Balaenoptera Song Identified and More for Sunday, May 31, 2009

* Engraulidae image licensed under Creative Commons by funadium

Scientists Engineer Cellular Circuits That Count Events

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528142823.htm

Robots with fins, tails demonstrate evolution

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31001962/

Blue Whale Found Singing In New York Waters

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090529211633.htm

Balaenoptera musculus

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

Balaenoptera musculus (IUCN Red List)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/2477/0

Balaenoptera musculus (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/328574

iReport.com: Dozens of whales beached, shot

http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-264817

SAfricans begin removing bodies of beached whales

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090531/ap_on_re_af/af_south_africa_whales;_ylt=AnJ17GDqmUyOspCORryvLBQPLBIF;_ylu=X3oDMTJuZ3RvZmczBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMDkwNTMxL2FmX3NvdXRoX2FmcmljYV93aGFsZXMEY3BvcwMxBHBvcwMyBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA3NhZnJpY2Fuc2JlZw--

Tarsier monkeys face threat of extinction in Indonesia

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1079115

Tarsius

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

Tarsius pelengensis (IUCN Red List)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/21494/0

Tarsius sangirensis (IUCN Red List)

http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/21493/0

One of the most elusive big cats, the jaguar, gives up some secrets

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8074000/8074124.stm

Panthera onca

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

Panthera onca (EOL Link)

http://eol.org/pages/328606

Hippo pops up on BBC presenter

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8070000/8070073.stm

Hippopotamidae

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

Fallow Deer Become Hoarse In The Hunt For A Mate

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519214929.htm

Cervidae

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

Neurological Disorder In Golden Retriever Dogs Caused By A Mutation In Mitochondrial DNA

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528203728.htm

Golden Retriever

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

Illegal Trade In Vietnam's Marine Turtles Continues Despite National Ban

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090530173402.htm

Chelonioidea

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

* Parasite Risk In Anchovies Varies Depending On Origin Of Fish

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090521144208.htm

Anisakis spp parasite

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

Engraulidae

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

Why Can We Talk? 'Humanized' Mice Speak Volumes About Evolutionary Past

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528120643.htm

Speech

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


Intestinal Bacteria Associated With Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528142833.htm

Liver disease

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

TB -- Hiding In Plain Sight

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090522081205.htm

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

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

Canada's swine flu case count rising

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/05/30/swine-flu-canada.html


Newsweek: Why 'Oprah' advice could make you sick

http://www.newsweek.com/id/200025

Carbon capture technology tested

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8072583.stm

Carbon capture and storage

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

Meters go the distance: smart meters are an essential part of a low-carbon energy system

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8055344.stm

Smart meter

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

Satellite Used To Unearth Innovation In Crop Forecasting

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526171815.htm

AMSR-E satellite

http://weather.msfc.nasa.gov/AMSR/

Nutro Dry Cat Food Recalled

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/30/health/main5050895.shtml

Dinosaurs Survived Extinction and More for Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Field Cricket image licensed under Creative Commons by TheNickster

WHO warns swine flu outbreak is moving closer to pandemic

http://www.yahoo.com/s/1064821

Swine flu outbreak tracked with Twitter

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30454631/

Fire Strongly Influences Global Warming

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142332.htm

New York City-sized ice collapses off Antarctica

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre53r27v-us-antarctica-ice/

Satellite Imagery Shows Fragile Wilkins Ice Shelf Destabilized

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428154833.htm

Wilkins Sound

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

Can Living And Non-living Follow Same Rules? Unifying The Animate And Inanimate Designs Of Nature

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428103104.htm

Scientists claim to have cloned glowing dogs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30463427/

Baby hippo debuts in Peru

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Google Earth Aids Discovery Of Early African Mammal Fossils

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428171006.htm

Evidence Of The 'Lost World': Did Dinosaurs Survive The End Cretaceous Extinctions?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428092823.htm

