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Nice quiet restaurant in Moco?
The answer to this question, if anyone is still looking, is Tavira. It's in the lowest level of the old Chevy Chase Bank Building on Conn Ave bet East West Highway and Jones Bridge Road. Free underground parking provides quick access.
There is a nice size bar upfront for a drink or a solo dinner. Beyond is a beautiful carpeted dining room with white linens and colorful painted china. The lighting is bright enough. The noise level low. The crowd, of course, runs a bit older.
The food is oriented toward Portuguese, but it's really just old world. The menu is a nice arrangement of dishes, seafood and meats, quickly sauteed or long cooked, mostly simply sauced, and always accompanied by traditional sides. In addition, a recital of the specials will offer a nicely composed salad, a freshly made soup, and a starter or two, often grilled whole calamaire with olive oil, lemon and herbs, perhaps some steamed clams, and maybe marinaded peppers with goat cheese. Main courses include dorado or branzino, seafood stuffed salmon, lamb shank with white beans, and suckling pig with potatoes and spinach.
Wine list is a little weak with almost only Portuguese offerings, but there is a reserve or two on the list, and they are reasonably priced.
Service is professional, polite, and efficient.
Jan 15, 2015Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Random (mostly) Rockville eats - December 2014
That is a great write up. Thank you very much for contributing.
Dec 30, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Casual, Not-Expensive Dining for 20-35 people in Rockville/N. Bethesda on Friday night?
Matchbox is a big place. They might be able to handle you. Timpano's has an entire upstairs dining room that would be a good option, though a bit more expensive. Another thought is Far East over on Nicholson Ln for their banquet room.
Oct 27, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Amish Market in Germantown -- tips, favorites, strategy for going?
Think all-things-pork. Chops, roasts, sausages, etc.
Aug 25, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Range - new Bryan Voltaggio place in Chevy Chase
Amazing. You can get a table for 4 on a Friday night at anytime you want. I know it's summer, but still. Who saw that coming 12 months ago. And the wait for Cheesecake Factory will be an hour long.
My complaint was never the food, it was the delivery system. I'm paying $400 bucks for dinner, and you're going to bring it out to me on your schedule? No you're not. You'll bring it out on my schedule or I'm not coming back. Well... they didn't, ...and I haven't.
Jul 25, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
We'll be returning home Sunday from a baseball tournament at the beach. If we wanted to stop in the Kent Narrow area for sit-down crabs, which place do you all recommend? Most interested in the best crabs and the best setting rather than the best deal (we don't eat very many).
Jul 14, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
We're hosting a party Sat Sept 6 for a small MoCo neighboorhood, roughly at the intersection of 495/355. Maybe 40 adults + 20 kids.
I was hoping to perhaps have 1 or 2 food trucks there to cater the food. We'll be one payer to make it simple.
Does anyonone have a specific recommendation, or know of an information database where I could get info and contact them to make arrangements?
Jun 16, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Jaleo - Jose's Way Tasting Menu
You know...I was never a big fan of Jaleo until last week. Maybe it was just the right place at the right time, but I'll tell ya, it all worked.
This was the Bethesda location, and we sat on the right side of the door which I liked better. The place is well laid out with tables in a variety of rows/settings, so it doesn't look uniform at all. Nice big windows looking out over the street. And a large bar set up and back that works out so that you hear and see the vibe, but it is not at all distracting to the diners.
Second, he runs a very polished operation. From the hosts to the bussers to the waitstaff, they are expert. Everytime I lifted my head an inch, someone was immediately beside me asking what they could do. Service was fast, but not too fast either.
The wine list is chock full of spanish selections and all at a good price.
Soem of the dishes we liked:
May 05, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Since I don't know how to add a link, I'll do a partial cut and paste.
Starters included pefectly fresh and perfectly shucked and beautifully presented Wild Belon, Rasberry Point and Kumamoto Oysters with a Chardonnay/Thyme Mignonettte (sp) and a Passion Fruit Mignonette that was unique and addictive.
Also, two must orders: Chocolate Clams w blood orange and shiso that just took us back with flavor. And a wonderfully done Tuna Carpaccio w cucumber, olives and capers. But the best of all the beginnings was Fiola Mare Oysters and Caviar w Prosecco Zabaglione. Oyters and caviar married with ginger and soy in the bottom of a parfait glass with a rich delicious foam on top. On my next visit, i may have two of these. Finally, a salad of Buffalo Burrata w baby artichoke and radish with a pesto vinagrette.
Then focus on pastas. The Gragnano Spagehetti w little neck clams is the sweetest most lucious thing you've ever eaten with golden coins of garlic. Acquerello Risotto w calamarie was deeply oceany and rich. And the Lobster Ravioli, which I've had many times, must pack at least 1.5 lobsters gently sauteed in butter packd into delicate wrappers with a light sauce that lets the seafood shine through. Amazing.
Stuffed...we fought on. The Adriatic Seafood Brodetto was full of fish, scallops, shrimp, octopus in another long reduced marine-y tomato-y and a little smoke-y thin sauce. Each piece of seafood cooked perfectly. The Under the Sea composition was my lesser favorite, as I was a bit put off by the dashi broth, but the seafood was every bit as impeccable.
I'm not much a dessert guy, but all four were well received. A rich dense chocolate torte, a light yummy lemon mouse on shortcake, a wonderful marinated cherry bombe, and boozey strawberries with light as air whipped cream.
May 02, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
We had a little mini "blowout" at Fiola Mare Sat nite. Wow. This is really amazing food in an amazing setting with amazing service. We ran up quite a bill, and it was worth every penny. Fascinating that on Saturday night, they were the busiest at 9:30 - 10 as we were leaving. I can't think of another place I'd rather dine in Washington right now.
Starters included pefectly fresh and perfectly shucked and beautifully presented Wild Belon, Rasberry Point and Kumamoto Oysters with a Chardonnay/Thyme Mignonettte (sp) and a Passion Fruit Mignonette that was unique and addictive.
Also, two must orders: Chocolate Clams w blood orange and shiso that just took us back with flavor. And a wonderfully done Tuna Carpaccio w cucumber, olives and capers. But the best of all the beginnings was Fiola Mare Oysters and Caviar w Prosecco Zabaglione. Oyters and caviar married with ginger and soy in the bottom of a parfait glass with a rich delicious foam on top. On my next visit, i may have two of these. Finally, a salad of Buffalo Burrata w baby artichoke and radish with a pesto vinagrette.
Then focus on pastas. The Gragnano Spagehetti w little neck clams is the sweetest most lucious thing you've ever eaten with golden coins of garlic. Acquerello Risotto w calamarie was deeply oceany and rich. And the Lobster Ravioli, which I've had many times, must pack at least 1.5 lobsters gently sauteed in butter packd into delicate wrappers with a light sauce that lets the seafood shine through. Amazing.
Stuffed...we fought on. The Adriatic Seafood Brodetto was full of fish, scallops, shrimp, octopus in another long reduced marine-y tomato-y and a little smoke-y thin sauce. Each piece of seafood cooked perfectly. The Under the Sea composition was my lesser favorite, as I was a bit put off by the dashi broth, but the seafood was every bit as impeccable.
I'm not much a dessert guy, but all four were well received. A rich dense chocolate torte, a light yummy lemon mouse on shortcake, a wonderful marinated cherry bombe, and boozey strawberries with light as air whipped cream.
I can't wait to return.
Apr 14, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Tucson (+ some Phoenix) Report
Pardon the spelling....I'm not going to go throught his twice:
Sat am: Arrive PHX and went straight to Farmers Market in Old Town Scottsdale. Fascinating to an East Coaster to see all the freshness at the end of March. Beautiful rustic breads too. Picked up some dried beans. And lots of hot sauces.
Sat Lunch: Mission in O.T. Scottsdale. Lovely back patio for lunch. While I would normally say guac is guac, here it's somehow much much better. Made table side, it is just the best we've ever had. The chips and salsa too, (I know, I know), but really, they just are better. And the Margarita was absolutely the best I've ever had. Not at all bitter or sweet. Perfect. Mains less so. We each had a taco plate and we were each kinda bored with our choice. I think you should probably stick to the brunch offerings.
