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When a massive star explodes, the core collapses down into a tiny point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Matter has been compressed so much, that the gravity around it has become really, really strong,” says Filippenko. “Not even light can escape.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From here on out, though, the movie gets a few things wrong. The crew flies through the black hole, emerging unscathed into another universe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No, I don’t think so. There are all kinds of ways in which you would die a horrible death,” says Filippenko. For one, gravity would rip you apart. “We say that you would be ‘spaghetti-fied.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s another problem. Black holes pull in tons of gas and dust, just like water going down a drain. It swirls faster and faster and gets hotter and hotter. “You would be zapped. You would be vaporized by all the radiation coming from this hot disc of material swirling in,” says Filippenko.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The NuStar telescope will be looking for this swirling material. It emits x-ray light, like the kind you find in a doctor’s office. The x-ray images from NuStar will be 10 times crisper than captured ever before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Black Hole Mysteries\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are hoping this will give them more clues about the mysteries surrounding black holes – like how they grow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They eat dramatically but rarely,” says Eliot Quataert, astronomy professor at UC Berkeley. He says black holes grow just like we do – by eating. There are millions of black holes around our galaxy, but at the very center, there’s a supermassive black hole that’s eaten quite a bit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The misconception that’s out there a little is that black holes are a vacuum cleaner that will inevitably suck in everything around them,” says Quataert. For the most part, black holes are on a forced diet. They’ve already eaten everything close by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But then every once in a while, there will be a lot of gas that gets funneled to the center of a galaxy and the black hole will grow in a big spurt.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Quataert says seeing this black hole mealtime with the NuStar telescope could reveal more about the extreme physics behind it. 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"content": "\u003cp>Here's the roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond for Friday, June 29, 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/06/29/colorful.light.end.tunnel.radiation.detection','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://esciencenews.com/files/imagecache/image_medium/images/201206296524200.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/06/29/colorful.light.end.tunnel.radiation.detection\\'>Colorful light at the end of the tunnel for radiation detection | e! Science News</a>Related images(click to enlarge) A team of nanomaterials researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technique for radiation detection that could make radiation detection in cargo and baggage more effective and less costly for homeland security inspectors. Known as spectral shape discrimination (SSD), the method takes advantage of a new class of nanoporous materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://esciencenews.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Esciencenews</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://esciencenews.com/files/imagecache/image_medium/images/201206296524200.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/06/29/colorful.light.end.tunnel.radiation.detection\">Colorful light at the end of the tunnel for radiation detection | e! Science News\u003c/a>Related images(click to enlarge) A team of nanomaterials researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technique for radiation detection that could make radiation detection in cargo and baggage more effective and less costly for homeland security inspectors. Known as spectral shape discrimination (SSD), the method takes advantage of a new class of nanoporous materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://esciencenews.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Esciencenews\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/melanin-may-power-eco-friendly-electronics/','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.futurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/squid_melanin_5251.jpeg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/melanin-may-power-eco-friendly-electronics/\\'>Futurity.org - Melanin may power eco-friendly electronics</a>The researchers say the potential applications include medical sensors and tissue stimulation treatments. Led by Professor Paul Meredith and Associate Professor Ben Powell at the University of Queensland, an international team of scientists has published a study that offers new insight into the electrical properties of the pigment and its biologically compatible \\"bioelectronic\\" features.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.futurity.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Futurity</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.futurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/squid_melanin_5251.jpeg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/melanin-may-power-eco-friendly-electronics/\">Futurity.org - Melanin may power eco-friendly electronics\u003c/a>The researchers say the potential applications include medical sensors and tissue stimulation treatments. Led by Professor Paul Meredith and Associate Professor Ben Powell at the University of Queensland, an international team of scientists has published a study that offers new insight into the electrical properties of the pigment and its biologically compatible \"bioelectronic\" features.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.futurity.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Futurity\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/29/0251202/us-navys-high-resolution-radar-can-see-individual-raindrops-in-a-storm','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/government_64.png\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/29/0251202/us-navys-high-resolution-radar-can-see-individual-raindrops-in-a-storm\\'>US Navy\\'s High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm - Slashdot</a>\\"The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers said recently that a Navy very high-resolution Doppler radar can actually coondoggie writes spot individual raindrops in a cloudburst, possibly paving the way for new weather monitoring applications that could better track or monitor weather and severe storms. According to an NRL release, the very high-resolution \\'Mid-Course Radar\\' was used to retrieve information on the internal cloud flow and precipitation structure.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://yro.slashdot.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Slashdot</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/government_64.png\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/29/0251202/us-navys-high-resolution-radar-can-see-individual-raindrops-in-a-storm\">US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm - Slashdot\u003c/a>\"The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers said recently that a Navy very high-resolution Doppler radar can actually coondoggie writes spot individual raindrops in a cloudburst, possibly paving the way for new weather monitoring applications that could better track or monitor weather and severe storms. According to an NRL release, the very high-resolution 'Mid-Course Radar' was used to retrieve information on the internal cloud flow and precipitation structure.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://yro.slashdot.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/06/Materials-Novel-Coating-May-Point-Way-To-Next-Generation-Green-Flame-Retardants/','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.rdmag.com/uploadedImages/RD/News/2012/06/thumb_NISTflameretardantx500.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/06/Materials-Novel-Coating-May-Point-Way-To-Next-Generation-Green-Flame-Retardants/\\'>Novel coating may point way to next-generation green flame retardants | R&D Mag</a>In searching for better flame retardants for home furnishings, NIST researchers defied the conventional wisdom and literally hit a wall, one made of clay. It wasn\\' t a dead end, but rather a surprising result that may lead to a new generation of nonhalogenated, sustainable flame retardant technology for polyurethane foam.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.rdmag.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Rdmag</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.rdmag.com/uploadedImages/RD/News/2012/06/thumb_NISTflameretardantx500.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/06/Materials-Novel-Coating-May-Point-Way-To-Next-Generation-Green-Flame-Retardants/\">Novel coating may point way to next-generation green flame retardants | R&D Mag\u003c/a>In searching for better flame retardants for home furnishings, NIST researchers defied the conventional wisdom and literally hit a wall, one made of clay. It wasn' t a dead end, but rather a surprising result that may lead to a new generation of nonhalogenated, sustainable flame retardant technology for polyurethane foam.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rdmag.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Rdmag\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.space.com/16356-leap-second-added-clocks-saturday.html','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://i.space.com/images/i/17494/i01/Earth.jpg?1337181023\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.space.com/16356-leap-second-added-clocks-saturday.html\\'>Leap Second on Saturday Will Cause 61-Second Minute</a>The transition from June to July will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone\\'s control. Time will stand still for one second on Saturday evening (June 30) because a \\"leap second\\" will be added to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks. International Atomic Time is a very accurate and stable time scale.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.space.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Space</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://i.space.com/images/i/17494/i01/Earth.jpg?1337181023\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.space.com/16356-leap-second-added-clocks-saturday.html\">Leap Second on Saturday Will Cause 61-Second Minute\u003c/a>The transition from June to July will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone's control. Time will stand still for one second on Saturday evening (June 30) because a \"leap second\" will be added to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks. International Atomic Time is a very accurate and stable time scale.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.space.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Space\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18594493','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61247000/jpg/_61247001_osedaxonwhaleribbonegregrouse.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18594493\\'>Bone-eating worms drill with acid</a>Deep sea worms use acid to eat the bones of seabed skeletons, according to US scientists. The so-called \\"zombie worms\\" of the Osedax family are known to bore into bones and remove nutrients. Fresh analysis of the root-like tissues the worms use to attach to bones has identified acid-secreting enzymes.