October 2009
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Ghostly Dance of a Sea Dragon →
Here’s a really amazing video from the BBC of Sea Dragon mating rituals
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Science enters the age of Web 2.0 →
Here’s an interesting article talking about how scientists are generally slow to create and adopt new web-based technologies that could easily help us get things done. Two websites that have really changed the ways I research electronic journal literature are refworks (a bibliography site) and scopus (a scientific search engine). I also use dropbox to sync my library of article pdf files...
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Society for Neuroscience Starts Saturday!!!!!
I’ll post anything particularly interesting that I learn….for now, here is what I’m presenting:
Uncertainty of saccharin reinforcement leads to enhanced responding to amphetamine and alterations in dendritic spine density in the nucleus accumbens
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Crushed Bones Reveal Literal Dino Stomping Ground →
Imagine the gruesome sound of bones snapping as a thirsty, 30-ton dinosaur tramples a heap of fresh carcasses on his way to a rapidly shrinking lake.
That’s the scene revealed by a painstaking analysis of thousands of bones unearthed near Moab, Utah by geologists from Brigham Young University.
So far the researchers have identified 67 individual dinosaurs representing 8 species – and...
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New Repellent Foils Cling-On Bugs →
A non-toxic insect repellent designed to make insects slip on almost any surface has been unveiled by scientists at Cambridge University. The substance creates a coating that causes the creatures to behave like “someone with wet feet in the shower”, a university spokesman said. It is hoped the coating could restrict the movement of pests such as termites, cockroaches, ants and...
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Grieving Monkeys Drink Own Milk →
Female monkeys in Morocco have been observed suckling themselves, drinking their own milk. The behaviour, rarely recorded by scientists, may have been exaggerated by grief, as each monkey did it more often after the death of her infant. By suckling their own milk, the female monkeys may be alleviating stress or boosting their immune systems, scientists speculate. Whatever the cause, the...
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