Pyramids of numbers and pyramid of biomass. The pyramid of numbers is a useful way of representing a food chain as it shows how the number of consumers at each level decreases, with plants being the most numerous at the base of the pyramid and top carnivores the smallest group. Where the plant being eaten is a tree, however, the pyramid no longer works as a useful model. This is rectified by the use of the pyramid of biomass, where it is the mass of the levels rather than numbers that are represented.
http://www.allrefer.com/pictures/s4/p0014531-pyramid-of-numbers

The magnetic equator, or the line at which the attraction of both magnetic poles is equal. Along the aclinic line, a compass needle swinging vertically will settle in a horizontal position.

How Chimps Avoid Temptation

By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
ScienceNOW Daily News
22 August 2007

Most children practice this mental trick: When asked to wait patiently for a promised treat--say, an hour of television--they occupy themselves with a toy or a book. Researchers have now shown that chimpanzees engage in similar self-distraction, a finding that further blurs the cognitive and behavioral boundary between humans and other primates.

- http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/822/2

Astronomers have discovered a huge hole in the universe!

"WASHINGTON - Astronomers have stumbled upon a tremendous hole in the universe. That's got them scratching their heads about what's just not there. The cosmic blank spot has no stray stars, no galaxies, no sucking black holes, not even mysterious dark matter. It is 1 billion light years across of nothing. That's an expanse of nearly 6 billion trillion miles of emptiness, ...."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070824/ap_on_sc/universe_hole

Do you know where this "empty space" is? What part of the sky? Is it anywhere near the Orion? I have read that there is a huge empty space or something like a corridor in the Orion.

I'm not quite sure why, but I have an incredible urge to laugh at the above quote....

You can read the whole paper at http://xxx.lanl.gov/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0704/0704.0908v2.pdf

at the end of the paper are four images and two charts, beginning on page 11 pf the PDF document. let us know if you can understand where it is.

laughter - incredibly important for nothing where there is something to it - but credibly urgent for something with nothing to it ... huh?

Science Experts say 'artificial life' likely to be created in the next three to ten years.

the first link below shows a picture of artificial cell membranes - the first step in creating life

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/...on.com+%2F+News

this next link is an interesting read

http://www.thenews.com.pk/daily_detail.asp?id=69070

I think the huge hole is close to the constellation Eridanus, located between Orion in the North, Cetus in the West and Fomax in the South. It covers an incredible, mind-boggling 6 to 10 billion light years.