HSF - International Space Station. Expedition SixSpace Chronicles #4 By: ISS Science Officer Don Pettit The Smell of Space Few people have experienced traveling into space. Even fewer have experienced the smell of space. Now this sounds strange, that a vacuum could have a smell and that a human being could live to smell that smell. Shutting Themselves In. Crash: A Tale of Two Species - The Benefits of Blue Blood - Horseshoe Crabs | Nature. It fuels the journeys of shorebirds along the Eastern Seaboard and feeds some loggerhead sea turtles and sharks. The horseshoe crab is intricately woven into the web of life. Yet this harmless and primitive sea creature not only plays a key role in nature, it occupies a crucial place in the human world as well. Over three decades ago, medicine claimed this ancient animal as a new life-saving tool. In 1971 researchers discovered that when they exposed the horseshoe crab to E. coli bacteria, the crab’s blood clotted. The clotting indicated the presence of endotoxins, toxic substances released by E. coli and other gram-negative bacteria that could produce severe symptoms in exposed humans such as fever or hemorrhagic stroke.
The simplicity of its immune system is actually what makes the crab’s blood useful to our biomedical industry. Horseshoe crabs live under the constant threat of infection in a habitat that can easily contain billions of bacteria per milliliter. 20 Awesomely Untranslatable Words from Around the World. The Quicksilver Mess. Remember the illicit thrill of cracking open a thermometer and pouring out the contents, marveling at the slippery weight of the shimmering puddle in your palm? Imagine, then, the excitement of two Arkansas teenagers when they found some 40 lbs. of the stuff--pure mercury--in an abandoned factory where it had been used to make neon lights. They and their friends dipped their hands and arms into it. They poured it on their bedroom floors to see it wobble and flow. They showed it off at school and handed it out in jars and vials.
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We’ve all had it happen, and we know it’ll happen again. We created this to let everyone come together and see that you’re not the only one who dislikes certain things! 7 Dogs That Accomplished More Than We Ever Will If television has taught us anything, it’s that heroes can come in all shapes and sizes. No rest for the wicked I wasn’t even at the pool room yet I think we are all familiar by now with the fact that I take the bus everywhere.
This past Saturday, I started out at around 2:30 p.m. or so for Hard Times Billiards in Bellflower to watch the second day of TAR 16 by The Action Report. The train is the middle segment of the trip. I had only one thought. The officer chuckled. Evolution by religious selection: Mexican cavefish develop resistance to toxin. A centuries-old religious ceremony of an indigenous people in southern Mexico has led to small evolutionary changes in a local species of fish, according to researchers from Texas A&M University. Since before the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the New World, the Zoque people of southern Mexico would venture each year during the Easter season deep into the sulfuric cave Cueva del Azufre to implore their deities for a bountiful rain season. As part of the annual ritual, they release into the cave's waters a distinctive, leaf-bound paste made of lime and the ground-up root of the barbasco plant, a natural fish toxin.
Believing the cave's fish to be gifts from their gods, they scoop up their poisoned prey to feed upon until their crops are ready to harvest. However, a team of researchers led by Dr. Michael Tobler, an evolutionary ecologist at Oklahoma State University, and Dr. Their findings recently were published in the online journal Biology Letters. Why I can't stop reading Mormon housewife blogs - Internet Culture. At first glance, Naomi and Stacie and Stephanie and Liz appear to be members of the species known as the “Hipster Mommy Blogger,” though perhaps a bit more cheerful and wholesome than most.
They have bangs like Zooey Deschanel and closets full of cool vintage dresses. Their houses look like Anthropologie catalogs. Their kids look like Baby Gap models. Their husbands look like young graphic designers, all cute lumberjack shirts and square-framed glasses. They spend their days doing fun craft projects (vintage-y owl throw pillow! But as you page through their blog archives, you notice certain “tells.” Yep, Naomi and Stacie and Stephanie and Liz are Mormons. Their lives are nothing like mine — I’m your standard-issue late-20-something childless overeducated atheist feminist — yet I’m completely obsessed with their blogs. I’m not alone, either. “I thought I was the only one!!”
“THANK YOU,” adds a third. Well, to use a word that makes me cringe, these blogs are weirdly “uplifting.” Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' - Times Online.