Sat Afternoon: Maryvale Stadium. We picked this for a spring training game. PACKED! I thought we'd stroll right in! Traffic was a nightmare. We could only get lawn seats. But the sun was warm and the beer was cold.
Sat Evening (now in Tucson): 47 Scott. Probably the best dinner we had. The place isn't much to look at, with bare bulbs on the walls. But our waitress was an absolute pro. Perfect Rye Manhattan. Great tomato bisque and kale salad. Best Steak Frites we've had in years. Excellent salmon in red curry. And a satisfactory chicken wrapped in Phylo with goat cheese. Interesting AZ red to wash it down. And cheap too. I don't think the whole bill with tax as $140.
Sun Lunch: 4th Avenue Street Festival. We enjoy this every year. Beer stand on every corner, how can you beat that. I think $4 each! For lunch, we waited in line at BBQ 4 U. TriTip Sandwich. Very moist. Very salty. Piled high. Served with Salsa. WOW. Fantastic! Roasted corn not quite as successful. I think tho that we were rookies in understanding the condiments and should have asked for advice.
Sun Dinner: Downtown Food and Cocktails. Probably our worst dinner of the week. Setting was pleasant, and service ok, if not overworked. Food failed on every count. Caesar salads were wanting. A stuffed pepper starter was one-dimensional, crying for taste. Duck was just flabby and bad. The plantains underneath were both too soft in some bites, and hard as a rock in others, and in every case were 100% tasteless. Chicken two ways should have been left in the kitchen. I detected no rub, spice, seasoning, brine, etc at all. The rice underneath wouldn't have been acceptable at a food court Chinese stall. These were actually pretty small portions, and still we left lots on the plate.
Monday Lunch: The Grill at the golf club at JW Marriott. This is supposed to be a BBQ place. As I said last year...stick with the pulled pork. The brisket is not as good.
Monday Dinner: Bluefin Seafood Bistro. We truck all the way up Oracle Rd once a year because we like this place. We got a wonderful table out on the patio. West Coast Oysters suffered a bit from the plane ride. But the house smoked trout app was outstanding. Bouillabaisse was absolutely chock full of seafood. Good thing too because the broth was not worth drinking. Sturgeon special and grilled salmon were both enjoyed. Great waitress. Good wine list.
Tuesday Lunch: Marsicusso's on Grande (sp?). Our favorite place in Tucson. Limey and delicious Shrimp Ceviche. Seafood Cocktail with clams, snails, shrimp, squid, etc. Gulf Coast oysters on the half-shell. Marlin Tacos. And fish filets in Culcitto (sp?) Green Sauce. Plus, a refreshing Michalada (sp), which is half beer and half spicy tomato juice. Man, is this a great spot. Cheap too. I have no idea why we don't go here more often.
Tuesday Dinner: Proper. This was new on our list. Right downtown amidst the growing Tucson downtown hub. Big windows lining the street. Well populated inside for a weeknight. We liked our meal. Charcauterie board was varied and delicious with sliced meats and pickled vegees. Kale salad the best we had in Tucson. Another duck dish, this one better than the last. Well cooked, medium rare. I had the fish, and again, it was gently cooked and well liked. I'm struggling to recall the last main.
Wednesday Dinner: Maynard's Kitchen. This is definitely the best looking place in downtown Tucson. White table clothes (tho covered in butcher paper) and napkins. The menu is frustrating, as both the apps and mains are meat-centric, and hard to pair up. We started with a wonderful Onion Soup, a nice plate of oysters, and another charcauterie board with excellent duck rillets, an okay pork terrine, and a luscious liver pate. Mains were only so so. A gorgeous looking lamb shank had been well browned before serving, with a lacquered appearance. Unfortunately, it was so well browned that the coating had a terrible bitter taste. The Vegetable Plate was a total fail. The squash mold that should have been the star was a dud that had me searching for the salt shaker. The mushrooms underneath needed better trimming and more careful cooking. And the steamed mussels weren't as plumb as they should be, and the broth not as reduced as it should have been. This place never seems to reach its potential.
Thursday Dinner: Daisy Mae's Steak House. You know...call me a sucker, but we get a kick out of this place. The margaritas are awfully sweet, so stay away. But the grilled wings are the bomb! And your steak comes off the grill exactly as ordered. 18 oz (really?) T-Bone is $27 or 14 oz Ribeye is $28, and comes with salad, baked potato, texas toast, and ranch beans. But do not leave without sharing the apple pie ala mode. You only need one order for the table, it's huge. Service is done with a smile and your money goes a long way.
Friday Lunch (back in Phoenix): Dick's Hideaway. First, it really is hidden. Just follow the address. Best bloody mary I've ever had, served with a beer chaser. I had Eggs Benedict Abodavata (sp). That is a long simmered pork in red chili sauce. Outstanding. I mean really outstanding. Breakfast quesadilla must have had a dozen eggs in it, I'm not kidding. And a combo plate of enchiladas and Benedict with jalapeño hollandaise was very well received. We honestly did not eat again until the next day.
Look forward to our trip next spring. Any reccos for warmly received.
Apr 05, 2014Pappy in Southwest
Has anybody been to Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab?
KevinS: You wanted it....so here it is. Sorry its late. I was out of town.
Big, beautiful spot. Real pros at the reception/host desk, not high school girls hired that morning. The first room is the large bar that TomS describes. Nice spot in a grand old bank building. Four sided bar, with high-top tables surrounding it and deep, leather upholstered booths lining the walls. Very busy on a recent Friday night. Lots of eating at the bar, not just drinking.
The adjacent room is the primary dining room. Not quite as regal, but well lit and well adorned. They did lead us to the typical bad table for 4, as seemingly all restaurants do now days. But when we predictably declined, the seater discretely radioed back to the main desk, and we were whisked to an enormous corner booth. That is a real improvement over standing around while the high school girl goes back to the host desk to "ask" if we can sit elsewhere. I also noticed more than a few large round tables with parties of 8 - 10 people.
While our waiter was perhaps a bit perfunctory, and service beyond him was team oriented, you couldn't find any room for complaint. They were also quite deft at table-side service such as splitting a sald amongst two plates or fileting fish. An owner (?) stopped by twice to chat us up, in a good way, which is rare.
The menu is exacly has you would expect. Additionally, a "Market" menu card is dropped on the table. It is here you will find the day's price for stone crab claws (large or select), dover sole, lobster, signature 24oz steak, etc. VERY nice to have that all in black and white.
While had full meals, we did not get deep into the menu. Salads were fine. I thought the steaks were great. The desserts were hit or miss. But here is what you wanted to know...skip the crab legs. I had an order of selects ($48) for my main course and wish I hadn't. They didn't taste fresh,not bad, just not sweet. And they were seemingly damp, really almost wet, rather than moist. And the "cracked" shells were more like smashed safety glass with many many very very small pieces. That made me think further that they might have been frozen, as I don't recall fresh stone crabs in Miami being cracked like that.
I'm not rushing back. Certainly a better environment than Mortons, Capital Grill, BLT, etc etc. But perhaps no better than JG, Bourbon, Grill Room, etc. No mystery here.
Warning: I swear it was more than 20 minutes to get my car from the valet, as they park blocks away.
Mar 21, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Has anybody been to Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab?
Heading there for my first time tomorrow, 7:30 resee. Sietsema has a review up on washingtonpost.com. 2 Stars. Interestingly, he doesn't like the stone crabs or the oysters rockfeller. He does like the chopped steak and the fried chicken though.
Mar 13, 2014Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
That is an oxymoron
Dec 23, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
The only think worse than HH of late is the Du-pars that is replacing it. Yuck! Stay away.
Dec 19, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Nov 11, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
One more thought on this...Benny's, a new and forgetable bar in the Cabin John Shopping center has 1/2 price burgers on Sundays. A pretty good burger too, with great fries, and about a half-dozen beers on tap. You could do worse.
Nov 04, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Daniel, is Sugo privately owned? Or are they chain affiliated? Do they have a full bar? Any dishes to recommend? Do you like it better than the Amici place up there?
