Comment Re:Where's the basketball? (Score 1) 73
I posted it a little earlier in this thread. Here it is again: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004591
Comment Re:Where's the basketball? (Score 1) 73
Sorry. Try this one: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0004591
Comment Re:Where's the basketball? (Score 3, Informative) 73
Sorry. National Geographic reduced the content way down to just the highlights. The original research is about the angles of their wrists and how we could see that in the mud imprints, but I thought it would be better to post the big name link rather than the high detail one.
Submission + - Dinosaurs Could Hold Basketballs, but not dribble (kyoht.com)
Gre7g writes: "Long before the invention of the photocopier, mud was the ideal way to preserve an image of your butt.
"We got lucky with this one [sitting] on a slope," which brought its hands closer to the ground, said study author Andrew Milner of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm.
Full disclosure: My wife did the artistic reconstruction."
"We got lucky with this one [sitting] on a slope," which brought its hands closer to the ground, said study author Andrew Milner of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm.
Full disclosure: My wife did the artistic reconstruction."
Submission + - Baking soda could help save planet (kyoht.com)
Gre7g writes: Today, a company called Skyonic announced a novel new system, Skymine, which uses the carbon dioxide emitted from smokestacks to make baking soda. According to Skyonic CEO Joe David Jones, the system will be powered by waste heat from factories, and will produce food-grade baking soda.
Submission + - Man killed after phone explosion (kyoht.com)
Gre7g writes: An exploding mobile phone battery apparently killed a South Korean man in the first such known case in this gadget-obsessed country, police say.
Submission + - Researchers Create Robotic Pied Piper Roaches 2
Gre7g writes: "To do that, they would need a rogue roach to infiltrate the herd. "One way to get them," Halloy says, "would be to create mutants somehow, with abnormal behavior. But we don't have a genetic institute for cockroaches." Instead, the researchers recruited some engineers to build them roach robots that would slip into the crowd and manipulate it from within."
