01.11.09
Chiro-practors work with their hands. Helico-pters have spiraling wings. Mix the two creatively and you get what the Ancient Greeks saw in bats: chiro-ptera or hand-wings, to date the order's scientific...
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01.11.09
Kaldi's goats were bright, hardy and stubborn; just the way goats are. This afternoon, one goat after the other started to move a bit faster, though, then to run and,...
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01.11.09
As is proper for any respectable philosopher, Aristotle used to walk around while teaching. This is why his school is called the "peripatetic" or "wandering". This etymology is, of course, wrong....
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01.11.09
If, between Christmas and Women's Little Christmas, a wise old granny visits a farm and talks sweetly about a young man, the learned Irishman knows: it's matchmaking time. The young...
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01.11.09
Umbrella? Rainy weather. What happens when rain drops appear and dot the brolly? That's showery weather, of course, and worse, I presume. Thankfully, the very next symbol in Unicode's universal table of...
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08.10.09
Cats walk and run and hunt and eat and sleep alone — unless they are lions. Lions' bigger families — related females, a lion or two and their cubs — are...
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08.10.09
Yahoo! Mail's colors and curves are refreshed, and they shape a few new attachment tricks for the venerable free email service, too. You can now attach multiple files in one...
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08.10.09
A face, and a hand on the nest. The mockingbird has been attacking the student for some time. When it first spotted her, the bird had left the nest and started...
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08.10.09
The spell of pleasant days in autumn known as Indian Summer in North America is associated with another group in Europe: old women. Could it be a second spring late in...
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08.10.09
Call me GABA. I'm the brain's brake. I help you not be overly excited all the time; I help you relax and go to bed, too. Alcohol makes my job much...
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08.10.09
Not only in the lab but outside, too; not just for a small subset of users but for everybody: Gmail keeps piling capabilities and convenience. You can now choose recipients from...
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08.10.09
To converse intelligently with anybody, listen meticulously. Then make a statement. This is the one step you can skip. Now ask a question that begins with "why", "how" or "what"; "who", "when"...
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08.10.09
Windows Live Hotmail's latest iteration brings more keyboard shortcuts than anybody could use at one time: new shortcuts of its own, and many you know from Yahoo! Mail or Gmail...
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08.10.09
Never is it too late for a heartfelt "thanks" — best delivered in person or as a short note written by hand on heavy paper. You can practice the words in...
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08.10.09
When the botanist Francis Guthrie colored a map of England in 1852, he noticed something curious. He wanted to make sure no two adjacent counties had the same color, of course....
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