Category: Sciences
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Meaning and origin of phrases, sayings and idioms
It is often quite difficult to know where a language idiom is coming from (it is less etymology than social history). For English, I foudn the ideal web site: phrases.org.uk. In their own words: The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms. Whether you want to resolve a friendly argument over…
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Mimas or the Death Star
Maybe the deep space Mother Nature has been copying from the Star Wars movies when it created Mimas, one of Jupiter’s satellites. Mimas in front of Jupiter’s rings Via Neatorama.
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UK and France separated by a gigantic flood
The scientists at the Imperial College of London learned that the separation of France and UK (today known as the Channel) is the result of a gigantic 200,000-year-old flood. A large ridge present roughly along the Calais-Dover line (Weald-Artois anticline on the picture below) was then holding a glacial mega-lake. When it broke down, the…
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Detailed image of Antartica
Thanks to USGS and NASA, we will have one of the most detailed photo of the Antartica continent. Using images from the Landsat 7 satellite, the researchers created the most detailed, high-resolution map of Antarctica. This results in what is now known as the Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA). Using several images of the…
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Best science images of 2007
The National Geographic just published the awards of the Best science image competiton for 2007. Five images showing how science can look nice.
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Ice caves
A portfolio of great photos taken while exploring ice caves all over the world. link
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The worst SciFi movies
Science-Fiction produced both the worst and the best. Today, let’s look at the worst with the help of ForeverGeek that collected the Top 10 WORST Sci-Fi Shows EVER! w/Videos. That is so bad that’s it’s admirable!
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Designer watches from outter space
Sometimes, watches can be both good-looking and strange. I found recently a series of interesting ones where the designer went overboard with ideas to make the watch more unique. Of course, we can start with Romain Jerome who designed his jewels from rusted steel and coal taken from the Titanic shipwreck. The result is actually…
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Google and numbers
Personal research: What are the web sites best ranked for a Google search on the first figures? The results are… interesting: 0 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 1 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 2 : w3.org (Google search) 3 : 3.co.uk UK telephone operator (Google search) 4 : channel4.org TV channel (Google search) 5 : five.tv TV…