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Day January 5, 2010

Hamlet Rehearsal

Hamlet (Brian Ferriter) and Laertes (Ryan Pfeiffer) practice their increasingly energetic sword dual for in Act V of Brian’s production of Hamlet at Carroll College. It’s his senior project and it opens February 5th.

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The Changing Morphology of New Mexican Lizards

Andrew Tisher sent me this article:Hey Whitey

White Lizards Evolve in New Mexico Dunes

Erica Bree Rosenblum’s focus has been on three lizard species that elsewhere are dark skinned but in White Sands have each evolved a white-skinned variety that makes them hard to find. “It’s really obvious what’s happened,” Dr. Rosenblum said. “Everybody got white so that they could better escape from their predators.” It’s a great example of convergent evolution, of species independently acquiring the same traits.

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Polka Dotted Crab

Shared by Jamee Greer:

strawberry-crab

Marine biologists from the National Taiwan Ocean University discovered a new species of crab off the southern Taiwanese coast. With a bright red shell covered with small white spots, the crab resembles a large strawberry. Scientists at the University say that the newly discovered species is similar to the previously discovered Neoliomera pubescens, which is native to the waters near Hawaii, Polynesia and Mauritius–but has a broade…Read the full story on TreeHugger