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Five crappy Hollywood reboots that did one thing better than the original

Edit Toronto Sun 05 Jul 2016
Is Hollywood out of ideas?. No. Hollywood has never been out of ideas. What movie studios lack isn’t a creative wellspring to draw from – there are bazillions of smart people out there with great visions for films – but rather the testicular fortitude to gamble on the unknown ... Not every single remake or reboot is awful ... Psycho (1960) vs ... (And how dare they treat Bubo, the clockwork owl, like a piece of trash ... Twitter....

7 Adorable New Peacock Spider Species Discovered

Edit Time Magazine 07 Jun 2016
Seven new species of peacock spider from the southern coast of Western and South Australia were discovered and named last month, bringing the total number of species discovered up to 48 ... Maratus, or peacock spiders, are a teeny-tiny spider genus in the jumping spider family, endemic to Australia ... albus, M. bubo, M. lobatus, M ... vultus ... M....

Being cute not enough for this spider, courtship dance is what turns it on

Edit The Himalayan 07 Jun 2016
A specimen of the newly-discovered Australian Peacock spider, Maratus Bubo, shows off his colourful abdomen in this undated picture from Australia. Sydney, June 6. A Sydney scientist has discovered seven new species of the tiny Australian peacock spider – a spectacularly coloured, three-millimetre arachnid that dances to attract a female mate ... Juveniles measure just half-a-millimetre ... ....

Taj Mahal now home to rare dusky eagle owl

Edit The Times of India 26 Mar 2016
Agra. A rare dusky eagle owl fledgling was rescued from Taj Mahal premises in Agra by Wildlife SOS ... Efforts are on to locate the nest and place the fledgling back in its nest to reunite it with its family ... A two member rescue team from Wildlife SOS arrived at the historical TajMahal which is one of the seven wonders of the world and identified the bird as a Dusky Eagle Owl (Bubo coromandus), a species belonging to the Strigidae family ... ....

Like ACT, Canada's Quebec has a photogenic bird as its emblem

Edit Canberra Times 18 Jan 2016
Pictures just captured by a CCTV traffic camera of a Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) in snowy Montreal, Quebec, have gone viral ... Beautiful Bubo scandiacus is native to snow-upholstered far northern parts of North America and Eurasia. It is Quebec's flattering faunal symbol in the same way in which the Gang-gang cockatoo flatters us as the ACT's faunal emblem ... Dr Leigh is an economist and a man of ideas ...  ....

Plague Inc: Evolved review

Edit Games Radar 16 Jan 2016
You may remember Plague Inc. from a couple of years ago, when it popped up in form of a very infectious strategy game on people’s phones. Evolved lets you wreak havoc and buboes in greater definition and with more flair than ever before. It’s especially impressive when you consider that Ndemic Creations, the developer of the entire thing, is just one man. The premise of Plague Inc ... ....

Seven species of sea birds spotted

Edit The Times of India 15 Jan 2016
KOZHIKODE ... The birds spotted included two Roseate Terns which according to MNHS was significant ... Prominent ornithologists Chris Bowden from the Royal Society for Protection of Birds (RSPB), UK, Mike Prince from Bubo Listing, Praveen J and Dipu Karuthedathu also participated in the survey ... This year, survey teams have already recorded 12 species ... ....

Ridiculously Photogenic Owl Caught On Traffic Camera

Edit IFL Science 11 Jan 2016
A snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) was snapped on the morning of January 3, by a traffic camera on an intersection of Autoroute 40 and the Boulevard des Sources, in the West Island of Montreal ... pic.twitter.com/vkEs3dBWgo ... ....

Guinea-Bissau struggles to end its role in global drugs trade

Edit The Guardian 07 Jan 2016
Poverty, political instability and weak institutions allowed South American cocaine cartels in, but with US and UN help the country is trying to fight back. Global development is supported by.. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation ... Related ... After the US Drug Enforcement Administration arrested Guinea-Bissau’s former navy chief, José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto, in 2013 for trafficking cocaine into the US, smuggling briefly slowed ... ....

Slideshow: Vintage avian exhibit in Carnegie Science Hall is for the birds (Bates College)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Dec 2015
(Source. Bates College). We're in Carnegie Science Hall, peering into a vintage display case of stuffed birds. The nameplate says it's the Waterman Collection. That would be Willard H ... The Waterman Collection is in Carnegie Science Hall ... Atlantic puffin, Fratercula arctica ... Bates does maintain a varied collection of bird specimens that are safe for teaching and research, including this snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus ... Snowy owl, Bubo scandiacus....

Southeast Asian graduate students complete GSGES Program on Contributing to Sustainable Development through Establishment of ...

Edit Public Technologies 25 Nov 2015
(Source. Kyoto University) ... For the 2015 program, eight participants were selected from among 20 applicants by way of document screening and remote interview examinations ... Nisaetus bartelsi, Accipiter gentilis fujiyamae, Bubo blakistoni, Nisaetus nipalensis orientalis); 'Study on perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) contamination in groundwater in Thailand'; 'Dynamic modeling of environmental systems....

Teams out to save owls from being sacrificed

Edit The Times of India 12 Nov 2015
NAINITAL. Despite animal activists raising a hue and cry over the sacrifice of owls during the festival of lights, this Diwali, too, the practice did not seem to have eased ... Some of the species which are in demand and highly at poaching risk are Spotted owlet (Athene brama), Jungle owlet (Glaucidium radiatum), Barn owl (Tyto alba), Rock eagle-owl (Bubo bengalensis) and Dusky eagle-owl (Bubo coromandus) ... ....

Plague Suspected in Dead Prairie Dog at Bobcat Ridge Natural Area (City of Fort Collins, ...

Edit Public Technologies 04 Nov 2015
(Source. City of Fort Collins, CO). A likely plague infected prairie dog was found at Bobcat Ridge Natural Area last weekend. The prairie dog colony where the infected animal was found has been signed, and the trail remains open ... Human plague can be fatal unless properly diagnosed and treated ... Buboes (tender and extremely swollen lymph nodes) can develop as well. Buboes usually appear in the groin, armpits, or neck regions ... distributed by....
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