘Watch Fromm’s left hand. I am going to shape a chopping motion’ and passed it down the table to Halleck Hoffman. Fromm was sitting directly across from the table and speaking mainly to me. I turned my chair slightly so that I could see him out of the corner of my eye. He gesticulated a great deal as he talked, and whenever his left hand came up, I looked straight at him. If he brought the hand down, I nodded and smiled. Within five minutes he was chopping the air so vigorously that his wristwatch kept slipping out over his hand. (...) It was an unfair trick, but Fromm had angered me — first with his unsupported generalizations about human behavior and then with the implication that nothing better could be done if ‘people were regarded as pigeons.’”</div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4XXIkRXTk-s_qNmUxP2A_YAPbZdapUZGrCMf_h1vKUtfO3d81rU5bYDHbBTBbJXTsUozoaGKEXHjvNuLwhyphenhyphenow_Gzqe-6DDGSdbFslM0OiKtL1Qn3KQ21tajkQ7835oUfHSMMcRki-HYO/s1600/bf-skinner.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 297px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz4XXIkRXTk-s_qNmUxP2A_YAPbZdapUZGrCMf_h1vKUtfO3d81rU5bYDHbBTBbJXTsUozoaGKEXHjvNuLwhyphenhyphenow_Gzqe-6DDGSdbFslM0OiKtL1Qn3KQ21tajkQ7835oUfHSMMcRki-HYO/s400/bf-skinner.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5574302688258580866" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" >From Skinner’s 1983 memoir A Matter of Consequences.</span></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-81717300905838188212011-02-15T16:27:00.003+00:002011-02-15T17:59:21.240+00:00Mammalian strategies.....were adopted by the Transformers.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2tdW211d27Blz64OB4EmW3cp0gLUR5wROVA78F5KSQkcaQULZqVaMdama35JKkwBXglZGIdZWzOuvzB7ZczI7SwtLHSC5iMrG3Rn8R8id1ZO5Dbt41hV-hO4A_LqQd7tdTJE7huwRSSp/s1600/37461_380.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 380px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX2tdW211d27Blz64OB4EmW3cp0gLUR5wROVA78F5KSQkcaQULZqVaMdama35JKkwBXglZGIdZWzOuvzB7ZczI7SwtLHSC5iMrG3Rn8R8id1ZO5Dbt41hV-hO4A_LqQd7tdTJE7huwRSSp/s400/37461_380.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5573976331549525570" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-75931550034065453672010-12-09T13:14:00.005+00:002010-12-10T15:13:54.766+00:00Stimulus Generalization:Humour made it simple.<br /><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpbn0ZfaUB7QccrrLV_qNHZcmqTxAm6fYXoZ4t-KmYGSE_W35XdGSpcwpaT45MkcUkG4jvRUUGQ2fcIs45eRC4ZWXiT30mklx7vAZlM4aHORDwOJt0DceTILROLAHN15qOxOeg-ArChA0/s1600/53813_460.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpbn0ZfaUB7QccrrLV_qNHZcmqTxAm6fYXoZ4t-KmYGSE_W35XdGSpcwpaT45MkcUkG4jvRUUGQ2fcIs45eRC4ZWXiT30mklx7vAZlM4aHORDwOJt0DceTILROLAHN15qOxOeg-ArChA0/s400/53813_460.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548700384597974002" /></a><br /></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-51539522886228734412010-12-09T13:02:00.003+00:002010-12-09T13:14:33.799+00:00Telling the bees.<div style="text-align: justify;">“And he said if a man owned a beehive and that man died, the bees must be told about it before sun-up next morning, or else the bees would all weaken down and quit work and die. Jim said bees wouldn't sting idiots; but I didn't believe that, because I had tried them lots of times myself, and they wouldn't sting me.”</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mark Twain in<i> Huckleberry Finn</i>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibs2V1tH9TVXy64f1bDPD3vkHfm-SPTmXQfhc_X0mBWOctAVA7SVQGgAqXBUETK9Yoc6yMJZPtoZSUOzZr_P-TClhkYuLtI9g3y7a4QqSPuskN9fruUEgdaaWCdpn_xHVaQIvA3hUxVTl-/s1600/telling+the+bees.