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		<title>An understandable mistake</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reply to a question in Notes &#38; Queries yesterday recommended purchasing lion and tiger urine from Chester Zoo to stop neighbourhood cats from urinating in a vegetable patch (G2, page 17). Chester Zoo would like to forestall requests for its big cats&#8217; urine: it asks us to make clear that it does not in [...]


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		<title>Hippos</title>
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Of course there&#8217;s always debate about invasive species, but usually&#8230; Well, usually you don&#8217;t think hippopotamus, not in the same mental grouping as zebra mussel and starling.  But apparently we live on a place where that can happen; where Colombian drug lords decide to create a haven (of sorts) for hippos; and where, even today, [...]


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		<title>Cleaning House (Rundown)</title>
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It turns out computers can figure out what language you&#8217;re speaking without actually hearing you.  In at least some controlled circumstances, anyway.  (NewScientist, via Monochrom)
&#8220;Astonishingly&#8221;, (1) people forget their passwords all the time, but (2) the ever-helpful &#8220;secret&#8221; &#8220;questions&#8221; are not really either &#8212; at least, not as far as security is concerned.
If I had [...]


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		<title>Aliens, astronomers, or super-intelligent aardvarks?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You decide.  Whatever the case, it&#8217;s kind of amazing.

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Intelligent and astute, you have a persuasive manner and are an excellent promoter.



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		<link>http://www.swordbilled.com/words/2009/08/26/aliens-astronomers-or-super-intelligent-aardvarks/</link>
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		<title>Respectfully</title>
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		<title>And now&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Went away.  Came back.  Pictures. You know how it is.


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		<title>The narratives of refrigerator innards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This falls into the category of things that are uninteresting in real life, but which become interesting through the act of photography.  Or something.  (It may simply be that the photographs aren&#8217;t accompanied by the rank refrigerator smell that&#8217;s always lurking, waiting for the right moment to assault your nostrils.)

The photos are accompanied [...]


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		<link>http://www.swordbilled.com/words/2009/06/20/the-narratives-of-refrigerator-innards/</link>
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		<title>I can see your brain</title>
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Of course, movies have known for years that this was possible&#8211;it&#8217;s just taken reality a while to catch up.  Yes, science can see images in your brain, although for now it&#8217;s seemingly mostly proof-of-concept, and fairly limited.  (No full color perfect simulacra of your dreams, yet.)

&#8220;Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new [...]


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		<link>http://www.swordbilled.com/words/2009/06/04/i-can-see-your-brain/</link>
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		<title>Language, linguistics, lovely</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A sort of extraordinary exercise in control of voice and facial expressions, in the form of a Judy Garland impression, of all things.  From the ever-impressive Amy Walker:

Related to something I could have sworn I&#8217;d posted previously, but apparently haven&#8217;t: 21 accents in 2 1/2 minutes.
(via BoingBoing)


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		<title>Wait, what?</title>
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(via Ectoplasmosis)


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