Hey folks, it’s been a while… Here’s a neat video that tracks how people and places connect to each other via $1 bills.
http://rocs.northwestern.edu/clips/?assets/Follow_the_Money_SD.mp4
The other videos there are interesting too.
I remember seeing this a long time ago.
Good stuff
You. Yeah, You. You taking Fish Oil for the wonderful Omega-3 fatty acids? Well, it like so many other supplement fads seems to be worthless. http://www.badscience.net/2010/06/the-return-of-a-2bn-fishy-friend/
So… If you’re taking fish oil, there are a few reactions you can have:
Unfortunately, it seems that Option #3 seems to be the approach people take normally. Bummer.
All I can say is… Science is the best thing we’ve got to understand the world around us. It works pretty well, and most importantly, it’s self-correcting.
Try to keep an open mind. Which, of course, doen’t mean, “believe anything anybody tells you,” but something more like, “be ready to accept new evidence as it comes along and don’t let your preconceived beliefs blind you to the new evidence.”
Hey, remember the plantimal? And the other cross-species gene transfer? Here’s another cross-kingdom gene transfer: Aphids got their red color by inheriting a gene from some fungus they ate.
You are what you eat—or, at least, you may turn the same color as the things you eat. Flamingos are pink because they eat shrimp, and even humans can turn orange if we consume too many carrots or tomatoes. The agents responsible are pigments known as carotenoids, but scientists have now found that at least one animal doesn't need to eat them to change color. Instead, tiny insects called aphids picked up the genes needed to produce carotenoids from a fungus sometime during their evolutionary history. That makes aphids the first animal known to produce its own carotenoids, researchers report tomorrow in Science. The scientists remark that it is curious that other animals haven't acquired a means to produce carotenoids, given the many important functions they perform, such as strengthening the immune system.
Dang, I never knew about this. During prohibition, the government required industrial alcohol manufacturers to add very toxic poison to the alcohols, knowing full-well that people get their alcohol from stolen industrial alcohol. Ended up killing around 10,000 americans. I wonder how many went blind.
Okay, some folks just found a 100 Million year old insect embedded an amber that has 3 eyes on a stalk on the back of its head. Now that’s cool. Click on the image for more info.
These guys are kinda crazy.
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There is little I can say, except go read the article, and watch the movie!
Of the 20 observed mating bat pairs, 70% of the females performed fellatio on the males, the team reports online this week in PLoS ONE. The males never withdrew while being licked, and the authors found that the longer a female licked, the longer copulation lasted (for each second of licking, the female bats gained 6 seconds of copulation). The team speculates that licking helps maintain the male's erection, and that the saliva increases lubrication, both of which may prolong intercourse. In all, fellating females mated for an average of 4 minutes, twice as long as the other females.
I always did like Rufus on Kim Possible. But man, the real thing is sooooo much uglier. Click on the ugliyness to see the article in ScienceNow.
Rufus: Ugly Cute
The real naked mole rat. Ugly as sin. But doesn't get cancer.
I was standing in the parking lot the other day and found this guy. Mike collected him (or is it a her) up, and started feeding it crickets. Mike can’t smell anything, but his wife says that crickets smell terrible 
