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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Sivulla 169 kirjassa Mitä voi sanoa. Keskustelukirjeitä kuolemasta (Kirjapaja 2007) Juhani Syrjä kirjoittaa näin: “Pohjolassa ympärivuotisesti syödyn, kasvavalle lapsellekin riittävän monipuolisen kasvisravinnon ekologista selkäreppua ei ole kai kukaan yrittänyt vakavissaan laskea.” Lause on osa Syrjän ja Hannu Raittilan julkaistua kirjeenvaihtoa. Kuolemasta on puhe, muistakin eettisistä asioista, kuten siitä mitä kukin syö. Syrjä tunnustautuu sekasyöjäksi. Nyt [...]

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Jälkiä lumessa

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Kummalla oli kivempaa?

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Sometimes it is easy to find directions in the fjell

Friday, December 26, 2008
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Poaching on the rise

Monday, November 17, 2008

The economic downturn is having an effect on British countryside: poaching. Animals from the smallest shellfish to stags are in danger. Last month, a survey team who visited a river in a remote part of Scotland, were shocked to find that poachers had stolen mussels, with a potential value of nearly £20,000, from the river [...]

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ROFL!

Sunday, September 7, 2008

This is just too funny: Yale Researchers Find “Junk DNA” May Have Triggered Key Evolutionary Changes in Human Thumb and Foot I told you so: genes do not exist.

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Magpie in a mirror

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

More from the “science finding out what everybody knew already” section: magpies pass the mirror mark tests, which are taken to indicate that they recognize themselves (YouTube video). Previously, only mammals have passed the test. In Public Library of Science: Biology.

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Vettä!

Friday, August 1, 2008

2.8.: saattaapi olla jotakin raflaavampaakin: It would appear that the US President has been briefed by Phoenix scientists about the discovery of something more “provocative” than the discovery of water existing on the Martian surface. *** Ahh, scifistin sydäntä lämmittää tämä tieto Marsista: Nasa’s Phoenix lander spacecraft has for the first time identified water in [...]

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Kameli

Sunday, May 4, 2008

Wikipedian mukaan kuuluisan lauseen “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel, I drive a Mercedes, my son drives a Land Rover, his son will drive a Land Rover, but his son will ride a camel” esitti sheikki Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Yhdistyneiden arabiemiirikuntien pitkäaikainen pääministeri, kuvatakseen maansa öljyvarojen riittävyyttä. Arabian niemimaalla [...]

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Karhun nimi – luento 5 Synnyt

Friday, April 18, 2008

Viides luento, Synnyt.

 
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Karhun nimi – sisu

Monday, April 14, 2008

Ja nyt neljäs luento, “Sisu”. Mukana tällä kertaa Mikko Pelttari, Markus Hannila ja minä.

 
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