Great tits cope well with warming
news.bbc.co.ukFound 7 days, 4 hours, 28 minutes, and 45 seconds agoGreat tits in Britain seem to be adapting to climatic change, scientists report, unlike some other birds.
feeds.wired.com
Climate change threatens many animals -- but with any luck, some will handle weather shifts with as much aplomb as Parus major, a colorful songbird also known as the great tit. The birds have followed suit, timing their breeding to coincide with earlier hatches of their favorite food source, a species ...
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defamer.com
Just when we thought we had seen the best headline of the week over at BBC - "Great Tits Cope Well With Warming" (get your mind out of the gutter! It's about birds) - and the best-possible What Happens in Vegas dismissal (courtesy of a caustic Manohla Dargis), along comes Time Magazine to combine the two distinctions in one revelatory piece of film criticism entitled " What Happens in Vegas Stays Sucky ":
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kottke.org
Just in time for my newly formed headlines tag: Great tits cope well with warming . (thx, ryan & alex)
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ace.mu.nu
Good News...Army Names New Generals, Reflects Petraeus' Strategic Thinking. Best news? Col. McMaster is reportedly on the list.
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iowahawk.typepad.com
There are a couple more late additions to the Earth Week Cruise-In which you should check out . In other Earth Week Cruise News, Iowahawk gets results! David Archibald sends in a scan from the May 8 edition of the West Australia News (Perth's leading newspaper) celebrating his title as Iowahawk's Champion Carbonator of 2008 . David also sends word that, as a result, the News has invited him to pen a global warming op-ed piece.
Good onya, mate! Enjoy the spoils of victory.
And on the topic of Aussie climate change news, a tip of the chapeau to the legendary Tim Blair for spotting the best news story of the 21st Century:
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blogs.siliconvalley.com
Foldit , the game in which you solve puzzles for science; a pair of R2-D2 companions, one commercial and one homemade ; and a test to tell whether your ISP is throttling BitTorrent traffic . Also, what will likely be the most clicked-on climate-change story this month: " Great tits cope well with warming ." Scientists love those birds . ( Thanks, Alan )
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johnvey.com
Brijit closed up shop today .
Unfortunately, despite our best efforts, we've run out of money, and can no longer afford to pursue our vision of adapting great long-form content for a short-form world, at least not as a stand-alone company. As recently as yesterday morning, we thought we had the funding in place to continue our work together. But as it turns out, we don't.
Like Cameron , I found the site useful and am sad to see it go. ( link )
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blogs.herald.com
FINALLY, SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
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theconnexion.net
I nearly spat coffee over my Mac this morning when I opened up my feedreader. Somebody at the BBC is having a laugh with this headline .
Of course, none of my blogging friends would think of posting something like this. Except Randy , obviously. I bet he enjoys 'Carry On' films as much as I do, too.
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utterlyboring.com
" Great tits cope well with warming ."
Thanks Fark .
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
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redfellow.blogspot.com
Great tits cope well with warming Malcolm Redfellow's World Service also notes this story and goes on to inform us that the RSPB has banished the word "cock" from its website. This leads him to reminisce:
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ccinsider.comedycentral.com
Listen, I get that working at the BBC probably gets boring. All the reporting about meat pies and The Queen and scones and Queen can really wear on you, so sometimes you need to cut loose and have fun. Sometimes you need to write a story about birds named after boobs so a comedy blog will link to you. And you know what? I will oblige:
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boarsheadtavern.com
I admit it: I had to do a double take.
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iminstant.com
I love the BBC. What a fantastic
headline Great
tits cope well with warming .
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gawker.com
News You Can Use
" Great tits cope well with warming" [ BBC via YM ]
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WWW.johnnygoodtimes.com
Courtesy of the BBC . And no, we WON'T "grow up".
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reportr.net
Headlines for the web need to make sense on their own, as people often access sites via RSS feeds.
I wonder how many people were puzzled, amused, shocked or disappointed by the headline on this BBC science story :
Perhaps it is no surprise that at the time of writing, this was the most e-mailed and most read story on BBCNews.com .
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alphapatriot.com
The title of this post is stolen directly from BBC News. Honest . It's from the Science/Nature section and deals with global warming. Then again, "tits" means something else entirely to the bird-watching population of England: Of course, this is actually a very good lesson for the Gorebal Warming alarmists. As the natural temperature variations occur across geologic ages, different species are affected differently. What is bad for some is very good for others.
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bendblogs.com
" Great tits cope well with warming ."
Thanks Fark .
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manodogs.blogspot.com
I have often wanted to post some sort of "Headlines" segment that just lists all sorts of headlines found online out of context - such as this one - but I never know where it would best fit and really, it could go either way most days. I have enough on my plate, anyway.
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iantan.org
Environment correspondent, BBC News website
Food for hungry mouths
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At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.
Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars.
Writing in the journal Science, they point out that the same birds in the Netherlands have not managed to adjust. Understanding why some species in some places are affected more than others by climatic shifts is vital, they say.
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southofheaven.typepad.com
When I first saw the headline I thought it meant something entirely different. But it meant this .
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cronaca.com
This is probably turning a lot of heads over at the BBC.
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solomonia.com
No Joke: BBC: Great tits cope well with warming
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billdoskoch.blogware.com
Observe for yourself:
Some editors wait their whole lives for a chance to get away with writing a headline like that. :)
Here's the actual story .
Incidentally, it was the most e-mailed story on BBC as I write this.
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timblair.net
A positive environmental development .
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smartbitchestrashybooks.com
Great tits cope well with warming.
To which I say: Tits, schmits--won't somebody think of the boobies ?
(Many thanks to my friend HaikuKatie--my favorite source of anything tit-related--for sending me the link.)
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archiearchive.wordpress.com
From the BBC!
And a genius sub-editor! Notice that the tits shown are not only immature, but also nude!
At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food.
Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars.
Writing in the journal Science, they point out that the same birds in the Netherlands have not managed to adjust.
Understanding why some species in some places are affected more than others by climatic shifts is vital, they say.
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birdandbuffalotails.blogspot.com
life like a bit of the old tit to tit flutter, if ya get my beak, so I say climate change - BRING IT ON!" FOR THE GEEKS' TAKE ON GREAT TITS & WARMING, CHECK OUT THE B&B SEE AT: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7390109.stm
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gazizza.net
Great tits cope well with warming
Apparently they're talking about birds...
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fosta.typepad.com
Slow news day prompts BBC headline writer to have fun... (thanks brian)
Sam Potts has done away with his old website, with it's 45 pages, and just has a single front page, plus a jedi mind trick. Really sweet.
Seiko e-ink wristwatch . E-ink has been the staple diet for students and concept designers for years, with it's promise of wafer thin, hi-def, flexible screens, but every single e-ink product which has made it to market has been a turkey. Discuss.
Last time i was in tokyo, i put a 100yen piece into a capsule machine, and my prize was a little anatomical model of the human ear.
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rantingroom.blogspot.com
As reported by the BBC, finally some good news on the global warming front .
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redzilla.vox.com
The birds! I'm talking about those little great tit birds , you pervert. Apparently they're doing well despite climate warming in the British Isles. (I was going to add a picture of adorable baby tits to this post, but just as I was typing "great tits chicks" into Google, I realized how close to danger I was.) I dunno, I just thought it was a brilliant headline. One of those journalism success stories. Swayte Jaysus. It's Friday finally. I wasn't sure we were going to make it here. It's also Stop Day, the last day of the semester, which means I have twomore frantic weeks of work before the next stage of the Great Brain Tumor Hall Migration.
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dailybayonet.blogs.com
Starting with a laugh with the BBC headline writers: Great Tits cope well with warming .
If you're new to all this skepticism, check out our fellow traveller at Skeptics Global warming for his two-part post on a The Global Warming Hoax: A Skeptical Beginners Guide Part One and Part Two .
Investors Business Daily takes a look at some of the alarmists scary predictions that, well, didn't happen.
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misskelly.typepad.com
Very amusing headline .
In addition to the tee-hee factor, this info (published in the journal Science ) adds to our understanding of global climate change and how species adapt. "At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food. Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars." Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth raises the specter of starving pied flycatchers who cannot feed their young, because caterpillars are now peaking two weeks before the birds hatch.
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whateveritisimagainstit.blogspot.com
We seem to have a theme today. As I was writing that paragraph, an Alert Reader sent in this Headline of the Day, from the BBC :
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friskygeek.com
Headline of the Day: "Great tits cope well with warming"
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indiauncut.com
I am henceforth going to take great interest in the environment .
(Link via separate emails from Ken and Ulrik.)
Posted at 5:17 PM by Amit Varma in Miscellaneous
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greensleeves.typepad.com
Why do you suppose this is the most e-mailed story the BBC has posted today?
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bakelblog.com
The BBC writes the headline of the day . Extra points for the second subhead.
'Scuze me while I, um, titter.
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eguinan.wordpress.com
Well, that's what the BBC is telling us anyways .
[Sits back and watches hit count skyrocket...]
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boingboing.hexten.net
That's the headline for this BBC story, which reports: "At least one of Britain's birds appears to be coping well as climate change alters the availability of a key food. Researchers found that great tits are laying eggs earlier in the spring than they used to, keeping step with the earlier emergence of caterpillars. " Link
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theamericanscene.com
If, from time to time, you become as helplessly juvenile as I find myself being, click here immeejitly.
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anexerciseinfutility.blogspot.com
Click on the link to this BBC article and see if you agree.
