May 2012
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April 2012
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“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
– Albert Camus (via girlwithoutwings)
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Excessive worrying may have co-evolved with... →
Worrying may have evolved along with intelligence as a beneficial trait, according to a recent study by scientists at SUNY Downstate Medical Center and other institutions. Jeremy Coplan, MD, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Downstate, and colleagues found that high intelligence and worry both correlate with brain activity measured by the depletion of the nutrient choline in the subcortical white...
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Eggs of enigmatic dinosaur in Patagonia discovered →
“What makes the discovery unique are the two eggs preserved near articulated bones of its hind limb. This is the first time the eggs are found in a close proximity to skeletal remains of an alvarezsaurid dinosaur,” says Dr. Martin Kundrát, dinosaur expert from the group of Professor Per Erik Ahlberg at Uppsala University.
The first Argentine-Swedish Dinosaur expedition and...
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Oldest-ever reptile embryos unearthed →
Dating back 280 million years or so, the oldest known fossil reptile embryos have been unearthed in Uruguay and Brazil. They belong to the ancient aquatic reptiles, mesosaurs. The study of these exceptionally well-preserved fossils suggests that mesosaurs were either viviparous[1] (pushing back this mode of reproduction by 60 million years) or that they laid eggs in advanced stages of...
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Patterns of antibiotic-resistant bacteria found in... →
Feces collected at several different sites from free-living reptiles harboredEscherichia coli bacteria that were resistant to ampicillin, doxycycline, tetracycline and trimethoprin/sulfamethoxazole. Another bacterial species collected from the feces, Salmonella enterica, was found to be only mildly resistant or not resistant at all to the same antibiotics, most likely because of the differing...
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WatchJack Horner and juvenile dinosaurs
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Dinosaur feathers: Fossils indicate T. rex cousin... →
When it comes to dino outerwear, shag might be the new scales.
Fossil evidence from a trio of 125-million-year-old dinosaurs that were relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex indicate the giant creatures were wore primitive feathers.
The three tyrannosauroids — one adult and two juveniles — belong to a newly described species discovered in northeastern China. The full-grown Yutyrannus hualiweighed 3,000...
March 2012
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Women´s Day
I don´t know if it´s a worldwide date, but here in Brazil we celebrate International Women´s Day
So congratulations to all women who make the world better, the city better, the comunity better, their house better, their family better, well, make people around them better !
Happy Women´s Day!
January 2012
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jhnmyr:
Officially back on track as of today. Doc says all clear. Ends an 8-month period of extreme patience and a real head trip… Back to it… See you soon.
It´s so nice to have you back John !! It´s great news !
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01-13-2012 - Give a chance to myself
I just ask today for a little luck, just a little help, just a little chance.
Today has been hard, because nothing helped, no one helped. Well, is one of those days you wish you had stayed in bed and never talked or seeing anyone.
I think I have the human right to be sad, one day or two, not more or less but just the feeling of being more human with myself. Because everybody says, be good to...
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