It might seem like a no-brainer, but that research about
turning off wind turbines when bats are flying in low wind has gotten
a lot of press. It was featured last week on NPR's Science
Friday. You can download the story
here: http://www.sciencefriday.com/program/archives/200910022.
Soon the bats will have left for regions south and the first weekend for the
Endless Cave Restoration Project will be here.
October 24 25Th are the dates for the first permit. Sign up now and help get
this wonderful cave back to being open for visitation I still have
room for 3
Underground Texas Grotto meeting Oct 7, 2009
www.utgrotto.org
The meeting is on Wednesday from 7:45 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
University of Texas Campus in 2.48 Painter Hall
http://www.utexas.edu/maps/main/buildings/pai.html
Oscar Berrones and Alex Benavente will present the Program for the
The 2009 Ig Nobel Award for Chemistry went to the following
paper from researchers in Mexico: Growth of Diamond Films from
Tequila http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.1485. Better living through chemistry!
Other interesting prizes include Physics, which went to a
group including a UT
Fifty Years under the Sinkhole Plain: The Story of Binkleys Cave and
the Indiana Speleological Survey. Gary Roberson. Published by the
author; 2009. 8.5 by 11 inches, 402 pages, softbound. About $25 from
cave-book dealers.
A small and somewhat insular group of cavers calling itself the
This is a pretty dead horse by now, so why not go out with a good British rant?
Here is one of the Absolutlely Fabulous girls venting (near the end)
hilariously on laws to protect the stupid:
Bugger ugly traffic wardens and bolloky pedestrian bloody crossings!!
I noticed this when I got my first multi-megapixel camera... It actually
seemed to have better picture quality at LOWER resolutions...
-WaV
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Michael Pugliese m...@mpphoto.ws wrote:
12 Megapixels means nothing if you're using a 3mm Bayer CMOS with a
terrible
Resolution is a direct engineering trade off with dynamic-range in most
sensor designs, many cameras employ pixel-binning when used at lower
resolutions which increases real quality of the images by allowing
multiple photo sites to contribute to the tonal data of a single real pixel.
Urban legend.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/cell411.asp
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Michael Pugliese
Director of Photography
www.MPCINE.com
570.898.3011
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The national do not call # is 1-888-382-1222. Very soon cell phone #'s will go
public telemarketers can start calling your cell you have
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Karen
This keeps going around.
See this URL for information:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2007/10/dnccellphones.shtm
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From: Karen Perry
To: texascavers@texascavers.com ; nmca...@caver.net
Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 7:45 PM
Subject: [Texascavers]
Not real sure what's so scary about these tunnels..but these are some
pretty cool cave like photos:
http://smoont.com/10-scariest-underground-tunnels/
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I am reminded of my mother's purchase of a Dodge passenger van in
1965. She had 6 children and needed a vehicle large enough for all 8
people plus it needed to do double duty hauling sacks of feed and farm
equipment. Back then seat belts were standard equipment only for the
front two
Diana,
I am in general agreement with you about the destructive practices society
indulged in early in my lifetime. ?I had the benefit of riding in a car with
seatbelts several years earlier than most children because my father was a
civilian employee of the Air Force, and it instituted (and
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