Another look at the magic dragon

It's a little too dark in the video, but I got closer to it.

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Mauna Loa vs Mauna Kea

Mauna Loa may be Earth's largest volcano, but nearby Mauna Kea is taller (13796 ft vs 13677 ft) and has the cool telescopes.

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Mauna Loa last erupted in 1984. I guess Kilauea (which is erupting now, and has been, more or less, for the last ten years, at least, I think), isn't counted as part of Mauna Loa?

Nature magazine (25 May 2006) says that Mauna Loa isn't dead, just sleeping, and that "its 1877 underwater eruption, which made the waters of a nearby bay boil, was much larger than was thought [...] contradicting the theory that this volcano is dying."

I still like Mauna Kea the best, even though I started gasping from the thin air up there.

Neotony

In a classic experiment by Vilem Laufberger in Germany, hormone injections persuaded an axolotl to grow into a fully adult salamander of a species that no one had ever seen. More famously in the English-speaking world, Julian Huxley later repeated the experiment, not knowing it had already been done. In the evolution of axolotl, the adult stage had been chopped off the end of the life cycle. Under the influence of experimentally injected hormone, the axolotl finally grew up, and an adult salamander was recreated, persumably never before seen.

Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale, p98

axolotl huxley [google search]

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