{"id":623,"date":"2008-06-26T17:31:11","date_gmt":"2008-06-26T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=623"},"modified":"2008-08-07T09:53:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T13:53:01","slug":"chocolate-extreme-sponge-lightning-martins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=623","title":{"rendered":"Darwinmania, chocolate, extreme, sponge, lightning, martins"},"content":{"rendered":"

==> Darwinmania <\/a>is almost here!<\/p>\n

Perhaps most importantly, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Origin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d changed our view of ourselves. It made us as much a part of nature as hummingbirds and bumblebees (or humble-bees, as Darwin called them); we, too, acquired a family tree with a host of remarkable and distinguished ancestors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

==> Long live chocolate! A United States Department<\/span> of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service facility in Miami will be participating in a project to sequence and analyze the entire cocoa genome<\/a>. This is an interesting joint effort with IBM, Mars Inc. (the candy bar folks), and the U.S. government all having a hand in it<\/a>.<\/p>\n

==> “Extreme Planets<\/a>,” a new show at the South Florida Museum<\/a>, explores what makes a planet habitable in the first place, and takes you on a hypothetical journey to learn what these newly discovered worlds might be like. From water worlds to molten landscapes, inhabitable moons to planets with multiple suns, these exotic worlds may not be just science fiction after all.<\/p>\n

==> The\u00c2\u00a0breadcrumb sponge wants to know: “Who am I?” The Census of Marine Life <\/a>is trying to help the critter out. Also see MarineSpecies.org<\/a><\/p>\n

==> Florida is number one! In lightning deaths<\/a>. Here’s some safety tips<\/a>. And here is some lightning research<\/a> going on here.<\/p>\n

==> I would hate to be under that cloud. Davie, Florida is a pit stop for thousands of purple martins<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Still, there are so many birds in the Davie roost now that the airways are dangerously over-crowded. Katz said RaceTrac employees find an average of three dead martins a day, felled by collisions with the roof over the gas pumps or with each other. When the birds take off in the morning before dawn, the flock can show up as a fast-moving dot on weather radar, Bryant said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

==> Take the words in the post title and make a news headline out of them. “Darwinmania 08-09: Chocolate martins love extreme sponge surfing during lightning storms.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

==> Darwinmania is almost here! Perhaps most importantly, the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Origin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d changed our view of ourselves. It made us as much a part of nature as hummingbirds and bumblebees (or humble-bees, as Darwin called them); we, too, acquired a family tree … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-a3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":872,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=872","url_meta":{"origin":623,"position":0},"title":"“Fun with science”","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"January 21, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"The University of West Florida and the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition will offer a \"Fun with Science!\" session this Saturday for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students. January 24 - Three Sessions 9:30-11:30 a.m. * Building a Hydrometer (25 students) - students will build a hydrometer and use\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2476,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2476","url_meta":{"origin":623,"position":1},"title":"Yes, the Grand Canyon was awesome!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 12, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm back from the Grand Canyon and eager to share my experiences. Here is the first bit of my account from that amazing week. If you're interested, you can click on the link at the end to continue reading at my Going Ape site. How I spent my summer ...\u2026","rel":"","context":"With 4 comments","block_context":{"text":"With 4 comments","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2476#comments"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.brandonhaught.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DSCN0189_sm-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}