Nov 04, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
To each his own I guess. But let me say that over several brunches at CG's in Rockville, we have had to literally leave plates untouched. Omelets that couldn't be cut with a knife. Curry chicken that wouldn't be served at an English boarding school. Awful hash browns overloaded with green pepper. Etc. Horrible.
I do think it's a pleasant place. They have nice table cloths, good service, and the boody marys aren't bad.
Nov 04, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
NYC Classics Tour - 2 Questions
Thanks Gary. That's a great idea. Probably get to taste more things too.
NYC Classics Tour - Arthur Ave Question
So, for my 50th, I'm taking my wife and 12yo son to NYC (from Washington DC). Trying to do places I remember my Dad taking me, and places that might still be around for my son to take his son.
I need a place for Weds (11/27 Tgiving Eve) lunch on Arthur Ave. Prefer old school, checkered tablecloth, veteran waiter, red sauce/veal piccata type place. Can anyone recommend one or two places? Will I need a reservation?
Sun Lunch: PJ Clark's
Mon Lunch: GC Oyster Bar
Tues Lunch: Katz's Deli
Weds Lunch: Arthur Avenue (Bronx)
Thurs Lunch (Tgiving): Nom Wah Tea Parlor (Chinatown)
Oct 28, 2013Pappy in Outer Boroughs
NYC Classics Tour - 2 Questions
So, for my 50th, I'm taking my wife and 12yo son to NYC (from Washington DC). Trying to do places I remember my Dad taking me, and places that might still be around for my son to take his son. All reservationns confirmed. See below.
I have two questions. Can anyone recommend a place in Chinatown? Probably large, bustling, old school Cantonese that would be open on Tgving Day? Also, need a place for Weds lunch on Arthur Ave. Prefer old school, white table cloth, red sauce, veal piccata type place.
Sun Lunch: PJ Clark's
Mon Lunch: CG Oyster Bar
Tues Lunch: Katz's Deli
Weds Lunch: Arthur Avenue (Bronx)
Thurs Lunch (Tgiving): Chinatown
I'm sure there are lots of opions on this topic, but the only place I'll spend $50 for a steak anyomore is The Prime Rib. Alot of it is the atmoshphere. But I also think they still care. And I think they still cook.
Not so at Capital Grill. A recent meal there for a large bunch was just an awful, expensive disappointment. Very small caesar salad with what could have been bottled dressing. Oysters so pathetic they should never have been served. Small, tough, over-cooked steaks. Dried out macaroni and cheese (tho I tasted no cheese). Scrawny, not fresh, asparagus. Gloppy, soupy creamed spinach. French fries were fast food style, thin and pale, but at least crsip and salty. Chocolate cake that we defrosted days earlier.
Boy...I thought Mortons had gone downhill. Well CG has skied right past them on the way to the bottom.
Sep 18, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
My IRA, or a loaf of great bread?
Fresh, free range, organic, humane, happy chicken at Dupont Farmers Market, no more than 2lbs, ......$18.
Jul 26, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Five restaurants that time (almost) forgot.
We often hit Tastee Diner after church for breakfast. Food is terrible (but cheap). But the setting, the service and the experience is perfectly old school.
Also, we had dinner at Crisfield's in Silver Spring on Tuesday. Talk about "nothing has changed". It is exactly the same as when I first went 30 years ago. We had great clams on the half shell, broiled rockfish, crab imperial, and very lightly fried soft shell crabs. Delicious.
Finally, we get to Amalfi's in Rockville a couple times a year. Pastas are good, whole grilled fish, veal not so much. Mamma is reluctantly letting son and daughter work the front of the house.
Jul 26, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
This is easy.....Stachowski's braunschweiger— housemade liverwurst made from fatty pork and pork liver -- on rye bread with sweet pickles, thin red onions, and hot mustard.
May 28, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Bethesda dinner options - with parents
I assume I don't need special password? Thanks! I'll be sure to ask!
Apr 16, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Bethesda dinner options - with parents
You want Food and Wine. It's a pretty close walk, and the menu will suit you perfectly. It can get a little noisy when full on weekends, and beware of Friday happy hour when they draw a crowd. Just ask for a booth against the windows. I'm not sure what LawDoc is talking about....I've been there a dozen times and never seen a "back room".
Blacks is another good choice you should check out.
Freddy's is probably out. First, it's an order-at-the counter place, with food served in atop wax paper in a plastic basket, which doesn't seem to be what you're looking for. Not to mention, the food is awful.
Bistro Provence is very good. It's quite a walk though. And very expensive. The seating is cramped. And the service is demeaning.
We like Newton's Table a lot. Sedate. Redwood is a big place that has never impressed anyone, but it's certainly a nice enough place and has a new chef. Beware: I think I read that Bethesda Row is having a Restaurant Week promotion this week.
If you want steak, get off the Metro at Friendship and Capital Grill is right above you.
Apr 15, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Someone must be eating there...
Unless you want 6 types of oysters, perfectly cleanly shucked, and served quickly, by a decent bartender, with a cold, tasty, craft beer, in a wonderful setting, and 1/2 off $ between 11am and 4pm on weekends. Where do I sign up!
Apr 02, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore
Someone must be eating there...
La Ferme died a slow, agonizing, painful and finally deserved death. But as Just Visiting mentions, it served well in the 90's, only to become an unrecognizable shell in the 2000s.
Apr 02, 2013Pappy in Washington DC & Baltimore

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Open science event in London this weekend
Iron Egghead: Explain biology using eight everyday items
Scientific American has an awesome contest going on right now. They're challenging you to make a video explaining some part, process, or system in the human body using eight objects: Yourself, a writing surface, a writing implement, rubber bands, paper clips, string, cups , and balls. You have to use all eight items. You can't use anything else.
You can read the full instructions and rules online. And check out the sample video, made by Scientific American interns Isha Soni and Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato.
Bonus: The first 100 qualified entries all get a free digital subscription to Sci Am.
Via Bora Zivkovik
The effects of space travel on the human body (past and present)
Last week, an American and a Russian — Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko — were selected to spend a year living continuously in space, aboard the International Space Station. Only four other people have done this before. All them were Russian, so Scott Kelly is going to break the American record for time spent in space.
The mission won't start until 2015, and it's part of a much longer term goal — sending people to Mars. We know that spending time in space does take a toll on the human body. For instance, hanging out without gravity means you aren't using your muscles, even the ones that you'd use to support your own weight on Earth. Without use, muscles deteriorate over time. Bone density also drops. Basically, after a few months in space, astronauts return to Earth as weak as little kittens. Which is, to say the least, a less than ideal situation for any future Mars explorers.
Having Kelly and Kornienko stay up for a year will give scientists more data on what happens to the human body in space, give them a chance to test out preventative treatments that could keep astronauts stronger, and allows them to see how the amount of time spent in space affects the amount of time it takes to physically recover from the trip. As an extra research bonus, Kelly is the identical twin brother of Mark Kelly, the astronaut married to former congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Which means that there will be a built-in control to compare Kelly to when he comes back from his mission.
In honor of that upcoming experiment, here's an old video that will give you an idea of what we knew (and didn't know) back at the dawn of the space age. Science in Action was a TV show produced by the California Academy of Sciences. In this 1956 episode, they explore the then-still-theoretical physiology of space travel ... with a special guest appearance by Chuck Yeager!
Wikipedia page on the effects of space travel on the human body
Science in Action: Aero Medicine — Part 1 and Part 2 at the Prelinger Archives.
Sauropods might have had trunks, but probably didn't
Imagine an apatosaurus with a long, elephant-like snout. Plenty of people have. That's because the nostril placement on sauropod dinosaurs is, in some ways, remarkably similar to that of trunked animals that live today. In both cases, the nostrils are large, and they're located up around what we'd call the forehead, kind of smack between the eyes.
On the one hand, this is one of those things that it's really hard to ever know for certain. We don't have preserved soft tissue, so when we make models of what dinosaurs might have looked like we're really going on clues from the bones and comparisons to living animals with similar bone structure. Because of that, it is somewhat reasonable to suggest that hey, maybe, sauropods really did look like grumpy diplodocus in the image above. It's fun to speculate.
