{"id":856,"date":"2009-01-08T21:29:40","date_gmt":"2009-01-09T02:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=856"},"modified":"2009-02-28T14:25:28","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T19:25:28","slug":"science-quickies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=856","title":{"rendered":"Science quickies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just some miscellaneous science news:<\/p>\n

> Mississippi is number two out of the gate in 2009 for antievolution nonsense<\/a>. (Oklahoma was number one<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

An act to require the state board of education to include certain language explaining that evolution is a theory in the inside front cover of certain pubilc school textbooks; and for related purposes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

> Learning in Florida\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Environment (LIFE)<\/a> is an initiative to establish a series of field-based, environmental-science, education programs around the state. Each program will represent a partnership between the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and a local school district. The goal of each LIFE Program site is increased student achievement and teacher professional development in science. Here’s a story on it in the St. Petersburg Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

> A couple of useful science resources here in Florida: Hands On Wildlife<\/a> and Tampa Bay Science Education Leadership Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n

> Observations made by NASA instruments onboard an Air Force satellite have shown that the boundary between the Earth’s upper atmosphere and space has moved to extraordinarily low altitudes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

> 2008 saw jump in newborn manatee deaths<\/a>:<\/p>\n

ST. PETERSBURG \u00e2\u20ac\u201d A record number of newborn manatee calves turned up dead last year, but the state’s manatee biologists cannot explain why.<\/p>\n

In all, 101 of the 337 carcasses that scientists collected in 2008 were very young calves, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg announced Monday. By comparison, they found 59 dead calves in 2007, and 70 in 2006.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

>New lizard species on the Galapagos Islands<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Hard to believe a giant, pink lizard could be overlooked for almost two centuries.<\/p>\n

Charles Darwin missed it during his 1835 study of the Galapagos Islands that led to his theory of evolution. Park rangers ignored the pink and black-striped reptiles after accidentally happening upon them in 1986. Some thought the stripes were just stains.<\/p>\n

But scientists now have documented a new species, the iguana “rosada,” (pink in Spanish), which may be one of the archipelago’s oldest, according to research published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

> You would know most of the above already if you were following Florida Citizens for Science on Twitter<\/a>. Just sayin’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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