I always like seeing wild turkeys, but this one looks a bit goofy. This one was seen crossing the road in Parowan Utah on December 27, 2011.
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Why did the turkey cross the road?
January 24, 2012
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Orbits
January 6, 2012
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While talking to people about space, I’ve noticed that many people don’t have a good idea on how low earth orbit satellites orbit the earth. This video about the impending Phobos Grunt reentry does a great job showing what a low earth orbit looks like. Also, my condolences go out the Russian Space Agency on [...]
Wonderful World
December 8, 2011
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I’ve been watching The Life of Birds with David Attenborough and he is an amazing narrator. This is an great clip that makes me feel so thrilled to have chosen a career as a wildlife biologist.
One Man Baseball — In Space
December 4, 2011
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The lightheartedness of this video is great:
List of mammalian genera ending in “a”
October 28, 2011
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Just in case you are a wildlife biologist married to a mammologist and you are having a baby girl soon and you want to give the girl a name of a genus of mammals ending in “a” because the mom is Czech and Czech girl names end in “a” here is a list of the [...]
Last moments of life
August 16, 2011
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I saw this video a few days ago and keep thinking about it: Last Moments Of Life from Paul Kroeker on Vimeo.
Leukemia
August 15, 2011
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A friend and colleague of mine’s son was recently diagnosed with leukemia. This comic is pretty interesting on how some of the treatments coming down the pike are really strange and powerful when you look at them. From XKCD.
Feeling good about American creativity
August 7, 2011
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I just spent the weekend at Defcon 19, a hacking convention here in Las Vegas. Defcon, coupled with my experience at the STS-133 NASA Tweetup, gives me hope for the future. People are creative. People are amazing. We build. We make. We create. We break things and build them up again. Although we are living [...]
Space Shuttle Retrospective
July 22, 2011
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Amazing video with clips from all of the Space Shuttle missions. Well worth a watch.
Been dazed and confused for so long, it’s not true –Jake Grier Holmes, Jr. 1967 (not Jimmy Page 1968) Biologists hunted through archives and Civil War era records, searched for specimens in jars in the back rooms of museums, and dealt with paperwork and stored specimens lost in the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake to do [...]
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