Australian scientists aim to reduce sheep burps

“Australian scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country’s woolly flocks…Twelve percent of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions originate with agriculture, and some 70 percent of that amount is blamed on ruminant livestock, with most of it coming from burps.”

Whether or not you think global warming is real, you gotta love it for providing news like this.

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Smart Phones Allow Quick Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis
But will doctors text: “UR OK LOLz” and will carriers still charge 95 cents per incoming medical text?

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The Sapeurs of Congo: Open Gutters and Gucci Loafers, Héctor Mediavilla photos of Sapeurs

“The Sapeurs adhere to a subculture of high fashion, often against a backdrop of extreme poverty. Many live in shacks bordered by stinking sewers in the southern suburbs of Brazzaville [Congo]. Those of them who can work double jobs; those who can’t must beg, borrow and occasionally steal; whatever it takes to strut in Versace, Prada and Gucci…Within the SAPE movement there are rivalries and affiliations. Paris vs Brussels, Brazzaville vs Kinshasa, Bacongo vs Mungali. It is total fashion warfare.”

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Explanation for brain fart

“It turns out the root of these brain farts may be a special kind of abnormal brain activity that begins up to 30 seconds before a mistake even happens…The international team of researchers suspects this abnormal behavior is the result of the brain attempting to save effort on a task. When the brain goes too far, errors occur.”

Lazy brain!

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The dark side of the internet

“‘Many many users think that when they search on Google they’re getting all the web pages,’ says Anand Rajaraman…But Rajaraman knows different. ‘I think it’s a very small fraction of the deep web which search engines are bringing to the surface. I don’t know, to be honest, what fraction. No one has a really good estimate of how big the deep web is. Five hundred times as big as the surface web is the only estimate I know.’”

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Study: Believers’ inferences about God’s beliefs are uniquely egocentric

“The final study involved functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure the neural activity of test subjects as they reasoned about their own beliefs versus those of God or another person. The data demonstrated that reasoning about God’s beliefs activated many of the same regions that become active when people reasoned about their own beliefs.”

It turns out that god truly is inside each and every one of us.

Nuclear experts clean radioactive site with household cleaner – “Decontamination experts at the former nuclear site at Dounreay, northern Scotland, are using the Cillit Bang household cleaner to remove radioactive plutonium stains.”

Junk food a stress killer – “A controlled study of rats that were traumatised in early life and went on to exhibit depressed or anxious behaviours found those that were fed lard-laced foods such as cake or pie reversed their stress levels.”

Road rage linked to exposure to petrol fumes – “The study, which is published in the latest issue of the peer review journal BMC Physiology , shows that rats exposed to vapours from leaded and unleaded petrol become more aggressive.”

Fecal architecture for beetle defense and offense – Defense: “[Leaf beetles] spend their youth wearing a growing cylinder of excrement that typically started as rows of rectangular plates that mom applied to the egg. Lab tests exposing young beetles to three kinds of predators show that the fecal architecture pays off in protection.” Offense: “Other leaf beetles have developed excremental structures, such as fecal parasols that bearers use to thump aggressors”

Breath on your skin helps you hear – Next time you tell that special someone you love them, don’t be afraid to get really really close when you say it, you know, just to make sure they hear you properly.

Tiny magnetic discs could kill cancer cells – Just don’t try to get through airport security after.

Most dangerous jobs – Nary a police officer or fire fighter on the list.

MedGrow Cannabis College – It’s all academic until the Horticulture Lab.

  

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