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Today's Fresh Blogs...| UK Press: Gene for left-handedness |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:52 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories, Health Amp Medicine Stories |
| it up, mostly briefly. Stories: The Register Lucy Sherriff; BBC; Telegraph Laura Clout; Times Lewis Smith; Other leftyness news: NewKerala (India, Jul 18): Converting left-hander to right-hander also changes the brain. Grist for the Mill: Wellcome Trust Ctr/Oxford U Press Release; |
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| Guardian: Gecko-mussel glue, fossil fly-eye tips for solar voltaics, and more Biomimicry |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 12:09 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories |
| The Tracker often mentions he is a sucker for biomimicry. Its unmistakable lesson is that mindless random resorting of genes plus selective pressure is a better inventor, in many ways, than is the logic of the conscious mind (even when propelled by the subconscious’s marvels of free-association). Kate Ravilious has in The Guardian Unlimited |
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| NYTimes ScienceTimes: About us humans — 237 reasons for sex, game playing, the subconscious (and other topics too) |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 11:21 am |
| Tags: Science Stories, Health Amp Medicine Stories, Environment Stories |
| Today’s p.1 in ScienceTimes coheres thematically around why we do what we do. The three up front: one from John Tierney in his Findings column on a survey’s 237 conscious explanations for having sex (variations on lust, procreation, prestige, love, just-gotta-have-it, duty…); a marvelous and surprising lead piece by |
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| Seattle PI: Off Washington, a first for US - reef of glass sponge |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 2:59 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories, Environment Stories |
| The picture is great and Lisa Stiffler has a good yarn to go with it in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. A U of Washington (or you-dub to locals) geologist found a reef dominated by glass sponges recently, about 30 miles off shore and 650 feet down. Until not so long ago, it says here, scientists only knew glass sponge reefs from fossils. Then some |
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| Newsweek: Peeking at quantum systems not only changes what’s happening but what already happened? |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 12:44 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories |
| hard these days to find stories on those erstwhile staples of the science beat — relativity and spooky quantum physics. The Tracker missed it when it came out and it’s almost off the newstands, but concerning the latter example the Jul. 30 Newsweek has a Sharon Begley column worth a look. It’s entitled “Putting Time |
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| Phil Inquirer: A short, intriguing story (way TOO short) on hot springs bacteria |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 3:11 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories |
| Brevity is a virtue, but there are limits. The Tracker sniffs an editor’s hand on this — maybe in the line editing, maybe in the instruction to write it short as it wound up. In any case, in yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer is a piece by Erika Gebel. Punchy lede: “Headed to Yellowstone National Park this summer? |
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| AP: The KillaCycle. Maybe this is how to make macho guys into energy-sipping eco-freaks |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 11:45 am |
| Tags: Science Stories, Environment Stories |
| The AP’s Aaron Clark had a story the other day that’s about burnt rubber and the local drag strip. Its topic is one of the swifter drag bikes on the tour. Power is by rechargeable, lithium-ion batteries of the sort that General Motors wants to use in its 100-mile-per-gallon vehicle. (The car could be available in 2010 if it can get |
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| Reuters: Ancient cypress trees rooted in a Hungarian coal bed |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 1:37 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories |
| Reuters has no byline on this small item, but it’s worth noting for the striking pictures alone. Sixteen cypress trees are in the sun for the first time in about 8 million years, freed by miners from sand covering a coal seam. Some of them are several meters high and their wood is still more like wood than stone. It means things were warmer |
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| AP, Denver Post: Full moon means accidents. Not for people. For pets, maybe. |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 11:37 am |
| Tags: Science Stories, Health Amp Medicine Stories |
| department: AP - William J. Kole: Study debunks full-moon injury beliefs. The study was performed in Austria. It says injury rates are pretty constant, moonshine or not. (And is the idea of a link mostly a European one? Don’t recall hearing it much in the states.) Denver Post (July 17) - Katy Human: Pet puzzler: Full |
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| Lots of Ink: Brain stimulation wakes a man up after six years (and Cleveland Plain Dealer had it last year) |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 11:16 am |
| Tags: Science Stories |
| is vindicated. -CP Other stories: AP Malcolm Ritter; Reuters Julie Steenhuysen; LA Times Denise Gellene HealthDay (via WaPost) Amanda Gardner ; CanWest News Service (Canada) Margaret Munro; Chicago Tribune Robert Mitchum; ABC (Australia) Barbara Miller; Phil. Inquirer Tom Avril (Oddity here. Avril does considerable extra reporting but the |
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| San Jose Mercury News: Brain fires up during musical interludes |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 2:55 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories, Health Amp Medicine Stories |
| It seems natural enough that one perks up when, amid the busy passages of a complex piece of orchestration, the music falls silent for a beat or more. Kind of like if one walks off a ledge. Yikes no floor, the mind shouts. Ditto no music. But surmise and evidence are different things. In the Mercury News Lisa Krieger has a story on Stanford and |
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| New Yorker, KQED-TV: Bee colony collapse, long form… |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 9:19 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories, Environment Stories |
| We’ve seen plenty on bee colony collapse disorder, that mysterious malady that is emptying bee hives as the adults fly off, sick and confused, and don’t come back. Maybe virus, maybe cyclical and no big deal, maybe it’s an apocalypse for domesticated pollinators so farmers will need to court moths, wasps, butterflies, native |
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| NY Times, LA Times, others: Early idea why the bridge went down |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 12:49 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories |
| With literally thousands of stories running it is pointless to try to find all those with a strong technical theme, but a sampling of larger national outlets, and the major local dailies, have several stories that do well considering how soon after the fact they are out: Stories: LA Times Ralph Vatabedeian, Nicholas Riccardi call the now-fallen |
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| Reuters, LA Times, others: New Mars mission set for blast-off to north pole of next planet from the sun |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 11:56 am |
| Tags: Science Stories |
| should start to flow. -CP Stories: Reuters Irene Klotz; LA Times John Johnson Jr.; Space.com Tariq Malik; Daily Mail (UK); CanWest (via Victoria Times Colonist) Tom Spears; Whittier Daily News Elise Kleeman; Disclosure Dept: The Tracker has personal entanglement and interest in this launch’s success: Air & Space Magazine Charles |
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| Chr. Science Monitor: Impossible molecules found in space |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 1:24 pm |
| Tags: Science Stories |
| Christian Science Monitor’s Robert C. Cowen has an old-fashioned cosmic gee-whiz story here. It’s candy for The Tracker. The veteran science writer, scanning recent journal articles, reports on several detections of molecules and chemistries in interstellar space that defy standard notions of how things should work out there. One |
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