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Birds’ sense of direction

I saw the headline Study suggests birds can truly navigate.
It cracked me up.
It’s cool that birds can navigate over 1000 kilometers, but when they fly into church in the middle of the service they can’t find their way back out… and poop on the projector screen.

Awful Grandchildren

Oh my goodness! Last night was both excellent and awful, not in that order.
There we were, husband and I, sitting on the couch eating some Asian pastry things, watching You Tube videos and an episode of Battlestar Galactica. I got an unexpected call on my mobile from my father-in-law asking where we were. Holy moly! [...]

The beauty of science

Today’s XKCD comic reveals a marvelous truth about science.

It’s the same in biology. Put a PCR on, or something that needs to digest or wash for an hour or two and then do something interesting.

Hehe

I’m not doing a PhD, but this is sooo true!

Labs

Ha!

 

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