July 2011
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June 2011
51 posts
“He turns around and says, ‘Gee, I have nothing to do with the current deficit.’ Well, that’s interesting! You can’t say the new governor created the deficit. You can’t say the new legislature created the deficit. If the outgoing governor didn’t create the deficit, my heavens, who did? We should have a search party to find out who did it!”
—Former Minnesota Governor Arne Carlson is none too happy with fellow Republican Tim Pawlenty’s fuzzy budgeting.
I sure hope this doesn't apply to Canadian geese. →
news.discovery.com
Crows remember the faces of threatening humans and often react by scolding and bringing in others to mob the perceived miscreant, according to a new study published in the latest Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Since the mob members also then indirectly learn about the threatening person, the findings demonstrate how just a single crow’s bad experience with a particular human can spread information about this individual throughout entire crow communities.
Researchers switch on genes with blue pulse →
bbc.co.uk
Scientists have developed a technique that could be used to deliver precise doses of hormones to people who don’t make them naturally.
To do this, they rewired kidney cells with light-sensitive molecules from the eye, they reported in the journal Science.
When pulsed with blue light, these cells churned out proteins on demand.
Ultimately, this technique could avoid the need for people with diabetes to inject themselves regularly.
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