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amithompson

  1. Time-Lapse Video of Incredible Annular Solar Eclipse wired.com/wiredscience/2… 12:16 PM May 21st via Tweet Button
  2. Watch Live: Annular Solar Eclipse Creates Ring of Fire wired.com/wiredscience/2… 5:38 PM May 20th via Tweet Button
  3. Plants Use Body Clocks to Prepare for Battle wired.com/wiredscience/2… 9:30 PM May 19th via Tweet Button
  4. yfrog.com/khxtrgoj 2 cm fell in south minneapolis during storm 8:41 AM May 3rd via TweetDeck
  5. City-slicker plants : UMNews : University of Minnesota: bit.ly/JNJOex 7:42 AM Apr 25th via Tweet Button
  6. Ancient Water Discovery In Depths Of Iron Range Mine cbsloc.al/JxAM5y 7:17 PM Apr 24th via Tweet Button
  7. Time to Register for a Dragonfly Workshops! bit.ly/Hkk9qh 9:49 AM Apr 5th via web
  8. Real time animated USA wind map: hint.fm/wind/ 8:55 PM Apr 2nd via web
  9. Winged Octopus! scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/201… via @scienceblogs 8:22 AM Mar 30th via Tweet Button
  10. Live Video! Great Blue Heron Nest at Cornell Lab of Ornithology: bit.ly/H0M1DD 6:42 AM Mar 29th via Tweet Button
  11. James Cameron Completes Record-Breaking Mariana Trench Dive on.natgeo.com/GNSXlA 10:08 PM Mar 25th via Tweet Button
  12. Black (or Blue, or Red) Plants; Finding Life Beyond Earth wired.com/wiredscience/2… 7:06 PM Mar 25th via Tweet Button
  13. Look for me at the MnSTA conference! I'll be presenting and at the DPBTN table handing out $10 coupons for workshops. 5:59 PM Feb 29th via web
  14. Ocean trench: Take a dive 11,000m down bbc.in/wZayMs 8:55 AM Feb 24th via Tweet Button
  15. Mushi | Tradition of Japanese children collecting and playing with insects = modern Pokemon (pocket monsters): findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_… 1:26 PM Feb 6th via Tweet Button
  16. BBC News - In pictures: Science meets art in annual contest bbc.in/wrFpz5 7:57 AM Feb 3rd via Tweet Button
  17. Excavating an ant colony - boingboing.net/2012/01/31/exc… 6:53 AM Feb 1st via Tweet Button
  18. Toronto teens send Lego man on an a balloon odyssey 24 kilometres high: bit.ly/wjksEB 8:33 PM Jan 26th via Tweet Button
  19. Don't Forget Spunky Squirrel: fhsarchives.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/for… 3:12 PM Jan 25th via web
  20. Years record player translates tree rings into music tragically slashgear.com/years-record-p… 10:21 AM Jan 21st via Tweet Button