
Tag: The Starbear Odyssey
Wishbone Wednesday

StarBears may not have furculas, and cannot fly, but they do have pharyngeal bulbs…in fact the entire animal resembles a developing foetus.

Do you wish to bone up on your tardigrade facts?
H/T’s to:
- Sophia Wallace on tumblr (Official Site)
- Wishbone Chair by Hans J. Wegner for Carl Hansen & Søn (design-milk.com)
- This Thanksgiving, Make a Wish upon a Dinosaur (Brian Switek, blogsmithsonianmag.com)
- And never grow a wishbone… (marantandmerlot.wordpress.com)
- Brain circuitry loss may be a very early sign of cognitive decline in healthy elderly people (medicalxpress.com)
Tongue of Cheek

StarBear’s been having some more puzzling dreams…
H/T to Jigsaw Puzzle (The Rolling Stones)
What were StarBear’s last words? (Answer: Victim, vict’ry gone)
(H/T to Vsauce)
Interesting Articles
Mystery extra-galactic radio bursts could solve cosmic puzzle (Nature.com)
Puzzle Space Piece

H/T to Bizarre Alignment of Planetary Nebulae (ESO)
Related articles
- Mystery Alignment of Dying Stars Puzzles Scientists, Mike Wall, (theboldcorsicanflame.wordpress.com)
- Hubble and NTT Capture Strange Alignment of Planetary Nebulae (universetoday.com)
- Bizarre alignment of planetary nebulae (nanowerk.com)
- Bizarre Alignment of Planetary Nebulae Discovered by Hubble and NASA (scienceworldreport.com)
- Bizarre alignment of planetary nebulae (eurekalert.org)
- Bizarre alignment of planetary nebulae (earthsky.org)
- Puzzling Planetary Nebulae Alignment (spaceref.com)
- Bizarre alignment of planetary nebulae (phys.org)
- Bizarre Alignment of Planetary Nebulae (spacefellowship.com)
- Bizarre alignment of planetary nebulae (spacedaily.com)
An EpicUrsoiAn RAPsodicAl OperA

O Hey, EpicUrus: the epic StarBear enjoys listening to space music as she dreams her own space opera… a modern StarBear opera would be out of this world…
Margaret Atwood, is writing an opera! This will be interesting, I’m sure.

Related articles
- Margaret Atwood writes her first opera about the tragic life of Canadian heroine Pauline Johnson (independent.co.uk)
- Margaret Atwood’s Pauline Johnson opera poised for 2014 debut (cbc.ca)
- Austen Ousts Darwin, and Other News (theparisreview.org)
- Margaret Atwood makes opera debut (guardian.co.uk)
- Synthetic Biology: A Convergence of Fact and Fiction (sffacademic.wordpress.com)
- Avril Levigne is Tank Girl in the silliest music video of the week (observationdeck.io9.com)
- In The Secular Night; Margaret Atwood, poetry (apoetsview.wordpress.com)
Ergo, Terrestrial

StarBear was intelligently designed by her author.
Related articles
- UK launches Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence Research Network (phys.org)
- CFP: Ergo, an Open Access Journal (feministphilosophers.wordpress.com)
- More open-access philosophy: “Ergo” (leiterreports.typepad.com)
- Quench Ash (Star Bear Publications)
- The Star Bear Cosmic Connection Explained (Star Bear Publications)
- How Beliefs in Extraterrestrials and Intelligent Design Are Similar (Scientific American)
Spaced Out Cariña
Here is a diverting way to spend some time: This Facebook Page‘s October 2012 Creative Challenge is to illustrate some pareidolia experienced by you when you stare at the splendiferous Carina Nebula. Of course, StarBear obliged.

is revealed to be this:

Related articles
- The Cool Clouds of Carina (space.com)
- The Caterpillar, a Bok Globule in the Carina Nebula (space.com)
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