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*previous - fixed now, thanks Frau!
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@SenorMysterioso - I've taken down the offending pic as I've also gotten other complaints re: Tupac flippin us all off. Sorry 'bout that.
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@Skipweasel: You can’t “decimat(e) up to a quarter of the population”.
Decimate also has another (more commonly used) meaning: to kill a large part of a group.
Until today, the disease that decimated ancient Athens has yet to be identified.
@Liz O: Scientists try to identify historical diseases in order to better understand what happened. For instance, the description of the Black Death matches well with the bubonic plague, so most scientists agree that the plague is the culprit in that pandemic.
So far, no one was able to identify the disease described by Thucydides.
Decimate also has another (more commonly used) meaning: to kill a large part of a group.
Until today, the disease that decimated ancient Athens has yet to be identified.
@Liz O: Scientists try to identify historical diseases in order to better understand what happened. For instance, the description of the Black Death matches well with the bubonic plague, so most scientists agree that the plague is the culprit in that pandemic.
So far, no one was able to identify the disease described by Thucydides.
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Phenomenon. I knew that. Fixed now, thanks!
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Yup - it was wrong. Fixed now.
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Shelley and Arthur C. Clarke references, you guys are a literary bunch ;)
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You guys are terrible! ;)
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Sensational blog posters are definitely here to stay ;)
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The Interweb is vast and deep. Some of our posts are cutting edge, some aren't. It's the nature of blogging, I think. You can't be ahead in all of the posts ... ;)
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That is amazing. Good find, Minnesotastan!
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I agree with Markus. Rare earth magnets aren't toys - they're cool, but get really dangerous as they get larger.
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She's also payin' it forward.
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It's like the Swiss Army knife for criminals ...
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@ted - see the typo post above ;)
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Not everybody needs to be creative. If there's anything I've learned from graduate studies, it is that you need one creative guy (the prof) and many, many, many technically adept people (grad students, post docs) working for him.
Too many creative people actually ruin things (artists colony, anyone?)