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Month: July 2010

The mosquito conundrum: Why not kill ’em all?

30 July 2010 grant b 0

Nature wades into the controversy, asking scientists what would really happen if we killed all the mosquitoes:

A stronger argument for keeping mosquitoes might be found if they provide

… Read the rest “The mosquito conundrum: Why not kill ’em all?”

Snail spit kills pain.

29 July 2010 grant b 0

I have a vague memory of writing a story back in the 1990s about researchers trying to figure out how to use lethal cone snail venom for medical purposes. Well, EurekAlert says they finally… Read the rest “Snail spit kills pain.”

Super-scum. Again.

28 July 2010 grant b 0

This is more covering-the-coverage than flogging a new discovery, but the New York Times is keeping tabs on the process of turning pond scum into an industrial fuel source:

Foreign genes

… Read the rest “Super-scum. Again.”

Teen motherhood: Evolutionary strategy.

27 July 2010 grant b 0

There’s a whole shovel-load of politics wrapped up in this New Scientist report on the evolutionary effects of poverty on human reproduction:

There is no reason to view the poor as

… Read the rest “Teen motherhood: Evolutionary strategy.”

Science Art: Venus and the Ark, by Anne Sexton

25 July 2010 grant b 1

The missile to launch a missile
was almost a secret.
Two male Ph.D.’s were picked
and primed to fill it
and one hundred
carefully counted insects,
three almost new snakes,
coiled in a cube,

… Read the rest “Science Art: Venus and the Ark, by Anne Sexton”

SONG: nobody else can hear

23 July 2010 grant b 1

SONG: “nobody else can hear”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)

ARTIST: grant.

SOURCE: “Super squid sex organ discovered”… Read the rest “SONG: nobody else can hear”

How NASA finds oil.

22 July 2010 grant b 0

Unfortunately, as NPR reveals, we’re not talking about the kind that’s still safely underground:

The NASA Earth Observatory explains that since ocean waters are never perfectly

… Read the rest “How NASA finds oil.”

X in uniform.

21 July 2010 grant b 0

MAPS has published a study confirming that MDMA really does work in treating post-traumatic stress disorder:

Participants treated with a combination of MDMA and psychotherapy saw clinically

… Read the rest “X in uniform.”

If you love a sewage-eating robot, set it free.

20 July 2010 grant b 0

So New Scientist recommends in a new report on an artificial gut that allows robots to become self-sustaining:

[F]ood-munching robots have been demonstrated in the past, often generating

… Read the rest “If you love a sewage-eating robot, set it free.”

Read in color!

19 July 2010 grant b 0

New Scientist teaches you how to make yourself synaesthetic:

Olympia Colizoli at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and colleagues… gave seven volunteers a novel

… Read the rest “Read in color!”

Science Art: The Microwave Sky, Planck Telescope, 2010

18 July 2010 grant b 0



Click to embiggen

This image – a composite view of, well, everything – was made by the European Space Agency’s Planck Telescope, an orbiting observatory assigned to… Read the rest “Science Art: The Microwave Sky, Planck Telescope, 2010”

Get up. Really.

16 July 2010 grant b 0

New York Times quotes research that proves exercise won’t save you. It’s the sitting that kills you:

…[S]cientists from the University of South Carolina and the Pennington

… Read the rest “Get up. Really.”

To cure my wife, you want to transplant my *what*?

15 July 2010 grant b 0

New York Times gets to the fundamentals of the strange world of microbes-as-medicine:

“She was just dwindling down the drain, and she probably would have died,” Dr. [Alexander] Khoruts

… Read the rest “To cure my wife, you want to transplant my *what*?”

Super squid penis. (No, this is not spam.)

14 July 2010 grant b 2

BBC recently covered the salacious details when scientists discovered a squid’s enormous sexual organ:

The male squid’s sexual organ is almost as long as its whole body,

… Read the rest “Super squid penis. (No, this is not spam.)”

Prozac pollution and shrimp suicide.

13 July 2010 grant b 1

BBC News reports that antidepressant runoff is encouraging shrimp to go toward the white light:

The researchers say this causes the shrimps to forget to hide from predators and, as a result,

… Read the rest “Prozac pollution and shrimp suicide.”

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