Blonde By Nature

Sometimes in life you just have go primitive and when a high-tech sensory-probe failed to produce any information regarding the path that glacier water takes, Alberto Behar of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory did just that.
Behar has been researching the worlds most rapidly melting and moving glacier – Greenland’s Jakobshavn Glacier (Jakobshavn Isbræ) – and hopes [...]

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Did you know that 3 major human STD’s have come from animals?
Discover Magazine reports that, according to Alonso Aguirre (Vice President for Conservation Medicine at Wildlife Trust):

Gonorrhea came from cattle
Syphilis came from cattle or sheep many centuries ago …possibly even sexually (ek!)
HIV came from the blood of chimpanzees

And as it turns out, STD’s are just [...]

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University of Florida’s scientist Subrata Roy has created a UFO that is not unidentifiable. His UFO is a “wingless electromagnetic air vehicle,” (aka WEAV) that is a saucer-shaped craft and is similar to the movie The Hunt For Red October’s submarine that was powered by a magnetohydrodynamic drive instead of propellers or moving parts.
Magnetohydrodynamics is [...]

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With the help of 30 international labs, research biologist Linda Holland has solved the sequence of the amphioxus genome (aka lancelet). Although it’s not a well-known marine animal, the worm-like creature has stolen the scientific spotlight since it is the closest invertebrate relative to vertebrates, despite the genetic split from vertebrates over 520 million years [...]

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There is a YouTube video of a tuff of clouds that contain a light wispy-looking rainbow in no particular formation that claims to be taken 30 mins before the 2008 Sichuan earthquake in China. Some suggestion that the type of rainbow was closely connected to the quake itself and likely even a sign of [...]

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