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Tuesday, May 24, 2005
random facts!
- Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have developed optical sensors that interface with tongue neurons to enable US Navy Seals to 'see' with their tongues when underwater.
- Nicrophorous beetles have a complex familial system.
- Marjoram is a type of oregano.
- Research supervisors can pull out unexpectedly on projects they endorsed, so can boyfriends, banks and pregnant teenage girls.
- If you Google GOD, the first hit takes you to "The Interview with God" - a ppt presentation worth a 10 minute pause.
- Assasin bugs engage in partial filial cannibalism- daddy bugs snack on the eggs they guard, perhaps to make up for the foraging time they lose.
- Tiny white spots on your nails are most likely to be a result of knocks ur fingers sustained a few months back - not Calcium or Zinc deficiency.
- If you are sick of the Dan Browns, Vikram Seths and Asterixes - Ray Bradbury is worth a try.
- "In the 15 minutes it takes you to read this [blog], the world will gain another 2,600 mouths to feed; 97 of every 100 will be born into a country where finances are stretched, food and water is insufficient and where creaking, chaotic cities are groaning under the weight of incoming migrants." (Mark Townsend, Ecologist)
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