Sometimes the world gets a tiny stranger by such small degrees as to be unnoticeable. Othertimes, the strange arrives in station blaring the Albanian national anthem. This PLOS One article on “worm grunting” is the latter:
For generations many families in and around Florida's Apalachicola National Forest have supported themselves by collecting the large endemic earthworms [...]
Like Squirrel Fishing with Dynamite
October 15th, 2008 No Comments
Tags: Science · the south · worms
For the learned germophobic
July 12th, 2008 No Comments
An article in PLOS ONE provides a useful masking hierarchy:
All types of masks reduced aerosol exposure, relatively stable over time, unaffected by duration of wear or type of activity, but with a high degree of individual variation. Personal respirators were more efficient than surgical masks, which were more efficient than home-made masks. Regardless of mask [...]
Tags: masks · plosone · public health · Science
At the speed of managing information
July 9th, 2008 No Comments
I guess a journal called Bioscience Hypotheses should contain hypotheses. But this article by Irish seems to contain mostly ill defined musing.
The sentence that struck me as most undercooked was:
Next to thinking, the brain’s most important task is managing information.
I certainly have little idea what the proper definition of “thinking” might be, but I’m guessing [...]
Tags: philosophy of mind · Science