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POPSItalian snail colony discovered in UK after 112 years Then this summer a sharp-eyed volunteer came across it while cleaning statuary in the grounds of the estate. Realising it was a species that might not have been seen before, the volunteer sent it to Janet Ridout Sharpe, a snail expert based in Oxford. She identified it as Papillifera papillaris – now nicknamed the Cliveden snail.
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POPSdo animals feel greif? according to my dog, they do! you should see the way she reacts if I leave her for more then my working day!
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POPSMinding Mistakes: How the Brain Monitors Errors and Learns from Goofs Where in the brain does the ERN originate? Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, among other imaging methods, researchers have repeatedly found that error recognition takes place in the medial frontal cortex, a region on the surface of the brain in the middle of the frontal lobe, including the anterior cingulate. Such studies implicate this brain region as a monitor of negative feedback, action errors and decision uncertainty—and thus as an overall supervisor of human performance.
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POPSWhat is Aquaculture? Our oceans simply cannot yield sufficient quantities of fresh fish and seafood to produce enough viable protein for the Earth's population. That poses a dilemna for Fishermen, however, for a large majority of the world, without underwater agriculture, they would simply go hungry...or die.
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POPSOn looks and attraction... This new research identifies an explanation for the correlation between bodily shape and attractiveness: your body proportions, shape and stature are signals that conspicuously advertise your good development or health and therefore the degree to which you are a desirable reproductive partner. In many species fewer departures from perfect symmetry are associated with good development, health and reproductive success.” We begin to see that there is a program embedded deep in our perception. this is the time to reveal it. :)
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POPS"Worldshift" http://www.realitysandwich.com/worldshift_our_unsustainable_world_will_change
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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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POPS"Ugliest Dolphin" Finally Filmed We dont think this dolphin is ugly, Dolphins are some of the most inspirational creatures in the ocean, Dive with dolphins, whale sharks and more in Egypt. http://www.activediving.co.uk/diving_dolphins.html
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POPSBig-brained Animals Evolve Faster a substantial body of evidence has confirmed that animals with larger brains, relative to their body size, have more developed skills for changing their behavior through learning and innovation, facilitating the invasion of novel environments and the use of novel resources. Despite the progress, the role of the brain in the adaptive diversification of animals has remained controversial, mostly due to the difficulties to demonstrate that big-brained animals evolve faster. Now, ecologist Daniel Sol of CREAF-Autonomous University of Barcelona and evolutionary biologist Trevor Price of the University of Chicago, provide evidence for such a role in birds in an article in The American Naturalist. Analyzing body size measures of 7,209 species (representing 75% of all avian species), they found that avian families that have experienced the greatest diversification in body size tend to be those with brains larger than expected for their body size.
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POPSIce Volcanoes of Titan May Habor Life For almost thirty years, scientists have known that complex carbon compounds called tholins exist on comets and in the atmospheres of the outer planets. Theoretically, tholins might interact with water in a process called hydrolysis to produce complex molecules similar to those found on the early Earth. Could tholins formed in Titan's atmosphere react with liquid water temporarily exposed by meteor impacts or ice volcanoes to produce potentially prebiotic complex organic molecules — before the water freezes? Laboratory research by Catherine Neish, a graduate student working on her doctorate in planetary science at the University of Arizona, suggests, not without controversy, however, that, over a period of days, compounds similar to tholins can be react with water at near-freezing temperatures.
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POPSRising ocean acidity slows marine fertilisation: study It doesn't matter if you call it global warming (Or global weirding as Bear suggested, I think). It doesn't matter if it was caused by us or not. The ocean are dying. The land is dying or changing. And we say it is bad to mine shale oil, but the oil companies don't give a shit about anything but the dollar. It is time to do. Time to convince politicians that the abusers have to be stopped.
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POPSNew 'arsenic-breathing' bacteria found While arsenic may be toxic because of the way it substitutes phosphorous in the process of burning energy, I don't recall boiling water being too healthy either. When life on earth was just kicking off, there was little free oxygen, and plenty of boiling water. Arsenic based photosynthesis is likely to have been working long before the green/chlorophyll based photosynthesis evolved.
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POPS'Flexi-bee' could pre-empt varroa mite.
Of course there is the honey, but there is also the critical role bees play in pollination, particularly crop fertilization. The loss of honey bee populations has the potential to have a devastating effect in many crops that at the moment we take for granted. There are two suggestions. One is to prevent the mite laying by altering a chemical released by the bees. The other disrupts the life cycle of the mite. It doesn't have to be either/or, both approaches need to be tried, in addition to further suggestions. The main thing we have to worry about taking into account our record of 'fixing' problems in nature (we don't seem to be that good at it) Is that our efforts don't further endanger the bee populations At the moment however, if we do nothing we will lose the bees. There is the possibility, that bees will develop their own resistance to the mite naturally. Selective breeding may be an option. I would be more inclined to listen to a beekeeper than a geneticist,.
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