Decreased Ice Melt - Due to Lead? and More for Friday, May 15, 2009

Ice sheet melt threat reassessed

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8050094.stm

Global Warming Curbed By Lead Pollution?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093542.htm

Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513130942.htm

Breakthrough In The Treatment Of Bacterial Meningitis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121048.htm

New Tissue Scaffold Regrows Cartilage And Bone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511122429.htm

Brain chemical may play key role in anxiety

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre54b6v6-us-anxiety-brain/

Basic fibroblast growth factor 2

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibroblast_growth_factor_2

Eating Fish, Nuts And Olive Oil May Be Associated With Reduced Risk Of Age-related Blindness

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511164235.htm

Neandertals Sophisticated And Fearless Hunters, New Analysis Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084115.htm

Homo neanderthalensis

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

Swine flu closes schools

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1072102

Human noses too cold for bird flu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8050523.stm

Tall story: Scientists fail to get to the bottom of giraffe evolution

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8050000/8050298.stm

Giraffa camelopardalis

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

Australian court halts killing of kangaroos

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090514/ap_on_re_au_an/as_australia_killing_kangaroos;_ylt=Agc3N8_zytePmxJ1kQqSndkPLBIF

Surfer rescues drowning kangaroo

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8051264.stm

Exhibit explores world of weird mammals

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20090514/ap_tr_ge/us_travel_brief_extreme_mammals;_ylt=AhDkxpY1r0cufJYY10XK0VOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFkMG9zMzhkBHBvcwMxNjUEc2VjA2FjY29yZGlvbl90cmF2ZWwEc2xrA2V4aGliaXRleHBsbw--

More Critically Endangered Birds On Red List

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513224124.htm

Anodorhynchus leari

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

Eriocnemis isabellae

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

Heteromirafra sidamoensis

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

Camarhynchus pauper

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

Bizarre bird gets private beach in Indonesia

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090515/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_bird_beach;_ylt=ArSGvqRjbESsUhuzXXiZ7gIPLBIF

Macrocephalon maleo

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

Hopes of fitting tags to ospreys

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8050529.stm

Fish that triggers hallucinations found off British coast

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5318202/Fish-that-triggers-hallucinations-found-off-British-coast.html

Sarpa salpa

http://www.fishbase.org/Summary/speciesSummary.php?ID=204&genusname=Sarpa&speciesname=salpa

For Northern Shrimp Populations In North Atlantic, Timing Is Everything

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507145749.htm

Pandalus borealis

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

Oldest Example Of Mutualism: Termites And Protozoa Discovered Together In Ancient Amber

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514153139.htm

George O Poinar Jr. Description of an early Cretaceous termite (Isoptera: Kalotermitidae) and its associated intestinal protozoa, with comments on their co-evolution. Parasites & Vectors, 2009; 2 (12) DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-2-12

http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-2-12



Dire warnings of insect extinctions may be wide of the mark

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8040000/8040926.stm

Scorpion Sting: Antivenom Results In Prompt Recovery From Nerve Poisoning, Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513173452.htm

How Bees Hold Onto Flowers: 'Velcro'-like Structures On Flower Petals Help Bees Stick

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514125148.htm

Coral: Climate Change Could Displace Millions

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513130953.htm

The plant that can water itself

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8049000/8049850.stm

Rheum palaestinum

http://www.zipcodezoo.com/Plants/R/Rheum_palaestinum.asp

Ginger Found to Ease Nausea of Cancer Treatment

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/health/15cancer.html?ref=global-home

Medicinal Plant Kava Safe And Effective In Reducing Anxiety, Study Suggests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511122619.htm

Piper methysticum

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

Potential Anti-ulcer Herb Medicine: Rocket 'Eruca Sativa'

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507101824.htm

Eruca sativa

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

Medicinal Plant, St John's Wort, May Reduce Neuronal Degeneration Caused By Parkinson's Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511181252.htm

Hypericum perforatum

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John%27s_Wort

Switchgrass Genome May Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512134651.htm

Panicum virgatum

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

Grilling With Charcoal Less Climate-friendly Than Grilling With Propane, Study Finds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093254.htm

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