Saturday, August 29, 2009

Acronyms for tuna and bonito species: ALB, BET BFT, SBT, SKJ, and YFT

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Tunas belong, along with mackerels and bonitos, to the Scombridae family. Members of this family make a lot of headlines as food fishes and...
Saturday, August 8, 2009

Europe versus Europa

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Europe is the name of a continent or, depending on your definition of the term continent, the name of a subcontinent of Eurasia. Europa is...

Jupiter moon Europa named after Jupiter's mythological “irregular loves”

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Europa is, along with Ganymede, Io, and Callisto, one of the four Galilean satellites of the planet Jupiter in “our” solar system [1-3]. Eu...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Short notation: S4 for Solid-State Superionic Stamping

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S olid- S tate S uperionic S tamping is a single-step process for creating high-resolution metallic nanopatterns. Its composed “quadruple ...
Tuesday, August 4, 2009

Port Lincoln in South Australia named after Lincolnshire in England

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Port Lincoln , a fishing village and prosperous community at the coast of South Australia, is known today for its tuna companies involved in...
Monday, August 3, 2009

Short-tailed shearwaters (Puffinus tenuirostris), known in Australia as muttonbirds

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Short-tailed shearwaters ( Puffins tenuirostris ) are seabirds of the Procellariidae family. They feed on krill, squid and fish including ...
Saturday, August 1, 2009

Walcott Quarry named after paleontologist Charles Doolittle Walcott

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The Walcott Quarry at Canada's Burgess Shale fossil repository is named after fossil collector and Smithsonian Institution secretary Ch...