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 359px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibs2V1tH9TVXy64f1bDPD3vkHfm-SPTmXQfhc_X0mBWOctAVA7SVQGgAqXBUETK9Yoc6yMJZPtoZSUOzZr_P-TClhkYuLtI9g3y7a4QqSPuskN9fruUEgdaaWCdpn_xHVaQIvA3hUxVTl-/s400/telling+the+bees.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548667320907077842" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" ><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.andrewgough.co.uk/bee3_2.html">Much more here.</a></div></span>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-33186359546389040292010-11-24T12:45:00.001+00:002010-11-24T12:47:05.993+00:00The plural of u is us.Taking the "it's complicated" to a whole new dimension.<div><br /><object width="400" height="300"><param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10784386&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0"><embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10784386&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=&fullscreen=1&autoplay=0&loop=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"></embed></object><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://vimeo.com/10784386"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">CreatureCast - Siphonophores and Individuality</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/user1747626">Casey Dunn</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com/">Vimeo</a>.</span></p></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-62970960797680825682010-11-23T00:40:00.000+00:002010-11-23T12:40:44.358+00:00Another step towards the future world domination by cephalopods:Flying squids.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8gFgqPbP6b6MkYgKWGoUsKDW7sa4D0mfZg1SQjDlkweShRciYSsbBOoC0TA_jzsIF1vLrXX_2bzFhzfSc46UF9wUjPFyIvRu6xYuFDmo0hPLd-yn0nyvTGszdhFUk2P12wOLlX6zfuC4/s1600/flyiing+squid.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 248px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG8gFgqPbP6b6MkYgKWGoUsKDW7sa4D0mfZg1SQjDlkweShRciYSsbBOoC0TA_jzsIF1vLrXX_2bzFhzfSc46UF9wUjPFyIvRu6xYuFDmo0hPLd-yn0nyvTGszdhFUk2P12wOLlX6zfuC4/s400/flyiing+squid.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542422572738328002" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; ">Photo by Bob Hulse</span></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-7673279864241096492010-11-22T16:50:00.002+00:002010-11-22T16:57:12.100+00:00And you know why mama elephant does not like lizards?Bad manners. She does not like theirs.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMOHoJnndgr1bwbjfHh8BVb3omxxtNKkpVp684U__CVz43jHLqm6lNqseflVMfJE4rYn0zUJ5qO57rc2YNH08zAz42FJsYHDTMx3X2FCV-5Od-tYMZ19dsxiP73g31RxkEP6BqFuZvjPVw/s1600/elephant-vs-alligator-fight2_28158_600x450+Photograph+courtesy+Martin+Nyfeler.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMOHoJnndgr1bwbjfHh8BVb3omxxtNKkpVp684U__CVz43jHLqm6lNqseflVMfJE4rYn0zUJ5qO57rc2YNH08zAz42FJsYHDTMx3X2FCV-5Od-tYMZ19dsxiP73g31RxkEP6BqFuZvjPVw/s400/elephant-vs-alligator-fight2_28158_600x450+Photograph+courtesy+Martin+Nyfeler.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5542417943739142050" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Photo by Martin Nyfeler</div></span>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-89582774035293303762010-11-19T11:02:00.000+00:002010-11-19T11:02:00.665+00:00This is the Eye of Providence.<div style="text-align: justify;">Peacock mantis shrimp eyes' are capable of serial or parallel vision; possesses trinocular vision (WTF?!) and depth perception; colour vision from ultra-violet to infra-red using at least 16 different photoreceptor types (you, my friend, only have 4); detection of polarized light and circular polarized light (you don't even imagine what this is, right?). </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8dYU6VCzV6FtnrQD7w7gOZ8NPurwMQ4gbtUv76MUbQL_8tZ6tSVCtu7aj_HRMcsGf_UUgaNRR7v8B-Wccw58Y5kCW3J3CtqNgzYEhanJG1COe-nc0JFINA_n154FErkjd85uP2PNwncjP/s1600/peacock+mantis+shrimp.