Sunday, July 29, 2007
Just a little humming...
No matter how closely you listen, you will not hear the Earth hum - but humming it is. Far, far below the range of human hearing, waves of energy are coursing through the crust, causing the ground beneath your feet to rise and fall about three-millionth of an inch every few minutes. First detected...
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Friday, July 27, 2007
Are You Ready for New Fashions in Blood?
‘Henrik Clausen and his colleagues at the University of Copenhagen have managed to turn any type of blood into type O, the kind all people can safely receive... But one day, if University of Sheffield chemist Lance Twyman has his way, type O and perhaps all donor blood might be unnecessary. Twyman...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007
Mosquitoes and more mosquitoes...
In 1998, researchers found a new mosquito species in the London Underground [subway to us North Americans], descended from ancestors that flew in when the tunnels were dug 100 years ago. Once bird-feeders, they now feast on a menu of mice, rats and people. They rarely interbreed with their...
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
It's Mosquito Season...
According to a University of Bristol study, male mosquito "ears" are packed with about as many sensory cells as human ears, helping amorous mosquito males identify and pursue passing females. When a mosquito detects the whine of the opposite sex, it begins to synchronize its own pitch to that of the...
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Friday, July 20, 2007
Testicle Festival - make a note on your calender...
No, I am not back yet. But I couldn't forgive myself if I withheld this information from you! August 1-7: The 25th Annual Testicle Festival will be held at Clinton (?!), MT. 15,000 drunken cowboys go nuts consuming 2.5 tons of bulls' balls. Still not as strange as the Turkey Testicle Festival in...
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Friday, July 13, 2007
More traveling...
Well, folks, I'm off on another trip, and 'down the road' there'll be 10 extra clicks for the first Blogger who guesses correctly where the road will take me this time. Meanwhile you might not see much of me, although you may catch the occasional glimpse, either in your blogs or mine. And I hope...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2007
Witness gets sued, killer gets offed...
Michael James Kuhnhausen of Portland, Ore., who is accused by police of hiring a hit man to kill his wife, is suing a witness in the case. Harold Jones told police that the hit man said he’d been paid US$50,000 to “off” his estranged wife. Kuhnhausen says that the allegations have “greatly vexed...
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Sunday, July 8, 2007
Outsourcing Babies....
‘Outsourcing’ is the economic practice ‘du jour’ and is ' de rigueur' [as a Canadian, I am not only allowed to use French occasionally, I am required to do so, to demonstrate my unwavering commitment to bilingualism, lol]. It’s cheaper to have the goods we want and need produced offshore by people...
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Friday, July 6, 2007
Truly Useful Science...
If you can't win a Nobel, try for an IgNobel, offered since 1991 by the Annals of Improbable Research for scientific work "that cannot or should not be reproduced." Last years winners include Claire Rind and Peter Simmons of the University of Newcastle in England, who won the peace prize for...
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Thursday, July 5, 2007
And now there's yet another conspiracy...
The discovery in the US and Canada of counterfeit Colgate toothpaste – tainted by a poisonous chemical and originating in South Africa [as well as China] – might help the fortunes of another African contribution to dental care. Reuters reported this week that twigs, cut from brushes and used to...
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