Comments on: I've got your missing links right here (25th September 2010)

By: Walter S. Andriuzzi

Walter S. Andriuzzi — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:18:12 +0000

The monitor lizard vs leopard link doesn’t work, I wanna see it!!! Hopefully it will be (almost) as cool as THIS: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/3347532/Leopard-savaging-a-crocodile-caught-on-camera.html
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Horniest dinosaur, seriously? I wonder what people will imagine…
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(From the insect eating piece) “But Ms. Moorehead, who has such a potent phobia about the animal kingdom that she refuses even to pet dogs and cats — well, after having ingested that worm, it was clear that she had crossed a threshold”. Great, now she is gonna eat dogs and cats as well
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“Touching yourself relieves pain. No, not like that”. Genius! XD
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“An adult fly mimics an ant larva”. Next time someone will argue that physics / mathematics / whatever is cooler than biology, I will bring that on them…
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“A lost tiger population has been discovered in the Bhutan mountains. Brits can watch the accompanying series on iPLayer”. That’s why I love being in Aberdeen now!
This is even cooler than last year’s expedition in Papua New Guinea. George McGavin and co. are definitely my new heroes
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Hopefully I will be able to check some of the others later on…

By: Adrian Morgan

Adrian Morgan — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 02:08:31 +0000

Several broken links reported via Twitter. I’ll be back later to see if these are fixed. Out of the working links, my favourite is the stop motion animation one. The harvest mice photos are nice, too.

On the Twitter hack, I managed to avoid it, despite the fact that I DID mouse over one of the a.no black boxes (the one via @john_s_wilkins). Mousing over didn’t do anything untoward on my computer. The only explanation I can think of is that maybe it’s because I was reading Twitter via their secure (https) server.

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:04:18 +0000

FYI – A couple of your links are b0rked. (“perhaps we need to ask them deeper questions”, and “Jack Szostak’s CV”)

Thanks for the great round-up.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 23:03:18 +0000

The link in “And what happens if you put your hand in the Large Hadron Collider? Top physicists speculate.” just goes back to this page; you might want to fix it.

By: Daniel J. Andrews

Daniel J. Andrews — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 19:27:24 +0000

damn you, Ed. It is a beautiful sunny day outside, the ocean and migrating birds await, and you’ve again put up hordes of distracting links designed to keep me inside. Must. resist. links. …. … .for now, at least.

(to be clear–not really annoyed and I love these missing links you post).