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Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Sea-level Rise and Rise of the Hippocampus & More for Wednesday, May 6, 2009




Sonar Images Reveal Clues To Sea-level Rise

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505072502.htm

Larter et al. Subglacial bedforms reveal complex basal regime in a zone of paleo-ice stream convergence, Amundsen Sea embayment, West Antarctica. Geology, 2009; 37 (5): 411 DOI: 10.1130/G25505A.1

http://dx.doi.org/10.1130/G25505A.1

Better Water Use Could Reduce Future Food Crises

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505061838.htm

Wildfires scorch parts of California, Arizona

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/06/western.wildfires/index.html

Prince, frog and friends fight for rainforests

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30599779/

The Prince’s Rainforest Project

http://www.rainforestsos.org/

http://www.rainforestsos.org/

Two Brown Bear Populations In Spain In Danger of Extinction Have Been Isolated For Past 50 Years


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429125243.htm


Ursus arctos



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

Hyena's laugh actually a sign of frustration

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30588225/

Crocuta crocuta

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

Ecosystem Gone Haywire: Cape Gannet Bird Threatened With Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090424114309.htm

Morus capensis

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



Prosecutors: Smuggler hid 13 birds in his pants

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30593503/

'Sobering' Decline Of Caribbean's Big Fish, Fisheries: Overfishing Deemed Most Likely Cause

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505200711.htm

Overfishing

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

Seahorses 'stood up' 25 million years ago

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30600080/

Hippocampus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocampus_(fish)

Ants In Southern Hemisphere Richer And More Diversified Than Northern Hemisphere Ants

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506094103.htm

Formicidae

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

How Social Insects Recognize Dead Nestmates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505124750.htm

Necrophoresis

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O8-necrophoresis.html

Sewage Treatment In The East May Be Enough To Reduce Baltic Algal Blooms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506093835.htm

How spicy foods can kill cancers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6244715.stm

Capsaicin

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

Scientists pinpoint fats danger

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8033205.stm

Great apes suffer setback in EU animal testing vote

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5443is-us-eu-animals-testing/

EU and US reach deal in beef row

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8036202.stm

Livestock traceback participation disappoints -USDA

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5446sw-us-livestock-tracking-study/

Car made from veg runs on chocolate

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8031737.stm

Astronomer To Search Space For Precursors Of Life

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429151946.htm

Scientists hunt swine flu's mysterious origins

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/05/06/swine.flu.origins/index.html

Swine flu is same strain in Canada and Mexico

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/06/swine-flu-sequencing060.html

Does New Swine Flu Virus Kill By Causing A 'Cytokine Storm'?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505174547.htm

Cytokine

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

Flu virus kills Texan, European cases reach Sweden

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5430s8-us-flu/

Flu Pandemic In Prison?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505174549.htm




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Tuesday, April 28, 2009

More on the Pandemic with the Potential for Food Riots and More for Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Yes, we know some of the media attention to the Pandemic is overblown, and we voted as such on CNN.com's website today. But, our senior editor did happen to lose an aunt during the 1918 flu pandemic - whom he was too young to know, and consequently never met. But the impact of the swine flu is very real, and pandemics present a very real issue of mass fatalities - sometimes in the millions. Supposedly, the 1918 pandemic took 25 million lives, maybe more, maybe less. We're hoping this flu mutates quickly into a non-lethal version (see the link below), and peters out with minimum loss of life. But, pointedly, Dr. Fukuda - is his amazingly boring public statement on the level 4 Pandemic - did not mention that possibility. Or was that simply left out?
Of course, as pointed out by Jack Cafferty on CNN yesterday (sigh, we admit to actually watching Mr. Cafferty from time to time, out of shear boredom...) that 36,000 deaths/fatalities occur each year due to the flu out of an infection rate of some 200,000/annum. The point being, we guess, that the situation is serious, not dreadful. But then, we keep reviewing in our mind, Dr. Fukuda's utterly dreadful video presentation of yesterday regarding the level 4 alert. And we wonder, does the WHO know something we don't?
But, something else that really troubles us is the potential for food riots in the near term. Is the world actually facing a $ 100 million (+ or -) shortfall in world food supplies? Will the pandemic balance out this problem? Or, what exactly should we be hoping for? Remember the news/media stories on food shortages before the global economy went bust? That story just didn't go away - it is still a very serious, real issue.
Swine Flu: Public Health Emergency Declared

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090427155739.htm

Public Health Emergency (United States)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_emergency_(United_States)

Canadian health officials warn against travel to Mexico

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/04/28/health-canada-mexico865.html

Best swine flu strategy: Stay away, everyone

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30442914/

U.S. flu victims may not just be travelers

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/

Health chief to be confirmed amid crisis

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30450143/

Kathleen Sebelius

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

More Countries Confirm Swine Flu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8022437.stm

As Swine Flu Scare Unfolds, Virologist Underscores Need For Research On Animal Pathogens

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090427170304.htm

NZ reports first swine flu cases

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8021915.stm

UK prepared for swine flu - Brown

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8021916.stm

Europe braced for spread of flu

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8022958.stm

Israel finds first swine flu case

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8022340.stm

Swine flu spreads to Asia, Middle East

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30398682/

Some Mexican ill say doctors turned them away

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30434921/

N.B. not prepared for swine flu pandemic: Moncton microbiologist

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2009/04/28/nb-pandemic-microbiologist-548.html

