Thursday, December 20, 2012

[Science] Fighting helped shape the human hand say US researchers

Fighting helped shape the human hand say US researchers
http://www.slashgear.com/researchers-from-the-us-believe-fighting-helped-shape-the-human-hand-20261786/
A group of researchers from the University of Utah have published a study focusing on the human hand. During the study, the researchers used instruments to measure the forces and acceleration when martial artists hit a punching back.

Canadian scientist unearths giant water lizard fossil in Hungary
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2250684/Fossils-reveal-European-waters-terrorised-freshwater-lizard.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
It grew up to six metres long and its toothy mouth and crocodile-like body was the terror of ancient rivers and shorelines many millions of years ago.

Feds looking for two swimmers captured riding a dying sperm whale along ...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2251095/Feds-looking-swimmers-rode-dying-sperm-whale-Florida-beach.html
Federal officials are looking for the two swimmers seen riding a dying whale in South Florida. A Pompano Beach resident snapped a picture of one of two men repeatedly riding the dying sperm whale, an endangered species, on Sunday morning, just hours ...

USA Stops Moving Southern Sea Otters
http://fox5sandiego.com/2012/12/19/u-s-scraps-otter-free-zone-in-southern-california-waters/
WASHINGTON (CN) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has ended its 25-year old translocation program for endangered southern sea otters off the Southern California coast because it hasn't worked.

Maybe Climate Change Just Really Isn't A Problem After All?
http://www.permaculture.co.uk/news/2012122669/draft-un-report-climate-change-leaked-global-warming-skeptic
As far as I'm concerned the great unknown of climate change has been what is the climate sensitivity? Everything else that we've been told I'm just fine with.

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