Archive for the ‘Science’ Category
Archaeology and geekery collide:
Posted by: Ace on: August 21, 2009
So I was looking at the subject profiles for the archaeology course at my university.
Budding archaeologists at my uni are trained at something called the Teaching Archaelogical Research Discipline In Simulation site, which is generally known by its acronym.
Thus I came across this on the uni website:
And of course, this being a top university the TARDIS site [...]
Highlights in Archaeology/Ancient History
Posted by: Ace on: August 8, 2009
I’ve been rather busy lately; as I type, I am in my second week of university, studying archaeology and ancient history. It’s as awesome as I had hoped.
Anyway, I’ve decided I’m going to post some of the more interesting facts, photographs, and quotes from the lecturers every week. So here we go.
Week One.
Ancient History
My favorite [...]
Religious doesn’t equal inferiority in the scientific realm
Posted by: Ace on: July 14, 2009
So I was reading Isis the Scientist’s blog, as I quite often do. (I’ve become a semi-regular over there, getting involved in discussions mostly involving forms of discrimination, usually based on sex and gender, discussions which end up getting quite heated, and philosophical, and eerily similar) And I read this post, which talks about a post (I’m [...]
Scientists discover three new Aussie dinosaurs
Posted by: Ace on: July 3, 2009
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Article copied directly from the ABC Science website. Written by Nicky Philips. Check out the original article here.
Palaeontologists have unveiled three new Australian dinosaur skeletons in outback Queensland today.
The two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed our land during the Cretaceous period – 98 million years ago.
The research, published in the [...]
Autism linked to gene variants that affect neurons
Posted by: Ace on: May 1, 2009
For more information, check out the source article at Not Exactly Rocket Science.
The gist of this article is that there are six gene variants involved with producing the proteins that form brain synapses, all common in the general population, which appear together in people with forms of Austistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in about 15% [...]
Blobfish
Posted by: Ace on: April 29, 2009
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Okay, I know I just posted, but check this out:
Blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus)
The blobfish (Psychrolutes marcidus) is a fish that inhabits the deep waters off the coasts of Australia and Tasmania. Due to the inaccessibility of its habitat, it is rarely seen by humans. Blobfish are found at depths where the pressure is several dozens of [...]
Blue-Tongued Lizard
Posted by: Ace on: April 29, 2009
I saved a bluetongued lizard yesterday. It was near my cat’s food bowl, and presumably had been eating from it (you’d be surprised at how much native wildlife seeks out cat food… brush turkeys, possums…).
Anyway, I knew I couldn’t leave it there, because not only does my cat eat the food in that bowl but [...]
A priceless creature
Posted by: Ace on: January 3, 2009
Things that make me happy, item four (part two of the happiness meme)
I’ve just finished an interesting book, “A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth,” by Samantha Weinberg. I’ve always been mildly interested by the coelacanth – how can you not be interested by a creature thatb first appeared some 400 million [...]
Game On
Posted by: Ace on: December 17, 2008
Last week I went to Game On, an exhibition of computer games, consoles and gaming machines past and present, as well as displays showing sketches from the development of games, the impact gaming (and gaming subculture) has had on culture in general.
First up I looked at all the old games and consoles. I played a [...]
Scientific Curiosity
Posted by: Ace on: June 24, 2008
A while back I wa reading an article in New Scientist magazine (Lights Fantastic, Stuart Clark, New Scientist. 31 May, 2008 ) about how astronauts see these inexplicable flashes of light while they’re in space, and the theory is that the ‘flash’ is a side-effect of high-energy particles travelling at very high speeds through the eyeball. (Yes, [...]
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