Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 9 October 2008
Messing with your body clock may have bad effects on learning and retention. (I’m looking at you, Gella and Mikko.)
clipped from www.sciencedaily.com
The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness and back to sleep again, may be doing much more
hamsters whose circadian system was disabled by a [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 9 October 2008
Another fun fact (not in the article): mitochondrial DNA can be used to tell who his mom was, too.
clipped from www.sciencedaily.com
developing techniques which may one day allow police to work out someone’s surname from the DNA alone
Doctoral research by Turi King has shown that men with the same British surname are highly likely to be [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 9 October 2008
clipped from www.guardian.co.uk
Fertile women raise their voice pitch
Women’s voices rise and fall in tune with their fertility, according to research by psychologists.
Recordings of women taken at different times in their monthly cycle show that the female voice rises perceptibly a day or two before ovulation, when women are most likely to become pregnant.
The findings are [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 8 October 2008
I knew it was possible. Well done, farmers.
clipped from www.popularmechanics.com
Poop Power: U.S. Farms Save Big Turning Manure to Kilowatts
For farmers already operating on slim margins, the trick to staying afloat could be right under their feet. PM visits one dairy farm that’s already saving $60,000 a year by turning cow manure into energy using an [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 6 October 2008
Theoretically, you could poop AND brush your teeth while you showered.
clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk
the world’s first fold-up vertical bathroom.
The two showers� -� one for adults and one for children� -� both rotate 180 degrees while the other units all rotate a full 360 degrees.
But he warned that the Vertebrae� -� named after the human spine� -� [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 6 October 2008
It seems that belief in some kind of afterlife isn’t learned.
This is a great article, with plenty of scientific and philosophical food for thought. I just clipped two quotes that struck me, plus something about the Baby Mouse study; I highly recommend you check out the whole article at the source.
clipped from www.sciam.com
Consider the rather [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Well, MS can’t be all bad, can it?
clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net
The laboratory is using Microsoft Vista, but Dunleavy promised the school that when he visits the village again next year, he would bring along a Microsoft Version 7
What was then a small school in a depressed village began to change
He gave us fund for school [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Monday, 29 September 2008
DUDE.
clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk
Pictured: The punk rock turtle with a bright green mohawk
Shell shocked: The Mary River Turtle is having a Green Day, but his hairdo is just algae growing on his head
The Mary River Turtle has become a popular figure with Australian environmentalists who say the endangered creature is being further threatened by Queensland State [...]
Posted by: Kat on: Wednesday, 24 September 2008
These look almost as cool as the Star Wars ones.
clipped from studenthacks.org
Posted by: Kat on: Thursday, 18 September 2008
“In Uruguay the parents wait for the kids to go to bed so they can use the laptops. So you saw people move to rural communities… so their kids could take advantage of [the laptops]. In Rwanda the families brought electricity to the schools so that the kids could keep using the laptops.”
I find that [...]