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.bbc.co.uk\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Bbc</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61247000/jpg/_61247001_osedaxonwhaleribbonegregrouse.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18594493\">Bone-eating worms drill with acid\u003c/a>Deep sea worms use acid to eat the bones of seabed skeletons, according to US scientists. The so-called \"zombie worms\" of the Osedax family are known to bore into bones and remove nutrients. 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But now Yoichi Ochiai from the University of Tokyo and colleagues have created the world\\'s thinnest screen from a soap bubble that can display vivid images that are either flat, textured or 3D.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.newscientist.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Newscientist</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.newscientist.com/img/misc/ns_logo.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/06/worlds-thinnest-screen-created-from-soap-bubble.html\">New Scientist TV: World's thinnest screen created from soap bubble\u003c/a>We've shown you computer screens made of water and even a touchscreen built out of ice. But now Yoichi Ochiai from the University of Tokyo and colleagues have created the world's thinnest screen from a soap bubble that can display vivid images that are either flat, textured or 3D.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.newscientist.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Newscientist\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.good.is/post/color-enhancing-glasses-let-doctors-see-disease-and-emotion','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://cms3.good.is/posts/full_1340909756o2amp_glasses.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.good.is/post/color-enhancing-glasses-let-doctors-see-disease-and-emotion\\'>Color-Enhancing Glasses Let Doctors See Disease and Emotion - Technology - GOOD</a>The ability to see the world in a broad spectrum of colors is more than just a wonderful gift-it\\'s a survival mechanism that humans evolved in order to identify both threats and food. But color vision also helps us read each other.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.good.is\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Good</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://cms3.good.is/posts/full_1340909756o2amp_glasses.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.good.is/post/color-enhancing-glasses-let-doctors-see-disease-and-emotion\">Color-Enhancing Glasses Let Doctors See Disease and Emotion - Technology - GOOD\u003c/a>The ability to see the world in a broad spectrum of colors is more than just a wonderful gift-it's a survival mechanism that humans evolved in order to identify both threats and food. But color vision also helps us read each other.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.good.is\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Good\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.livescience.com/21268-endangered-tree-lobsters-hatched.html','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://i.livescience.com/images/i/28567/i01/_L8J4394.jpg?1340919466\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.livescience.com/21268-endangered-tree-lobsters-hatched.html\\'>Critically Endangered \\'Tree Lobsters\\' Hatched at Zoo</a>One of the 3 critically endangered insects called Lord Howe Island stick insects, or tree lobsters, hatched at the San Diego Zoo. CREDIT: Tammy Spratt, San Diego Zoo Three critically endangered insects called Lord Howe Island stick insects, also known as tree lobsters, have been hatched at the San Diego Zoo for the first time.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.livescience.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Livescience</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://i.livescience.com/images/i/28567/i01/_L8J4394.jpg?1340919466\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.livescience.com/21268-endangered-tree-lobsters-hatched.html\">Critically Endangered 'Tree Lobsters' Hatched at Zoo\u003c/a>One of the 3 critically endangered insects called Lord Howe Island stick insects, or tree lobsters, hatched at the San Diego Zoo. 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The rechargeable battery created in the lab of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan consists of spray-painted layers, each representing the components in a traditional battery.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://news.rice.edu\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Rice</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/0629_BATTERY-4-310x206.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://news.rice.edu/2012/06/28/rice-researchers-develop-paintable-battery-2/\">Rice researchers develop paintable battery\u003c/a>Technique could turn any surface into a lithium-ion battery; may be combined with solar cells Researchers at Rice University have developed a lithium-ion battery that can be painted on virtually any surface. The rechargeable battery created in the lab of Rice materials scientist Pulickel Ajayan consists of spray-painted layers, each representing the components in a traditional battery.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://news.rice.edu\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Rice\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/06/29/colorful.light.end.tunnel.radiation.detection','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://esciencenews.com/files/imagecache/image_medium/images/201206296524200.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/06/29/colorful.light.end.tunnel.radiation.detection\\'>Colorful light at the end of the tunnel for radiation detection | e! Science News</a>Related images(click to enlarge) A team of nanomaterials researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technique for radiation detection that could make radiation detection in cargo and baggage more effective and less costly for homeland security inspectors. Known as spectral shape discrimination (SSD), the method takes advantage of a new class of nanoporous materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://esciencenews.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Esciencenews</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://esciencenews.com/files/imagecache/image_medium/images/201206296524200.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/06/29/colorful.light.end.tunnel.radiation.detection\">Colorful light at the end of the tunnel for radiation detection | e! Science News\u003c/a>Related images(click to enlarge) A team of nanomaterials researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technique for radiation detection that could make radiation detection in cargo and baggage more effective and less costly for homeland security inspectors. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Here's the roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond for Friday, June 29, 2012.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/06/29/colorful.light.end.tunnel.radiation.detection','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://esciencenews.com/files/imagecache/image_medium/images/201206296524200.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/06/29/colorful.light.end.tunnel.radiation.detection\\'>Colorful light at the end of the tunnel for radiation detection | e! Science News</a>Related images(click to enlarge) A team of nanomaterials researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technique for radiation detection that could make radiation detection in cargo and baggage more effective and less costly for homeland security inspectors. Known as spectral shape discrimination (SSD), the method takes advantage of a new class of nanoporous materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://esciencenews.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Esciencenews</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://esciencenews.com/files/imagecache/image_medium/images/201206296524200.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/06/29/colorful.light.end.tunnel.radiation.detection\">Colorful light at the end of the tunnel for radiation detection | e! Science News\u003c/a>Related images(click to enlarge) A team of nanomaterials researchers at Sandia National Laboratories has developed a new technique for radiation detection that could make radiation detection in cargo and baggage more effective and less costly for homeland security inspectors. Known as spectral shape discrimination (SSD), the method takes advantage of a new class of nanoporous materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs).\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://esciencenews.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Esciencenews\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/melanin-may-power-eco-friendly-electronics/','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.futurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/squid_melanin_5251.jpeg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/melanin-may-power-eco-friendly-electronics/\\'>Futurity.org - Melanin may power eco-friendly electronics</a>The researchers say the potential applications include medical sensors and tissue stimulation treatments. Led by Professor Paul Meredith and Associate Professor Ben Powell at the University of Queensland, an international team of scientists has published a study that offers new insight into the electrical properties of the pigment and its biologically compatible \\"bioelectronic\\" features.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.futurity.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Futurity</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.futurity.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/squid_melanin_5251.jpeg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.futurity.org/science-technology/melanin-may-power-eco-friendly-electronics/\">Futurity.org - Melanin may power eco-friendly electronics\u003c/a>The researchers say the potential applications include medical sensors and tissue stimulation treatments. Led by Professor Paul Meredith and Associate Professor Ben Powell at the University of Queensland, an international team of scientists has published a study that offers new insight into the electrical properties of the pigment and its biologically compatible \"bioelectronic\" features.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.futurity.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Futurity\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/29/0251202/us-navys-high-resolution-radar-can-see-individual-raindrops-in-a-storm','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/government_64.png\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/29/0251202/us-navys-high-resolution-radar-can-see-individual-raindrops-in-a-storm\\'>US Navy\\'s High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm - Slashdot</a>\\"The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers said recently that a Navy very high-resolution Doppler radar can actually coondoggie writes spot individual raindrops in a cloudburst, possibly paving the way for new weather monitoring applications that could better track or monitor weather and severe storms. According to an NRL release, the very high-resolution \\'Mid-Course Radar\\' was used to retrieve information on the internal cloud flow and precipitation structure.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://yro.slashdot.