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July 2011

The Top Ten Fastest Electric Cars → news.discovery.com

Electric motors have the advantage of instant torque.

“That kind of power can get addicting quick.”

Jul 30, 20119 notes
#science #cars #electric cars #autos
Jul 29, 201110 notes
#birds #massage #nature
Jul 29, 201134 notes
#population #sustainability #subways #people
Japan Considers End to Antartic Whaling

For the first time, officials from Japan’s fisheries agency have publicly floated the prospect of ending that country’s whaling program in the Antarctic.

Here’s your good news Friday post….

Jul 29, 201184 notes
#whales, #whaling #japan #fisheries #good news
Jul 29, 201111 notes
#lightning #storms #weather #science #bolts from the blue
Jul 28, 2011212 notes
#zoos #predatory instincts #lions #prey
Jul 28, 2011216 notes
#artifical intelligence #DNA #Brain #the future
Jul 28, 201114 notes
#sharks #shark week #oceans #south africa
Between the Third Rock and a Hot Place: Meet Earth's 'Trojan' Asteroid

newshour:

There’s a shadow asteroid that has been following the earth around our orbit for thousands of years, and we just discovered it. Tell me that’s not cool.

Click through to watch an animation of the path of the asteroid.

It’s caught between powerful tugs from the sun and the Earth. Letting go is tough.

Jul 27, 201150 notes
#science #asteroid #sun #earth #space
Jul 27, 2011167 notes
#science #dinosaurs #birds #evolution
What to do with a Space Station once you are done with it → news.discovery.com

Plunge it into the ocean, of course…

Jul 27, 201112 notes
#oceans #space #space station #science
Jul 27, 201116 notes
#space #science #jupiter #earth #sun #planets
Your Wish is Granted

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Jul 27, 201110 notes
#newsletter #discoverynews
People From Polar Regions Have Bigger Brains → news.discovery.com
Jul 27, 20119 notes
#eyeballs #brains #polar regions #evolution
Jul 26, 20118 notes
#kate middleton #anorexia #thin #duchess #health
London During WWII, In Colour → dailymail.co.uk

utnereader:

ckck:

Rare colour photographs of London in ruins during The Blitz of 1940-1941.

Cool/sad thing of the day.

Jul 26, 2011250 notes
#color #photos #wwII #london
Jul 26, 201124 notes
#pluto, #planet #mark thompson #space #moon
Jul 26, 2011194 notes
#climate change #drought #rain #somalia #space #satellite
How We Learned to Chew → news.discovery.com

It may come naturally, but chewing is incredibly complicated. Researchers took a look at how different animals use their tongues and jaws together. Their findings suggest that ancient animals’ move to land may have led to wider ranging tongue motion.

Jul 26, 201116 notes
#chew #tongues #evolution #tongue motion
Jul 26, 201119 notes
#nature being nature #whales #orcas #oceans #tourists
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