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• 50 Years Ago: The Nutcracker Man

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  NOVEMBER 1959 NERVE GROWTH -- “No longer do physicians encourage the patient with a regenerated facial nerve to try to regain control of facial expression by training; their advice today is to inhibit all expression, to practice a ‘poker face’ in order to make the two sides of the face match in appearance. ...
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• Jay-Z spills the beans: they’re ready for a baby

  
  Snarky Gossip — Authority: 422
  Jay-Z and Beyonce might be ready for a baby? Apparently Jay-Z spilled the beans accidentally in interview ; here’s what he had to say (kind of): While chatting up Gotham mag editor in chief Cristina Greeven Cuomo, the rapper let it slip that procreating is high on the duo’s priority list right now. ...
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• Observatory: Hogwarts Namesake Faces Loss of Status

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Two paleontologists argue that two dome-headed dinosaurs are not separate species, but rather younger growth stages of another dinosaur.
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• Remains of Minoan-style painting discovered during excavations of Canaanite palace

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 615
  The remains of a Minoan-style wall painting, recognizable by a blue background, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, was discovered in the course of the recent excavation season at Tel Kabri. This fresco joins others of Aegean style that have been uncovered during earlier seasons at the Canaanite palace in ...
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• Rethinking "Hobbits": What They Mean for Human Evolution (preview)

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  In 2004 a team of Australian and Indonesian scientists who had been excavating a cave called Liang Bua on the Indonesian island of Flores announced that they had unearthed something extraordinary: a partial skeleton of an adult human female who would have stood just over a meter tall and who had a brain a third as ...
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• Monster Pliosaur Ruled Cretaceous Seas

  
  Scienceray — Authority: 555
  Thanks to a very patient British fossil hunter, the business end of a Pliosaur, including much of the skull and jaw, has been collected from the southern shores of England. What’s the big deal? Pliosaurs were genuine sea monsters, and the specimen Kevin Sheehan discovered is the largest Pliosaur ever found. These ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Hard Travelin’ Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 108
  You walk through the aisles of your local supermarket.  Apples in June.  Watermelons in February.  Oranges in December.  Weird star fruit in….well I don’t actually know if star fruit have a picking season.  So how do we have these fruits and vegetables when it is not time for them to be picked. Most of our ...
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• Here Be Lego Dragons [Image Cache]

  
  F-Default — Authority: 561
      Dragons existed? Well, no, not unless their bones were made of Lego. Read the original here: Here Be Lego Dragons [Image Cache]
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• AIBS publishes Darwin articles open access

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 615
  To celebrate the 150th anniversary this month of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is publishing open access two peer-reviewed articles about Charles Darwin and his historic insights into evolution. read more
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• The last European hadrosaurs lived in the Iberian Peninsula

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 615
  Spanish researchers have studied the fossil record of hadrosaurs, the so-called duck-billed dinosaurs, in the Iberian Peninsula for the purpose of determining that they were the last of their kind to inhabit the European continent before disappearing during the K/T extinction event that occurred 65.5 million years ...
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• Oldest American artefact unearthed

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
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• Find Fun Fossils at Dino Days 2009! This Saturday

  
  BEYONDbones — Authority: 124
  Join us Saturday, Nov. 7 for HMNS Dino Days , a family paleo festival that features fossil related activities and arts and crafts. Museum paleontologist Robert “Bob” Bakker will be on hand to answer any of your dinosaur questions. This is a great chance for enthusiasts of all ages to come learn and discuss ...
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• Photo of the Day #753: Goniopholis

  
  Laelaps — Authority: 501
  A restoration of the crocodyliform Goniopholis scavenging a stegosaur carcass. Photographed at the Museum of Ancient Life at Thanksgiving Point, Utah. Read the comments on this post...
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• Dino Detritus: Scientists Now Say, ‘Your Favorite Dinosaur May Be a Fiction’

  
  Groonk.Net:ScaredYet? — Authority: 126
  So it has occurred to scientists that “ Dracorex hogwartsia ” may be as fictional as a Blast-Ended Skrewt . These dinosaurs were not separate species, as some paleontologists claim, but different growth stages of previously named dinosaurs, according to a new study. The confusion is traced to their bizarre ...
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• 03 November, 2009 – This Week in Science

  
  This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast — Authority: 106
  Observing Life, Dumpin’ Punkins, Smell of Doom, Driving Bad, the Teapot Effect, Ancient Blasts, Demoting Dinosaurs, Fishy Movements, The Minion Mailbag, and Much More!
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• Human Evolution II: Recent Evolution; and Becoming Human NOVA Preview

  
  Scientific American — Authority: 149
  The transcript of this podcast wil be posted in two to three weeks. Anthropologist John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison talks about recent human evolution, especially of our ability to digest lactose. [More]
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• Discovering "Ardi"

  
  Animal News: Animal Planet — Authority: 421
  A diagrammatic representation of Ardipithecus ramidus /Drawing by Jay Matternes It’s been 17 years since an international team of paleonathropologists first found the fossilized bones and teeth of a new hominid in the Middle Awash River Valley of Ethiopia. University of Tokyo paleoanthropologist Gen Suwa ...
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• Terrible Teens Of T. Rex: Young Tyrannosaurs Did Serious Battle Against Each Other

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 539
  Young tyrannosaurs did serious battle against each other.We all know adolescents get testy from time to time. Thank goodness we don’t have young tyrannosaurs running around the neighborhood.In a new scientific paper, researchers from Northern Illinois University and the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford ...
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• Notorious man-eating lions of Tsavo likely ate about 35 people -- not 135, scientists say

  
  Eureka! Science News - Popular science news — Authority: 615
  The legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims, according to a new analysis led by researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz. The study also yields surprises about ...
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• A Strange System: Food: Blue Baby Blues

  
  Science & Soul — Authority: 108
  Time to get back on the horse after a week of midterms. Nitrogen was the primary limiting nutrient in terrestrial ecosystems.  Nitrogen levels could be increased by using composted organic material, but that took a long period of time and was hard work.  Keep that in mind.  World War II is raging and ammonia is ...
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