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Slashdot</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://a.fsdn.com/sd/topics/government_64.png\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/06/29/0251202/us-navys-high-resolution-radar-can-see-individual-raindrops-in-a-storm\">US Navy's High-Resolution Radar Can See Individual Raindrops In a Storm - Slashdot\u003c/a>\"The US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) researchers said recently that a Navy very high-resolution Doppler radar can actually coondoggie writes spot individual raindrops in a cloudburst, possibly paving the way for new weather monitoring applications that could better track or monitor weather and severe storms. According to an NRL release, the very high-resolution 'Mid-Course Radar' was used to retrieve information on the internal cloud flow and precipitation structure.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://yro.slashdot.org\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Slashdot\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/06/Materials-Novel-Coating-May-Point-Way-To-Next-Generation-Green-Flame-Retardants/','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.rdmag.com/uploadedImages/RD/News/2012/06/thumb_NISTflameretardantx500.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/06/Materials-Novel-Coating-May-Point-Way-To-Next-Generation-Green-Flame-Retardants/\\'>Novel coating may point way to next-generation green flame retardants | R&D Mag</a>In searching for better flame retardants for home furnishings, NIST researchers defied the conventional wisdom and literally hit a wall, one made of clay. It wasn\\' t a dead end, but rather a surprising result that may lead to a new generation of nonhalogenated, sustainable flame retardant technology for polyurethane foam.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.rdmag.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Rdmag</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.rdmag.com/uploadedImages/RD/News/2012/06/thumb_NISTflameretardantx500.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.rdmag.com/News/2012/06/Materials-Novel-Coating-May-Point-Way-To-Next-Generation-Green-Flame-Retardants/\">Novel coating may point way to next-generation green flame retardants | R&D Mag\u003c/a>In searching for better flame retardants for home furnishings, NIST researchers defied the conventional wisdom and literally hit a wall, one made of clay. It wasn' t a dead end, but rather a surprising result that may lead to a new generation of nonhalogenated, sustainable flame retardant technology for polyurethane foam.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.rdmag.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Rdmag\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.space.com/16356-leap-second-added-clocks-saturday.html','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://i.space.com/images/i/17494/i01/Earth.jpg?1337181023\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.space.com/16356-leap-second-added-clocks-saturday.html\\'>Leap Second on Saturday Will Cause 61-Second Minute</a>The transition from June to July will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone\\'s control. Time will stand still for one second on Saturday evening (June 30) because a \\"leap second\\" will be added to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks. International Atomic Time is a very accurate and stable time scale.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.space.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Space</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://i.space.com/images/i/17494/i01/Earth.jpg?1337181023\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.space.com/16356-leap-second-added-clocks-saturday.html\">Leap Second on Saturday Will Cause 61-Second Minute\u003c/a>The transition from June to July will be delayed by circumstances beyond everyone's control. Time will stand still for one second on Saturday evening (June 30) because a \"leap second\" will be added to let a lagging Earth catch up to super-accurate clocks. International Atomic Time is a very accurate and stable time scale.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.space.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Space\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18594493','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61247000/jpg/_61247001_osedaxonwhaleribbonegregrouse.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18594493\\'>Bone-eating worms drill with acid</a>Deep sea worms use acid to eat the bones of seabed skeletons, according to US scientists. The so-called \\"zombie worms\\" of the Osedax family are known to bore into bones and remove nutrients. Fresh analysis of the root-like tissues the worms use to attach to bones has identified acid-secreting enzymes.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.bbc.co.uk\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Bbc</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/61247000/jpg/_61247001_osedaxonwhaleribbonegregrouse.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/18594493\">Bone-eating worms drill with acid\u003c/a>Deep sea worms use acid to eat the bones of seabed skeletons, according to US scientists. The so-called \"zombie worms\" of the Osedax family are known to bore into bones and remove nutrients. Fresh analysis of the root-like tissues the worms use to attach to bones has identified acid-secreting enzymes.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.bbc.co.uk\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Bbc\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/06/worlds-thinnest-screen-created-from-soap-bubble.html','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.newscientist.com/img/misc/ns_logo.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/06/worlds-thinnest-screen-created-from-soap-bubble.html\\'>New Scientist TV: World\\'s thinnest screen created from soap bubble</a>We\\'ve shown you computer screens made of water and even a touchscreen built out of ice. But now Yoichi Ochiai from the University of Tokyo and colleagues have created the world\\'s thinnest screen from a soap bubble that can display vivid images that are either flat, textured or 3D.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.newscientist.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Newscientist</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://www.newscientist.com/img/misc/ns_logo.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/06/worlds-thinnest-screen-created-from-soap-bubble.html\">New Scientist TV: World's thinnest screen created from soap bubble\u003c/a>We've shown you computer screens made of water and even a touchscreen built out of ice. But now Yoichi Ochiai from the University of Tokyo and colleagues have created the world's thinnest screen from a soap bubble that can display vivid images that are either flat, textured or 3D.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.newscientist.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Newscientist\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.good.is/post/color-enhancing-glasses-let-doctors-see-disease-and-emotion','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://cms3.good.is/posts/full_1340909756o2amp_glasses.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.good.is/post/color-enhancing-glasses-let-doctors-see-disease-and-emotion\\'>Color-Enhancing Glasses Let Doctors See Disease and Emotion - Technology - GOOD</a>The ability to see the world in a broad spectrum of colors is more than just a wonderful gift-it\\'s a survival mechanism that humans evolved in order to identify both threats and food. But color vision also helps us read each other.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.good.is\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Good</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://cms3.good.is/posts/full_1340909756o2amp_glasses.jpg\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.good.is/post/color-enhancing-glasses-let-doctors-see-disease-and-emotion\">Color-Enhancing Glasses Let Doctors See Disease and Emotion - Technology - GOOD\u003c/a>The ability to see the world in a broad spectrum of colors is more than just a wonderful gift-it's a survival mechanism that humans evolved in order to identify both threats and food. But color vision also helps us read each other.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.good.is\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Good\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://www.livescience.com/21268-endangered-tree-lobsters-hatched.html','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://i.livescience.com/images/i/28567/i01/_L8J4394.jpg?1340919466\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://www.livescience.com/21268-endangered-tree-lobsters-hatched.html\\'>Critically Endangered \\'Tree Lobsters\\' Hatched at Zoo</a>One of the 3 critically endangered insects called Lord Howe Island stick insects, or tree lobsters, hatched at the San Diego Zoo. CREDIT: Tammy Spratt, San Diego Zoo Three critically endangered insects called Lord Howe Island stick insects, also known as tree lobsters, have been hatched at the San Diego Zoo for the first time.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.livescience.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Livescience</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://i.livescience.com/images/i/28567/i01/_L8J4394.jpg?1340919466\" class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://www.livescience.com/21268-endangered-tree-lobsters-hatched.html\">Critically Endangered 'Tree Lobsters' Hatched at Zoo\u003c/a>One of the 3 critically endangered insects called Lord Howe Island stick insects, or tree lobsters, hatched at the San Diego Zoo. CREDIT: Tammy Spratt, San Diego Zoo Three critically endangered insects called Lord Howe Island stick insects, also known as tree lobsters, have been hatched at the San Diego Zoo for the first time.\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float:right;display:block\">\u003ca target=\"_blank\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" title=\"Powered by Embedly\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"http://www.livescience.com\" class=\"media-attribution-link\" target=\"_blank\">Livescience\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly-clear\">\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv class=\"mceItemEmbedly\" style=\"max-width: 600px;max-width:600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://news.rice.edu/2012/06/28/rice-researchers-develop-paintable-battery-2/','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://news.rice.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/0629_BATTERY-4-310x206.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://news.rice.edu/2012/06/28/rice-researchers-develop-paintable-battery-2/\\'>Rice researchers develop paintable battery</a>Technique could turn any surface into a lithium-ion battery; may be combined with solar cells Researchers at Rice University have developed a lithium-ion battery that can be painted on virtually any surface. 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"content": "\u003cp>Anyone looking at the Sacramento Valley in a satellite view surely wonders about the eastern edge of the Coast Range, a belt of striking corrugated terrain running up the west side from the Bay Area almost all the way to Redding. I'm here to tell you that it's extremely picturesque country. Geologically, it consists of the thick, tilted-up Great Valley Sequence of sedimentary rocks and the older, underlying Franciscan Complex metamorphic rocks farther west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you go north on I-5 you pass four towns that I think of as the four W's: Winters, Woodland, Williams and Willows. Today's sample of this district is a loop into the corrugated country starting at Willows and ending back at I-5 in Orland or Corning; take your choice. Here's the route (created on \u003ca href=\"http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/\">gmap-pedometer.com\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycrvlymaptopo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40265\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40265\" title=\"stonycrvlymaptopo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymaptopo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymaptopo.png 496w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymaptopo-400x339.