[QUOTE=ewmayer;399254]The intrepid warblers take the direct route, flying across the Atlantic for up to 2,800 kilometres at a stretch.[/QUOTE]They probably do this because they are on the no-fly list and would be [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5217186/US-authorites-divert-Air-France-flight-carrying-no-fly-journalist-to-Mexico.html]refused passage across[/url] the USA.

[QUOTE=retina;399257]They probably do this because they are on the no-fly list and would be [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5217186/US-authorites-divert-Air-France-flight-carrying-no-fly-journalist-to-Mexico.html"]refused passage across[/URL] the USA.[/QUOTE]

LOL.

[QUOTE=only_human;399255]The coconut was carried to the Americas by a ticking crocodile - as is well known.[/QUOTE]

Oh Well. In that case I won't present arguments about the natural buoyancy and salt resistance of coconuts, nor about the path of the Gulf Stream

[URL="http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/study-if-you-use-internet-explorer-youre-more-likely-to-be-a-bad-employee/education"]Study: If you use Internet Explorer, you just might be a bad employee[/URL]

[URL="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/536171/physicists-describe-new-class-of-dyson-sphere/"]Physicists Describe New Class of Dyson Sphere[/URL]

[URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150325132520.htm"]Carbon nanotube fibers make superior links to brain[/URL]

[URL="http://www.science20.com/the_conversation/intellectually_gifted_kids_and_learning_disabilities_often_go_hand_in_hand-154285"]Intellectually Gifted Kids And Learning Disabilities Often Go Hand In Hand[/URL]

[URL="http://thebulletin.org/what-would-happen-if-800-kiloton-nuclear-warhead-detonated-above-midtown-manhattan8023"]What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above midtown Manhattan?[/URL]

[URL="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/03/19/how-millennials-compare-with-their-grandparents/"]How Millennials today compare with their grandparents 50 years ago[/URL]

[URL="http://www.wired.com/2015/03/nasas-plan-give-moon-moon"]NASA’s Plan to Give the Moon a Moon[/URL]

[URL="http://time.com/3747816/education-chalkboard-chatroom/"]Will Technology Kill Universities?[/URL]

[URL="http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/17/health/male-memory/index.html"]Men's memories worse than women's, especially with age[/URL]

[URL="http://www.livescience.com/50195-most-precise-clocks-ever-made.html"]5 of the Most Precise Clocks Ever Made[/URL]

[URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150319080348.htm"]Crocodile ancestor was top predator before dinosaurs roamed North America[/URL]

[URL="http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/figuring-out-the-peak-age-for-intelligence-isnt-so-simple"]At What Age Does Your Brain Peak?[/URL]

[URL="http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/03/scientists-discover-how-to-change-human-leukemia-cells.html"]Scientists discover how to change human leukemia cells into harmless immune cells[/URL]

[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31556802"]Are humans getting cleverer?[/URL]

for the thread with confusing titles... but I post it here anyhow
 

Ha! Clicking on one of your articles, and reading it, I reached the end and it was another link on the bottom of the page, saying "Cancer risk drops for vegetarians eating fish". Now I didn't click on it, because I never click on things that try to convince you to click, like "you would not believe what this woman did to her dog", or else. I always avoid them. But I am still wondering why the fish would get any risk of cancer, and how eating any vegetarians can actually help the fish to avoid cancer... :razz:

[QUOTE=LaurV;399725]Ha! Clicking on one of your articles, and reading it, I reached the end and it was another link on the bottom of the page, saying "Cancer risk drops for vegetarians eating fish". Now I didn't click on it, because I never click on things that try to convince you to click, like "you would not believe what this woman did to her dog", or else. I always avoid them. But I am still wondering why the fish would get any risk of cancer, and how eating any vegetarians can actually help the fish to avoid cancer... :razz:[/QUOTE]Hmm, should be simple to understand. The cancer risk is low for any creature that eats vegetarians (or any human no matter what the human eats) because other humans will come along and kill that creature out of spite before it has a chance to die from cancer.

Meanwhile, in a long tunnel just outside Geneva:
[URL]https://op-webtools.web.cern.ch/op-webtools/vistar/vistars.php[/URL]

(real-time monitoring from CERN)

Don't take this the wrong way, Mark - always appreciate your linkfests, just feeling especially snarky today:

[QUOTE=rogue;399705][URL="http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/study-if-you-use-internet-explorer-youre-more-likely-to-be-a-bad-employee/education"]Study: If you use Internet Explorer, you just might be a bad employee[/URL][/quote]
Turning the tables, what can we say about companies that make their employees use Word and other crapified MSFT products?

[quote][URL="http://www.technologyreview.com/view/536171/physicists-describe-new-class-of-dyson-sphere/"]Physicists Describe New Class of Dyson Sphere[/URL][/quote]
They have yet to build even one and already they're coming up with 'new, improved' models? (Lemme guess, this is a rush-to-patent thing).

