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dea is that an organism that doesn t have free will always reacts in the same way to stimuli due to the way their brain has programmed them to react yet experiments with fruit flies show some unpredictability to the way that fruit flies react this suggests that fruit flies think on a different level that previously believed now the ability to react differently to stimuli does not mean that organisms with less brain power than humans are sentient sentience is the ability to be self aware and to understand and think critically about yourself and what goes on around you whether or not organisms are sentient and to what extent they may be so remains a controversial topic flying left instead of right when poked isn t the same thing at all but it does suggest that we still have a lot to learn about the brain even in teeny tiny organisms because researchers have only scratched the surface of understanding the ability to make choices and what it means about the capabilities of the brain posted by unknown at 2 07 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest glow in the dark snails bioluminescence is such a cool natural phenomenon victoria gill s article for the bbc snails flash a green alarm light discusses the newest organism to be discovered with bioluminescent abilities basically bioluminescence is the ability to glow neon colors like a living glow stick organisms use their glow to scare off predators and when that doesn t work to put the spotlight on the organism that is attacking them so that perhaps another predator will come after it the bioluminescent snail are interesting because the actual part of the snail that glows is located inside the shell the opaque nature of the shell amplifies the color so that its glow is increased and the glow spreads to the entire shell posted by unknown at 1 47 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday december 15 2010 the ever important role of facebook given that i check my facebook at least a dozen times a day i think its safe to say that i m an addict the more facebook changes and expands the more addictive it seems to become especially with the evolution of the news feed this week my professors and colleagues pointed out several examples of social media particularly facebook playing a role in how hard news stories are reported i think it is definitely safe to say that facebook is another tool in a reporter s arsenal to get the scoop on a story or even just to get a good feel for a situation one article that i found particularly jarring because of the way it used facebook is ian shapira s article for the washington post a facebook story a mother s joy and a family s sorrow in addition to seriously pulling on the heartstrings i think shapira s article also dances around the issue of what happens to your online presence after you die the issue of digital death was raised by my colleague in the uw pro track program marianne english in the article madison startup entrustet helps people control their digital assets from the isthmus things to think about posted by unknown at 1 59 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 14 2010 holiday gift guide every year biotechniques publishes a list of holiday gifts for scientists or just science lovers from the 2010 holiday gift guide my favorite is definitely the microbe ornaments but check out all the options there are definitely some cute ideas for either your own little scientists or your co workers source giantmicrobes posted by unknown at 2 16 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest leaving the solar system there was an interesting story today in the bbc about the nasa space probe voyager 1 and how it is nearing the edge of our solar system voyager 1 has traveled the farthest of all the vessel to be launched from earth it will be the first space probe to ever leave our solar system launch of voyager 1 source wikimedia commons what i found so interesting about the voyager 1 probe is that it was launched in 1977 making it 33 years old this machine has been collecting and transmitting data about space back to earth for longer than i have been alive i think that is pretty amazing and it is a testament to engineering that nasa s scientists were able to make a machine that could still function properly after all this time voyager 1 and its partner voyager 2 were initially launched to survey the outermost planets in our solar system jupiter saturn uranus and neptune voyager 2 is nowhere near the edge of the solar system however because after it was finished with the outer planets in 1989 it was put on a much slower course than voyager 1 according to researchers voyager 1 should cross the threshold outside of our solar system sometime in the next five years so this story will definitely be coming up in the news again in the future posted by unknown at 1 27 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday december 10 2010 advantages to being on the left as a left handed person i found this article left handed coiling snails survive more snake attacks by the bbc s victoria gill pretty interesting i love hearing stories of left handed superiority according to this article a certain species of snail that has shells that coil either clockwise or counterclockwise is experiencing natural selection due to their shell orientation due to the way snakes suck a snail out of its shell and the way snakes jaws are formed only snails that have shells that coil to the right are susceptible to predation snakes just can t suck a snail out of a shell that coils to the left ha left handed dominance according to researchers the snails are starting to branch off into their own species because eliminating the threat from snakes has been really beneficial for their population i d also like to take a moment to point out that the idea that left handed people are sadistic is a myth the word sinistrality is used to refer to left handed people because it is derived from the latin word sinestra which means left handedness nothing to do with demons sorry i take pride in being left handed but it can be a pain at times like when i was learning how to write apparently left handed people have a shorter life span than right handed people based on accidents caused by using tools and equipment designed for right handed people i guess i better watch out but i do have good company in my left handed ways ronald reagan and bill clinton the likable presidents joan of arc leonardo da vinci michelangelo paul mccartney charlie chaplin robert deniro cary grant and marilyn monroe lots of others too i just found these the most interesting posted by unknown at 4 45 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday december 8 2010 diamond planet new research using nasa s spritzer space telescope has shown that planets in our galaxy may be more carbon based than others meaning that the ground would be made of diamonds instead of sand rocks dirt essentially what our soil is made of the new planetary discovery wasp12b is a gas giant like jupiter and wouldn t have the water necessary to sustain life but just the idea that a planet made of diamonds could exist is definitely fun its strange how something that is such a hot commodity on earth could be so ordinary somewhere else with just a