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8dYU6VCzV6FtnrQD7w7gOZ8NPurwMQ4gbtUv76MUbQL_8tZ6tSVCtu7aj_HRMcsGf_UUgaNRR7v8B-Wccw58Y5kCW3J3CtqNgzYEhanJG1COe-nc0JFINA_n154FErkjd85uP2PNwncjP/s400/peacock+mantis+shrimp.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540474345046472866" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-26863727081055644122010-11-18T11:31:00.000+00:002010-11-18T11:32:40.552+00:00The anatomy of the kiwi.You know this was bound to happen.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjttT_GuA3NOtr07zATFly_OL52g3n-ysqZC83wViiRHZE3u6ocGB78CVWZN0-_p1Tr5ASMP3xRf3H0KLKvxoV67m30d5zyW-Kq0BRJ-_7CEmm9v0SJa0pLbiIP8_PlzhaJxML42jBiHOqs/s1600/Anatomy+of+the+Kiwi.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 289px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjttT_GuA3NOtr07zATFly_OL52g3n-ysqZC83wViiRHZE3u6ocGB78CVWZN0-_p1Tr5ASMP3xRf3H0KLKvxoV67m30d5zyW-Kq0BRJ-_7CEmm9v0SJa0pLbiIP8_PlzhaJxML42jBiHOqs/s400/Anatomy+of+the+Kiwi.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540182691297941298" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-36409206909744989352010-11-17T11:00:00.000+00:002010-11-17T11:00:27.118+00:00Proboscidea Herpetophobia.Mama elephant does not like lizards.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dr23fUViJwQ/TOKr0V_OTbI/AAAAAAAAA7o/suAnwTmAn6o/s1600/19891_540.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 272px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Dr23fUViJwQ/TOKr0V_OTbI/AAAAAAAAA7o/suAnwTmAn6o/s400/19891_540.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540179407363001778" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-36990178388120636232010-11-16T15:23:00.003+00:002010-11-16T15:34:29.504+00:00Meta Flamingo......is now available to do Olympic opening ceremonies, dictators' birthdays, weddings and bar mitzvahs.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfYzD1RLyhZLCIWFpmGtlAtRiN02Hoz-rHgAxHiV3a51XbnXsurCgCTniWh4KrCTvWB0CSf4WuNjPLa5gjcHZuIVOYaF2D-cIlPU0gBKH8TJqHs7bHmW82ePOj9OE7yQK0NjDymEgnMSiw/s1600/48324_460.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfYzD1RLyhZLCIWFpmGtlAtRiN02Hoz-rHgAxHiV3a51XbnXsurCgCTniWh4KrCTvWB0CSf4WuNjPLa5gjcHZuIVOYaF2D-cIlPU0gBKH8TJqHs7bHmW82ePOj9OE7yQK0NjDymEgnMSiw/s400/48324_460.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5540169158247133394" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-19792759951844862922010-11-15T10:10:00.003+00:002010-11-15T10:19:54.206+00:00A world of PDF's.Even AI's will not be able to fight against the scientific referencing contingencies. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOzYDQUhilTrRtPLRlBVWn3HNOb7VXX-sdmm-tlFwGgNUYDAmJR0D5AUDr0wponxR6D3_rAdgbc0Z13regdFHZE8oJ-T-us3BQnU9jn3nyhyhVO7IvvnF1ecZ0s0MpYQZe8yIA-gtAEM1g/s1600/tumblr_lafwu0E1AL1qzicj3o1_500.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOzYDQUhilTrRtPLRlBVWn3HNOb7VXX-sdmm-tlFwGgNUYDAmJR0D5AUDr0wponxR6D3_rAdgbc0Z13regdFHZE8oJ-T-us3BQnU9jn3nyhyhVO7IvvnF1ecZ0s0MpYQZe8yIA-gtAEM1g/s400/tumblr_lafwu0E1AL1qzicj3o1_500.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5539717546672443826" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-79028907219931807812010-11-12T16:37:00.000+00:002010-11-12T16:37:43.294+00:00The weird converter.1 African elephant weighs as much as 110 Jennifer Aniston’s.<br />The length of 1 T-Rex is equivalent to almost 126 flaccid penis.<br />106 humans producing saliva during their lifetime will fill 1 Olympic swimming pool.