But not all speculations are created equal. In a fascinating post at the Tetrapod Zoology blog, Darren Naish explains why a superficial similarity to trunked animals isn't enough to counteract the much-more prevalent evidence against sauropod trunks. One of the more interesting lines of evidence he points out is the fact that dinosaurs apparently lacked the facial which form the trunk in living animals. We know this partly because muscles leave their signature on bone, and Naish says there's no evidence sauropods had the right facial muscles. It's further bolstered by the fact that the animals most closely related to sauropods don't have those facial muscles, either.
Naish's piece reminds me of the last time we talked about sauropod biology here. That, too, dealt with the fact that superficial similarities aren't enough to infer that two animals must have identical biology. Only, in that case, we were talking about the differences between the long necks of giraffes and the long necks of sauropods.
How To: Preserve a bat for museum display
Here's a big difference between nature and a natural history museum: In the wild, when you find a skeleton of anything, it's seldom arranged in a neat, orderly, anatomically correct manner. Even if an animal dies in captivity, nature won't just conveniently produce a skeleton suitable for mounting.
So how do museums get the perfect skeletal specimens that you see behind glass?
The answer: Lots and lots and lots of tedious work. Plus the assistance of a few thousand flesh-eating bugs.
This video from the University of Michigan traces the creation of a bat skeleton, from a fleshy dead bat in a jar, to a neat, little set of bones in a display case. It's painstaking (and moderately disgusting) work. Sort of like building model cars, if the Ford Mustang had realistic organ tissue.
Thanks to Neil Shurley!
The cool science behind a really cute video of a "snoring" hummingbird
This hummingbird is sleeping in a specialized research container connected to a machine that measures how much oxygen it is breathing. According to forrestertr7, who posted the video to YouTube, this experiment was part of research aimed at understanding the differences between the metabolism of hummingbirds and that of larger species. After its nap, the hummingbird was released back into the wild.
But what about the snoring? Does the hummingbird really need a tiny, little beak strip, or what? I asked science blogger Joe Hanson, who posted this video to Twitter earlier today, and he did some research. Turns out, it's not totally unreasonable to call that adorable little wheeze a "snore". But, at the same time, hummingbirds have very different biology than we do. A snore for them isn't the same as a snore for us.
Hummingbirds have incredibly high metabolic needs. To do all that buzzing around and to keep their tiny bodies warm, they eat the human equivalent of a refrigerator full of food every day, mostly in the form of high-energy nectar and fatty bugs. Because of their small size, they also lose a lot of body heat to the air. In order to preserve energy on cool nights, they have the ability to enter a daily, miniature hibernation called torpor.
...Just before morning, their natural circadian rhythms kick in and they start to thaw out, like heating a car engine on a cold day. What we see in the video is probably a bird coming out of torpor (which is what the scientists in the video were studying), starting to breathe in more oxygen to raise its body temperature, and making that adorable snoring noise.
Read the full story at Joe Hanson's blog, It's Okay To Be Smart
Positive pregnancy test diagnoses man's cancer
Pssst, hey kid. Wanna see some sea lice eat a dead pig?
Come on. It's for science.
In fact, it's meant to help people.
Researchers at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, put a dead pig in a shark-proof (and octopus-proof, as you'll see) cage and stuck it in the ocean in order to learn more about how human remains decompose underwater. That knowledge will help forensic scientists interpret crime scenes.
Most of the work is done by maggots known as sea lice, but towards the end, after the maggots have eaten the good bits, you can watch some fat, red shrimp move in to pick apart the cartilage.
Read the full story about this research at New Scientist
Via Deep Sea News
Protein art
Proteins are made up of chains of amino acids, folded and twisted in on themselves to make incredibly complex shapes.
The human brain, it has been said, is kind of a pattern-finding machine — prone to spotting faces on the moon, fat bunnies in the clouds, and Jesus on slices of toast.
When the two meet, you get Protein Art. May K., a Russian-born artist who lives in Germany, takes actual protein structures, sees the other things those structures seem to look an awful lot like, and then draws cartoons based on the resulting apophenia.
For instance, take a look at the protein structure above. After the jump, you can see the picture that May K. saw in its folds.
Read the rest
Field biologist describes horrific foot-fungus
Fuzzyatelin, a field biologist, offers graphic and compelling advice on keeping your feet dry during your fieldwork.
1) For frak's sake, DRY OUT YOUR SOCKS. Put them over the fan over night so that you have 5 precious, precious moments of dryness before stepping out that door into the rain again…
2) Air everything out. For real. I mean everything. If you have electricity, lay in front of a fan in the buff for at least two hours every evening. You think I'm joking… but:
3) When your feet start to bleed - and boy, will they ever - don't panic. The hole that appears to be eating its way into the space between your 4th and 5th toes on your right foot won't go any deeper than a full centimeter (you know this because you stuck your finger inside of it and then measured the extent of the bloody seepage on your pinkie finger… the hole is that wide and deep).
4) Ditch the hat. Ditch the hat. Ditch the - oh. Now it's on your scalp.
It gets worse.
Things I Learned as a Field Biologist #639 (via JWZ)
(Image: Fungi, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from dmclear's photostream)
Genetically-modified mouse to sniff out landmines
The MouSensor is a lab mouse genetically-engineered to sniff out land mines. Mice have already been trained to find explosives by scent but according to Hunter College biologist Charlotte D'Hulst, the MouSensor is ultra sensitive to the odor of TNT. From The Guardian:
Given its extreme sensitivity to TNT, the mouse would probably have some sort of seizure when it sniffed explosives, said D'Hulst, because so many neurons in its olfactory bulb would be firing at once. And that seizure might be detectable by some device implanted into the mouse.
"We are thinking along the lines of implanting a chip under the skin of these animals that would wirelessly report back to a computer when the animal's behaviour is changing upon being triggered by a TNT landmine," said D'Hulst. Once the location of a landmine had been identified, a bomb-disposal expert could go in and neutralise it in the normal way. The mouse itself would be safe from the landmine, since it would be too small to trigger an explosion.
New study suggests "arsenic life" is actually a phosphate glutton
Remember arsenic life? In 2010 NASA researchers thought they'd found evidence that certain bacteria could use arsenic in their DNA where all other forms of life on Earth use phosphate. Then it turned out their research was really flawed. Then it turned out they were wrong. In general, there was a to-do.
Fast forward to this month, when scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel published a study in which they were trying to figure out how bacteria can tell the difference between phosphate and arsenate and "know" to prefer the phosphate. They used phosphate-collecting proteins from four different species of bacteria in their research, including the one that had been at the center of the arsenic life controversy. And along the way, they discovered a fun twist to that story.
Read the rest
Illustration from a peer-reviewed research paper provides poignant commentary on the futility of life
I'm not sure even Chris Ware could have done it any better.
In context, this illustration comes from a recently published paleobiology paper examining a cache of animal bones and pottery found in a sinkhole near China's Jiangdong Mountain.
One of the key things the researchers are taking away from this site: The range of the Giant Panda must have once been a lot larger than it is today.
Here's a link to the paper (which is behind a pay wall)
Via Ed Yong
Why is the sky dark at night?
So, the sky looks blue because of the particular gases in our atmosphere reflect and scatter the blue wavelengths of light from the Sun. Fair enough. But that leads directly to a second question that, I'm ashamed to say, I never really thought to ask — why doesn't the light from all the stars in the Universe reflect and scatter off our atmosphere, producing a blue sky, all the time?
This Minute Physics video provides a great explanation, which is grounded in both the timey-wimeyness of astrophysics and the limitations of our own human biology.
Via BrainPickings
What does the $1000 genome really mean for you?
The cost of genome sequencing is starting to sink into the affordable range. (In comparison to its previous cost. We're talking "within reach" the same way Design Within Reach uses the phrase.)
Companies are starting to claim that a $1000 personal genome sequence is on the horizon. But what does that mean for you? Should you save up and get one? Can it really tell you anything meaningful at all? Who is going to sift through all the information your genome represents — and how will they do it?
Tonight, starting at 7:00 Eastern, Science Online New York City is hosting a round-table to discuss these issues, especially the problems associated with collecting, making sense of, and protecting a massive new stream of personal data. The live event is sold out, but you can watch whole thing streaming online.