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's the geology en route (created from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/GMC/stategeologicmap.html\">interactive state geologic map\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycrvlymapgeo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40276\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40276\" title=\"stonycrvlymapgeo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymapgeo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymapgeo.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymapgeo-400x336.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A belt of serpentinite (purple) separates Franciscan metamorphic rocks on the west from Great Valley Sequence sedimentary rocks on the east (J, Jurassic; Kl and Ku, lower and upper Cretaceous). Overlain on these are Tertiary volcaniclastic and volcanic rocks (Tvp and Tv) and younger outwash deposits (QPc). Pink lines mark structures: anticlines and synclines.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State route 162 leads west from Willows into the series of ridges formed by the uptilted Great Valley Sequence rocks. These are the same formations, of the same age, that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/01/26/geological-outings-around-the-bay-mount-vaca-and-the-monticello-dam/\">I showed you north of Fairfield\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40266\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40266\" title=\"stonycreekvalley1\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All photos by Andrew Alden\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond a series of these ridges is a long valley underlain by fine-grained Jurassic rocks, the oldest part of the Great Valley Sequence. The valley is punctuated by \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/structureslandforms/ig/erosional/hogback.htm\">hogback ridges\u003c/a> that affect the course of the roads. Parts of the valley have been turned into reservoirs, like Stony Gorge Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley02/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40267\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40267\" title=\"stonycreekvalley02\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley02.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley02-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new reservoir is planned south of here around the settlement of Sites that will be used to regulate streamflow in the northern Sacramento Valley and allow older structures to be modified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually route 162 crosses Stony Creek, where the Great Valley Sequence rocks are spectacularly exposed in a washboard streambed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley03/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40268\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40268\" title=\"stonycreekvalley03\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley03.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley03-400x313.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn north here on 162 and follow the river, taking note of the different levels of stream terraces built when Stony Creek had not eroded as far down as it has today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley04/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40269\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40269\" title=\"stonycreekvalley04\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley04.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley04-400x261.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When 162 turns west again, continue north on county road 306. (At the moment, the route on 162 through the Coast Range to Covelo is closed.) In late April when I visited, the countryside was a picture-postcard experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley05/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40270\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40270\" title=\"stonycreekvalley05\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley05.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley05-400x294.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like, take 162 a ways into the Franciscan country, or for a more intimate experience take county road 313 west instead, a well-graded dirt road just three miles to the north. (That's the spur shown on the route map.) In clear weather, vistas spread out as you rise. Here's the view south down the valley of Stony Creek:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley06/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40271\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40271\" title=\"stonycreekvalley06\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley06.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley06-400x311.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's the view northeast toward the Great Valley over the sawtooth ridges of Great Valley Sequence rocks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley07/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40272\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40272\" title=\"stonycreekvalley07\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley07.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley07-400x289.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead is the rugged topography held up by the Franciscan Complex. Note how the vegetation has changed as well as the bones of the land. The highest peak is Red Mountain. The contact between these two highly contrasting geologic provinces is the Coast Range thrust, which has tilted up the rocks on the east side like a pet pushing under a bedsheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley08/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40273\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40273\" title=\"stonycreekvalley08\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley08.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley08-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the roadcuts, too, for exposures of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2010/08/05/learn-the-facts-about-serpentinite-before-its-removed-as-californias-state-rock/\">serpentinite\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/rocks/ig/metrockindex/rocpicschist.htm\">schist\u003c/a> like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley09/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40274\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40274\" title=\"stonycreekvalley09\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley09.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley09-400x332.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step out and collect a specimen or two if you like; this is public land. Chrome ore was mined around here, in and around the serpentinite belt. The tiny settlement of Chrome marks the site of one former mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Road 306 butts into Newville Road, and that's where you turn back toward the freeway. But there's one more attraction as you go forward through geologic time into the Sacramento Valley: the unexpected Black Butte. This is a segment of a huge lava flow, the \u003ca href=\"http://myweb.csuchico.edu/~rteasdale/Lovejoy.html\">Lovejoy Basalt\u003c/a>, that once crossed the Valley from a source in the northern Sierra Nevada, reaching from here south to Vacaville. Black Butte was raised by a fault, sparing it from erosional destruction. The lake around it is artificial, and the whole is a splendid park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley10/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40275\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40275\" title=\"stonycreekvalley10\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley10.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley10-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get to Corning requires a short backtrack to Black Butte Road, which crosses orchard lands and offers low-key views (which I believe will show Mount Shasta on clear days). You may also take a shorter side trip starting in Orland that visits Black Butte alone. But once you get behind the curtain of those serrated Great Valley Sequence hills, you'll never look at this stretch of I-5 the same way again.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Anyone looking at the Sacramento Valley in a satellite view surely wonders about the eastern edge of the Coast Range, a belt of striking corrugated terrain running up the west side from the Bay Area almost all the way to Redding. I'm here to tell you that it's extremely picturesque country. Geologically, it consists of the thick, tilted-up Great Valley Sequence of sedimentary rocks and the older, underlying Franciscan Complex metamorphic rocks farther west.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As you go north on I-5 you pass four towns that I think of as the four W's: Winters, Woodland, Williams and Willows. Today's sample of this district is a loop into the corrugated country starting at Willows and ending back at I-5 in Orland or Corning; take your choice. Here's the route (created on \u003ca href=\"http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/\">gmap-pedometer.com\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycrvlymaptopo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40265\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40265\" title=\"stonycrvlymaptopo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymaptopo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymaptopo.png 496w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymaptopo-400x339.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's the geology en route (created from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.quake.ca.gov/gmaps/GMC/stategeologicmap.html\">interactive state geologic map\u003c/a>):\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40276\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycrvlymapgeo/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40276\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40276\" title=\"stonycrvlymapgeo\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymapgeo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"420\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymapgeo.png 500w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycrvlymapgeo-400x336.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A belt of serpentinite (purple) separates Franciscan metamorphic rocks on the west from Great Valley Sequence sedimentary rocks on the east (J, Jurassic; Kl and Ku, lower and upper Cretaceous). Overlain on these are Tertiary volcaniclastic and volcanic rocks (Tvp and Tv) and younger outwash deposits (QPc). Pink lines mark structures: anticlines and synclines.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State route 162 leads west from Willows into the series of ridges formed by the uptilted Great Valley Sequence rocks. These are the same formations, of the same age, that \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/01/26/geological-outings-around-the-bay-mount-vaca-and-the-monticello-dam/\">I showed you north of Fairfield\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40266\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley1/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40266\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40266\" title=\"stonycreekvalley1\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley1.