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POPSPoison Oak Treatmenty Site where you can learn about poison oak, and also get treatments to cure the itch and pain associated with the sap of this plant.
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POPSMosquito Help Articles about how to avoid and get rid of mosquitoes. ~ Help with dealing with mosquitoes.
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POPSWMD--Weapons of Mosquito Destruction "You can say we are very lucky -- the right place at the right time," says astrophysicist Szabolcs Márka, a Columbia University specialist in black holes. He has a grant to develop a "mosquito flashlight" designed to knock out the bugs' eye-like sensors. Scientists around the world are testing ways of thwarting mosquitoes with microwaves, rancid odors, poisoned blood and other weapons that disrupt the sense of sight, smell and heat mosquitoes use to find their prey. There's work on genetically altering a bacterium to infect and kill a mosquito, and a project to build a malaria-free mosquito genetically enhanced to overtake the natural kind. There's also a researcher in Japan who thinks mosquitoes can be a force for good. He is working on transforming them into "flying syringes" that deliver vaccines with every bite.
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POPSNicaragua's Vampire Problem Blood feeders, on the other hand, are extremely rare — only three out of 1,100 species of bat are vampires, and all are found in Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America. Bill Schutt, a zoologist and author of the book Dark Banquet, about 10 species of bats were erroneously named "vampires," while the true blood-feeders were given more innocuous-sounding Latin names. "Bats Vampyrum, Vampyrops, Vampyrina, Vampyressa, Vampyriscus, and Vampyrodes aren't sanguivores , while Desmodus, Diaemus, and Diphylla are true vampires," when people act on their ignorance and kill beneficial bats, they are really putting themselves at even greater risk from the real blood-feeding terrors of the night: mosquitoes. Many more people die each year from mosquito-born diseases than from bat-transmitted rabies.
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POPSFemale Mosquitoes: Out for Blood Many people don't believe me when I say that it's only the female mosquitoes- not the males- that will bite you and suck your blood. But here Wikipedia, the most reputable of sources, proves me to be correct.
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POPSDEET messes with mosquito 'nose' Known as an insect repellent, Scientists were not sure how it worked until now. DEET does not so much repel mosquitoes and ticks which are attracted to carbon dioxide, and other human odors which give a signal that there is a blood supply somewhere, It masks these signals so the mosquitoes go and look for their blood supply somewhere else. DEET has been available to the to the public,for over 50 years and is an active ingredient in many insect repellents, but adverse health effects have been noted such as rashes and seizures, is toxic to some marine species. The risk of DEET side effects are generally rare and must be matched with the risk of mosquito borne disease. Advice is given to avoid using on broken skin, and to wash off if no longer needed. The standard warning on an insect repellent can. I've always found that any itch or sting from an insect repellent is better than the itch of a mosquito bite.
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POPSReflective journals - pitfalls and problems Just some of the problems which one can see in the ways we try to use journalling and so on. Reflective journals are a great way of examining the way you learn and of improving on it, but the way it gets presented, I think it is hard for the learner to realise the benefits until they have experience of it.
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POPSNew Cure for Bruises? Could very well turn out to be insightful. I just wouldn't want to be the test subject for further clinical studies.
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POPSWhy do mosquitoes prefer some people over others? About 85% of it is genetics, study says. My nephew and I are mosquito magnets, however, and they don't bother my dad. Maybe it's time to buy some garlic body spray. Hehe. People who emit large amounts of carbon dioxide,lactic and uric acid are sure targets.
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