Arbor Day and More for Friday, April 24, 2009

"The Old Apple Orchard, Wisbech St. Mary" image licensed under Creative Commons by scrumpyboy

Arbor Day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbor_Day

Remembering the lost forests of America

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30376570/

New swine flu strain caused 800 Mexican cases, health minister says

http://www.cbc.ca/health/story/2009/04/24/health-flu-mexico090424.html

Mexico shuts schools around capital in flu scare

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53n228-us-flu/

Deadly outbreak in Mexico caused by swine flu

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30386163/

Swine flu


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swine_flu

Ice Sheet Behavior Much More Volatile And Dynamic Than Previously Thought, Tahiti Corals Show

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423205104.htm


Achoo! Nasty spring ahead for allergies

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30267953/

World premiere of brain orchestra

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8016869.stm

Mammalian Gene Control Code Cracked

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420103549.htm

Cow genome 'to transform farming'
"The full sequence of a cow's genome has been published, revealing coded secrets that could revolutionise agriculture".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8014598.stm

Bos

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bos

Ancient cattle species re-introduced to Britain

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30369177/

Heck cattle/ Bos taurus / auroch / Bos primigenius


Cattle genes may give clues about human health

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53m5xt-us-cattle-genes/

Horse Deaths Raise Drug Safety Concerns

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=7419752&page=1

Mystery Of Horse Domestication Solved?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142541.htm

Equus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equus_(genus)

Are Your Pets' Flea, Tick Meds Safe?

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=7410763&page=1

Abandoned baby kangaroo gets life-saving milk

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30369184/

'Missing link' fossil seal walked

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8012322.stm

Origin Of Seals: Evidence Of Missing Link

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422132832.htm

Puijila darwini

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puijila_darwini

Mara wildlife in serious decline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8008700.stm

Masai Mara National Reserve

http://www.tourism.go.ke/default.nsf/doc21/4YGEX3ADMY6?opendocument&l=1&e=1&se=103

FAA publicizes bird strike data

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Insight Into Fish Disease To Help Protect Farmed Fish Stocks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423193944.htm

Proliferative kidney disease / Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proliferative_Kidney_Disease

Spectacular Recovery From Coral Bleaching At Great Barrier Reef Marine Park In Australia

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423100817.htm

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

http://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/

Orchard losses 'threaten species'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8014873.stm

Orchard

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchard

Bacteria Tapped To Battle Crop-Damaging Roundworms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090419200651.htm

Heterodera glycines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heterodera_glycines

Meloidogyne incognita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meloidogyne_incognita

Caenorhabditis elegans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caenorhabditis_elegans

Pseudomonad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudomonad

Drowned spiders come back from the dead

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30348224/

Arctosa Fulvolineata

http://www.galerie-insecte.org/galerie/arctosa_fulvolineata.html

Scientists make super-strong metallic spider silk

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53m5og-us-spider-silk/

Spider silk / gossamer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spider_silk

Animals Get The Boot From Bronx Zoo

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/24/national/main4966089.shtml

Our Penchant For Rarity Could Threaten Conservation Efforts

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421205234.htm

Animals That Seem Identical May Be Completely Different Species

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422121858.htm

Breakthrough In Making Therapeutic Stem Cells

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423132559.htm


Plants Absorb More Carbon Under Hazy Skies

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422132829.htm

Estimating Crop Residue From Space Via Satellite

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090419201557.htm

'Clean' coal plants get go-ahead

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8014295.stm

Pollution 'fights global warming'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8013709.stm

No 'Burp' Accelerating Climate Change? Wetlands Likely Source Of Methane From Ancient Warming Event

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142457.htm

Ancient fertilizer technique could help poor farmers, store carbon

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/04/23/tech-090423-biochar-carbon-trading.html


Egyptian woman contracts bird flu as cases mount

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53k5tg-us-birdflu-egypt/

Immune system researchers win $500K medical prize

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090424/ap_on_he_me/us_med_medical_prize

Albany Medical Center Prize

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albany_Medical_Center_Prize

Experts identify cells causing severe malaria

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53n02q-us-malaria/

Salmonella Strain's Path To Virulence Uncovered

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090419202242.htm

Muscle Deterioration In Patients With Lung Disease Seen Connected To Heightened Carbon Dioxide Levels In The Blood

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423082921.htm

Scientists grow blood vessels for patients

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30369960/

Evidence Mounts That Short Or Poor Sleep Can Lead To Increased Eating And Risk Of Diabetes

