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  • In Memory of Jeanette Maples

    • 25 Feb 2011
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    By Curtis Cartier, Fri., Feb. 25 2011 @ 8:00AM
     
    "Angela McAnulty starved, beat, and tortured her 15-year-old daughter Jeanette Maples for years until she died. The abuse and starvation was so bad that when the teenage girl finally collapsed from cardiac arrest, she only weighed 50 pounds. " 

    UPDATE: The  AP reports that the jury has decided to sentence Angela McAnulty to death.

     

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  • Polemonium boreale

    • 25 Feb 2011
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    • 25Feb11 Flora
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    Boreal Jacobs-Ladder : Polemonium boreale, Svalbard, July 2004

    via commons.wikimedia.org

     

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  • Arabidopsis thaliana (thale cress) anther (20x)

    • 25 Feb 2011
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    • 25Feb11 Photomicrography
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    via techrepublic.com

     

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  • Pectolite, Aegirine

    • 25 Feb 2011
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    • 25Feb11 Macrophotography Minerals
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    Media_httpwebmineralc_gzzfe

    Mineral: Aegirine: NaFe+++Si2O6 Pectolite: NaCa2Si3O8(OH)

    Comments: White, cottony pectolite tufts with acicular aegirine.
    Location: 3M quarry, Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA.

    via webmineral.com

     

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  • New stretchable solar cells will power artificial electronic 'super skin'

    • 25 Feb 2011
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    • 25Feb11 Nanotechnology Science
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    ""Super skin" is what Stanford researcher Zhenan Bao wants to create. She's already developed a flexible sensor that is so sensitive to pressure it can feel a fly touch down."
    via news.stanford.edu

     

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  • Fishmen

    • 25 Feb 2011
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    • 25Feb11 illusions
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    Copyright Akiyoshi Kitaoka 2011 (January 21)

    Four rows of "fishmen" appear to tilt alternately, though they are horizontally aligned

    via psy.ritsumei.ac.jp

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  • NGC 1999: South of Orion

    • 25 Feb 2011
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    Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona
    via apod.nasa.gov

     

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  • A hummingbird in flight, feeding on a pink geranium...

    • 25 Feb 2011
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    by Roy Hancliff
    via telegraph.co.uk

     

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  • AraNet: A Genome-wide Gene Function Association Network for Arabidopsis thaliana

    • 25 Feb 2011
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    • 25Feb11 Illustration Science
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    Credit: Insuk Lee, Michael Ahn, Edward Marcotte, Seung Yon Rhee, Carnegie Institution for Science
    The image above is a map of links between the genes of the mustard plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Genes involved in the same biological process are connected by lines: red for more certain links, blue for less certain links. "It's not unlike a social network," says biologist Seung Yon Rhee.
    via nsf.gov

     

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