In today’s “moos:“

German scientists using satellite images posted online by the Google Earth software program have observed something that has escaped the notice of farmers, herders and hunters for thousands of years: Cattle grazing or at rest tend to orient their bodies in a north-south direction just like a compass needle.
Studying photographs of 8,510 cattle […]

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Gorgeous.

Tags: Enceladus, Saturn, moon, space, probe, ice, life, solar+system

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One more thing I hadn’t thought I needed to be worried about.
(with a tip of the hat to our cousins at Bad Astronomy Blog)
Tags: hadron, abuse, subatomic, particle, CERN

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…This is a canned blog entry. At the time it’s posted, I’ll be on my way to Dublin to catch my flight to Sweden. But I saw this and thought that by the morning, maybe there’ll be some take on whether the subject is a hoax, or a genuine monster in the technical sense of the […]

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PASADENA, Calif.–Bars abound in spiral galaxies today, but this was not always the case. A group of 16 astronomers, led by Kartik Sheth of NASA’s Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, has found that bars tripled in number over the past seven billion years…

So what’s the cause? Gentrification, or looser liquor licensing […]

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Sheesh. Unusual for me. But here’s the info.  (The path of totality has also been Google Mapped.)
Stockholm will only be getting a partial — I estimate 35–40%-ish coverage from the diagram — but that’s still more than I’d have seen at home in Ireland. What great timing!
Here’s a magic phrase, though:

The path of totality […]

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Over at Scientific American:
Kryptonite Discovered; Adamantium Remains Elusive
No, really!
Technorati Tags: kryptonite, sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide

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Archaeologists have found the remains of an ancient settlement two miles from Stonehenge which seems to have been built specifically to celebrate the Winter Solstice… big time. 
The new finds at Durrington Walls, two miles northeast of the stone circle, indicate that the entire region was a large religious complex where the early Britons gathered in […]

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The next big thing. Or is it? Some have their doubts.
It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out…
Technorati Tags: hafnium, chips, processor, Intel, metal, gates, high-K

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Too cool.
Technorati Tags: physics, monopole, inflation theory, Higgs field, new universe, baby universe

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But some of us have been doing it for a real long time, and have gotten really good at it…
Scientists have found a 136 million-year-old piece of amber encasing pieces of web and trapped insects. The finding helps fill in the gaps of the origin of orb webs, and also indicates predatory spiders likely played […]

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