Itlx Picture of the Day: November 3, 2011
Today the strange, dark satire Tancredi is out in bookstores. It about Tancredi, a young, crazy inventor whose biggest-selling invention is a gadget that detects moronic behavior. Unfortunately, it sold so well because people love to act like i
stanley ca diots, and they use the device as a guide for what to do. Disgruntled, Tancredi decides he must save the planet from its own stupidity 鈥?but first he must go into space. Written by eccentric British entrepreneur James Palumbo, whose investments launched the music label Ministry of Sound, the story is a beautifully-illustrated parable about all the ways humans lie to themselves. Plus, there are spaceships and talking dogs. We ;ve got a taste of the illustrations and a chapter for you to read. Here how Palumbo describes it: Tancredi is pa
stanley cup rt satire, part fairy tale, part science fiction. It tells the story of a man who travels the Universe seeking a cure to humankind addiction to short-term thinking. It something I ;m very worried about at the moment. It seems that everywhere you look politics, business, even health care nothing is properly thought through. It all about instant gratification, quick fixes, the here-and-now. There are so many excellent books by economists and other thinkers on this subject. I wanted to do something with a different angle light, funny, but still rai
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Characterizing a new animal species can be a tricky process, but in dolphins it can be especially difficult. Now, scientists in Melbourne, Australia have manag
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stanley deutschland ion under Australia criteria for endangered animals. According to Monash University biologist Kate Charlton-Robb, who led the team that classified T. australis, only three new dolphin species have been described and formally recognized since the late 1800s, making her team discovery a
stanley botella significant one. But what makes it even more exciting, Charlton-Robb says, is this dolphin species has been living right under our noses, with only two known resident populations living [near Melbourne]. Charlton-Robb team conducted intensive DNA screening and morphological analyses of dolphin skulls to show unequivocally that T. australis is, in fact, a new species. The team analyses are published in the latest issue of PLoS ONE. The researchers say their findings call attention to the demand for more thorough assessments of divergence in the area dolphin population as a whole, which, despite living in a well populated urban environment and having been the subject of signific