Panelists: Ronald Crystal, the Chairman of the Department of Genetic Medicine at Weill-Cornell Medical College, who has had his genome sequenced and analyzed it himself. Virginia Hughes, a freelance author who has written about her experience with the 23andMe genotyping service. Manish Ponda of Rockefeller University, who has experimented with other -omic type analyses.
Via Lou Woodley
Re-grown lizard tails are cheap knock-offs of the original
Why can we see through some animals?
Creature Cast is one of my favorite blogs — a series of charmingly animated videos about surprising, oft-overlooked details in the animal kingdom. Better yet, the videos are often made by students who work with professor Casey Dunn's evolution and diversity laboratory at Brown University.
In this entry, Riley Thompson, from the College of the Atlantic, explains how transparency — the biological kind — really works. Why can we see through some animals and not others?
Tim Minchin explains evolution and genomics in an animated video
Tracy King sends us an "animated history of genetics from Nature to celebrate the release of ENCODE. Narrated by Tim Minchin and animated by the team who made Storm. Written by Adam Rutherford (Nature), Andrew Ellard (Red Dwarf, IT Crowd) and Tracy King (TAM London).
Ever since a monk called Mendel started breeding pea plants we've been learning about our genomes. In 1953, Watson, Crick and Franklin described the structure of the molecule that makes up our genomes: the DNA double helix. Then, in 2001, scientists wrote down the entire 3-billion letter code contained in the average human genome. Now they're trying to interpret that code; to work out how it's used to make different types of cells and different people. The ENCODE project, as it's called, is the latest chapter in the story of you.
The Story of You: ENCODE and the human genome (Thanks, Tracy!)
Whence springs Todd Akin's belief in magic, rape-proof vaginas?
Justine Larbalestier provides some context for Republican MO senate nominee Todd Akin statement that, "from what I understand from doctors [pregnancy from rape] is really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down."
It turns out that this belief in magic sperm-rejecting vaginas was the kind of thing that was believed in 1785, when Samuel Farr argued in his groundbreaking treatise on law and medicine that:
Samuel Farr, in the first legal-medicine text to be written in English (1785), argued that "without an excitation of lust, or enjoyment in the venereal act, no conception can probably take place." Whatever a woman might claim to have felt or whatever resistance she might have put up, conception in itself betrayed desire or at least a sufficient measure of acquiescence for her to enjoy the venereal act. This is a very old argument. Soranus had said in second-century Rome that "if some women who were forced to have intercourse conceived . . . the emotion of sexual appetite existed in them too, but was obscured by mental resolve," and no one before the second half of the eighteenth century or early nineteenth century question the physiological basis of this judgement. The 1756 edition of Burn's Justice of the Peace, the standard guide for English magistrates, cites authorities back to the Institutes of Justinian to the effect that "a woman can not conceive unless she doth consent." It does, however, go on to point out that as matter of law, if not of biology, this doctrine is dubious. Another writer argued that pregnancy ought to be taken as proof of acquiescence since the fear, terror, and aversion that accompany a true rape would prevent an orgasm from occurring and thus make conception unlikely.
(Quote from Thomas Laqueur's Making Sex).
Justine notes that Farr's work was written in the same century in which Mary Toft was widely believed to have given birth to rabbits.
So yeah, that the kind of "science" that Todd Akin will bring to the Senate.
"Legitimate Rape" and Other Craptastic Beliefs From the Olden Days
What you can learn from a chimpanzee's diet
Given the trend lately to look backwards, historically, in search of the ideal human diet, I found this article by Rob Dunn really interesting. Dunn discusses some new research that gives us a better idea of what our closest relatives—chimpanzees and bonobos—are eating out in the wild.
Some of the takeaways fit neatly into the current human food zeitgeist—chimpanzees eat a diverse and varied diet, only consume small amounts of meat, and (for obvious reasons) focus on what happens to be in season and available. But some of the information is less apparently applicable to us. For instance, chimpanzees fracking love figs. In fact, different species of figs make up nearly half of all the food the chimpanzees in the study were eating. Figs, people. Can't get enough of 'em.
But the larger point, Dunn writes, is that we can't really apply any of the facts about chimpanzee diets directly to ourselves in a "Just So Story" sort of way. Geography, resource availability, and culture don't work like that. Neither does biology.
You are unlikely to eat like a chimpanzee eats. If you are the average American, you eat more meat and more simple sugar. You eat differently because of choices you make and choices our societies have made (e.g., to produce huge quantities of the foods that most simply satisfy our ancient urges). You also eat differently because the species around you are different, unless you happen to own a greenhouse specializing in tropical African trees.
But even if you were to abandon agricultural food and move into a forest in Tanzania you would still not eat exactly like a chimpanzee. By most reports the food chimpanzees eat tastes bad, at least to humans, (though, one hopes, not to chimpanzees). By some accounting the food chimpanzees eat is also insufficient to keep a human alive and fertile.
Read the rest of the story at Scientific American blogs
Image: Female chimpanzee eating banana, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from dkeats's photostream
Watch a spider molt
Spider molting from Karli Larson on Vimeo.
Spiders don't have an internal skeleton like we do. Instead, their muscles are anchored to an exoskeleton—a sort of hard, semi-flexible shell that encases a spider's whole body. In order to grow bigger, spiders have to grow new exoskeletons and shed old ones.
Karli Larson found a spider on her window frame in the process of shedding its exoskeleton. Naturally, she filmed it and set the whole thing to music. She says:
The entire molting process took about 30 minutes to fully complete. This is the interesting part, sped up.
The camera is a little shakey, so if that bothers you, well, sorry. But I think this is still way fascinating.
Read more about spiders, their exoskeletons, and the molting process at HowStuffWorks
Thanks, Maggie Ryan Sandford!
The social science of IUDs
IUDs are the weird form of birth control. We don't really know exactly how they work, for instance. And they've been largely unpopular my entire lifetime—really, ever since a couple of poorly designed IUDs set off a mini-panic in the late 1970s and early 1980s. But IUDs are effective birth control. The ones that you can buy today are safe. And, more importantly, they represent birth control that you don't have to think about, and birth control that is really hard to get wrong.
If you've ever done research on the effectiveness of various methods of birth control, you'll notice that the statistics usually come with a little asterisk. That * represents a concept that few of the people who rely on birth control ever think about—perfect use. Let's use condoms as an example. With perfect use, 2 out of 100 women will get pregnant over the course of a year's worth of condom-protected sex. Without perfect use—maybe you don't use a condom every time, maybe you don't put it on right when you both get naked—the number of accidental pregnancies jumps to 18 out of 100. The same basic problem affects birth control pills, as well. Ladies, did you know you're supposed to take those things at the same time of day every day? That's the kind of use error that can make a difference between 1 out of 100 women getting pregnant in a year, and 9 out of 100 getting pregnant.
In contrast, IUDs represent a fit-it-and-forget-it method of birth control. Which is a big part about why they're up there with outright sterilization as the most effective means of birth control available. Bonus: Depending on which kind you use, you can avoid hormonal side effects. This, experts say, is why IUDs are experiencing something of a resurgence in popularity. In an article at Wired, Jennifer Couzin-Frankel writes that 5.5 percent of American women who use birth control use IUDs. That's up from only 1.3 percent in 1995.
Somewhat unbelievably, no one is quite sure how they work, but the theory goes like this: The human uterus has one overriding purpose, which is to protect and sustain a fetus for nine months. If you stick a poker-chip-sized bit of plastic in there, the body reacts the way it does to any foreign object, releasing white blood cells to chase after the invader. Once those white blood cells are set free in the uterus, they start killing foreign cells with efficient zeal. And sperm, it turns out, are very, very foreign. White blood cells scavenge them mercilessly, preventing pregnancy. In copper- containing IUDs, metal ions dissolving from the device add another layer of spermicidal action.
... Most modern IUDs incorporate copper, which has an assortment of benefits, including increased durability and effectiveness. They're also free of hormones and can be made cheaply, a boon for women in developing countries. But copper IUDs can cause heavy menstrual bleeding and cramping. The Mirena solves that problem by forgoing the metal for a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone. Here again, the mode of action isn't completely understood, but researchers suspect that the hormone thickens cervical mucus, which makes it nearly impossible for sperm to swim upstream. It may also thin the uterine lining, rendering it inhospitable to an embryo should fertilization occur. The hormone-based IUD has the opposite side effect of the copper ones: It sometimes leaves women with little uterine lining to shed, so they hardly get any period at all.
