When birds strike back
A South Florida pilot has only minor injuries after a turkey vulture shattered his windshield, forcing an emergency landing.
Currently browsing posts found in February2009
Fighting for Airspace
What Do You Do When You Miss Your Flight?
When you miss your flight I really hope you don’t act like this lady
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Osaka Bang!
Oh this is just plain silly. The things people do for the camera.
1,900% Beer Tax Hike
Roll out the barrel…And then your broke
PORTLAND, Ore. — Five Oregon state lawmakers want to impose a hefty tax on beer and have introduced a bill that brewers say would cripple them.
Amazing 3D Sidewalk Art Similar to Julian Beever and Kurt Wenner
Dare to look DOWN!!!
German street artist Edgar Müller created the 3D work called “Ice Age” on a street in Dun Laoghaire, Ireland last August as part of the Festival of World Culture. Müller, who makes the streets his own screen, spent 5 days to create his latest work, with the help of 3 assistants [...]
Toddlers’ Gesturing Linked To Later Vocabulary And School Readiness
Children who convey more meanings with gestures at age 14 months have much larger vocabularies at 54 months than children who convey fewer meanings and are accordingly better prepared for school, according to research at the University of Chicago published in the journal Science on Friday, Feb. 13
Stem Cells In Hair Follicles
Point To General Model Of Organ Regeneration
Most people consider hair as a purely cosmetic part of their lives. To others, it may help uncover one of nature’s best-kept secrets: the body’s ability to regenerate organs. Now, new research from Rockefeller University gets to the root of the problem, revealing that a structure at the base [...]
Coolest And Oldest Objects In Galaxy
Oldest Brown Dwarf:Measured From Calar Alto’
Spiral galaxies as our own are made up from several structural components. Their most outstanding part is a flat disc where stars and gas trace graceful spiral arms. In the centre of the disc we find the bulge, a dense and round accumulation of stars. And all this is surrounded [...]
Hundreds Of Species Thrive In Arctic And Antarctic
Earth’s unique, forbidding ice oceans of the Arctic and Antarctic have revealed a trove of secrets to Census of Marine Life explorers, who were especially surprised to find at least 235 species live in both polar seas despite a distance of more than 13,000-kilometer distance in between.
Songbirds Fly Three Times Faster Than Expected
A York University researcher has tracked the migration of songbirds by outfitting them with tiny geolocator backpacks – a world first – revealing that scientists have underestimated their flight performance dramatically.