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metachat.org
Great tits cope well with warming!
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planet.journals.co.nz
Great tits cope well with warming
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sugarfreak.typepad.com
One of the media's more misleading headlines
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clusterflock.org
"In our study population, the same old rules don't work any more; so it's an interesting question as to which situation is the normal one and which is the exception."
(link to article)
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gruts.com
BBC: Great tits cope well with warming
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fumare.blogspot.com
Some time ago, these pages exposed great tits challenging evolutionary theory . Now, the latest study concludes that great tits cope well with warming. (Read the full article here .) This turns aside years of thought in the scientific community that the cold was better for great tits.
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osirra.com
Amusing, but hardly surprising that the BBC's article entitled Great tits cope well with warming is their most emailed story. Lots of bird lovers out there, it seems.
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rmcrob.com
One of the best sentences you will ever read leads off this piece: Congressional Problem Creation by Walter Williams .
Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place.
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mattzollerseitz.blogspot.com
5. "Great tits cope well with warming" : As Ali Arikan says: Best. Headline. Ever.
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dendroica.blogspot.com
Great tits are adjusting to climate change by nesting earlier . Tits at Wytham Woods near Oxford have been banded and their nests monitored since 1947. On average, they now lay eggs two weeks earlier than in 1961. The earlier nest date allows birds to take advantage of an earlier peak in caterpillar availability due to the warming climate. It appears that the British great tits, unlike continental great tits and North American wood warblers, are able to adjust their breeding dates based on ambient temperature and food availability.
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meloukhia.net
" Great tits cope well with warming ," says the headline, and really, I can't top that, so I'm not even going to try.
Gender is often fluid for very young children, and with a growing recognition of gender identity disorder as a real thing, we are crossing into previously unchartered territory when it comes to kids and gender. This NPR story is about two very different approaches to young boys who identify as girls, and it will simultaneously break your heart and amaze you. Here's the second part of the series , which you should also read.
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rhog.blogspot.com
- Global warming is not all bad, according to the BBC: "Great tits cope well with warming"
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rickey.org
An eight-year-old girl strapped with explosives has blown up and killed an Iraqi army captain
→
Perspective. #
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Great tits cope well with warming
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planetatheism.com
Back to your regularly scheduled programming. Go get into Tangled Bank , it's now up and it kicks the arse of bloody Salon Life - thanks The Beagle Project!
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walrusmagazine.com
Lego is fifty years old. Link.
Relating to the potato famine link I listed few days back, "To avoid future price increases, he's considering acquiring a big walk-in freezer and stocking it with a year's worth of pork," from a piece on rising prices. Link.
I cannot believe this article headline was not a well planned joke, "Great tits cope well with warming," from the BBC. Link.
Buyers guide to maps of Antarctica. Link.
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civilizer.wordpress.com
From the "I'll bet there were a lot of people who went away disappointed after clicking the link " department:
And don't even try to tell me that the headline writer at the Beeb didn't know exactly what he was doing.
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lettersfromatory.wordpress.com
And now there are two more to add to the list:
3. LYNCHINGS IN CONGO AS PENIS THEFT PANIC HITS CAPITAL
4. GREAT TITS COPE WELL WITH WARMING
The mental images for all of these are truly bizarre.
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It's beers all round for the BBC this morning who've outregged El Reg leader writers with this deliciously suggestive offering:…
Read the full article (The Register)
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dbassingthwaite.com
" Great tits cope well with warming "
(not what you might think it's about)
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» Great tits cope well with warming
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- BBC NEWS | Science/Nature
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boingboing.net
Landscape artist Mike Shubic can make you a humongous guitar like the 12-foot-long beaut seen here. This particular style starts at $6500 plus shipping. From his eBay listing:
This is an acoustic style guitar sculpture that can be made in any size, finish or style, and, you can actually strum it. The strings are piano wire in various sizes and the piece can be tuned (to some degree).
Link (Thanks, Michael-Anne Rauback!)
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kateharding.net
All right, all right, they're actually talking about birds . (The kind that fly.) But even so, as a commenter over at Shakesville (whence I stole this) said, the real question is, how are the boobies faring?
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buls.org
Fabulous to see that the most emailled article from the BBC today is entitled "Great tits cope well with warming." It's always good when a good science story tops the agenda.
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blog.gosedesign.net
my favorite headline of the day.
BBC: Great tits cope well with warming
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podblack.wordpress.com
Speaking of films, New Scientist has popped up a response to their fondness for Iron Man with a list of 'Five Science Fiction Movies That Get The Science Right' - earlier I blogged about the fantastic lecture I attended by Biotechnology Australia, who did a study on the influence that films have on attitudes towards biotechnology (seems everyone approves of GATTACA ):
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Great tits cope well with warming
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