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Reblogged from Open Geography: Interesting find in the Robinson Map Library today: This is a map made in November 1945 by the IRIS group (an interim, post-OSS group, but prior to CIA). It shows the actual and proposed boundaries of a fairly troubled region, that between Italy and Yugoslavia, and the

A new and unexpected role for RNA is identified recently: the defence of genome integrity and stability. A study published in the scientific journal Nature shows that an until now unknown class of RNA — the newly christened DDRNA — plays a key role in activation of the molecular alarms necessary to

Reblogged from 1001 Scribbles: Ben Thomas is a tilt-shift photographer, which constitutes a method that shortens the field of depth. Ben then carefully adjusts colour and the result is a photograph that looks like a miniature model. The City Skrinker Project has been a huge success so far and you ca

Guest Post by Carol Brown Resources on Facebook Facebook is so much more than vapid status updates. You can find resources for research, connect with local (and international) public figures, and find out what’s new and interesting in museums. Ask for information: Instead of trusting Wikipedia, ask

Reblogged from The Nahmias Cipher Report: Anonymous Source Contributor Last Modified: 01:09 AM EDT, 21 May 2012 Originally reblogged this from another site, but subsequently found other versions of this inspirational list of life lessons. None of the versions have any attribution; however, this list

Reblogged from urbanculturalstudies: Take note of the way in which Zukin’s work plays with the (much) earlier title by Lewis Mumford’s 1938 text. In the preface, Zukin writes that hers are “very different concerns from those that animated Lewis Mumford’s classic work The Culture of Cities, whose tit

Reblogged from World Education Blog: By Ricardo Fuentes-Nieva Anyone who has gone without food for a couple of days knows the debilitating effects of hunger. For many of us, the experience is transient – we fail to eat during a trip or a long working day, for example – and infrequent. But for 220 mi