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299 792 458 m·s^−1 6.67384(80)×10−11 m³·kg^−1·s−2 6.626 069 57(29) × 10^−34 J·s 1.054 571 726(47) × 10^−34 J·s 4π × 10^−7 N·A^−2 = 1.256 637 061... × 10^−6 N·A^−2 8.854 187 817... × 10^−12 F·m−1 376.730 313 461... Ω 8.987 551 787... × 109 N·m²·C^−2 1.602 176 565(35) × 10^−19 C 9.274 009 68(20) × 10^−24 J·T^−1 7.748 091 7346(25) × 10^−5 S 12 906.403 7217(42) Ω 4.835 978 70(11) × 10^14 Hz·V−1 2.067 833 758(46) × 10^−15 Wb 5.050 783 53(11) × 10^−27 J·T^−1 25 812.807 4434(84) Ω 5.291 772 1092(17) × 10^−11 m 2.817 940 3267(27) × 10^−15 m 9.109 382 91(40) × 10^−31 kg 1.166 364(5) × 10^−5 GeV^−2 7.297 352 5698(24) × 10^−3 4.359 744 34(19) × 10^−18 J 1.672 621 777(74) × 10^−27 kg 3.636 947 5520(24) × 10^−4 m² s^−1 10 973 731.568 539(55) m^−1 6.652 458 734(13) × 10^−29 m² 0.2223(21) 1.660 538 921(73) × 10^−27 kg 6.022 141 29(27) × 10^23 mol^−1

Science This is where those blogs I have written that pertain to science will go. If you needed this description to tell you that, you're clearly reading the wrong person's blog.

Kakapo

Posted 10-04-2009 at 04:46 PM by Bullet Magnet
I had to share it with the rest of you.

Possibly one of the most wonderful and unlikely animals on the planet, the kakapo is the largest parrot in the world, nocturnal and utterly flightless. It's response to predators, of which naturally consist of birds of prey, is to sit very still, sometimes it will flee. Like the dodo, it evolved on an island without any predators. And like the dodo, it was screwed when the western world turned up with rats, cats and stoats (it was already in...
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Evolutionary Genealogy

Posted 10-03-2009 at 04:04 AM by Bullet Magnet
The theory of evolution explains how and that we are cousins of the great apes (not descendants from them) and cousins of all other species. This is a very simple idea that many people struggle with nonetheless.

"Cousins" is meant in a very real sense. New species emerge over the course of thousands of generations, and if you trace your family tree back far enough (were we privy to such information) we could trace the exact familial relationship.

Of course, genealogical...
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Ducks can be homosexual necrophiliacs too

Posted 09-26-2009 at 03:04 PM by Bullet Magnet
"The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)", Deinsea: Annual of the Natural History Museum Rotterdam, 2001.

This eight-year old publication contains "one of the greatest sentences in modern science writing": “Next to the obviously dead duck, another male mallard… mounted the corpse and started to copulate, with great force.”

Oh my, Donald!
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Beware the Spinal Tap

Posted 07-30-2009 at 06:31 AM by Bullet Magnet
(Note: this is the infamous article on chiropractic that got Simon Singh sued. It is being reposted all over the web today by multiple blogs and online magazines.)

Some practitioners claim it is a cure-all, but the research suggests chiropractic therapy has mixed results - and can even be lethal, says Simon Singh.

You might be surprised to know that the founder of chiropractic therapy, Daniel David Palmer, wrote that "99% of all diseases are caused by displaced vertebrae"....
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20/7

Posted 07-20-2009 at 07:03 AM by Bullet Magnet
So.

Who can tell me what momentous event occured forty years ago today? Anyone?
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The Science News Cycle

Posted 05-21-2009 at 05:06 AM by Bullet Magnet
As I watch the media's ability to report on scientific reports with the utmost horror as it manages to sink to abyssal depths and cause more damage than the worst anti-science kook, I turn to web comics for a slice of common sense.

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Elephants' Wings.

Posted 05-10-2009 at 11:43 AM by Bullet Magnet
Updated 05-10-2009 at 12:14 PM by Bullet Magnet
Due to popular demand: a wall of text.

Reposted from Pharyngula.

Once upon a time, four blind men were walking in the forest, and they bumped into an elephant.

Moe was in front, and found himself holding the trunk. "It has a tentacle," he said. "I think we have found a giant squid!"

Larry bumped into the side of the elephant. "It's a wall," he said, "A big, bristly wall."

Curly, at the back, touched the tail. "It's nothing...
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