... Even though many more doctors are comfortable with the IUD, a generation of doctors didn't get practice inserting it. And if they don't know how to put one in, they're less likely to recommend it as an option. Also, the devices are expensive—the ParaGard costs $500, the Mirena $850. "It's absolute highway robbery that these companies charge so much," Espey says. "If you went to Home Depot and got the raw materials for a copper IUD, it would cost less than 5 cents." And the hormones don't contribute much more to the cost, she adds. In fact, amortized over years of use—10 for the ParaGard and five for the Mirena—an IUD is far cheaper than birth control pills, which can cost $30 or more a month. But the initial outlay is difficult for some women to manage, and it's not always covered by insurance.
Read the rest of the story at Wired
Read more about different kinds of birth control, their effectiveness, and how to use them correctly at Planned Parenthood
Via Scicurious
Image: X-Ray showing an IUD in place. Photo taken by Wikipedia user Nevit Dilmen, used via CC license.
Why do stubbed toes hurt so damned much?
Many's the time I've rolled around on the ground, grimacing and making animal keening noises and wondering why the hell humans evolved to experience such dramatic pain from toe-stubbing. Here is a plausible-sounding threefold answer from Chris Geiser, director of Marquette College's College of Health Sciences athletic training program. Part one is that we've just got a lot of nerves in our extremities because they're our interface to the world. But more interestingly:
Secondly and related to the first point, there is very little tissue in our toes to absorb this type of impact. Much like hitting our shin, there is no fatty tissue or muscle tissue overlying the bones in the toe to cushion the impact. Every bit of the kinetic energy created in moving our legs forward is absorbed by the skin and bone of the toe, resulting in very high compressive forces on the many nerve endings that reside there. Because the foot is at the end of the longest lever system in the body — the leg — feet tend to be moving much faster than any other part of the body when they come into contact with an unknown object. For these same reasons a pitcher can throw a baseball 90-plus miles per hour and a soccer player can strike the ball at roughly the same speed; the further away from the axis of rotation, in this case our hip, the faster the end of that segment is moving. Add the mass of our entire leg to this equation, and there's a large mass applying force to the toe at a great velocity in a small area not capable of adequately dissipating that impact. OUCH!
"The last part of this explanation comes from an evolutionary perspective. In the not so distant past, infections killed many people. Stubbing a toe can open wounds on the feet, which are constantly in contact with the bacteria-laden environment. It has been suggested that individuals who received lots of sensory information from their toes were less likely to strike them, creating an evolutionary advantage for people blessed with this type of sensory information. So there are many components to this amazingly painful question."
Big Question: Why does it hurt so much when I stub my toe? (via MeFi)
(Image: Toes, a Creative Commons Attribution (2.0) image from wonderferret's photostream)
Archaeopteryx (photo)
Retinal neuroscientist and photographer Bryan Jones sends in this gorgeous shot of an archaeopteryx fossil displayed in the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany.
"As a biologist, seeing this fossil represents something of a pilgrimage," says Bryan, "[Visiting this museum is] a journey that all biologists would benefit from making."
Snip from his blog post:
This particular sample was found in the Solnhofen limestone formation in Bavaria and is the basis for the link between the dinosaurs and the feathered birds. Archaeopteryx itself is a feathered theropod, but is though of as the oldest documented bird dating back approximately 150 million years ago.
The fossil was found in 1874 by Jakob Niemeyer who traded it to Johann Dorr for a cow. Johann then sold the fossil to Ernst Haberlein for 2,000 German Marks. This sale was then turned around to the founder of Siemens, Werner von Siemens for 20,000 German Marks for the University of Berlin which has provided this specimen to scientists around the world as the best preserved specimen found with elegant feathers and an exquisitely preserved skull.
The wonder of small things
From a public perspective, biology in the oceans, like biology on the land, tends to favor the charismatic megafauna. Stop by your local aquarium and you'll find masses huddled around the seal pool or the shark tank.Read the rest
You are your bellybutton lint
Last January, at the Science Online conference, I noticed that there was a research group collecting swabs taken from the bellybuttons of scientists, science bloggers, and science journalists. That culture above? It's made from the bellybutton of Anton Zuiker, one of the organizers of that conference.
Beyond personalized petri dishes, what is the point of all this? Turns out, the goal is to learn more about the bacteria that lives on us. Some of the data from analyzing all those bellybutton samples is starting to come back, and it's turning up some interesting facts about the tiny ecological niches on our tummys.
About 18 months ago, researcher in the laboratory of Dr. Dunn, a North Carolina State University professor, came up with an idea to explore the ecology and evolution of daily life and wanted to find a spot on the body that could provide an understanding of the natural skin microbiome. They needed a place that was infrequently disturbed, avoided the scrubbing of daily wash and was common to all humans. There was no better choice than the bellybutton. Dunn and his clan of navel gazers then invited people from two conferences, 60 in total, to swab their bellybuttons and provide him with the samples, which he took back to his lab and cultured. The next several months were spent not only growing the bacteria, but also typing them to identify the species.
The first set of data is in review, but the results suggest that the bellybutton offers far more to our understanding of life and our journey through it. From these 60 people, Dr. Dunn identified close to 1,400 species of bacteria. From these, a number were predictable, such as the ever-prominent Staphylococcus epidermidis and the corynebacteria, both of which give off that "eau de germs" scent when we don't wash frequently. But others, such as those found on volunteer Carl Zimmer, were completely unexpected, such as species that are found only in the ocean or the soil or in faraway lands.
...The navel bacteria were related to where the person has lived over the course of their lifetime. The tiny anatomical vestibule was actually a museum of lifetime experiences.
Read the rest of this story by microbiologist Jason Tetro at Huffington Post.
Learn more about the Bellybutton Biodiversity Project
Why is 98.6 just right for your body but too hot for the weather?
Slate has a nice explainer covering heat wave health problems. The central question: If my body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, why am I uncomfortable when it's 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit outdoors?
The answer is both basic and interesting. Sure, 98.6 degrees F is the healthy temperature for a human body, but that's only because we are pretty good at transferring heat away from ourselves. Your metabolism and your muscles generate more heat than that, but you get rid of it using tricks like breathing out hot air and sweating. Basically, your body works like a heat exchanger. It's the same sort of system that keeps your refrigerator cool—take the heat from inside a closed space and dump it into the surrounding environment.
Unfortunately, this system works best when the surrounding environment is cooler than the closed space. Your body is happiest when the air temperature is around 70 degrees F. That's when it's most efficient at getting rid of your excess heat. When the weather gets to warm, it's a lot hard to make the heat exchange. With nowhere else to put the heat, your body temperature starts rising.
Because exercise causes the body to generate so much extra heat, optimal temperatures for intense physical activity are lower than those for daily life. Athletes can raise their core temperatures six degrees just by working out. Add an environment that makes heat dispersal more difficult—not to mention possible dehydration from sweat losses that sometimes exceed six liters (for marathoners) or two liters per hour (team game players)—and performance can take a nosedive.
... For example, researchers in Darwin, Australia, observing a long-distance runner taking a 30-minute jog through the humid air, noted that his body temperature increased from 98.96 degrees to 105.8 degrees. When he'd gone on a similar jaunt under cooler conditions, his temperature had risen by just two degrees. Such a spike spells trouble for maintaining an optimal heart rate: The man's soared to 200 beats per minute during the last 15 minutes of his run, where, previously, it was a more sustainable 154 beats per minute.
Read the rest of Slate's Explainer on body temperature.
Image: Suck It Heat Wave!, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from instantvantage's photostream
The beginning of life
Sea urchin egg undergoing mitosis with fluorescent-tagged/stained DNA (blue), microtubules (green).
Cells divide. One single piece of life tugs itself apart and splits in two.Read the rest
Why did our species survive?