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley1-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">All photos by Andrew Alden\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Beyond a series of these ridges is a long valley underlain by fine-grained Jurassic rocks, the oldest part of the Great Valley Sequence. The valley is punctuated by \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/structureslandforms/ig/erosional/hogback.htm\">hogback ridges\u003c/a> that affect the course of the roads. Parts of the valley have been turned into reservoirs, like Stony Gorge Reservoir.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley02/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40267\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40267\" title=\"stonycreekvalley02\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley02.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley02-400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A new reservoir is planned south of here around the settlement of Sites that will be used to regulate streamflow in the northern Sacramento Valley and allow older structures to be modified.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually route 162 crosses Stony Creek, where the Great Valley Sequence rocks are spectacularly exposed in a washboard streambed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley03/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40268\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40268\" title=\"stonycreekvalley03\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"470\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley03.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley03-400x313.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Turn north here on 162 and follow the river, taking note of the different levels of stream terraces built when Stony Creek had not eroded as far down as it has today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley04/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40269\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40269\" title=\"stonycreekvalley04\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley04.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley04-400x261.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When 162 turns west again, continue north on county road 306. (At the moment, the route on 162 through the Coast Range to Covelo is closed.) In late April when I visited, the countryside was a picture-postcard experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley05/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40270\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40270\" title=\"stonycreekvalley05\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley05.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley05-400x294.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you like, take 162 a ways into the Franciscan country, or for a more intimate experience take county road 313 west instead, a well-graded dirt road just three miles to the north. (That's the spur shown on the route map.) In clear weather, vistas spread out as you rise. Here's the view south down the valley of Stony Creek:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley06/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40271\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40271\" title=\"stonycreekvalley06\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley06.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley06-400x311.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And here's the view northeast toward the Great Valley over the sawtooth ridges of Great Valley Sequence rocks:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley07/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40272\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40272\" title=\"stonycreekvalley07\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley07.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley07-400x289.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahead is the rugged topography held up by the Franciscan Complex. Note how the vegetation has changed as well as the bones of the land. The highest peak is Red Mountain. The contact between these two highly contrasting geologic provinces is the Coast Range thrust, which has tilted up the rocks on the east side like a pet pushing under a bedsheet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley08/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40273\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40273\" title=\"stonycreekvalley08\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley08.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley08-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watch the roadcuts, too, for exposures of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2010/08/05/learn-the-facts-about-serpentinite-before-its-removed-as-californias-state-rock/\">serpentinite\u003c/a>, or \u003ca href=\"http://geology.about.com/od/rocks/ig/metrockindex/rocpicschist.htm\">schist\u003c/a> like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley09/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40274\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40274\" title=\"stonycreekvalley09\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley09.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley09-400x332.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Step out and collect a specimen or two if you like; this is public land. Chrome ore was mined around here, in and around the serpentinite belt. The tiny settlement of Chrome marks the site of one former mine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Road 306 butts into Newville Road, and that's where you turn back toward the freeway. But there's one more attraction as you go forward through geologic time into the Sacramento Valley: the unexpected Black Butte. This is a segment of a huge lava flow, the \u003ca href=\"http://myweb.csuchico.edu/~rteasdale/Lovejoy.html\">Lovejoy Basalt\u003c/a>, that once crossed the Valley from a source in the northern Sierra Nevada, reaching from here south to Vacaville. Black Butte was raised by a fault, sparing it from erosional destruction. The lake around it is artificial, and the whole is a splendid park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/28/side-trips-from-interstate-5-stony-creek-valley/stonycreekvalley10/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40275\">\u003cimg class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40275\" title=\"stonycreekvalley10\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley10.jpg 600w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/stonycreekvalley10-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To get to Corning requires a short backtrack to Black Butte Road, which crosses orchard lands and offers low-key views (which I believe will show Mount Shasta on clear days). You may also take a shorter side trip starting in Orland that visits Black Butte alone. But once you get behind the curtain of those serrated Great Valley Sequence hills, you'll never look at this stretch of I-5 the same way again.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Here's today's roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/06/28/supreme-court-health-care-decision/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supreme-court-health-care-decision','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/files/2012/06/supreme-court-300x282.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/06/28/supreme-court-health-care-decision/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supreme-court-health-care-decision\\'>Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Act</a>Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Act Update, 7:27 AM, More details on nuances from the individual justices: Now from scotusblog.com: Kennedy is reading a dissent saying the whole thing should be invalid. Meanwhile Ginsberg writes it should be entirely valid. \\"Justice Ginsburg makes clear that the vote is 5-4 on sustaining the mandate as a form of tax.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://blogs.kqed.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Kqed</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/files/2012/06/supreme-court-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/06/28/supreme-court-health-care-decision/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supreme-court-health-care-decision\">Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Act\u003c/a>Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Act Update, 7:27 AM, More details on nuances from the individual justices: Now from scotusblog.com: Kennedy is reading a dissent saying the whole thing should be invalid. Meanwhile Ginsberg writes it should be entirely valid. \"Justice Ginsburg makes clear that the vote is 5-4 on sustaining the mandate as a form of tax.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org\" target=\"_blank\">Kqed\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/bT0M4','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/13/73/53/3128001/6/150x150.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/bT0M4\\'>Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new paper reports</a>For more than 40 years, some paleontologists have argued that the dinosaurs were cold-blooded, like modern reptiles - the technical term is ectotherms - while most fossil hunters have agreed that, whether they were as large as Tyrannosaurus rex or as small as chicken-sized Velociraptor, the dinosaurs were warm-blooded - the term is endotherms. [...]<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.sfgate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sfgate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/13/73/53/3128001/6/150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/bT0M4\">Dinosaurs were warm-blooded, new paper reports\u003c/a>For more than 40 years, some paleontologists have argued that the dinosaurs were cold-blooded, like modern reptiles - the technical term is ectotherms - while most fossil hunters have agreed that, whether they were as large as Tyrannosaurus rex or as small as chicken-sized Velociraptor, the dinosaurs were warm-blooded - the term is endotherms. [...]\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sfgate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/bT0QG','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://www.sfgate.com/img/modules/siteheader/brand.png\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/bT0QG\\'>Asteroid hunters want to launch private telescope</a>LOS ANGELES (AP) â Who will protect us from a killer asteroid? 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Meanwhile Ginsberg writes it should be entirely valid. \\"Justice Ginsburg makes clear that the vote is 5-4 on sustaining the mandate as a form of tax.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://blogs.kqed.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Kqed</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/files/2012/06/supreme-court-300x282.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://blogs.kqed.org/stateofhealth/2012/06/28/supreme-court-health-care-decision/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=supreme-court-health-care-decision\">Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Act\u003c/a>Supreme Court Upholds Health Care Act Update, 7:27 AM, More details on nuances from the individual justices: Now from scotusblog.com: Kennedy is reading a dissent saying the whole thing should be invalid. 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"content": "\u003cp>Seen from the exterior with its rear canopy closed, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/\">Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)\u003c/a> aircraft looks much like a typical jumbo jet you might see at any airport-- perhaps even reminiscent of another well-known, heavily modified Boeing 747, Air Force One. