Projectile Poop: Why Some Caterpillars Go Ballistic(ally)
Author: Robyn
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Aug 27, 2010
Beer bugs live 553 days in space
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Aug 20, 2010
Moderate chocolate consumption linked to lower risks of heart failure, study finds Delayed Onset of a Daytime Nap Facilitates Retention of Declarative Memory
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Aug 13, 2010
Declining Orangutan Encounter Rates from Wallace to the Present Suggest the Species Was Once More Abundant
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Aug 06, 2010
Artificial Lighting as a Vector Attractant and Cause of Disease Diffusion Phys Ed: Does Lucky Underwear Improve Athletic Performance? A Call for an End to Primpy Lawns
WWI vs. recession
You’ll probably need to click through to the original site (a wonderful exhibition of WWI and WWII posters) to read this: Eat local. Preserve at the height of the harvest.
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Jul 30, 2010
Study: Frequent password changes are useless – Yahoo! News Sniff-detector allows paralysed people to write messages, surf the net and drive a wheelchair Bellyflop shows how frogs evolved
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Fri Jul 23, 2010
H1N1 shot averted 1M Ontario cases: study
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Tue Jul 13, 2010
Penguin males with steady pitch make better parents It’s like real-life Happy Feet!
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Tue Jun 29, 2010
Yeah, You’ve Got Problems. So Solve Them.
Stereotypes
How I hate it when people live up to stereotypes. I look at the G20 coverage and that’s all I see. We had people marching peacefully for good causes, whose
The best use for an airhorn
Airhorns were used for emergency signalling at the camp I went to as a child and then later worked at, so not only do they startle me in the usual
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Tue Jun 22, 2010
Metabolic State Alters Economic Decision Making under Risk in Humans This is actually a more interesting article than one might guess by the title. As one might’ve expected, they find
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jun 09, 2010
Crocodiles ride ocean currents for ocean travel Mammoth-Belch Deficit Caused Prehistoric Cooling? A sense of humor helps keep you healthy until retirement age
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed Jun 02, 2010
Researcher studies ‘earworms’ for insight into OCD
An encouragement: bike commuting
In honour of Bike Month, here’s how to die on a bicycle: Fall under the rear wheels of a large vehicle (bus, dump truck, transport truck, etc.) which is turning
Twenty-seven things to do with trashed jeans
(OK, maybe only three. But it felt like twenty-seven since there was hand-sewing involved.) M is hard on pants. At this point in the year every single pair will have
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed May 26, 2010
Gesture-based computing on the cheap: Multicolored gloves making Minority Report-style interfaces more accessible
Jam: an encouragement, with pictures
I like to make my own jam. Unless you buy the crazy-expensive kinds, store-bought jam tastes kind of blah — over-sweet, too much filler, not enough fruit. I think I
Random neat stuff from RSS feeds – Wed May 19, 2010
Kids understand the relationship between humans and other animals Unusual fossils: Wonderful life goes on First Person Experience of Body Transfer in Virtual Reality Ancient Nursery Area for the Extinct