Mathematical Model Used To Explain Viral Extinction

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090424073905.htm

Salmon Virus With Potential For Change

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421091737.htm

Infectious salmon anaemia

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

DNA Of Uncultured Organisms Sequenced Using Novel Single-cell Approach

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090422103739.htm

Engineered maize's vitamin boost

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8020925.stm

Zea mays

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

Science cash 'to beat food riots'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8020589.stm

Food security

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

UK funds sea acidification study

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8021459.stm

Ocean acidification

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


How Ear Translates Vibrations Into Sounds

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423132955.htm

Human ear

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


Biological Basis For The Eight-hour Workday?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423132952.htm

Eight-hour workday

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

Oldest known Sumatran tiger dies at zoo

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30386447/

Panthera tigris sumatrae

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

Identifying Hyenas By Their Giggle

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090426094329.htm

Crocuta crocuta

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

Large Sponges May Be Reattached To Coral Reefs

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090427144825.htm

Anthozoa

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

Porifera

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

Live-in Domestics: Mites As Maids In Tropical Rainforest Sweat Bee Nests

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420121348.htm

Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus

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

Chihuahua blown one mile by wind gust

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30448774/

Chihuahua

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog)

Cell phone found in belly of 30-lb cod
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Fishermen Dine on Megachasma and DNA Help for Rhincodon and More for Wednesday, April 8, 2008

Fancy some meat? Chimpanzees exchange hunting booty for sex

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7988169.stm

Pan

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

Studies Of Hyena Skull Development Put Teeth Into New Female Dominance Theory

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112851.htm

Crocuta crocuta

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

Poison -- It's What's For Dinner: Hunt Narrows For Genes That Let Packrats Eat Creosote

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406072919.htm

Neotoma

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

Creosote

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

Rare megamouth shark caught, eaten in Philippines

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090407/ap_on_re_as/as_philippines_rare_shark

Megachasma pelagios

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

DNA Tracks Threatened Whale Sharks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407145159.htm

Rhincodon typus

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

Antarctic Marine Biodiversity Data Now Online

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331133539.htm

Antarctic marine biodiversity link

http://www.scarmarbin.be/

Cat found alive after 5 weeks under rubble

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090407/od_nm/us_germany_cat

Felis catus

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

Fish farms to fight back with EU help

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7989295.stm

Butterflies hit by damp summers

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7988232.stm

Tanzania Study Reopens Debate On Targeting Mosquito Larvae To Control Malaria

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330200718.htm

Malaria

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

Control, Treatment Of Bed Bugs Challenging

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331183504.htm

Cimicidae

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

To Swim Or To Crawl: For The Worm It's A No Brainer

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331091254.htm

Caenorhabditis elegans

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._elegans

Fragility Of World's Coral Is Revealed Through Study Of Northwestern Hawaiian Islands

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406132609.htm

Anthozoa

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

Mouse Models Of Leukemia That Predict Response To Chemotherapy Developed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331183753.htm

Leukemia

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

Bad Mix Of Bacterial Remnants And Genetics Leads To Arthritis

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331101111.htm

‘Junk’ DNA assists evolution

http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20090604-18994.html

Mysterious mouth reaction linked to pollen

http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/04/08/oral.allergy.syndrome/index.html

Oral sex throat cancer link

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6639461.stm

Warning issued over some ground beef sold in Manitoba, Sask., Ontario

http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/04/08/mb-beeef-recall.html


More pistachios recalled as salmonella verified

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30078271/

Pistacia vera

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

Use Of Native Southern African Plants In Veterinary Medicine

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090330123245.htm

Going Bananas For Sustainable Research: Scientists Create Fuel From African Crop Waste

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406132819.htm

Musa

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

Rapid Shifts In Wildfire Hotspots To Come?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407223642.htm

PM heralds 'green economy' Budget

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7989015.stm

Beach rubbish problem 'piling up'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7988726.stm

What's In Your Water? Disinfectants Create Toxic By-products In Drinking Water And Public Swimming Pools


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331112725.htm
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Monday, March 09, 2009

Synthetic Life-Form and Vatican Conference Contra Creationism? and Save Your Bat Colony - Install a Heater and More for Monday, March 9, 2009











http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090309/ap_on_sc/eu_sci_sweden_angry_chimp;_ylt=Ao0eFyyMbpkwoBWFfYAEHu6s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFidXQ5N2J0BHBvcwM0NQRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX3dvcmxkBHNsawNzdHVkeWJlbGxpZ2U-

Pan

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

Zoo elephant, caretakers swap staph infections

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29555879/

Loxodonta

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

Low birthrates could doom rare rhino

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29549767/

Rhinoceros sondaicus

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

Australian wrestles kangaroo from family home

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29593952/

Macropus giganteus

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

Feds OK gray wolves' removal from endangered list

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090307/ap_on_sc/gray_wolf_endangered;_ylt=AmY.4jYNc6srt9SGec6guo8PLBIF

Canis lupus

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










































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