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SOFIA has a lot of characteristics that are very similar to a normal passenger airplane,\" explains Erick Young, Director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sofia.usra.edu/index.html\">SOFIA Science Center\u003c/a> at NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA. \"Except for the fact that we’ve completely gutted the insides, and there’s a hole in the side of the airplane the size of a garage door, and there’s a 17-ton telescope mounted in the back. But other than that it’s pretty much like a regular airplane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may appear modest from the outside, but SOFIA is more than a telescope tucked into a re-purposed commercial airliner. Obscured from view is a complete flying astronomical observation platform centered around a 2.7 meter-wide \u003ca href=\"http://science.howstuffworks.com/telescope3.htm\">reflecting telescope\u003c/a>, which carries a dozen or more astronomers, observers and crew \u003ca href=\"http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/maps/satellite_feed/atmosphere_layers/\">above the clouds\u003c/a> to observe objects and phenomena too cold to be seen in visible light. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40032\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 315px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/WS301_SOFIA_young.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/WS301_SOFIA_young.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WS301_SOFIA_young\" width=\"315\" height=\"177\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40032\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erick Young is the Director of the SOFIA Science Center, and is responsible for the airplane crew and science operations of the observatory. Credit: NASA / Tom Tschida.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The appearance of things that we can see in visible light is primarily because things are hot enough to give off light at visible light wavelengths,\" says Young. \" If you get things too cold, then things look redder and redder and eventually they’re so red that the human eye can’t see them anymore. And then what we are actually sensing is a different kind of light and it’s called infrared. And that’s basically the heat radiation that’s coming from objects. And so what we can look at are not things that are thousands of degrees hot, but things that are hundreds or tens of degrees above absolute zero. And it turns out that there’s a lot of material in the universe- the dust, planets like the Earth, clouds in space. They’re all too cold to normally emit in visible light, but by looking in the infrared, we’re able to sense them, detect them, and measure their properties.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our most familiar instrument for observing and measuring the electromagnetic radiation emitted by objects, the human eye, senses a narrow range of energy wavelengths. These are waves with wavelengths of 380 nanometers (violet) to about 740 nanometers (red). Although astronomy has its origin in observing the universe in this part of the spectrum, there are also telescopes and instruments that measure incredibly short, energetic wavelengths such as Gamma rays and X-rays, as well as extremely long wavelengths such as radio waves. Infrared or \"IR\" astronomers study that expansive swath of wavelengths just below the visible range, but still above the radio end of the spectrum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/index.html\">\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/ems_length_final.gif\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"619\" height=\"147\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003csmall>Source: \u003ca href=\"http://science.hq.nasa.gov/kids/imagers/ems/index.html\">NASA\u003c/a>\u003c/small>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But why go through the trouble of \u003ca href=\"http://ericfdiaz.wordpress.com/why-does-infrared-astronomy-matters/\">observing objects in the IR spectrum\u003c/a> from the stratosphere, 12+ kilometers above the surface of the earth? There are several major infrared telescopes operating both on the ground and in space: at the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/mko/\">Mauna Kea Observatories\u003c/a> in Hawaii, or \u003ca href=\"http://www.noao.edu/kpno/\">Kitt Peak National Observatory\u003c/a> in Arizona, for example.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We put a telescope on the airplane because there are parts of the spectrum which are completely blocked and completely opaque in the Earth’s atmosphere. This was primarily in the infrared part of the spectrum,\" explains Young. \"The main thing that blocks the infrared light from reaching the ground is water vapor in the Earth’s atmosphere. And if we want to observe many of these wavelengths, we have to get to some place where there’s no water vapor and SOFIA will fly above more than 99% of the water vapor in the atmosphere.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Flying telescopes may not be commonplace, but are hardly a new idea. SOFIA is merely the latest and largest in a \u003ca href=\"http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Edu/docs/97-Whiting_AeroHistory.pdf\">line of airborne observatories\u003c/a> going back to the 1920's, when eclipse chasers first carried a modest instrument aboard a 2-seater biplane. SOFIA's most recent ancestor is the the \u003ca href=\"http://science.nasa.gov/missions/kao/\">Kuiper Airborne observatory (KAO)\u003c/a>, a converted C-141 aircraft with a 36-inch mirror that flew missions from 1974 to 1995, and can be seen peacefully enjoying its retirement on a nearby patch of Moffett Field tarmac. The idea within NASA to use a 747-SP as a telescope platform goes back at least to \u003ca href=\"http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Sofia/history/sofia_history.html\">the late 1970's\u003c/a>. Technical challenges, years of delays and cost overruns nearly ended the project more than once. 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Unlike IR telescopes that we have launched into space, such as the \u003ca href=\"http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/\">Spitzer Space Telescope\u003c/a>, SOFIA comes home every night. It can swap out, repair, or update existing instruments as needed. To take advantage of this flexibility, SOFIA has available a collection of 9 specially-designed primary instruments to attach to the telescope, that each cover a specific range of wavelengths across and around the IR spectrum. Lastly, these instruments need not hew to the stringent weight requirements of their space-based counterparts, which saves money and allows use of instrumentation normally too big to launch on a rocket.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Science/telescope/sci_tele_spectral.html\">\u003cimg alt=\"\" src=\"http://www.sofia.usra.edu/Science/telescope/images/spectral_sofia.gif\" width=\"450\" height=\"330\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The nine \"first-light\" SOFIA instruments plotted on the axes of spectral resolution and observing wavelength. Source: NASA.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After a successful run of several science test flights in 2011, SOFIA is currently in the shop for a major upgrade to its avionics systems. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Seen from the exterior with its rear canopy closed, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/SOFIA/\">Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)\u003c/a> aircraft looks much like a typical jumbo jet you might see at any airport-- perhaps even reminiscent of another well-known, heavily modified Boeing 747, Air Force One. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"SOFIA has a lot of characteristics that are very similar to a normal passenger airplane,\" explains Erick Young, Director of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sofia.usra.edu/index.html\">SOFIA Science Center\u003c/a> at NASA/Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA. \"Except for the fact that we’ve completely gutted the insides, and there’s a hole in the side of the airplane the size of a garage door, and there’s a 17-ton telescope mounted in the back. But other than that it’s pretty much like a regular airplane.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It may appear modest from the outside, but SOFIA is more than a telescope tucked into a re-purposed commercial airliner. Obscured from view is a complete flying astronomical observation platform centered around a 2.7 meter-wide \u003ca href=\"http://science.howstuffworks.com/telescope3.htm\">reflecting telescope\u003c/a>, which carries a dozen or more astronomers, observers and crew \u003ca href=\"http://airs.jpl.nasa.gov/maps/satellite_feed/atmosphere_layers/\">above the clouds\u003c/a> to observe objects and phenomena too cold to be seen in visible light. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40032\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 315px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/WS301_SOFIA_young.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/WS301_SOFIA_young.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"WS301_SOFIA_young\" width=\"315\" height=\"177\" class=\"size-full wp-image-40032\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erick Young is the Director of the SOFIA Science Center, and is responsible for the airplane crew and science operations of the observatory. Credit: NASA / Tom Tschida.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The appearance of things that we can see in visible light is primarily because things are hot enough to give off light at visible light wavelengths,\" says Young. \" If you get things too cold, then things look redder and redder and eventually they’re so red that the human eye can’t see them anymore. And then what we are actually sensing is a different kind of light and it’s called infrared. And that’s basically the heat radiation that’s coming from objects. And so what we can look at are not things that are thousands of degrees hot, but things that are hundreds or tens of degrees above absolute zero. And it turns out that there’s a lot of material in the universe- the dust, planets like the Earth, clouds in space. They’re all too cold to normally emit in visible light, but by looking in the infrared, we’re able to sense them, detect them, and measure their properties.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our most familiar instrument for observing and measuring the electromagnetic radiation emitted by objects, the human eye, senses a narrow range of energy wavelengths. These are waves with wavelengths of 380 nanometers (violet) to about 740 nanometers (red). Although astronomy has its origin in observing the universe in this part of the spectrum, there are also telescopes and instruments that measure incredibly short, energetic wavelengths such as Gamma rays and X-rays, as well as extremely long wavelengths such as radio waves. Infrared or \"IR\" astronomers study that expansive swath of wavelengths just below the visible range, but still above the radio end of the spectrum. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40076\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/27/peoples-parks-protecting-open-spaces-for-everyone/willowcreeksnakecarousel/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40076\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/willowcreeksnakecarousel-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"willow creek snake \" title=\"willowcreeksnakecarousel\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-40076\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A garter snake, native to Sonoma County, rests on a trail in the Willow Creek addition of Sonoma Coast State Park. (Photo: Liza Gross)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On a steamy Saturday afternoon in June near Duncans Mills, about 35 people huddle under a stingy ring of shade at the edge of a clearing in the Freezeout Flat parking area. We’ve signed up for an orientation to secure a day use permit, our ticket to Willow Creek Park, a nearly 3,400-acre stretch of wetlands, rolling grasslands, and upland forests just a few miles beyond the mouth of the Russian River.