quarta-feira, julho 21, 2004

Os CTT continuam lindamente

O meu exemplar da edição da New Scientist de 10 de Julho chegou à minha caixa do correio no dia 15.

O de 17 de Julho chegou na segunda-feira passada, dia 19. Vinha acompanhado do de 3 de Julho, já com o invólucro aberto e tudo.

Foi com certeza alguém nos CTT, que se interessa por estas coisas da matéria, que não quis perder a oportunidade de ler o artigo sobre os pentaquark.
"In North America the black bear was seen by [Samuel] Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale."
Darwin, Charles; "The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection" (On the origin and transitions of organic beings with peculiar habits and structure)