Sunday 13 November 2005

WEIRDBEAUTIFUL BLOG CONTENTS PAGE

Hi. Welcome to Weirdbeautiful.As it says in the title banner, this blog is about the Weird and wonderful natural world. Weirdbeautiful is a mixture of nature photos, quotes and short and longer articles on nature, interviews and links to content elsewhere on the web. There are quite a few things scattered about Weirdbeautiful now, so please have a look around. If you scroll down, you can find a blog archive with a list of the titles of all my posts - this is about half-way down the page on the right hand side; alternatively, this post is a (very incomplete) summary of some of the contents of this blog.

Pictures-
>. "Cheering- up birds"
SECTION UNDER CONSTRUCTION- LINKS TO BE ADDED HERE

. "Quote of the week" (often with pictures)
Quote of the week- Albert Einstein (with "storm brewing" picture)
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/05/quote-of-week-albert-einstein-natures.html

Quote of the week- Author unknown-((with "Craterscape" picture of Mount Etna)
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/06/quote-of-week-human-spirit-needs-places.html

Quote of the week- H P Lovecraft. (with Komodo dragon picture)
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/06/quote-of-week-h-p-lovecraft-joy-of.html


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Articles and Longer Content
. “Diary of a nomadic naturalist”-
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2009/10/diary-of-nomadic-naturalist-october.html

"Flashing butterflies" -(article on butterfly colouration)-
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2009/09/flashing-butterflies-science-in-plain.html

Interview with particle physicist Dr Jeanne Wilson -
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2009/09/ask-particle-physicist-with-dr-jeanne.html

“Travel, Art, Science and “Rock in the Landscape”
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/05/travel-art-science-and-rock-in.html

. Some of my written articles are available free elsewhere online, but, for various contractual reasons, I can’t reproduce them on this blog. One of these is a diary piece called “A week in the life of a wildlife writer” -
http://scienceray.com/philosophy-of-science/a-week-in-the-life-of-a-wildlife-writer

There are also some articles of mine available free online at e-zinearticles.com- they include an interview with butterfly expert Zsolt Balint and articles on chimpanzee research, pandas, bees, bacteria and the Edelweiss- a list of them can be found on this blog here-
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2009/10/articles-online.html

. List of articles by V Neblik available free online -
http://www.victorianeblik.com/page3.htm

Longer articles by title/theme
. "Sometimes, when a Mummy polar bear and a Daddy grizzly bear love each other Very much"... - (article on hybrid animals and review of recent and older tv programmes on likely biology of extra-terrestrial life)
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/05/sometimes-when-mummy-polar-bear-and.html

. "Horseshoe crabs and the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico" (article on horseshoe crabs also update on recent big science story- the oil spill in the gulf of Mexico)
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/05/horseshoe-crabs-and-oil-spill-in-gulf.html

. "Emperor Tamarins, Chimpanzee grief and Pollen Grains"
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/04/emperor-tamarins-chimpanzee-grief-and.html

. "Science update" (the ongoing story about the drug mephedrone and related deaths, the media's coverage of it and the toxicology)
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/04/science-update-mephedrone-plant-food.html

. "Art is art and science is science and never the twain shall meet" ( the perceived split between art and sciences and the state of the so-called "third culture", 80 years after the idea was first suggested)
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/04/art-is-art-and-science-is-science-and.html

. "Promicuous females and why they are useful" - (update and comments on recent scientific research)
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/03/science-update-promiscuous-females-and.html

. “Travel, Art, Science and “Rock in the Landscape” (the role of travel in scientific research and discovery and the book "Rock in the Landscape")
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/05/travel-art-science-and-rock-in.html


Links
. “Link of the day/ link of the week”- (links to striking wildlife or nature photos, pet care articles and science news stories)-
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2009/11/some-recommended-articles-pet-care.html

Link of the day- Jupiter, Comets, Clouds seen from space and baby turtle
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/06/link-of-day-jupiter-commets-cloud.html

Link of the week- Acupuncture and adenosine
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/06/link-of-week-acupuncture-and-adenosine.html

Link of the week- “The umbilical cord, its stem cells and why 4 kidneys are better than 2”
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/05/links-of-week-umbilical-cord-its-stem.html


links to images by others-
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Koala pictures -
http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/05/link-of-day-koala-picture.html

Cockchafer beetles and hydrangea pictures - http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/05/cockchafers-and-hydrangeas-links-of-day.html

The Weirdbeauty of Seaslugs- http://victorianeblik.blogspot.com/2010/06/hi.html