These are the remains of a “desert kite”, a giant animal corral built out of stones some 5,500 years ago. They were effectively the world’s first slaughterhouses, as dozens of animals at a time were herded inside and killed. More
These are the remains of a “desert kite”, a giant animal corral built out of stones some 5,500 years ago. They were effectively the world’s first slaughterhouses, as dozens of animals at a time were herded inside and killed. More
These are the remains of a “desert kite”, a giant animal corral built out of stones some 5,500 years ago. They were effectively the world’s first slaughterhouses, as dozens of animals at a time were herded inside and killed. More
These are the remains of a “desert kite”, a giant animal corral built out of stones some 5,500 years ago. They were effectively the world’s first slaughterhouses, as dozens of animals at a time were herded inside and killed. More
nanoflower followed up on a recent story about the unpredictable future of data storage. That story talked about Western Digital buying Hitachi, leaving just 4 players. Now:
“Yet another hard drive company is going by the wayside, as Seagate is buying the Samsung HDD unit. Seagate is buying the unit for $1.375 billion (half in stock, half in cash.)”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate
If you’re an HBO subscriber, the upcoming HBO Go app will let you stream HBO’s entire catalog of very excellent shows and various movies to iOS and Android devices. More
This image of baby leaf veined slugs, taken by evolutionary genetics Ph.D. student David Winter, is oddly adorable. And Winter’s story of his quest to figure out what leaf veined slugs eat is oddly fascinating. Apparently, there’s a surprising amount we don’t know about slug behavior. Slug diets, in particular, are a black box about which very little is definitively documented.
Sure enough, searching through the literature on the 30 or so species of leaf veined slug in New Zealand, there is no indication of what it is that they eat. That was too depressing for me, we know so little about the biology of our native invertebrates, but this species (Athoracophorus bitentaculatus) isn’t particularily rare, we should at least know what this one eats.
So, I took to stepping outside an night time, finding a couple of slugs, and placing them in a bucket. In the morning I’d move them back to the shrubs from which they’d been plucked and collect [from the bucket] a few fecal samples to inspect …
The Atavism blog: The Sight of a Wild Slug Eating
Via hectocotyli
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Baby slugs, and what they eat
Winter is coming — again! HBO already made the decision to renew Game of Thrones for a second season, after the first episode garnered an estimated 4.2 million gross viewers on premiere night. More
The exoplanet WASP-12b, located 867 light-years from Earth, is just two million miles away from its star. It has a surface temperature of 4000 degrees Fahrenheit, and it has to take some seriously extreme measures to keep its atmosphere intact. More
For many of us, Facebook is home to a lot of our online communications—including our most private. Keep other people from getting into your account with these new Facebook features. More