James Fassett. New Geochronologic and Stratigraphic Evidence Confirms the Paleocene Age of the Dinosaur-Bearing Ojo Alamo Sandstone and Animas Formation in The San Juan Basin, New Mexico and Colorado. Palaeontologia Electronica, April 29, 2009

http://palaeo-electronica.org/2009_1/149/index.html

Alamosaurus

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

Living Dinosaur (cryptozoology)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_dinosaur_(cryptozoology)

Remembrance Of Things Past Influences How Female Field Crickets Select Mates

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421205321.htm

Gryllinae

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

Universal Flu Vaccine Holds Promise

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090427193238.htm

Comets Contain Key Ingredients For Life?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428144126.htm

Details Of Bacterial 'Injection' System Revealed

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090426175651.htm

New Details About Mysterious Giant Virus

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090427203701.htm

Acanthamoeba polyphaga mimivirus

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

Twitter 4: Pandemics? Global Crises? Global Melts? Wildfires? and More for Thursday, March 19, 2009

Will Twitter be the essential new technology tool to help us predict; Pandemics, Global Melting and flooding, Wildfires/Bushfires, Potential Extinctions, and other Catastrophes? (Too late for the Beddington 2030 Global Crisis Projection, see below...). Is this the "real" usefulness or utility for Twitter? Are these "Twittersentials"?

Global crisis 'to strike by 2030'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7951838.stm

Prof John Beddington

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

Big melt seen in Antarctic past, and maybe future

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090318/ap_on_sc/sci_antarctica_melt

Predicting The Next Pandemic Via Twitter?

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/tech/cnettechnews/main4874828.shtml

Scientists grow diabetes drug in tobacco plants

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre52i047-us-tobacco-medicine/

Interleukin-10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin-10

Nicotiana

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

Wildlife center heals survivors of Australia fires

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29769243/

Sexy Beasts: Apes Make Love, Not War

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=7114519&page=1

Pan paniscus

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

Is The Hippopotamus The Closest Living Relative To The Whale?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090318153803.htm

Hippopotamidae

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

Indohyus

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

Badgers to be given anti-TB jabs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7952282.stm

Melinae

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

Mycobacterium bovis

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

Bat's fate after shuttle launch appears grim

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29754578/

Tadarida brasiliensis

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_Free-tailed_Bat

Rare reptile hatchling found on NZ mainland

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090319/ap_on_re_au_an/as_new_zealand_rare_reptile;_ylt=Ao5BuTb7J1m6.ORMBiWUxfGs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFhMDFtNmxwBHBvcwM2BHNlYwN5bl9tb3N0X3BvcHVsYXIEc2xrA3JhcmVyZXB0aWxlaA--

Sphenondon

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

Dinosaurs may have been fuzzy, not scaly, a fossil find suggests

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7950871.stm

Behind the scenes at The Walking with Dinosaurs live show

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7951777.stm

Killing Young Fish: Population Growth Paradox

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090317143155.htm

Mont. Man Ties State Record By Catching Tiny Fish

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/19/ap/strange/main4875591.shtml

Dying bees 'were not a priority'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7951009.stm

Microscope Reveals How Soil Bacteria 'Breathe' Toxic Metals

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090316151031.htm

Missing Piece Of Plant Clock Found

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090312150729.htm

Number Of U.S. Births Breaks Record

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/18/national/main4873969.shtml

Milder Atlantic hurricane season predicted

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/weather/03/18/hurricane.forecast/index.html

Lessons From Hurricane Rita Not Practiced During Hurricane Ike

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090313110752.htm

Hurricane Rita

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

Hurricane Ike

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

Drought, Urbanization Were Ingredients For Atlanta's Perfect Storm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090311111013.htm

2008 Atlanta Tornado Outbreak

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Atlanta_tornado_outbreak

Ozone: New Simulation Shows Consequences Of A World Without Earth's Natural Sunscreen

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090319090754.htm

Ozone layer

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

Ozone depletion

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

Montreal Protocol

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

Food supplies reach Arctic team

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/7952165.stm