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But we're here for more than a day use permit. We’ve come to sign on as stewards of land that should be ours, and would be in fact, save for California’s devastating budget deficit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“These orientations create an opportunity for anyone who’s interested to explore areas otherwise not open to the public,” says Meg Hamill, field programs assistant for \u003ca href=\"http://www.landpaths.org/\">LandPaths\u003c/a>, a Sonoma County nonprofit that works with California State Parks, \u003ca href=\"http://www.stewardsofthecoastandredwoods.org/\">Stewards of the Coast and Redwoods\u003c/a>, and a diverse range of individuals and organizations to maintain the park under its “community-powered” model of stewardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>LandPaths relies on the dedication of local nature lovers to keep this sprawling open space, known as the Willow Creek addition, accessible to the public. Although Willow Creek is part of Sonoma Coast State Park on paper, it remains separate, and unequal. The state can’t afford to maintain the property or pay rangers to monitor wildlife and the spread of \u003ca href=\"http://cisr.ucr.edu/sudden_oak_death.html\">sudden oak death\u003c/a>, the pathogenic fungus that’s decimating California’s iconic oak trees. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40081\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 305px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/27/peoples-parks-protecting-open-spaces-for-everyone/phytophtora_ramorum/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40081\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/Phytophtora_ramorum-305x253.png\" alt=\"sudden oak death\" title=\"Phytophtora_ramorum\" width=\"305\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40081\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fungus Phytophtora ramorum causes sudden oak death, which attacks oak trees in coastal California counties from Monterey to Humboldt. Scientists think \u003cem>P. ramorum \u003c/em>settles on oak trunks from nearby bay leaves during rains, infects bark through natural openings, then kills cells by blocking water and nutrient transport vessels. (Photo: Nicholls H: Stopping the Rot. PLoS Biol 2/7/2004: e213. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.0020213)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s where the permit program comes in. Though the park would be open to everyone without restriction in a perfect world, Hamill says, the ideal of a public state park for this parcel crumbled under the reality of the state’s spiraling budget crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like most other state-funded entities in California, the \u003ca href=\"http://bit.ly/NzVjY7\">fate of the state parks \u003c/a>hinges on Gov. Jerry Brown’s struggles to solve the state’s unprecedented budget crisis. Five Sonoma state parks were originally slated for closure, though \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20120612/articles/120619889?p=1&tc=pg\">recent agreements gave three parks\u003c/a> – Sugarloaf Ridge State Park, Jack London State Historic Park and Petaluma Adobe State Historic Park-- a reprieve, at least temporarily. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Willow Creek permit program started in 2005, after a public-spirited coalition of groups led by the Sonoma County Agricultural Preservation and Open Space District and the Trust for Public Land paid Mendocino Redwood Company, a Ukiah-based logging outfit, $22 million to turn the privately held Willow Creek watershed into a public resource. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state park system agreed to a novel partnership to protect the Willow Creek area on the condition that people gained access to the land right way. The original idea was to incorporate Willow Creek into the adjacent Sonoma Coast State Park’s jurisdiction. But Sonoma Park officials knew they couldn’t manage more responsibilities at that point, so they decided to experiment with a new model, teaming with a nonprofit outfit to create this “people powered” solution. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thanks to a grant from the \u003ca href=\"http://scc.ca.gov/\">Coastal Conservancy\u003c/a>, LandPaths developed the permit program to get people out on the landscape, not just as hikers, bikers, and equestrians but as stewards and managers. Sign up for the hour-long permit orientation, which happens once or twice a month, depending on the availability of staff and volunteers, and you learn a bit about the history of the park, the challenges of maintaining the land on a shoestring budget, and why your time, energy, and donations are critical to its preservation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40084\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 450px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/27/peoples-parks-protecting-open-spaces-for-everyone/trailinwillowcreek-3/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40084\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/trailinwillowcreek2-450x253.jpg\" alt=\"willow creek trail\" title=\"trailinwillowcreek\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-40084\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Willow Creek trails, including this old logging road, take hikers through redwood, Douglas fir, and oak forest as they climb from sea level to ridge tops at 1,300 feet with sweeping vistas of Sonoma County's expansive open spaces. (Photo: Liza Gross)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>State park officials originally expected to take over management of the Willow Creek addition after four years, but that was before the global economic meltdown. Since then, permit holders can still access the land thanks almost entirely to their own generosity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The permit program ensures that anyone who’s motivated to attend an orientation can access the 15-mile network of trails and old logging roads anytime between sunrise and sunset. A permit buys you the code to the combination lock on the gate at the end of Freezeout Road just east of Duncans Mills and a pass for the Freezeout Flat parking area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From the parking area, it’s a short walk to the so-called “Pressure Drop Trail,” a lung-busting climb (or exhilarating downhill on mountain bike) that winds through fern-covered forests with bays, oaks, old-growth redwoods, and Douglas fir and opens onto sloping ridge tops covered with tawny native grasses and sweeping views of nothing but nature. (Sure, we're part of nature but it's rejuvenating to gaze upon a landscape without power lines or houses as far as the eye can see.) \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Permits are free and good for the calendar year, though you can renew without another orientation. LandPaths asks only for donations, though Hamill encourages permit holders to leave a note at the Freezeout Flat access trailhead if you see any “blowdowns” (fallen trees on the trail), evidence of sudden oak death, damaged trail signs, or anything else that seems amiss. “We want permit holders to become the eyes and ears of the park,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“And if you fall in love with Willow Creek, consider donating funds to help keep the park open year-round. Or donate time and energy,” she urges. “We need all the help we can get.” \u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40206\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/26/i-flamed-amazement-the-physics-of-st-elmos-fire/st_elmos_fire/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40206\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-40206\" title=\"st_elmos_fire\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/st_elmos_fire.jpg\" alt=\"St. Elmo's Fire in cockpit\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/st_elmos_fire.jpg 640w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/st_elmos_fire-400x225.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Elmo's Fire on a cockpit window, by {link url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/flyforfun/}Fly For Fun{/link}.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Clad in a bright yellow raincoat and a crown of butterflies, laughing and singing, Ariel delighted the audience from the first moments of \u003ca title=\"CalShakes\" href=\"http://www.calshakes.org/\">California Shakespeare Theater's\u003c/a> \"The Tempest.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40207\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 253px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/26/i-flamed-amazement-the-physics-of-st-elmos-fire/ariel/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40207\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-40207\" title=\"ariel\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/ariel-253x169.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel in The Tempest\" width=\"253\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Erika Chong Shuch as Ariel in CalShakes' \"The Tempest\", photo by {link url=http://www.kevinberne.com/}Kevin Berne{/link}\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I always love productions at the open-air Bruns Memorial Theater, but the airy sprites of Shakespeare's last full play seem particularly well-suited to the natural environment. Orinda's eucalyptus groves and rolling golden hills could as easily populate Prospero's remote island as do the characters of kings and dukes, clowns and cannibals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of all the characters, though, Ariel was \"an easy favorite\" in the words of my father-in-law. Played by choreographer Erika Chong Shuch, her movements overflowed with emotion and expression. It was easy to believe in her magic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40208\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 195px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/26/i-flamed-amazement-the-physics-of-st-elmos-fire/463px-elmos_fire-2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40208\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-40208\" title=\"463px-Elmo's_fire-2\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/463px-Elmos_fire-2-195x253.jpg\" alt=\"St. Elmo's Fire\" width=\"195\" height=\"253\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Elmo's Fire on Masts of Ship at Sea (1866)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I boarded the king's ship; now on the beak,\u003cbr>\nNow in the waist, the deck, in every cabin,\u003cbr>\nI flamed amazement: sometime I'd divide,\u003cbr>\nAnd burn in many places; on the topmast,\u003cbr>\nThe yards and bowsprit, would I flame distinctly,\u003cbr>\nThen meet and join.