[quote][URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150325132520.htm"]Carbon nanotube fibers make superior links to brain[/URL][/quote]
A.k.a. "The Rice U. folks find ever-more-creative ways to milk the nanotube bandwagon."

[quote][URL="http://www.science20.com/the_conversation/intellectually_gifted_kids_and_learning_disabilities_often_go_hand_in_hand-154285"]Intellectually Gifted Kids And Learning Disabilities Often Go Hand In Hand[/URL][/quote]
Oddly fails to mention a common learning disability here, "being too smart to have have to listen to people dumber than you." We get a lot of that here in Silicon Valley.

[quote][URL="http://thebulletin.org/what-would-happen-if-800-kiloton-nuclear-warhead-detonated-above-midtown-manhattan8023"]What would happen if an 800-kiloton nuclear warhead detonated above midtown Manhattan?[/URL][/quote]
Is there something special about 800kT? Why not just 'round to the nearest megaton?' Anyway, here is my prediction (having not yet read the article): We might actually get some of that financial-sector reform Obama promised us?

[quote][URL="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/03/19/how-millennials-compare-with-their-grandparents/"]How Millennials today compare with their grandparents 50 years ago[/URL][/quote]
Oh gawd, another excuse to push the 'everyone must have a hugely overpriced college degree in order to eat' meme. And note the silence on 'rate of narcissistic personality disorders', 'skill at walking into solid objects while buried in an eGizmo', 'pathological craving for simulacra of human connection in place of the real thing' and other 'skills' possessed by those growing up in the internet age versus those dumb, non-disruptively-creative oldsters.

[quote][URL="http://www.wired.com/2015/03/nasas-plan-give-moon-moon"]NASA’s Plan to Give the Moon a Moon[/URL][/quote]
I gave the moon a moon once when I was really sloshed, and then fell flat on my face while trying to pull my pants back up.

[quote][URL="http://time.com/3747816/education-chalkboard-chatroom/"]Will Technology Kill Universities?[/URL][/quote]
Not as long as outfits like Pew Research (see 2 links up) have anything to say about it.

[quote][URL="http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/17/health/male-memory/index.html"]Men's memories worse than women's, especially with age[/URL][/quote]
Dying on average 5 years earlier may factor into that.

[quote][URL="http://www.livescience.com/50195-most-precise-clocks-ever-made.html"]5 of the Most Precise Clocks Ever Made[/URL][/quote]
"So accurate, you can set your cat's internal meal timer by it!"

[quote][URL="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150319080348.htm"]Crocodile ancestor was top predator before dinosaurs roamed North America[/URL][/quote]
Now if there had been an ancient croc which was a top predator even *during* the big-dino era ... that would have been cool. We're talking "Body plan of [i]Crocodylus Giganticus[/i] versus that of a naval destroyer" cool.

[quote][URL="http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/figuring-out-the-peak-age-for-intelligence-isnt-so-simple"]At What Age Does Your Brain Peak?[/URL][/quote]
You'll have to ask my wife, I forget.

[quote][URL="http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/03/scientists-discover-how-to-change-human-leukemia-cells.html"]Scientists discover how to change human leukemia cells into harmless immune cells[/URL][/quote]
Hey, those macrophages ain't exactly harmless ... they are notoriously big eaters, for one thing.

[quote][URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31556802"]Are humans getting cleverer?[/URL][/QUOTE]
For those with Bachelor's Degrees and a suitably large resulting student debt load, the Pew Foundation says "yes, definitely!"

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[url=www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150409143041.htm]'Warm blob' in Pacific Ocean linked to weird weather across the US[/url]

Note that according to this, the warm-water 'blob' appears to be a *result* of the same 'ridiculously persistent' atmospheric high pressure cell that's been parked off the CA coast each of the past 4 winters. The cell's clockwise circulation causes winter storms - which nearly always come from the W/NW - to get diverted far northward by the pressure and northward streaming of the western side of the high. Those detoured storms then merge with cold air streaming down from the Arctic over central Canada, leading to worse-than-normal winter nastiness over the eastern 3/4 of the US. But whence the high pressure? Probably linked to some other Pacific ocean anomaly - classic chicken and egg w.r.to cause and effect here.

Ernst, I'm not as good at paraphrasing as you are. :smile:

[QUOTE=ewmayer;399830][url=www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/04/150409143041.htm]'Warm blob' in Pacific Ocean linked to weird weather across the US[/url]

Note that according to this, the warm-water 'blob' appears to be a *result* of the same 'ridiculously persistent' atmospheric high pressure cell that's been parked off the CA coast each of the past 4 winters. .... But whence the high pressure? Probably linked to some other Pacific ocean anomaly - classic chicken and egg w.r.to cause and effect here.[/QUOTE]
The great infrared spot seeks to phone home.

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