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New Research Counters Claim That The 'Hobbit' Had Down Syndrome

Analysis of a wealth of new data contradicts an earlier claim that LB1, an ~80,000 year old fossil skeleton from the Indonesian island of Flores, had Down syndrome, and further confirms its status as a fossil human species, Homo floresiensis. From t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2016 - 5:40am - 0 attachments

Oscars: The Science Behind Award-Winning Trees And Tresses

... on hundreds of digital doubles like in the dwarves in the "Hobbit" films. Artists used the "comb" in the Barbershop Hair Grooming System to style mustaches and beards in "The Hobbit" trilogy. Credit: Courtesy of Weta Digital Ltd. ©2014 ...

Article - Inside Science - Feb 17 2015 - 9:00am - 0 attachments

Tolkien’s Dark Side Of The Machine

... machines closely paralleled that of Lord of the Rings and Hobbit author JRR Tolkien. Tolkien’s views on the matter are apparent ... his work, and before the final installment of the Hobbit trilogy fades from cinemas, the time is ripe to revisit Tolkien’s ...

Article - The Conversation - Jan 6 2015 - 7:30pm - 0 attachments

Homo Floresiensis: Hobbit Species Continues To Provoke Questions About Human Evolution

... , an ancient hominid nicknamed “Flo” and also “hobbit”, after the diminutive villagers from J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the ... However, as Roberts explains, the appearance of the “hobbit” remains has forced scientists to question the validity of that ...

Article - Genetic Literacy ... - Oct 29 2014 - 12:53pm - 0 attachments

Dear Orlando Bloom: How To Freak Out Less

... hordes out in full force mocking Bloom. And that third Hobbit movie is still a long way off. Bloom also may not be coping with the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 31 2014 - 3:35pm - 0 attachments

Ctenus Monaghani : A Hobbit Helps Find A Spider Far From Mt. Doom

... J.R.R. Tolkeins's fantasy epic "The Lord of the Rings", a hobbit discovers a giant in the caves under Mt. Doom. More recently, another famous hobbit helped discover a much smaller kind of spider. And the researchers who ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2013 - 1:47pm - 0 attachments

When Science Goes To Pot Part II: Evaluations And Perceptions

... Zealand, so you have to take into account differences in hobbit consumption, etc. After some more hopping, I was led to an excellent ...

Article - David Sloan - Jan 2 2013 - 3:38pm - 0 attachments

Dear Mayans: Sorry For The Misunderstanding

So the only food that we knew could survive the apocalypse has been driven out of business by its own employees , who also teamed up with single mothers, minorities and atheists to overwhelmingly re-elect a guy determined to jump off a fiscal cliff rig ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 23 2012 - 1:35pm - 0 attachments

Slit Experiments and Coherence Patterns

Fire a machine gun at a wall with two slits. Look at the pattern bullets make that pass through. The pattern is the sum of two Gaussian curves. Classical physics makes sense. Repeat the exercise with electrons or photons. Where there is construct ...

Blog Post - Doug Sweetser - Jan 24 2012 - 1:19pm - 0 attachments

Forbes Figures Out How Much Money Smaug, Dragon Of "The Hobbit", Is Really Worth

... into the case of Smaug , that mighty dragon from "The Hobbit" (obviously Tolkein's best work - how anyone read "The Lord of the ...

Cool Link - Hank Campbell - Apr 7 2011 - 9:11pm - 0 attachments