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Feb. 28th, 2014 05:32 pm
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Science -

Evolution in real time - http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2014/02/evolution-in-real-time/
It sounds like the writer of the article mis-understood a lot of things about evolution and, indeed, about how it's a generational effect and how, if you did this through 59,000 generations of humans you'd get the same results it just takes longer, so people use bacteria instead, but it's an interesting bit of research.

Film Industry -

Assembling the Billing Block - http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/ben-schott-movies-billing-blocks.html?smid=tu-share How the list of names at the bottom of a movie poster is decided on.

Photography/Natural World -

Northern Lights illuminate the UK - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-26378027

"The Aurora Borealis - better known as the Northern Lights - has been giving rare and spectacular displays over parts of the UK, from the north of Scotland to as far south as Jersey."

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