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Monthly Archives: April 2005

Sigur Ros

30 Saturday Apr 2005

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http://www.sigur-ros.co.uk/

Great band and plenty of info and downloads on this site.

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Kittenwar! May The Cutest Kitten Win!

30 Saturday Apr 2005

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http://kittenwar.com/

Very easy for me to waste time here.

BBC h2g2: The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

30 Saturday Apr 2005

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douglas adams, literature

http://www.bbc.co.uk/h2g2/guide/

Douglas Adam’s vision of a portable device able to access the answers to life, the universe and everything is now a reality.

Maps

29 Friday Apr 2005

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http://www.multimap.com/

I quite often use this site. Not up to date (at least where I live) but useful.

Wild About Gardens

28 Thursday Apr 2005

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gardening, wildlife

http://www.wildaboutgardens.org/

This project aims to promote gardening for wildlife throughout all gardens in the UK. Which would be a very good thing.

BUGS projects

28 Thursday Apr 2005

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http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/bugs/

I first suggested this site in April and had forgotten all about it until I was browsing through my newly reinstated archives tonight 🙂

This project studies urban gardens as a wildlife habitat.

A talk given by the Sheffield researchers at the Royal Horticultural Society Biodiversity Conference summarises some of the results of the project.

From that page:
Gardens are brilliant for wildlife. We found that garden size was completely irrelevant for the wildlife contained within it. Of course large gardens contain more biodiversity than small gardens because they are bigger, but there is no qualitative difference between a large garden and a small garden.

There was very, very little evidence in our results that where a garden was in a city had very much effect on the wildlife you could expect to find in it. So if you have a small garden and it’s a long way from the countryside, don’t give up is the message, you can still attract lots of interesting wildlife.

We found no evidence at all that the number of native plants in your garden has any effect on the invertebrate wildlife that your garden supports. It absolutely didn’t matter whether those plants were alien or native, it was simply the total diversity that was important.

We would simply say gardens are England’s most important nature reserve.

…………. you’re not considering paving over your garden for easy maintenance… are you???

 

 

Procrastination Research Group

26 Tuesday Apr 2005

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http://http-server.carleton.ca/~tpychyl/

Planning to come back to this sometime to read it 🙂

News in Science (ABC Science)

26 Tuesday Apr 2005

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http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/

Informative and plenty of links to related articles. The stories chosen are often quite quirky!

The Assortative Mating Theory: A Talk with Simon Baron-Cohen

26 Tuesday Apr 2005

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http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/baron-cohen05/baron-cohen05_index.html

Interesting… makes a lot of sense.

IRIS Seismic Monitor

24 Sunday Apr 2005

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earthquake, geoscience, volcanoes

http://www.iris.edu/seismon/

What a lot of seismic activity! I really hadn’t appreciated quite how much until I viewed this map.

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