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POPSLife Thrives at Active Underwater Volcano One shrimp has even adapted special pruning claws to harvest food from its volcanic environment, while another becomes a hunter later in life. "The 'Loihi' shrimp has adapted to grazing the bacterial filaments with tiny claws like garden shears," Tunnicliffe said. "The second shrimp is a new species — they also graze as juveniles, but as they grow to adult stage, their front claws enlarge and they become predators." That predator shrimp takes the opportunity to feed on dying animals that get caught in volcanic bursts of activity. "We saw dying fish, squid, etc., raining down onto the seamount, where they were jumped on by the volcano shrimp
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POPSUniverse in a speck of dust such discoveries are so exciting when i think of it, perhaps all our science fiction ideas no matter how far fetched they may seem, can all be accommodated in the galactic expanse. yet for ever it (the universe) will remain not entirely and completely understood as we may "want" it to be... :)
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POPSAustralia in biosecurity hotspot Germs don't need a passport. We cannot encase ourselves in a bubble. We cannot stop the evolution of pathogens. Our best defense is in our own immune systems. We need to know more about our immune system, than the germs, because lethal strains can develop at random. Our immune system is something we all have in common.
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POPSGeologic Controversies
The Quaternary Refuses to Die http://geology.about.com/od/controversies/a/aa022005a.htm How the International Stratigraphic Commission dealt out the whole Quaternary Period in 2004. The Piltdown Plot http://www.clarku.edu/~piltdown/Preface&gratitude.html "As we approach the 100th year anniversary of Piltdown Man, there is still no certainty on just who created the greatest hoax in the history of science." A thorough treatment by two professors at Clark University. A Modest Proposal http://geology.about.com/od/climate_change/a/Medit_dam.htm An old man dreams of damming the Mediterranean Sea to save the world from global COOLING. Logos versus Lithos: Creationism versus Evolution http://geology.about.com/cs/evolution/a/aa062297a.htm How Adam saw Eden is not how Darwin saw Earth. The Comeback of Noah's Flood http://geology.about.com/library/weekly/aa080899.htm The book "Noah's Flood" has brought the Bible back into science for the kernel of truth that might lie in the Flood
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POPSVolcanic floor at Yellowstone rising I believe that there are 6 volcanoes on Earth, that if ever to have a full eruption, would result in catastrophic climate changes. The ash would block the sunlight, killing plant life and all who feed upon it. Air quality would be unsafe, earthquakes would be triggered, to say nothing of the fires and tsunamis. Yellowstone is one of those volcanoes.
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POPS Pirates In Somalia Hijacked A Cargo Ship Piracy off Somalia increased this year after Ethiopian forces backing Somali government troops ousted an Islamic militia in December, said Andrew Mwangura, program coordinator of the Seafarers Assistance Program which independently monitors piracy in the region. Indonesia remained the world's worst piracy hotspot, with 37 attacks in the first nine months of 2007. But that was an improvement from 40 in the same period a year earlier. Southeast Asia's Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest waterways, has been relatively quiet with 198 attacks on ships reported between January and September, up from 174 in the same period in 2006. It said 15 vessels were hijacked, 63 crew members kidnapped and three killed. Oil-rich Nigeria suffered 26 pirate attacks so far this year, up from nine in the same period last year.
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