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Comment by Mrina on March 16, 2010 at 12:43pm

Woah no way!!! That is so cool!! I am going to show this to my mentor, he'll love it! Thanks again!! It begs the questions: what about in Europa's subsurface ocean? What about Enceladus' geysers? However the food source for these shrimp is a mystery- I can't imagine why they didn't sample the water and check for zooplankton? Or perhaps the shrimp somehow live off detritus, otherwise it's not impossible that there is some deep inlet from the Ocean- 12 miles isn't a lot and they only sampled a tiny hole. They can't completely rule out the possibility of there being no link to open water, as cool as it would be for these guys to be living independently of a marine source. Sorry to rant, that's brilliant though.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 16, 2010 at 12:16pm

Thanks Mrina. Glad you found it interesting. Life is such a splenderous and creative thing. This one just recently appeared on Yahoo: Scientists go 'gaga' to find creatures beneath 600 feet of ice

Comment by Mrina on March 16, 2010 at 12:07pm

Thank you for the article, Dallas! Very interesting and I look forward to seeing the results of that marine sediment coring expedition. I bet there are anaerobic bacteria making up a giant layer of the ocean floor. Some people in my lab are working on marine sediments in the Arctic, very cool work :) Thanks again, going to repost this on my page.

Comment by Dallas the Phallus on March 15, 2010 at 7:07pm

Buried alive: Half of Earth's life may lie below land, sea

WASHINGTON — While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth.

Scientists estimate that nearly half the living material on our planet is hidden in or beneath the ocean or in rocks, soil, tree roots, mines, oil wells, lakes and aquifers on the continents.

They call it the "subsurface biosphere," a dark world where the sun and stars don't shine. Some call it Earth's basement.

Read the rest here.

Comment by Aiden on March 2, 2010 at 8:57pm

Studying Function and Behavior in the Fossil Record:

PLoS Biology

Comment by JayBarti on February 26, 2010 at 6:40pm

What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory

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Nice little wired magazine article with Sean Carroll who is a theoretical physicist at Caltech

Comment by Michelle on February 24, 2010 at 9:18am

Hugh, that was great - since I know the tune it was easy to follow. If only Rita Rudner was singing it with a carrot.

Comment by Hugh Kramer on February 23, 2010 at 2:30pm

An atheist explains Libertarianism through song: A gently-mocking ditty sung to a tune by Gilbert and Sullivan. (more here)

Comment by sacha on February 17, 2010 at 12:49pm

A caring god would not have designed us like this -

"...Our genome is an unmitigated mess. The replication and repair mechanisms are inadequate, making mutations commonplace. The genome is infested with parasitic DNA that often wreaks havoc. The convoluted control mechanisms are prone to error. The huge amount of junk, not just between genes but within them, wastes resources. And some crucial bits of DNA are kept in the power factories - mitochondria - where they are exposed to mutagenic byproducts. "It is downright ludicrous!" declares John Avise, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of California, Irvine..."

Inside The Human Genome - A case for non-intelligent design
by John...

Comment by Kyle Viking on January 23, 2010 at 9:06am

Time for some Shameless self promotion.

If you guys are interested, the Ferris State Rube Goldberg team spent two weeks in Japan building a machine for a t.v show called Spring of Trivia (roughly translated), and I have some videos up on my youtube channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/defleshed777

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