“Is brown, just like dirt at home. Taste like home too.”
Russians plan to present evidence to United Nations
that the Arctic should be theirs. They say the proof is in the soil.
According to a Reuters report on MSNBC, Russia says it has the scientific evidence to prove that the Arctic is really Russian.
"We have received preliminary data from an analysis of models of the earth's crust from Arctic 2007 which confirms that the Lomonosov Ridge ... is part of the adjoining continental shelf of the Russian Federation." the statement said.
The Lomonosov Ridge, named after 18th century Russian writer and scientist Mikhail Lomonosov, runs hundreds of kilometers along the bottom of the Arctic seabed below the icy North Pole and is key to claiming the region's untapped resources. (Reuters/MSNBC)
The report, however, made no claim as to the ownership of the Arctic Monkeys.
From a cluster of bone fragments the size of my finger, we can safely surmise that Psittacosaurus had a pleasant voice, green eyes and would have liked Bach, creamed spinach and voted Libertarian.
Dinosaur find shows early social behavior
Discovery sheds light on the life of the beaked dinosaur Psittacosaurus
The fossilized remains of six young dinosaurs found together in a "nursery" at a site in China show these animals had started forming social groups much earlier than previously thought, scientists said on Thursday.
The find sheds light on the life of the beaked dinosaur Psittacosaurus and on the origins of social behavior in its descendents, including the horned Triceratops, said Paul Barrett, a paleontologist at Britain's Natural History Museum, who led the study.
"We don't know very much about the early behavior of dinosaurs in general," he said in a telephone interview. "This discovery shows the early relatives were already social and living in groups." (MSNBC/Reuters)
Translation: they all died in the same spot at the same time under the same rock.
You didn’t hear it from me, but…
Most Science Studies Appear to Be Tainted By Sloppy Analysis
According to a SCIENCE JOURNAL article in today’s WSJ by
Robert Lee Hotz, medical scholar John Ioannidis contends that most published research findings are wrong.
Dr. Ioannidis, an epidemiologist at the University of Ioannina School of Medicine in Greece and Tufts University in Medford, Mass., says the flawed findings, for the most part, result from: “miscalculation, poor study design or self-serving data analysis.” Says Ioannidis, "There is an increasing concern that in modern research, false findings may be the majority or even the vast majority of published research claims," Dr. Ioannidis said. "A new claim about a research finding is more likely to be false than true."
Says Hotz, in the U. S., research is a $55-billion-a-year enterprise that stakes its credibility on the reliability of evidence and the work of Dr. Ioannidis strikes a raw nerve. In fact, his 2005 essay "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False" remains the most downloaded technical paper that the journal PLoS Medicine has ever published.
Earlier this year, informatics expert Murat Cokol and his colleagues at Columbia University sorted through 9.4 million research papers at the U.S. National Library of Medicine published from 1950 through 2004 in 4,000 journals. By raw count, just 596 had been formally retracted, Dr. Cokol reported. (WSJ)/Thanks to The Daily Grail
Hey, how you doin' ?
Headline of the day
Man has sex at spa multiple times to help cops build their case
During his first visit to the spa, the man allegedly was so upset about a woman offering sex that he reported it to state police. He returned four more times and engaged in hanky-panky while cops listened and laughed outside. (Allentown, PA Morning Call)/The Obscure Store)
Taking more than one for the team?
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