Month: March 2008

Medicinenet has a real downer of a report, dude. Stoners are more likely to contract severe gum disease:

After controlling for other risk factors for gum disease, including tobacco use,

Endgadget is freaking out over a joint University of Cincinnati/Air Force breakthrough creating an environmentally friendly light source, called BioLEDs, out of salmon sperm:

The so-called

More poetry from New Scientist, reporting on Georgetown University research into the memory of butterflies:

Seventy-eight percent of the caterpillars that were shocked directly after

Discover reports on a new bicycle frame that’s stronger than titanium, steel, carbon composites or aluminum. It’s lighter, too – because it’s full of holes… Read the rest “It’s Full of Holes.”

The Reuters Environment Desk had a doozy of a story recently on how Norwegian lobbyists want us to eat whale to save the planet:

The survey, focused on whale boats’ fuel use, showed

M.I.T. researchers, cited in the Boston Globe, have used brain scanners and simple tasks to map out neurological differences between Westerners and East Asians:

In one, subjects eyeballed

Ha’aretz reports on a rather unusual theory coming out of Hebrew University – that Moses was tripping his way down Mt. Sinai:

“And all the people perceived the thunderings,

PhysOrg brightens our day with a fun new invention that’s actually rather old-fashioned. It’s a gravity-powered lamp.

The LED lamp, named Gravia, is an acrylic column a little