Feb 11
From New Scientist: GOVERNMENT spooks want cyborg insects to snoop on their enemies. Biologists want to tap into the nervous systems of insects to understand how they fly. A probe that can be implanted into moths to control their flight could help satisfy both parties. One day, it could even help rehabilitate people who have …
Aug 24
pic nicked from here German scientists have made a robot that can imitate the waggle dance that bees use to communicate. RoboBee is stuck to the end of a rod attached to a computer, which determines its “dance” moves. The rod is also connected to a belt which makes it vibrate. Like a real bee, …
Jun 26
As part of their social media marketing campaign, pharmaceutical company, Lion, has invented a cockroach forecast. CScout says: The company created a website outlining a map of Japan and its prefectures. When a cockroach is spotted users enter it into the site inputting details such as where, when, how many and how it made you feel. The …
Mar 26
Festco has created a robot that flies like a seagull. People have been trying and failing to mimic bird-like flight for some time. As a child, I conducted my own experiments with my arms and a porch. Like my previous experiments with an umbrella parachute, this series of tests ended in a minor ankle injury. The robot bird …
Nov 23
When I was a child, my school packed my classmates and I into a yellow bus and sent us to Jungle Cat World. I cannot remember the educational value of the trip but we all learned one hell of a lesson at the monkey cages. Monkeys, it seemed, were compulsive masturbators. They sat or squatted …
Nov 15
Recent studies have found that some radical, ultra-feminist boa constrictors can reproduce without a mate. After mating the old-fashioned way and producing a litter of normal babies in 2004, a pet boa constrictor had litters in 2009 and 2010, apparently without mating. Curiously, snakes in those litters all shared unusual color markings, leading scientists to …
Oct 16
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Jun 17
If you’re not Canadian you might never have heard of The Littlest Hobo. But thanks to the wonders of the interwebs you can watch him solve crimes online. I could tell you about how great this show is — it is a show about an independent spirited, crime solving dog who travels from town to town putting …
Jun 09
“A German biologist says that efforts to clean oil-drenched birds in the Gulf of Mexico are in vain. For the birds’ sake, it would be faster and less painful if animal-rescue workers put them under, she says. Studies and other experts back her up.” From here “Out, damned spot; out, I say. One, two,—why, then …
