Showing posts with label Martin Elster. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Martin Elster. Show all posts
Monday, January 19, 2026

THE STINGLESS BEE, RECOGNIZED

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by Martin Elster Stingless bees from the Amazon have become the first insects to be granted legal rights anywhere in the world, in a breakth...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

SURGEONS OF THE INSECT WORLD

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by Martin Elster Ants in Florida perform life-saving surgery on their peers, scientists have discovered. They are only the second animal in ...
Sunday, July 23, 2023

MY DIGS ON DISTANT ENCELADUS

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by Martin Elster A pair of scientists from the  Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)  were members of a  James Webb Space Telescope  (JWST) t...
Thursday, March 09, 2023

ABER-CLAM LINCOLN

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by Martin Elster Aber-clam Lincoln, a quahog clam believed to be 214 years old found at Alligator Point, was released into the Gulf of Mexic...
Wednesday, February 22, 2023

THE CHILENO VALLEY NEWT BRIGADE

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by Martin Elster For the past four years, volunteers have spent their winter nights shepherding newts across a one-mile stretch of Chileno V...
Thursday, December 30, 2021

GODDESS OF THE UNDERWORLD

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by Martin Elster   A newfound species of millipede (Eumillipes Persephone) has more legs than any other creature on the planet—a mind-boggli...
Tuesday, November 09, 2021

SPOTTED FROM SPACE

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by Martin Elster In recent satellite imagery captured by Planet , which operates the world's largest pack of Earth-observing satellites,...
Wednesday, September 08, 2021

GERONIMO THE ALPACA

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by Martin Elster GERONIMO the tragic alpaca was dragged from his paddock [on August 31, 0221] and executed by a team of [UK] government offi...
Friday, August 06, 2021

CONVENIENCE

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by Martin Elster The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots and thousands of artificial intelligence experts call for a ban on fully autonomous wea...
Thursday, September 03, 2020

COVID-19 LIPOGRAM

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by Martin Elster Kay Scanlon / Los Angeles Times ; Getty Images Masking my physiognomy may blight my glorious bond with you. Your...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

WHO OWNS THE EARTH?

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by Martin Elster From “The Untold Benefits of Climate Change” by Kendra Wells at TheNib. Renowned Harvard entomologist E.O. Wilson ...
Monday, June 17, 2019

A 30-DAY TRIP ON THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

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by Martin Elster One day soon, you won't need to be a member of the traditional astronaut corps to visit the International Space St...
Monday, January 07, 2019

THE GREAT WALL OF AMERICA

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by Martin Elster A family of javelinas encounters the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border near the San Pedro River in southeastern Arizona. ...
Tuesday, April 03, 2018

A MESSAGE FROM THE SECOND PLANET

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by Martin Elster A composite image of the planet Venus as seen by the Japanese probe Akatsuki. The clouds of Venus could have environme...
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

THE SPACE ROADSTER

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by Martin Elster Even Elon Musk, engineer of the circus show, was surprised that his audacious stunt worked. “Apparently, there is a ...
Friday, November 03, 2017

LAIKA (1954 - NOVEMBER 3, 1957)

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by Martin Elster Laika statue outside a research facility in Moscow (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky) via Universe Today . Th...
Friday, March 27, 2015

SPRING PEEPERS

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by Martin Elster Spring Peeper.   Image source: Virginia Herpetological Society Spring peepers trill and whistle in between the ...
Thursday, January 01, 2015

THE EYE OF EARTH

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by Martin Elster Image source:  NotThatKindofGirl The eye of Earth peers, spellbound, through a chink in melting pond ice, tryin...
Saturday, September 27, 2014

DIHYDROGEN MONOXIDE

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by Martin Elster This is an illustration of water in our Solar System through time from before the Sun's birth through the creatio...
Monday, March 24, 2014

SPRING MUSINGS

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by Martin Elster A hundred thousand million galaxies in motley clusters rapidly receding from one another — like a bunch of bees repelled...