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSLDVKXpG0rBjqqWq4IX24xzTD4WpVrYGVmf-4FwSyT3m8U-TDfqN9v_kShnVso0ekYubqojP_Q62PNVd6qugqcvKYd17vPB11RElFxvcSe-356OHvLFQOUEgDWsFod0_VCywHKDiDR-O/s1600/saliva-test.bmp"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 257px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLSLDVKXpG0rBjqqWq4IX24xzTD4WpVrYGVmf-4FwSyT3m8U-TDfqN9v_kShnVso0ekYubqojP_Q62PNVd6qugqcvKYd17vPB11RElFxvcSe-356OHvLFQOUEgDWsFod0_VCywHKDiDR-O/s400/saliva-test.bmp" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5537612066195562994" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.weirdconverter.com/index.php"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">More weird conversions.</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-65678518556855628622010-11-11T14:19:00.000+00:002010-11-11T14:19:00.885+00:00Migration.Do it at least once.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0e9L2ri3hq1BuHsD1IEAAAuI4KbvU3pwwwpd8NQQPBFKtbZcxzdSgZBt0IOHTQxxYt7LJa_EdiA_Kl0fgVjY6oCy25nBeRJxoSzPTXTUjLFFuobRGUGJ9Vko_8sdv1kYjMHm2L3HOq-om/s1600/venusmoon_pascual.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0e9L2ri3hq1BuHsD1IEAAAuI4KbvU3pwwwpd8NQQPBFKtbZcxzdSgZBt0IOHTQxxYt7LJa_EdiA_Kl0fgVjY6oCy25nBeRJxoSzPTXTUjLFFuobRGUGJ9Vko_8sdv1kYjMHm2L3HOq-om/s400/venusmoon_pascual.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536091796537332898" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-7392618746101474062010-11-10T12:57:00.000+00:002010-11-10T12:57:00.081+00:00The data output of human ejaculation.<div style="text-align: justify;">If a human sperm cell contains 37.5 MegaBytes of genetic information (Similar to a CD capacity), and in a milliliter we have 100 million sperms (Roughly the population of Mexico), and on average one ejaculation releases 2.25 ml of sperm (Half of a teaspoon), that means an average ejaculation represents a data output of 1687.5 TeraBytes (The equivalent of the collected data of 10 U.S. Library of Congress).</div><div><br /></div><div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDc7pbMHZXKaEdySZeanRh7oHQMfhzTn2Nm-FAyy48Z3GHuEuDIQd-PmA6BJ2DtZLXTi8iYkHdvZwblxK-VqMfPal5-1nRNQPzp7Qozv0aZer2kpbrJieRCO4ikbKEZIxhXwL34YaIpYWt/s1600/usbsperm.jpg"><img style="text-align: left;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 273px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDc7pbMHZXKaEdySZeanRh7oHQMfhzTn2Nm-FAyy48Z3GHuEuDIQd-PmA6BJ2DtZLXTi8iYkHdvZwblxK-VqMfPal5-1nRNQPzp7Qozv0aZer2kpbrJieRCO4ikbKEZIxhXwL34YaIpYWt/s400/usbsperm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536082685841750194" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small; "><a href="http://forgetomori.com/2008/science/enlarge-your-penis-data-bandwidth/">Other details here.</a></span></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-43779083126876828242010-11-09T14:02:00.001+00:002010-11-09T14:02:00.561+00:00Literary mimicry.<div style="text-align: justify;">And then the photometric and radiometric parameters came along and spoiled all romanticism.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3cAbdZE5OV0D2Tky2saTbOw4-RWkVLF1tx2R-Fu66F_2x8R-yKk1qdIFECXWEovwL3DSfasDSOjOdBQQ2KyG9ewFXWnV3wZStUN_GKt1t_1QSNTvJLaASEUuquYFHDgoEPXqekpXoY0u/s1600/1946,+Luce+et+Pierre+Morel,+Glo-Glo+le+poisson+rouge.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 318px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhp3cAbdZE5OV0D2Tky2saTbOw4-RWkVLF1tx2R-Fu66F_2x8R-yKk1qdIFECXWEovwL3DSfasDSOjOdBQQ2KyG9ewFXWnV3wZStUN_GKt1t_1QSNTvJLaASEUuquYFHDgoEPXqekpXoY0u/s400/1946,+Luce+et+Pierre+Morel,+Glo-Glo+le+poisson+rouge.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536067344074027522" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Glo-Glo le poisson rouge. Luce et Pierre Morel, 1946.</span></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-31747562430138810712010-11-08T12:28:00.000+00:002010-11-08T12:28:00.462+00:00The Noetic Electrician.And that's why I don't like fringe science: Somehow they turn a clean, radical, but still untested scientific hypothesis in a new-age lifestyle philosophical non-sense. