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Wow~~~~ I need more.
How about some Motown
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Wow~~~~ I need more.
How about some Elvis bluegrass
Bill Monroe recorded the original, that's as bluegrass as it gets.
Awesome. I used to hate bluegrass but I can get into some now.
I was the same way, I didn't get into bluegrass until the last 10 years or so.
Getting back to Elvis. This is a pretty much forgotten tune he did in 1954 at Sun Records in his first recording session. Love this, fantastic sound.
Speaking of bluegrass.
While I knew about Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs, The Stanley Brothers, Allison Krauss, Hazel ens I hadn't paid much attention, big mistake.
How good can it get?
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I can only blame myself.
I'll walk out into my Fortress of Solitude and just stand there..........what to listen to? I'll stand there for a goof 5 minutes......hmmmm? well...ah...hmmmmm? Canned Heat...nay! Bob Marley....nay! Oldies....nay! Tom Waits...hmmm...nay? Ishman Bracey...well ah...nay! Clarence Ashley....nope?
Damn, Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm? EUREKA....
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Authors that I own 10 or more books of theirs.
Louis L' Amour
John Steinbeck
Robert E. Howard
Edgar Rice Burroughs
J.T.Edson
Michael Moor
Lee Child
James Patterson
Robert Heinlien
James Lee Burke
Harlan Ellison
Hermann Hesse
Thought there'd be more.
I do have all of Poes stuff in one magnificent book, complete with a gold tassle as a book mark.
Have most of Jack London's stuff in a book.
The only author I'd want that I don't own anything by....Monk Williams, one of the founding fathers of the Gothic novel.
What good is having books if you dont read them. Like the holy bible. You asked me to SHOW you the son of man was black and i did. How does a big time reader miss a detail like that? You wouldnt need to ask if you had read the bible. Judys bible is dusty as a mother er right?
Dude, nobody gives a , ok?
Rofl coming from you that's rich
I can't do what you/others do, it bores the out of me. I need more than just following people around seeing who I can bug. You really get a nut with that silliness don't ya?
Nobody gives a . OK?
Apparently they do little guy, notice the action Avante gets? Look at you, here ya are..AGAIN~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why?
Only here to make fun of you. Nobody gives a about your re ed lists and YouTube clips.
That coming from a guy who has posted Mason's 2013 picks how many times? Has..."Nick Chubb averaged....hahahaha!!!!...dude, how stupid was that? Who tries all he can to..."you didn't nail Derrick Henry"
Little , you care a of a lot about Avante, I;m a huge % of what you do here. Ya see ya little I own you and always have. And nobody likes you er and if anyone gets made fun of it's you.
How many times do I tell you..."ok time to ignore you"...only to watch you pounce on and start humping away, hahahaha!!!!!!!! Blake, you are so ed up it's comical.
i should start a "keep avante busy to save a child" thread.
Do that, we'll have some fun there.
Is Nick Chubb still married to Kate Labia?
Checik it out got.
I said...."don't worry Nick Chubb (frosh) is a stud, Georgia won't even miss Gurley (stud RB who got injured)"...so he has a so so game and here comes Blake.."oh yeah well he only averaged...".....hahahaha!!!!!!! Chubb went on to set Georgia rushing records and was considered one of the best RB's in the nation.
ing Blake, what a freak, haha~~~~~~~
Lol still blaming your incredibly bad betting year in 2013 with your do ented picks on Mason.
You know you have a ty thread, when the OP abandons the topic...
Exquisitely detailed 520 million-year-old fossil shows individual nerves
Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis wasn't exactly a beautiful animal: The crustacean-like Cambrian creature had a long, segmented body and an unholy number of legs that it used to scuttle across the ocean floor. But scientists are oohing and ahhing over the ugly arthropod anyway, and for good reason. The nervous system of one 520 million-year-old specimen shows some of the best and most well-preserved nerves ever seen in an animal of that era.
According to a study published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the fossil may be the oldest and most detailed example of a central nervous system yet identified, with even individual nerves -- rarely preserved soft tissue -- visible enough to study.
[125 million-year-old fossil shows remarkably preserved organs and hair]
Most fossil specimens are the remains of teeth (the hardest part of the body) or bones. Soft tissues, such as nerves, are much more likely to decay over time. So studying the long evolution of nervous systems can be a daunting prospect.
The fossil described in the new paper, which was found in southern China, is a rare exception.
Researchers from Yunnan University had to take special precautions to maintain the integrity of the delicate system.
"Using a fine needle and a steady hand, they chipped away parts of the rock to reveal the preserved internal features; they only needed a bit of nerve cord sticking out to have a good idea of where to continue excavating in the fossil," study co-author Javier Ortega-Hernández of the University of Cambridge told The Washington Post in an email. "As usually happens with amazing discoveries, when I first saw the material it took me a bit of time to make sense of what I was looking at. After a little while, however, excitement kicked in after realizing that not only was this an exquisitely preserved nerve cord, but also that it has impossibly thin individual nerves sticking out from it!" he wrote.
