BBC News => How Warm is your Dinosaur
Dinosaurs were long considered to be cold-blooded reptiles.
More recently, some researchers have proposed that the extinct creatures actively regulated their body temperature like mammals.
A study in the journal Plos Biology now suggests this is not the case, but that bigger dinosaurs may have lost heat so slowly that they stayed warm anyway
Happiness is a warm dinosaur.
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MSNBC => Physicist touches upon God and science
World-renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking said Thursday that the late Pope John Paul II once told scientists they should not study the beginning of the universe because it was the work of God.
You see? Science and blinkered superstition can get along just fine, as long as you don’t question the church’s cash cow.
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TimesDispatch.com => Train stuck in time
Locomotive 231 may finally finish its long-delayed run, nearly 81 years after it was trapped under the rubble of a Church Hill tunnel cave-in.
How cool is this? (Unless you were on this train, that is.) 81 years ago this train is stuck in the collapse of a tunnel and now they might dig it out. Perhaps they’ll finally be able to deliver those old letters that were bound to be in the mail car?
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I just haven’t had much time lately, so have I got a backlog of stuff… guess I’m going to post it in condensed form, otherwise, I’d be typing all month.
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