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• Nyuli Conservation Group Training

  
  GVI Kenya — Authority: 417
  Nyuli Community Conservation Group is a new group of villagers from Mkwiro village, who are interested to establishing a community marine protected area off Nyuli Reef, which is close to Wasini Island. They are going to have 10 rangers, who are going to be patrolling the area to stop illegal fishing (mainly ring nets ...
  18 hours ago

• Pied Fantail in partial moult

  
  Bird Ecology Study Group — Authority: 133
  This image by Myron Tay a.k.a. myrontay shows the Pied Fantail (Rhipidura javanica) with its distinctive long, fan-shaped tail held open. It was photographed at the Singapore’s Chinese Garden. The bird was actively hunting for insects, fanning its tail and raising and lowering its wings to flush them out into the ...
  18 hours ago

• Some birds prefer mates with good voices rather than looks

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Dec 3 (ANI): Looks can be deceiving when it comes to finding the right mate. But certain bird species have figured out that a voice can help them make the right decision, say researchers.A study, conducted by Andrew DeWoody, a Purdue University associate professor of forestry and natural resources, ...
  1 day ago

• Linguistics Humor - Pull Over Versus Pullover

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 123
  A highway patrolman pulled alongside a speeding car on the freeway. Glancing at the car, he was astounded to see that the woman behind the wheel was knitting. The trooper cranked down his window and yelled to the driver, "PULL OVER". "NO", the woman yelled back, "SCARF".
  1 day ago

• Morphophonology Rules (Actually, I Prefer Syntax and Semantics)

  
  A Walk in the WoRds — Authority: 123
  Following is a readers comment on a recent post about paraprosdokians . Ive always loved gags like this -- "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my father, not screaming and terrified like his passengers." — Bob Monkhouse I never knew they had a name, so I did a Google search to find the proper ...
  3 days ago

• On eye and mind in certain voodles

  
  spacetwo : patalab — Authority: 110
  click for video: Quicktime / m4v for iPod/iPhone / direct streaming for PC " Scientific thinking, a thinking which looks from above, and thinks of the object-in-general, must return to the "there is" which underlies it; to the site, the soil of the sensible and opened world such as it is in ...
  4 days ago

• Inflected Adj/Adv

  
  Language Log — Authority: 655
  Following up on my commoner posting , I write to ask for some data. What Im looking for is cases where person A uses an inflected adjective or adverb (comparative or superlative) and person B objects to it, saying that A should have used the periphrastic variant instead, or declaring that the variant A used is "not ...
  1 week ago

• commoner

  
  Language Log — Authority: 655
  James L., in a comment on Mark Libermans "Concerning" posting : "The second thing to say is that its commoner in spoken registers…" Shouldnt that be "more common"? I ask, fully expecting to be proven incorrect. Every so often on Language Log we discuss inflectional ( commoner ) vs. periphrastic ( more common ) ...
  1 week ago

• Chestnut-bellied Malkoha: bill and periorbital patch

  
  Bird Ecology Study Group — Authority: 133
  “Chestnut-bellied Malkoha (Phaenicophaeus sumatranus) is reported in local literature as the “least frequently met malkoha species” (Wells 1999) but in my experience (possibly the locations I visit) it is not uncommon.“I had an opportunity to watch a pair foraging for close to 75 minutes – following them in ...
  1 week ago

• Central Peak of Rutherfurd

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 482
  Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) view of boulders on the floor of Rutherfurd (349.9°E, 60.9°S), about to disappear into the shadows of dusk. (Width = ~204 meters; Orbit 1242, Oct. 4, 2009, 1426 UT) [NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University]. Samuel Lawrence LROC News System ...
  1 week ago

• Encounter with a dead Red-legged Crake

  
  Bird Ecology Study Group — Authority: 133
  “Today got some space to cycle out with my wife. We were later than usual due to wet weather and at 7 am were just a few hundred meters from our home when we spotted this Red-Legged Crake (Rallina fasciata) lying on the edge of a road. Could not just leave it there, so we [...]
  2 weeks ago

• On pleasure of learning & desire of discoveries

  
  spacetwo : patalab — Authority: 110
  click for video: Quicktime / .m4v for iPod/phone / direct streaming for PC "Voodling is not born from rules, except in some negligible cases; rather it is the rules that derive from voodling. This is why there are many kinds and genres of true rules as there are kinds and genres of true ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mountains of the Moon

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 482
  Most mountains on the Earth are formed as plates collide and the crust buckles. Not so for the Moon, where mountains are formed as a result of impacts. Images taken looking across the landscape rather than straight down really bring out topography and help us visualize the lunar landscape. However such images can only ...
  2 weeks ago

• Some plants can recognize their ‘relatives’ from ’strangers’

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, November 17 (ANI): A new study has determined that some plants can recognize their ‘relatives’ from ’strangers’, in order to shift resources for growth.Ph.D. candidate Guillermo Murphy and Dr. Susan Dudley took the case of the Impatiens pallida, commonly known as yellow jewelweed plant, for their ...
  2 weeks ago

• A longitudinal investigation of morphosyntax in children with Speech Sound Disorders

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Conclusions Children with SSD and typical MLU may be weak in some areas of syntax. Children with SSD who have low MLU scores and poor finite verb morphology skills in pre-kindergarten may be at risk for poor expressive language outcomes. However, these results need to be replicated with larger groups. from the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Does the conceptual distinction between singular and plural sets depend on language?.

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  Previous studies indicate that English-learning children acquire the distinction between singular and plural nouns between 22 and 24 months of age. Also, their use of the distinction is correlated with the capacity to distinguish nonlinguistically between singular and plural sets in a manual search paradigm (D. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Processing trade-offs in the reading of Dutch derived words

  
  COMD News — Authority: 157
  This eye-tracking study explores visual recognition of Dutch suffixed words (e.g., plaats+ing “placing”) embedded in sentential contexts, and provides new evidence on the interplay between storage and computation in morphological processing. We show that suffix length crucially moderates the use of morphological ...
  2 weeks ago

• More Shenanigans over Henanigans

  
  Dr. Goodword's Language Blog — Authority: 105
  Lenn Zonder sent such profound comments on my recent treatment of the Good Word  shenanigans that I just have to share them with everyone. Here is his response: “I was so glad to read your definition of shenanigans and noting that it has nothing to do with the female gender as there is no henanigan s.” ...
  2 weeks ago

• Video: How to Learn French for Free Online with General Resources, Exercises, Games, Interactive Tools, Radio, TV, Podcasts

  
  Free Language - Lessons, Podcasts, Courses, Audio, Video, Articles, Study, Learn, Teach, Translation, Children/Kids, Teens, Adults — Authority: 119
  Summary Welcome to Free Languages whirlwind tour about learning French online for free. This is the third video screencast about learning languages for free. See all of them here . This video will take you through some top essential resources for learning French for free online. View the links below the video to ...
  3 weeks ago

• Evolution and development of castes in ants

  
  Archetype — Authority: 414
  Up until resuming posting a couple of weeks ago you may had thought I was dead. Well, fear not (nor rejoice just yet). I am now happy to report that those previous months of blogging slowness paid off: I got funding for the project I wrote during the summer. Starting next year I will be working as a postdoc in the ...
  3 weeks ago

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