That nerve cord — analogous to the spinal cord found in modern in vertebrates — ran through its entire body. Bead-like clusters of nerve tissue called ganglia (which act like "mini-brains along the nerve cord," according to Ortega-Hernández) each controlled a single pair of the animal's many legs.
Scientists have seen animals of similar age with preserved ganglia before, which Ortega-Hernández believes is the result of the fatty content of that nerve tissue — some of those chemicals may make it more prone to fossilization than other soft stuff in the body is. But Chengjiangocaris kunmingensis also shows a few dozen delicate, tiny individual nerve fibers sprouting out from the nerve cord and ganglia.
That may be an important clue in the evolutionary mystery.
"By contrast, arthropods of today only have the ganglia, but a very restricted number of the lateral nerves," he said. "The only living group today where scientists have found dozens of individual nerve fibers structured like these are priapulids (penis worms) and onychophorans (velvet worms), which are cousins of arthropods.
"Putting all of this together, the new fossils of C. kunmingensis allow us to recognize that the evolution of the nervous system in living arthropods involved the loss of some of these nerves, and that their presence in the fossil and the velvet worms is a very ancestral feature," Ortega-Hernández explained.
Ironically, while the shrimp-like creature's nervous system has revealed itself to researchers, its legs remain mysterious. In an email to The Post, corresponding author Xi-guang Zhang of Yunnan University explained that despite the unprecedented nerve preservation, the specimen's legs were too far gone to make an accurate count.
"We know C. kunmingensis has twenty-six limb-bearing trunk segments," Zhang wrote. Of these, the scientists are fairly certain that the front five segments each had one pair of identical legs. It's possible that the rear three or four segments were totally limbless, and other segments could have had two or even four pairs of legs apiece.
"So an individual possesses several tens of paired limbs," Zhang said, "but because of incomplete preservation we still do not know exactly how many pairs it would have had."
The researchers will need to find even more of these intact nervous systems if they want to complete the evolutionary puzzle. But that could prove difficult: After all, the specimen described in the study was a rare bird (erm, rare ancient shrimp-y thing).
"We have to bear in mind that each nerve strand is about 10 times thinner than a human hair," Ortega-Hernández said, "so being able to recognize this level of neurological detail is simply amazing."
This article was originally published on Feb. 29. It has been updated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...d-of-its-kind/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...-wns022516.phpWatching new species evolve in real time
Sometimes evolution proceeds much more rapidly than we might think. Genetic analysis makes it possible to detect the earliest stages of species formation and to gain a better understanding of speciation processes. For example, a study just published in PLOS Genetics by researchers from Eawag and the University of Bern - investigating rapid speciation in threespine stickleback in and around Lake Constance - shows that a species can begin to diverge very rapidly, even when the two daughter species breed alongside one another simultaneously.
The innumerable three-spined stickleback which end up in fishermen's nets on Lake Constance are an unwanted by-catch. Unlike some other species, these tiddlers - of no commercial value - appear to be relatively unaffected by lake eutrophication, bank stabilization and channelization. This species has been spreading rapidly throughout the Swiss Central Plateau for around 150 years. Now, an elaborate genetic study conducted by researchers at Eawag and Bern University helps to explain the secret of its success: the stickleback can evidently adapt very rapidly to new habitats - so rapidly that, for evolutionary biologists, it serves as a model for the divergence of a single species into two or more distinct species. Rather than just one "Lake Constance stickleback", the researchers found two different forms - typical of the lake and of inflowing streams - even though lake stickleback migrate into these streams during the spawning season.
According to first author David Marques, "It was completely unexpected for the species to diverge over such a short period, given that the sticklebacks breed at the same time and at the same sites." Usually, independent species develop by adapting to different habitats and reproducing isolated from other populations - at different depths of a lake, for example. Among whitefish, different breeding and spawning seasons have additionally evolved.
Sponge full of cholesterol pushes animal life back to 650 million years
Study confirms the forensics of the oldest evidence for animal life.
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/...million-years/The earliest chapters in the history of life are in some ways the most interesting, but they're also the hardest to read. The pages are badly stained and tattered, and the print was terribly small to begin with. You can occasionally trip on a dinosaur femur, but any evidence that remains from the earliest animals is incredibly subtle.
Despite the challenges, we've learned that the “Cambrian explosion” was far from the start of multicellular life. The le for “most ancient animal” currently belongs to the sponge. A recently described fossil just a millimeter across appears to be a 600 million year old sponge—that’s 60 million years before the start of the Cambrian period. But we can find chemical traces going back another 50 million years that have been interpreted as a calling card for sponges. Some have challenged that interpretation, however, on the grounds that this chemical “biomarker” is not unique to sponges and could instead have come from a type of algae.
The biomarker of interest is the remnant of a sterol (as in “cholesterol”), which is a key component in the cells of eukaryotes (as opposed to bacteria and archaea). With a small bit of the chemical structure lopped off, you get a sterane that can happily hang around in the rock record. A group of researchers led by MIT’s David Gold took a closer look at the sterol 24-isopropylcholesterol in sponges and other organisms to find out more about when the genes for it evolved—and what is most likely to have left it in 650 million year old rocks.
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