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Hadoop Tutorial for Beginners -1. Interesting Search Engines. Learning. Art. Reading. Steampunk & Vintage. Victorian &Steampunk Name Generator. Steampunk and The New Victorians. Steampunk aka The New Victorians is a wonderful new trend.

Steampunk and The New Victorians

Some say this vintage industrial steam era inspired interior and fashion trend was solidified with the amazing interiors of Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch of Roman and Williams hit the scene. Their design of hospitality spaces across the board is amazing! Have you see the trend popping up? I feel like I see it everywhere... and I love it!

Images via roman and williams, cote maison, mikkel vang, house beautiful, my sparrow and glamour. Academic. Shakespeare got swag. Shakespeare. Science. Biology. Whales. Dory Speaks Whale. Extinct Giant Whale-Eating Whale Found. - Unlike modern sperm whales, this one had teeth in both jaws and might have eaten like killer whales. - The 10-foot sperm whale skull fossil is the largest ever found. - Its main food might have been baleen whales.

Extinct Giant Whale-Eating Whale Found

The massive skull and jaw of a 13-million-year-old sperm whale has been discovered eroding from the windblown sands of a coastal desert of Peru. The extinct cousin of the modern sperm whale is the first fossil to rival modern sperm whales in size -- although this is a very different beast, say whale evolution experts. "We could see it from very far," said paleontologist Olivier Lambert of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France, who led the team which found the fossil. PHOTOS: Mammals of the Sea The giant 3-meter (10-foot) skull of what's been dubbed Leviathan melvillei (in honor of the author of "Moby Dick") was found with teeth in its top and bottom jaws up to 36 centimeters (14 inches) long. VIDEO: Why is Whale Vomit So Valuable? 7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes. People who doubt evolution tend to have one main argument: "If evolution is true, why do we still see monkeys running around today, all chimp-like?

7 Animals That Are Evolving Right Before Our Eyes

Where are all the monkey-men I was promised? " Well, if you or someone you know refuses to believe that organisms change over time without proof on a monkey-man level, here are a buttload of animals in the middle of getting their evolve on. Well, seven anyway. Elephants are Evolving to Lose Their Tusks (and Avoid Poachers) Here's a joke: What did the elephant say to the poacher? Getty"Stop! Sorry about that.

GettyAnd ever since animal rights got involved, unemployment has shot up 300 percent. So elephants have decided to take matters into their own hands ... or trunks or weirdly rounded three-toed feet or whatever. By 2005, it was estimated that the tuskless population had risen to between 5 and 10 percent. Human Evolution. Plant Biology. The world's 10 oldest living trees. Cells. Playing guitar. Doctor Who knee socks.