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model city new york
Grisly death at my regular bird watching park.
A guy flying a remote control model helicopter got the top of his head taken off by the rotor blades. I see these guys every week, and make a point of checking the field before they get there and scare off the birds (though I have seen falcons hunting in the same airspace with the helicopters.) And of course the NY Post can’t resist turning a tragedy into a joke; looks like they thought better of it online, but the print edition used the headline “Little Chopper Horror.”
mini mac
bike lames
42 hours of buckminster fuller talks
Time to get War of Words cranked up again?
Luxury taxi of Portland to use tesla model s vehicles
Luxury taxi of Portland to use tesla vehicles
crowdsourcing is for the birds, or so says this nytimes pun.
Sponge park plans for Gowanus canal
noctilucent clouds
Scotland 8/19/13
History of the world.
Mark, what's this?
list price: $190,000,000
Mycelial information networks:
When some plants are attacked by sap-sucking aphids, they emit volatile compounds into the air. These volatiles serve as a defense mechanism, and in more ways than one. First, they serve to repel the aphids attacking the plant. Second, they attract the aphids natural enemies, wasps. But there’s more to that: a team from the University of Aberdeen and the James Hutton Institute show that some plants use fungi to communicate the presence of aphids, allowing those plants to emit wasp-attracting and and aphid-repelling volatiles even before they have been physically attacked.
Orchard Street Hell Hole Consumes 2 Parking Cones and a Biker
texas in the 70s