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As most of us know, coyotes are fantastically adaptable – they can live almost anywhere they can find food – and ‘coyote food’ is nearly every- and any- thing small enough or slow enough to catch, alive or dead. ...

But, surprisingly, this technology is also very, very good at parsing, responding to, and writing “natural language” (e.g., English).

After all the news of Gemini’s biases this week I thought I’d give it a try, not of image generation which is currently disabled, but a conversation similar to my…

Over the last few days there have been a few interesting general news items touching on topics that I have covered here in the past: Wolves, Oroville Dam, Great Salt Lake..  I’m just going to mention them, with my opinions,...

It was a little past 1 AM on February 3rd, 1959 when American musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa

Counting manatees is exceptionally difficult.  They spend their time under murky sluggish waters,  often have green moss on their backs the same color as the water itself and if congregating, tend to swim above and below...

We see maximum cloudiness at solar maximum. Just the opposite of the Svensmark hypothesis

NASA has yet to respond. The post Decolonizing the Moon first appeared on Watts Up With That?.

A newly identified process could explain a variety of natural phenomena and enable new approaches to desalination.

In some places, geoelectric amplitudes induced during the March 1940 storm, Section 12, exceeded American electric-power-industry benchmarks.

The idea the environment can influence that genetic information, as we’ve shown in cephalopods, is a new concept.

It only took a month for Amundsen to give up his experiment.

According to Florida folklore this will be calm storm season.

...there is very little evidence of anything resembling intelligence.

Interestingly, the researchers found that thermotolerant organisms had smaller genomes and a higher fraction of core genome.