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYL1Zeicwr3mNxW_COjqB1LBvafM9ZX-TVU_FjbzTJonUAWuCZ255MRIPJkvFDYypsXu7nF5tVk9vgZaOi5LwPfgpFedeBhXpn8meXgYqOHbhMp7AB_Rnx29oXiDoLI0KRciwefTxhG9a/s1600/brcartn.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 222px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYL1Zeicwr3mNxW_COjqB1LBvafM9ZX-TVU_FjbzTJonUAWuCZ255MRIPJkvFDYypsXu7nF5tVk9vgZaOi5LwPfgpFedeBhXpn8meXgYqOHbhMp7AB_Rnx29oXiDoLI0KRciwefTxhG9a/s400/brcartn.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536047732656231378" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-86123747356285599312010-11-05T11:08:00.002+00:002010-11-05T11:14:29.563+00:00Carrion eaters can be awesome."Upward winds brought me news of your death".<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJOEdf5d_ye5gAR9fKu6Icqr-6qUMG6pEW4UUA6giKPvcb6jjxkFPe64ZrgjA9Iuj4x4V03tcah_FKluG4eppZa-O8xybnmAbJ1rnqskJSQlQOAjqGu1PuYbdKI1mjdjfxOVuvAc3Ykh6U/s1600/Carrion+eaters+can+be+awesome.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJOEdf5d_ye5gAR9fKu6Icqr-6qUMG6pEW4UUA6giKPvcb6jjxkFPe64ZrgjA9Iuj4x4V03tcah_FKluG4eppZa-O8xybnmAbJ1rnqskJSQlQOAjqGu1PuYbdKI1mjdjfxOVuvAc3Ykh6U/s400/Carrion+eaters+can+be+awesome.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5536021375504127010" /></a>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-38212215470966202522010-11-04T17:07:00.002+00:002010-11-04T17:24:07.196+00:00Ant singularity.<div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; ">"...first described in army ants by Schneirla (1944). A circle of army ants, each one following the ant in front, becomes locked into a circular mill. They will continue to circle each other until they all die. Beebe (1921) described a circular mill he witnessed in Guyana. It measured 1200 feet in circumference and had a 2.5 hour circuit time per ant. The mill persisted for two days...".</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;">Excerpt from <a href="http://theantroom.blogspot.com/2006/11/ant-death-spiral.html">the Ant Room</a>. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/mA37cb10WMU?fs=1&hl=pt_PT"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/mA37cb10WMU?fs=1&hl=pt_PT" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object></span></span></span></span></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-84538116266435825012010-09-28T17:09:00.004+01:002010-09-28T17:19:28.658+01:00Behind every mythology......there is an untold sad story.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJvivMQOhPItxBpPUy7OrgJ2kFM2qWu8q_IEUkGikijrhU_m_sziY-p40iVa61YUMtgK7EhwJOP6LuEOpwUpch1WLBnIK0mzMiSHMbJeJWPAT5oOkbPNTqyhdug-2YvLkLCn8IGRuilr_/s1600/From+Jimmy+Swinnerton,+Near+to+Nature+babies+(1927).jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 278px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQJvivMQOhPItxBpPUy7OrgJ2kFM2qWu8q_IEUkGikijrhU_m_sziY-p40iVa61YUMtgK7EhwJOP6LuEOpwUpch1WLBnIK0mzMiSHMbJeJWPAT5oOkbPNTqyhdug-2YvLkLCn8IGRuilr_/s400/From+Jimmy+Swinnerton,+Near+to+Nature+babies+(1927).jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5521998710814205826" /></a><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">From Jimmy Swinnerton, Near to Nature babies (1927)</span></span></div>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-541795873063657990.post-71815731861587812392010-07-28T15:34:00.000+01:002010-07-28T15:34:25.968+01:00Bait ball obliteration:Jaw dropping. Guaranteed.<br /><br /><object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/quwebVjAEJA&hl=pt_PT&fs=1"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/quwebVjAEJA&hl=pt_PT&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>patríciohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09611115795657861761noreply@blogger.com1