few changes in chemical composition i couldn t do a post about diamonds and not include a little marilyn monroe after all diamonds are a girl s best friend posted by unknown at 2 35 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday december 7 2010 devil in the white city yesterday i spend five hours writing my final paper for j669 it still needs some work but i m very happy to have a first draft at 12 pages 3 955 words it is a relief that all i have left to do is edit it the assignment was to read a literary journalism book and then write a report on it critiquing its success i chose to read erik larson s devil in the white city although it came out in 2004 i actually hadn t heard of it until i moved out to wisconsin i guess because the book is set in chicago and madison has a close proximity to the windy city it is more popular out here overall i really liked the book but i did sort of question whether or not it should fit into the category of journalism the book brings together two stories the architects designing the 1893 chicago world s fair and the serial killer h h holmes who lured women away from the fair and killed them in his hotel just outside of chicago the stories do go together but there is far more factual evidence for the actions of the architects and the events leading up to the fair than there is a record of holmes actions because after all what kind of killer would leave evidence of his crimes to public record the reason that i m not sure devil in the white city should count as journalism is because larson recreates some of the murders committed by holmes in great detail including what the victims were thinking at the time there is no way larson could have known what they were thinking certainly not in a way that could be backed up by concrete evidence like letters or a journal the recreation of scenes in this way is my biggest problem with the book other than that i enjoyed the book i thought the amount of detail that larson was able to dig up regarding the fair was pretty incredible i loved learning the background to things that i hadn t known before like that walt disney s father was a carpenter at the fair which probably inspired disney world or that the ferris wheel was developed to trump the eiffel tower i thought it was very compelling for a historical account but then again adding a few gristly murders can go a long way to sucking in a reader especially one like me who loves a good murder mystery fun fact the book is going to be made into a movie staring leonardo dicaprio as holmes which i think has the potential to be a pretty good film if it actually gets made that is posted by unknown at 4 18 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday december 6 2010 titanic rusticles home to new species an example of rusticles source wikimedia commons i pretty much picked this story to highlight as today s science find because i like the word rusticles also the history of the titanic a rusticle is an icicle like formation made by rust that forms on iron researchers have discovered a new type of bacteria in the rusticles that were formed by the wreckage of the titanic new species of bacteria found in titanic rusticles explains that the halomonas titanicae bacterium actually feeds off the rust formations the bacteria are of interest because they could help researchers understand how bacteria participate in the breakdown of metal which could have an impact on the safety of offshore oil drilling rigs and pipelines after the bp gulf oil spill that was in the headlines all summer i m sure we all want safer drilling mechanisms the story is also notable because the researchers sequenced the bacteria s genome to establish that it is in fact a new species genome sequencing is a relatively new tool for establishing taxonomy posted by unknown at 7 09 pm 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday december 5 2010 who doesn t like baby pandas i m really not sure who reads this thing anymore but i know at least one person my mom is unhappy with my lack of posting in the last week sorry friends i promised i would pick up my posting so here is a little science fix for you from the bbc source telegraph uk giant panda breeding breakthrough in china by ella davies is a good short news piece about recent success breeding giant pandas in captivity pandas are endangered largely due to destruction of their habitat but the complex factors that have to fall into place in order for them to reproduce haven t done their population any favors either researchers have struggled to induce pandas to breed in captivity but a new understanding of panda lovin pregnancy and childcare as well has led to increased rates of panda baby survival most pandas give birth to two cubs at once but abandon one and only care for the other after observing this behavior in panda mothers researchers started stepping in to put abandoned cubs in an incubator and swap the babies in and out of the mother s care so that she unwittingly cares for both of her cubs this has led to a significant increase in panda baby survival and who doesn t like a baby panda they re just too damn cute posted by unknown at 8 48 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday november 30 2010 how the honey bee got its sweet tooth i love when people send me interesting science articles especially ones in the new york times since i still haven t figured out how to get into my account and therefore still do not have access to their web content thanks to endri for this one about honey bees in nyc the mystery of the red bees of red hook by susan dominus is about the feeding habits of honey bees but it also offers a comedic commentary on health and nutrition as an added bonus bees that are being raised in red hook brooklyn ny and on governor s island have been showing up in their hives with red bellies and have been producing bright red honey combs source wikimedia commons the bee keepers were perplexed about what would turn the bees and their honey bright red so they decided to investigate the culprit turned out to be the dell s maraschino cherry factory the bees have been feeding on the syrupy sweet red liquid that you see in the containers of cherries that you can buy in the grocery store researchers tested the honey for the red dye no 40 used in the cherry liquid and confirmed that the bees have been bingeing on the liquid produced at the factory the mystery that remains is how the bees are getting access to the liquid neighbors have reported seeing the bees in unusually high numbers around the factory but no one has pin pointed how they are getting to the liquid the cherry factory declined to comment for the article but did hire the new york city beekeeper s association to help find a solution to the problem what i like most about dominus treatment of the honey bees in the article is the way she paints them as disobedient children her opening centers on the fact that if the bees were raised right they wouldn t be straying from home to go eat junk food it s a whimsical way to approach the topic while inserting a little bit of her own commentary on human health and nutrition posted by unknown at 3 50 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday november 25 2010 polar bear protection 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