Today, we're the only living member of the genus Homo and the only living member of the subtribe Hominina. Along with chimpanzees and bonobos, we're all that remains of the tribe Hominini.
But the fossil record tells us that wasn't always the case. There were, for instance, at least eight other species of Homo running around this planet at one time. So what happened to them? What makes us so special that we're still here? And isn't it just a little weird and meta to be fretting about this? I mean, do lions and tigers spend a lot of time pondering the fate of the Smilodon?
Today, starting at 12:00 Eastern, you can watch as a panel of scientists tackle these and other questions. "Why We Prevailed" is part of the World Science Festival and features anthropologist Alison Brooks, genome biologist Ed Green, paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer (one of the key researchers behind the "Out of Africa" theory), and renowned evolutionary biologist Edward O. Wilson.
You can also join in a live conversation about the panel, which I'll be hosting. Just post to Twitter with hashtag #prevail, or join us at UStream.


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Veteran continued service in Reserve, on council
Worried that bad weather early this week would damage the American flag flying outside his home, West Homestead borough Councilman Dan Isaacs asked his son Dane to bring it inside. He took pride in the flag, wore a flag lapel pin and carried spares to give others, Dane said.
"He loved God, country and family, all of the time," said Mr. Isaacs' wife, Lois. "He wouldn't wear a T-shirt without an American flag on it; I have a drawer full of them."
When Dane raised the flag again, he could only raise it to half staff: Daniel G. Isaacs, a 40-year member of the West Homestead council, longtime accountant for U.S. Steel and former member of the Air Force Reserve, died in his home Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, surrounded by his family. He was 84.
Born to a family of Lebanese immigrants in the Lower Hill District, Mr. Isaacs moved to Homestead at a young age. His future wife, smitten with him as a young gas station attendant, would wheel her bicycle down to what is now K&E Automotive with two flat tires just to have him pump them back up, Dane said.
After graduating from Homestead High School in 1948, Mr. Isaacs joined the Air Force and served in the Korean War. After active duty, he remained a reservist with what became the 911th Airlift Wing in Moon. He studied accounting at the Duff's Business Institute, Downtown, and got a job in U.S. Steel's offices in the Homestead Works.
When John Dindak, brother of Mr. Isaacs' Air Force colleague Michael Dindak, was elected to the borough council, he persuaded Mr. Isaacs to join. Together they served through the closure of the steel mills and some of the borough's darkest times.
"We went through some good times and some bad times; I don't know to this day how we were able to survive," Dindak said, noting that the borough never was classified as "financially distressed" like so many other struggling steel towns. In addition to being allies on council — Dindak continues to serve as mayor — the two were close friends, traveling to Steelers games and raising their children together.
Mr. Isaacs was a member of the Homestead Elks Lodge, the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 91 and the U.S. Steel bowling team. He loved to fish and farm, traveling to farmland he owned in Indiana County to tend its orchards and lawns.
In addition to his wife, Lois, and son Dane, Mr. Isaacs is survived by his brothers Paul Isaacs of Munhall, and Joseph Isaacs of Homestead; his sisters Anna Marie Compomizzi of Coraopolis, and Mary Magdeline Banik of Chicago; his sons Danny Isaacs of West Mifflin, and Dennis Isaacs of Eden Prairie, Minn.; and many cousins, grandchildren, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Alexander and Mary Isaacs, along with a sister, Theresa.
Visitation will be from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday in Savolskis-Wasik-Glenn Funeral Home on Main Street, Munhall. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Therese Church, also in Munhall, with interment in Calvary Cemetery & Mausoleum in Hazelwood. A luncheon will follow in Thompson Athletic Club in West Mifflin.
Matthew Santoni is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-380-5625 or email@example.com.
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Elizabeth Hale was named an artist faculty member of The Music Academy in Rockford, teaching violin. She holds a master's degree from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and is a graduate of Lee University with degrees in music performance and music education. Hale also holds Suzuki certification from the Suzuki Association of the Americas. She is accepting new students.
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The Music Academy (TMA) is a not-for-profit community school of music dedicated to providing high-quality, affordable instruction and performing opportunities to students regardless of age and ability. The academy's mission is to inspire in students a lifelong love of music and the arts. TMA is in Loreen Hall, 226 S. Second St., next to First Lutheran Church in Rockford. For more information, call (815) 986-0037 or go to www.MusicAcademyInRockford.com or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TheMusicAcademyInRockford.
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when tiger wins and pumps his arms people call him pompous ? yang wins pumps his fist screams like crazy lift his bag scream like crazy , and we here oh how unsportman for tiger to not do an interview ? come on ladies this is a man sport ..Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
green monsta green monsta Aug 16, 2009 9:18 PM Flag
who cares??
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apparantly lots of people listen to them all cry about tiger ..
C'mon .. a complete underdog does the unthinkable - let YE get his 15 mins of fame and glory!
If that were me .. I'd be running around the course nude waving to and hugging everyone in sight!
- 2 Replies to WooDY
if tiger would of done t he interview yangs 15 min turns into 5 min
i agree he shouldbe able to celebrate but it shoes the double standard if tiger would of done that every body would be calling him pompous ? and why do you think tiger left ? after shaking yangs hand ? so yang could have the spot lite ..
the point is tiger haters find every reason to cry about tiger .. when he wins and does a victory hand pump and does an interview right away you fools call him pompous .,.. yang does the fist pump and lift his bag screaming the whole time and not a word abotu it ? but tiger lets the first place guy have the spot light and all the ladies cry
A Yahoo! User Aug 16, 2009 8:33 PM Flag
Tiger is the hypocrit. And Arrogant!!! He blows a major for the 2nd time in his career. Too Bad!!!
Man up tiger. Show some respect for the game, the competition and the guy who beat you head-to-head.
Boo Hoo! He's going back to Florida with his tiger tail betrween his legs and pout!!!
- 1 Reply to A Yahoo! User
hey shook yangs hand he told him great job ? isn;t tiger the one who risked a fine to say he thought his opponant last week should not have been rushed ? so that he would of played better ?
whats a shame is how emotional you ladies get , tiger will do a post tourney interview he always does why does he need to upstage yang and do it right away ?
sure go home to your cats
I don't have time for this....
amuse yourself with someone else.
Harbaugh for Pres Harbaugh for Pres Aug 16, 2009 8:30 PM Flag
That is why we say he showed no class..because it IS a man's sport..Nut up, quit pouting and do the interview...like a MAN!!!
- 2 Replies to Harbaugh for Pres
this is too funny i keep laughing , nut up , and do an interview ? for what he got second place ? hahaha .. nut up too funny
do an interview like a man ? hahah wow doing an interview sure is manly ..
its man sport but abunch of men are going to cry because the second place guys didn't do an interview ? wow you guys need to grow some nuts .. or lay off the roids your way to emotional .. not to mention tiger will be in the the post tourney interview . mayeb he should bring some free weight to make sure he is manly and can handle an interview right .. ?
are you sure ? are you not a tramp cause you got paid ?
Not even close.
Grow up, pal.
see we were both wrong .. you thought i didn't golf .. I thought you were a lady , its a wash .. ( hey i know you old and probaly are through menopause but you still should try and act like a lady )
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Hummingbird House is a new villa with ocean views and a private swimming pool just a two-minute walk from Bottom Bay Beach - an out-of-the-way 150 meter strip of breathtaking white sand and coconut trees sandwiched between two sea cliffs. It is arguably the most beautiful beach in Barbados.
Our villa features 3 air-conditioned bedrooms and a nicely equipped kitchen with stainless steel appliances. The living room has comfy lounge seating for six with a widescreen LCD HDTV and the master bedroom features an en-suite bathroom and a walk-in closet. The spacious covered back patio is exposed to a refreshing sea breeze and overlooks a private pool with beautiful ocean views.
Bottom Bay is on the southeast coast of Barbados in the parish of St Philip, with most of the island within a 30 minute drive. Much of the sea coast in St. Philip is made up of a series of ragged, scenic coastal cliffs that are punctuated occasionally by idyllic white-sand beaches such as Bottom Bay.
