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Stand back, we're going to do science.

We've decided to get a page going and encourage people to come together and start doing science, in hangout, on their streams. We'd like this page to be a collaborative effort to share material from many different sciences. 
Nathan Pieplow, M Monica, Di Cleverly, and Liz Krane founded this page and are looking to get others involved in spreading science. If you're interested, please contact one of them and ask about how you can get involved. 
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About 13 weeks ago Science Sunday Species of the Week

Meet Atelopus varius... or the "Costa Rican Clown Frog." These little guys are critically endangered, but so amazingly designed they look like they've had a splash of paint added to the skin. They haven't though- they evolved that colorful splash to indicate toxicity to predators. It's the frog's way of saying, "Hey, don't eat me! I'm poisonous." Indeed, A. varius contains tetrodotoxin, a very potent neurotoxin. This is one frog a predator would not get away with digesting.

They are diurnal frogs (active during the day, sleeping at night). Less than 100 of these frogs remain in the wild in Costa Rica; amphibians in general in the wild (and in the tropics) remain under threat and decline. This may be due to many causes, including pollution, disease, habitat destruction, and anthropogenic climate change. You can read more about this crisis here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_in_amphibian_populations. Pres
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About 9 weeks ago Science Lab Species of the Week:

Odontodactylus scyllarus, or the beautiful Peacock Mantis Shrimp. These ocean dwellers don't live too deep in the ocean; near coral reefs, they construct U-shape holes near the bases where they can retreat to and hide if threatened. It's an active hunter with those front raptorial appendages (claws like things), which are made up of hydroxylapatite. That's an extremely hard material which allows it to smash gastropods, crustaceans, and bivalves, so they can eat the soft tissue. The punch it delivers clocks in at over 50 mph, making it quite the oceanic boxer. They are even strong enough to break glass aquaria at times, which has lead us to investigate their composition for possible engineering and synthesis use. What a useful little guy, huh? Beauty and strength. 

#ScienceEveryday   #SpeciesOfTheWeek  
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About 2 weeks ago 70 Million Year Old Ammonite Fossil

Pretty cool, huh? 

From Wikipedia: Many ammonoids probably lived in the open water of ancient seas, rather than at the sea bottom, because their fossils are often found in rocks laid down under conditions where no bottom-dwelling life is found. Many of them are thought to have been good swimmers, with flattened, discus-shaped, streamlined shells, although some ammonoids were less effective swimmers and were likely to have been slow-swimming bottom-dwellers, feeding on plankton. They may have avoided predation by squirting ink, much like modern cephalopods; ink is occasionally preserved in fossil specimens.

Read more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonite

#Geology   #ScienceSunday  
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About 10 weeks ago X-Ray of Kiwi Skeleton

Incredible, isn't it, the proportion of the egg inside the kiwi's body? 

So What's A Kiwi- Besides A Fruit?

A kiwi is a native bird of New Zealand. They are flightless, and in the genus Apteryx and family Apterygidae. They lay the largest egg in proportion to body size of any bird in the world. There are 5 recognized species total, and unfortunately two are vulnerable; one being endangered and the other critically endangered. Kiwis existed in the wild for millions of years with no main predators; the main threats today come from predators introduced by humans, including dogs, cats, ferrets, etc. 

Kiwis are related to the cassowary, emu, and ostrich. Kiwis dig burrows instead of building nests, and lives on grubs, worms, bugs... basically any creepy crawlers it can find, as well as berries to make up its diet. In terms of birds, they have many oddities that set them apart from other birds- like thick, tough skin, which is out of the
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About 12 weeks ago Here's Why We Stopped Dreaming Big

Neil deGrasse Tyson explains it so clearly. Although it is about America's space program, it applies to humanity in general. We all need to look forward to "making tomorrow come."

We don't waste money on #NASA , instead, we invest in it. As a result, we reap the econonomic benefits of the technology it generates. #NASA  is an investment in the future; and as we slash the budget, we are slashing our future, and impoverishring future generations to come. 

Write congress and the White House at www.whitehouse.gov  and urge them to stop slashing NASA budgets. (2013 NASA budget has just been released, and it has basically been gutted.) http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2013/assets/nasa.pdf

 NASA was historically and continues to be what makes America great. It's had a fundamental part in helping develop such technologies as batteries that charge more quickly, satellite television, UV
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About 4 weeks ago #ScienceSunday  

Hopefully this will give you a laugh, even if you're not in the sciences. 
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About 13 weeks ago Happy Darwin Day

Well, the Science Lab took a holiday and spent the day at the +Denver Museum of Nature & Science. No better way to celebrate #DarwinDay .

The reason it's Darwin Day is to celebrate the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth on February 12, 1809. Darwin wrote "On the Origin of Species," explaining evolution and natural selection. You can download "On the Origin of Species" for free, as it's in the public domain. Get it here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1228

We decided to give you this Charles Darwin themed Valentine... with an evolutionary pun in there. Print this up and give it to your sweetheart for #ValentinesDay  if you want a laugh. 
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About 6 weeks ago What's The Scale Of The Universe?

A really cool website that lets you scroll and observe sizes in comparison to each other. The site doesn't have a picture preview, but trust us- it's worth clicking through! 

#Astronomy   #quantumphysics   #Matter   #ScienceEveryday  

http://htwins.net/scale2/
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About 6 weeks ago New Spider Discovered In Sri Lanka

It's as big as your face! Eek. 

The newest spider to give arachnophobes the willies, a tarantula named Poecilotheria rajaei has been discovered on the island nation of Sri Lanka.

With a leg span of 8 inches (20 centimeters) and enough venom to kill mice, lizards, small birds and snakes, according to Sky News, the crawler is covered in subtle markings of gray, pink and daffodil yellow.

"It can be quite attractive, unless spiders freak you out," Peter Kirk, editor of the British Tarantula Society journal, told the New York Daily News.

Even the scientists studying the spiders admit to being a little freaked out by its size: "It was slightly smaller than the size of the plate we have dinner on," Ranil Nanayakkara, co-founder of Sri Lanka’s Biodiversity Education and Research, told the Daily News.

Tarantulas have been the subject of considerable study lately: Researchers are still trying to
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About 7 weeks ago All About the Peregrine Falcon

#ScienceSunday  

Peregrine Falcons hunt other birds on the wing by hitting them from above in a freefall at near-terminal velocity, killing the prey instantly by the force of the blow. Half a century ago, the Peregrine was near extinction in North America due to the use of the pesticide DDT, which thinned the birds’ eggshells. But with the banning of DDT, the Peregrine population rebounded, and they are one of the few endangered species ever to have recovered fully enough to be removed from the Endangered Species List. (The Bald Eagle, likewise a DDT victim, is another.)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peregrine_falcon
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