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421181032.htm

Grapefruit Juice Boosts Drug's Anti-cancer Effects, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420151227.htm

Citrus × paradisi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit

Microbe-powered 'fart' machine stores energy


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30372491/

Gal chased by bear gets run down by car

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/04/24/dnt.woman.bear.hit.run.kktv

40-pound tumor cut from 82-pound woman

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30386195/

First Dog is 'crazy,' Michelle Obama tells kids

http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/24/bo-obama-loves-to-chew/

For Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Electophorus electricus image licensed under Creative Commons by skippy13

Japanese plant writes blog

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7681966.stm

Kyo no Midori-san (This is the "about" page. OOPS! See below.)

http://plant.bowls-cafe.jp/index.php

Our first message to Midori, the plant!!! "Greetings to you plant, Midori. I've never communicated directly with a plant before. This is a very exciting development to me. I am very pleased to meet you. I will treat all vegetation with greater respect from now on. I hope you can visit my blog "Bring Back the Dodo!" (http://www.bringbackthedodo.blogspot.com) on Google's Blogger site (blogger.com). There I have a special link to Flora called "Floralinks". I will include link to your site and the BBC story that brought me to you. Sorry that this message is in English, but my Japanese is not so good. Hope you are well and it is sunny tomorrow. Love, ******"

OOPS! Apparently the link does not connect to Midori. We were contacted by Masakazu OHTSUKA. Here is his response.

Dear ******,Hello,I'm a member of KAYAC Inc. (http://www.kayac.com/),the company which created the blogging plant system.Sorry I'm not the plant itself ;-pThanks for the contact and for your blog entry!The English blogging plant's English "about" page is here.http://plant.bowls-cafe.jp/about_en.phpMight be more information for you.There isn't any way to directly talk with Midori,but we have a blog widget here for you to show it on your blog.
(The Widget appears on the right-hand side of the blog. If you'd like us to email you the widget, contact us here).

--Masakazu OHTSUKA

Scientists believe they have erased specific memories in mice

http://www.yahoo.com/s/974667

Eels' shocking secrets could power devices

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27308292/

Electophorus electricus

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/SpeciesSummary.php?id=4535

Helping flippers How volunteers in Cyprus assist turtles on their way

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/picture_gallery/08/sci_nat_the_turtle_project/html/1.stm

Diversity Decreases Risk Of Parasitic Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021185059.htm

Why eating males pays off, for spiders

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre49l031-us-spiders/

Turtle Doves Commit Adultery

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081015100033.htm

Streptopelia turtur

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_Dove

Egg Whites Solve The 3-D Problem

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081007123651.htm

Study Of Polar Dinosaur Migration Questions Whether Dinosaurs Were Truly The First Great Migrators

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021185205.htm

Bird-Like Dinosaur Sported Bizarre Tail Feathers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081022/sc_livescience/birdlikedinosaursportedbizarretailfeathers;_ylt=AoUka5Jd6nEpGtM1kmluS50PLBIF

LA councilman seeks to halt zoo elephant exhibit

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_re_us/elephant_exhibit;_ylt=Arhe6vM3E.OIP2tCVoaw5FgPLBIF

Farmer sees future fuel in switchgrass

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26874307/

Panicum virgatum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchgrass

Seeds May Hold Clues to Climate Change

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=6082221&page=1

Job choice 'affects Alzheimer's'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7681451.stm

Ancient Bone Tool Sheds Light On Prehistoric Midwest

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081021214301.htm

Out Of Mesopotamia: Evolutionary History Of Tuberculosis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081017085214.htm

Food allergies increasing in US kids, study says

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_he_me/med_child_food_allergies;_ylt=AjqWAj5pIEd6SDZIessSDtis0NUE


Speed of eating 'key to obesity'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7681458.stm

Strep throat leads to amputation of legs

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/health/2008/10/22/tessman.strep.throat.kare

Scientists find 26 genes promoting lung cancer

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_he_me/med_lung_cancer_genes;_ylt=Ao1j0n6yA3XXlJoMhL8ym7.s0NUE

Panel calls for vaccine for adult smokers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_he_me/med_vaccine_for_smokers;_ylt=AhBs56jNZ_8QWPd119fQ4LGs0NUE

FDA: Incontinence surgery linked to complications

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081022/ap_on_he_me/med_women_s_health;_ylt=AkFzBAbfoTvX5oUMI9wD_sWs0NUE