The Bottom Bay Region: Bottom Bay is on the southeast coast of Barbados in the parish of St Philip, a scenic out-of-the-way area in eastern Barbados. As Barbados is only about 21 miles long (North-to-South) by 14 miles wide (East-to-West), nothing on the island is too far away, and most places are within an easy 30-minute drive. Much of the sea coast in St. Philip is made up of a series of scenic, ragged coastal cliffs that are punctuated occasionally by idyllic white-sand beaches such as Bottom Bay (which is in our opinion the most spectacular of these - although we're admittedly a bit biased).
While most of the big hotels and resorts on the island are situated along the west coast, the quieter southeast coast and the east coast offer the breathtaking views and rugged natural scenery that make Barbados an island paradise. In addition to the picturesque Bottom Bay Beach, the world-famous Crane Beach and Sam Lords Castle beachfront are within 10 minutes drive. If you're looking for fine dining nearby, the Crane Resort has two acclaimed restaurants, and the busier south and west coasts are 20-30 minutes drive away. We highly recommend the inexpensive, low-key nightly 'Fish-Fry' at Oistins (on the south coast in Christ Church), home of the Island's biggest fish market.
Getting Around: Bridgetown's harbor and shopping are a 25-30 minute drive away (if you avoid rush hour traffic), and renowned golf courses at the Barbados Golf Club and Sandy Lane Resort (where Tiger Woods was married) are just 15 & 30 minutes away, respectively.
We highly recommend renting a car for getting around the island, but regular buses are also available and taxis can be called as alternatives. Many car rental companies will drop off and pick up cars to our villa, making the experience fairly painless.
Our wonderful experience started with Jan and John, the couple that manage the property. They had asked for our flight information and were expecting us when we showed up in the driveway. Jan and John made sure that we knew everything about the property, the area and gave us great tips on what to see and do during our stay. Their welcome was the prelude to the warm and friendly hospitality that is prevalent on this island.
The property is very well maintained. Even though there is an indoor dining area, we ate, sat and gathered exclusively at the outdoor dining room table in the covered area by the pool. The kitchen was well stocked and we especially enjoyed the fridge that spit out plenty of crushed ice that made a great base for our ``Hummingbird Rum Punch``. Although there is air conditioning, after the first couple of nights, we acclimatized and just let the ocean breeze that blew through the open windows cool us down.
Stepping outside through the double French doors each morning, we were greeted by the sunrise, a magnificent view of the ocean breaking over the offshore reef in the distance and the sounds of the surf.
We often heard comments from the locals that Bottom Bay was the best beach on the island; and we can attest to that. The cove is picturesque; the sand is beautiful, the water clear blue and the beach extremely clean. The ocean is a little rougher on the south eastern coast but our group enjoyed playing in the surf.
A rental car is a must. While it took a little getting used to driving on the "wrong side" of the road, the drivers are very courteous and make allowances for tourists. You will get lost! But who cares, the island is small and even a series of wrong turns won't get you too far off track.
So much to do – not enough time. Don't miss: Oistins Friday night party, the BBQ fish fry near the villa at the Church, St. Lawrence Gap (night life and restaurants). Drive the island. We especially enjoyed our coastal trip around the entire island. The view from the northern cliffs around Cluffs Bay is breathtaking and stopping off at Round House on the east coast for Coconut pie rounded out the day as the sun set on the surfers riding the waves below. Our favorite restaurants were L'Azure at the Crane (it was our anniversary), Pisces in the St Lawrence Gap, Round House and hanging out on Cutters' patio.
We had a great time and look forward to returning to Hummingbird House.
We were in Barbados for our second time and the first time we stayed at the Crane. We did so again for the first week, then decided to extend our stay by moving to the Hummingbird House at Bottom Bay.
Upon our arrival, after being almost too pampered at the Crane, we were not sure of our surroundings in a modest, more remote neighborhood on the island. But a good night's sleep took care of that! The Hummingbird House is a clean, comfortable and convenient residence near a few beautiful beaches, and not too far from the Crane and shopping at Six Roads—but a car here is a must. We quickly met Jan and John, the caretakers who were also one of the first residents of this neighborhood, and they were delightful. The second night there we had a small barbecue for friends and they joined in the fun. John stopped by a couple of times after that to clean the pool, but never intrusive at all.
The house has air conditioning but we never turned it on, as the breeze here is delightful. The house is fairly well equipped and the wifi was better than expected, but I wouldn't count on streaming your favorite movies... The kitchen is well equipped and having an outdoor shower really helped to keep the sand out of the house. The neighborhood has a lot of houses pretty close together, but was still very quiet for the most part. There are signs for video surveillance on the street light posts, but I'm not sure where they go to.
We met other neighbors as well: a couple who do their own gardening offered us a huge bag of beautiful lettuce at a very reasonable price. Much better and cheaper than at the market. Don't let the local entrepreneurs at the beach bother you. If you want their help they'll charge a modest amount and be helpful and friendly. If you don't want their help, just smile and tell them you're fine and they'll leave you alone. Petty theft is the major crime problem on the island, so just keep your valuables at home or close to you on the beach.
All in all, after our arrival hesitations, we found the house to be pleasant, comfortable; and the neighborhood to be welcoming and safe. Recommended.
We had a wonderful time and would highly recommend staying here. You will need a car to travel around the island but we loved having one to get around.
Jan and John who are the property managers were super friendly and very welcoming.
The villa is very well equipped had everything you needed the only thing I would say negative is that we wished we were told that monday mornings there is a guy that comes to do yard work and he starts super early so we wished we had known and could have planned out night better.....but other then that we loved being there and the beach is super close and beautiful.....I am already missing it and can't wait to return oneday and would recommend our friends and family to stay at The Hummingbird Villa.
We ate at The Crane L'azure restaurant a few times super yummy, also try Cutters which is close to The Crane, also we tried The Cliffs near Holetown which was excellent it's expensive, The Tiki Bar at Accura Beach and Champers has an awesome sunset. We also did Oistins on Friday night which is a must!!
Barbados is a wonderful place to visit beautiful beaches and the people are super friendly.....you will have an excellent time!
We thoroughly loved our vacation in Barbados and it was partly because of our stay at the Hummingbird and mostly because of the warm welcome and hospitality of the owners/property managers and locals. The property itself is everything we expected it to be - clean, well-maintained and though a little hot, you do get used to it after a few days. (We didn't use the AC much because we wanted to smell the fresh air.) We also used the pool more often rather than going to the beach because none of us were good swimmers. But the few times we went out we had a blast!
Great house. Will definitely recommend it. Friendly neighbours and a quiet area with a short walk to the beach. The property manager lorraine was very helpful.
Hummingbird villa is a great little villa that is well equipped and the private pool for the rates you pay here is an awesome addition. The kitchen has everything you need, though we only spotted the coffee machine on the last day. Everything is well prepared and tidy, and the house was very clean when we arrived.
AC works well in the bedrooms, but would have been welcomed in the lounge and we sometimes had the AC from all three bedrooms on and opening the doors to cool down the lounge. There's a Blu-Ray and DVD player connected to the TV as well as plenty of US cable channels.
The only thing I would suggest the owners could improve was to keep on top on small maintenance jobs like topping up light bulbs and batteries in things as well as pulling together a house "manual". Personal restaurant recommendations, locations of the best shops, that kind of thing. Maybe we would not have missed the coffee machine then. Minor stuff though and we had a great time.
Situated east of the windward isles, Barbados is an enchanting coral stone island about 26 miles long by 14 miles wide with a population of about 250,000. Our villa is located on the southeastern coast of the island and is a short stroll from the breathtaking Bottom Bay Beach, one of the most picturesque beaches in the world. There are several other stunning beaches within the immediate area including the famous beaches at The Crane and Sam Lords Castle within 5 minute drives, and lesser known secluded beaches at Cave Bay (Harrismith) and Palmetto Bay within easy walking distance. The airport is situated approximately 15 minutes away and the capital, Bridgetown, around 30 minutes from our villa.
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Jan 15 - Apr 15
4 night minimum stay
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Apr 16 - Dec 15
4 night minimum stay
Dec 16 - Jan 14
14 night minimum stay
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4 night minimum stay
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Payment is usually accepted in the quoted currency (USD) unless the currency and the amount is specifically agreed in advance with the owner / advertiser.
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