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>--Ariel, The Tempest (Act I, Scene 2), William Shakespeare\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the beleaguered sailors, Ariel personified St. Elmo's Fire, the glow that can appear around ship masts and chimneys during a thunderstorm. Lacking a scientific explanation for the light, people in Shakespeare's time attributed it to the patron saint of sailors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Four hundred years later, we still don't completely understand how storms create such magnificent atmospheric phenomena. But we understand \u003ca title=\"Scientific American - St. Elmo's Fire\" href=\"http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=quotwhat-causes-the-stran\">a great deal more\u003c/a> than we once did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It starts with storm clouds, which are positively charged on top and negatively charged on the bottom. The reason for this charge differential has to do with turbulence inside the cloud, \u003ca title=\"NOAA - Questions and Answers about Lightning\" href=\"http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/primer/lightning/ltg_basics.html\">exact details TBD\u003c/a>. The negative charge at the bottom of the cloud is so strong it pushes away electrons in the earth's surface, leaving a positive charge in the ground, in trees, in chimneys and ship masts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When some object on earth's surface accumulates enough positive charge, it ionizes the air around it, pulling molecules apart into their constituent positive and negative charges. An ionized gas, or \u003ca title=\"Plasma - Wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_(physics)\">plasma\u003c/a>, has no overall charge, since it contains equal numbers of positive and negative ions, but it is an excellent electrical conductor. \u003ca title=\"How Stuff Works - St. Elmo's Fire\" href=\"http://science.howstuffworks.com/nature/climate-weather/atmospheric/st-elmo-fire1.htm\">And it glows\u003c/a>. It's beautiful, and a little creepy, but it's not dangerous like lightning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_40209\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 167px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/2012/06/26/i-flamed-amazement-the-physics-of-st-elmos-fire/592px-plasma-lamp_2/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40209\">\u003cimg class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-40209\" title=\"592px-Plasma-lamp_2\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/quest/wp-content/uploads/sites/39/2012/06/592px-Plasma-lamp_2-167x169.jpg\" alt=\"Plasma Lamp\" width=\"167\" height=\"169\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plasma lamp by {link url=http://www.lucnix.be}Luc Viatour{/link}\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the Grove Talk before the show, CalShakes resident dramaturg Philippa Kelly emphasized the unpredictable perils of Shakespeare's time. Fires especially were ubiquitous, necessary for daily work, yet often raged out of control--as in the destruction of the Globe Theater. Ariel's magic is the magic of St. Elmo: a safe fire that serves its master's interests and causes no damage. Today, we've harnessed the same plasma phenomenon to build neon signs and modern TVs that are incapable of burning down a building. An instance, perhaps, of \u003ca title=\"Clarke's Three Laws - Wikipedia\" href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke's_three_laws\">Arthur C. Clarke's Third Law\u003c/a>?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.\"\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Here's today's roundup of science, nature and environment news from the Bay Area and beyond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/bPbxL','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/13/71/01/3117140/3/150x150.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/bPbxL\\'>Subway work unearths ancient road in Greece</a>THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) â Archaeologists in Greece\\'s second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was the city\\'s main travel artery nearly 2,000 years ago. The road in the northern port city will be raised to be put on permanent display when the metro opens in 2016.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.sfgate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sfgate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/13/71/01/3117140/3/150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\">Subway work unearths ancient road in GreeceTHESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) â Archaeologists in Greece's second-largest city have uncovered a 70-meter (230-foot) section of an ancient road built by the Romans that was the city's main travel artery nearly 2,000 years ago. 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The Galapagos Island reptile was the last of the Pinta island giant tortoise subspecies and he was found dead in his pen on Sunday.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sfgate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/bPMw2 ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://media.baycitizen.org/uploaded/images/2010/10/car-exhaust/original/Car%20exhaust.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/bPMw2 \\'>EPA study explains link between smog, heart problems</a>Smog has been linked to heart problems and even death, and new research by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency begins to explain why. 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Unlike Candlestick Point, most of the other 16 state parks in the Bay Area scheduled to close in July will remain open, at least temporarily.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org\" target=\"_blank\">Baycitizen\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/bPMOY ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://a.scpr.org/i/c6f5e118565e3890f181f53c85d30f0a/25508-lead.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/bPMOY \\'>When nature adapts: Pests thriving on Monsanto GMO corn</a>While controversy and opinions continue to swirl around the hot-button topic of genetically modified produce, a new report from biotech firm Monsanto sounds like the premise of a Stephen King story. 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The road in the northern port city will be raised to be put on permanent display when the metro opens in 2016.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sfgate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/bPbyL','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/13/70/14/3113738/3/150x150.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/bPbyL\\'>Famed Galapagos tortoise autopsied</a>QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Giant tortoise experts from near and far have begun an autopsy of Lonesome George, whose failed efforts to reproduce made him a symbol of disappearing species. The Galapagos Island reptile was the last of the Pinta island giant tortoise subspecies and he was found dead in his pen on Sunday.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.sfgate.com\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Sfgate</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://ww3.hdnux.com/photos/13/70/14/3113738/3/150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\">Famed Galapagos tortoise autopsiedQUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Giant tortoise experts from near and far have begun an autopsy of Lonesome George, whose failed efforts to reproduce made him a symbol of disappearing species. The Galapagos Island reptile was the last of the Pinta island giant tortoise subspecies and he was found dead in his pen on Sunday.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.sfgate.com\" target=\"_blank\">Sfgate\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/bPMw2 ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://media.baycitizen.org/uploaded/images/2010/10/car-exhaust/original/Car%20exhaust.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/bPMw2 \\'>EPA study explains link between smog, heart problems</a>Smog has been linked to heart problems and even death, and new research by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency begins to explain why. Researchers found that healthy young adults who have been exposed to ozone pollution - which is a major component of smog - experience physiological changes that could be linked to heart ailments in vulnerable populations, such as elderly people with cardiovascular disease.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.baycitizen.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Baycitizen</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://media.baycitizen.org/uploaded/images/2010/10/car-exhaust/original/Car%20exhaust.jpg\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/bPMw2%20\">EPA study explains link between smog, heart problems\u003c/a>Smog has been linked to heart problems and even death, and new research by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency begins to explain why. Researchers found that healthy young adults who have been exposed to ozone pollution - which is a major component of smog - experience physiological changes that could be linked to heart ailments in vulnerable populations, such as elderly people with cardiovascular disease.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org\" target=\"_blank\">Baycitizen\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/bPMDW','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://media.baycitizen.org/uploaded/images/2012/6/candlestick-point-state-recreation-area/original/IMG_1243.JPG\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/bPMDW\\'>Candlestick Point running out of time to avoid closure</a>Less than a week before Candlestick Point State Recreation Area is slated to close, no deep-pocketed savior has emerged to keep open the waterfront park, which is located in one of San Francisco\\'s poorest neighborhoods. Unlike Candlestick Point, most of the other 16 state parks in the Bay Area scheduled to close in July will remain open, at least temporarily.<div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div><span class=\\"embedly-powered\\" style=\\"float:right;display:block\\"><a target=\\"_blank\\" href=\\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\\" title=\\"Powered by Embedly\\"><img src=\\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\\" alt=\\"Embedly Powered\\" /></a></span><div class=\\"media-attribution\\"><span>via </span><a href=\\"http://www.baycitizen.org\\" class=\\"media-attribution-link\\" target=\\"_blank\\">Baycitizen</a></span></div><div class=\\"embedly-clear\\"></div></div>'}\">\n\u003cdiv class=\"embedly\" style=\"max-width: nullpx; max-height: nullpx;\">\u003cimg class=\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\" src=\"http://media.baycitizen.org/uploaded/images/2012/6/candlestick-point-state-recreation-area/original/IMG_1243.JPG\" alt=\"\">\u003ca class=\"embedly-title\" href=\"http://ow.ly/bPMDW\">Candlestick Point running out of time to avoid closure\u003c/a>Less than a week before Candlestick Point State Recreation Area is slated to close, no deep-pocketed savior has emerged to keep open the waterfront park, which is located in one of San Francisco's poorest neighborhoods. Unlike Candlestick Point, most of the other 16 state parks in the Bay Area scheduled to close in July will remain open, at least temporarily.\u003cspan class=\"embedly-powered\" style=\"float: right; display: block;\">\u003ca title=\"Powered by Embedly\" href=\"http://embed.ly?src=anywhere\" target=\"_blank\">\u003cimg src=\"//static.embed.ly/images/logos/embedly-powered-small-light.png\" alt=\"Embedly Powered\">\u003c/a>\u003c/span>\n\u003cdiv class=\"media-attribution\">\u003cspan>via \u003c/span>\u003ca class=\"media-attribution-link\" href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org\" target=\"_blank\">Baycitizen\u003c/a>\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003c/div>\n\u003cdiv style=\"max-width: 600px;\" data-ajax=\"{'url':'http://ow.ly/bPMOY ','width':null,'words':null,'height':null,'embed':'<div class=\\"embedly\\" style=\\"max-width:nullpx;max-height:nullpx\\"><img src=\\"http://a.scpr.org/i/c6f5e118565e3890f181f53c85d30f0a/25508-lead.jpg\\" class=\\"thumb embedly-thumbnail-small\\" /><a class=\\'embedly-title\\' href=\\'http://ow.ly/bPMOY \\'>When nature adapts: Pests thriving on Monsanto GMO corn</a>While controversy and opinions continue to swirl around the hot-button topic of genetically modified produce, a new report from biotech firm Monsanto sounds like the premise of a Stephen King story. 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