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“The way bumblebees search for food could help detectives hunt down serial killers, scientists believe.”
Just as bees forage some distance away from their hives, so murderers avoid killing near their homes, says the University of London team.
This “geographic profiling” works so well in bees, the scientists say future experiments on the animals could now be [...]
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Tom Long
Brooklyn-based artist Tom Long creates “ultra microscopic, insanely beautiful, intricate gouache paintings on paper.”
I typically do lots of thumbnail sketches; I’ll find some reference images online. When I settle on a composition, I’ll draw it out on this thick cream-colored paper, and then paint over that with gouache. I’ll tweak the drawing and [...]
This weeks blog is about me and how my green life is going. Been getting progressively greener since March. My organic veggie, earth friendly roommate moved out beginning of July, so I’m living alone again. We won’t be laughing, dancing and singing round the house together anymore. Sniff, sniff. I thank her for getting me [...]
“State officials formally adopted … ‘Dine Bizaad Binahoo’ahh,’ or ‘Rediscovering the Navajo Language,’ this week in Santa Fe.”
In the Navajo language, there’s no one word that translates into “go” — it’s more like a sentence.
“There are so many ways of ‘going,’” said Evangeline Parsons Yazzie, a Navajo professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. “It [...]
