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Science Etcetera, Saturnday 20081122

November 22nd, 2008
  • Got this via e-mail, and is checked out on snopes. Abigail Alfano lives in Pine, Louisiana, the “Hummingbird fly zone,” check out photos of her hand-feeding hummingbirds.

    • Hand Feeding Hummingbirds

    Hand Feeding Hummingbirds
    Abigail Alfano
  • Researchers at Ohio State University are growing more and more convinced that elements of Marijuana actually improve memory.
  • What happens if you pop a water balloon in space? (video at the link)
  • DNA can be used as fibre optic cables.
  • Thanks to BMF for this photoshop of my Obama-message photo in case the next administration doesn’t work out:



    • ideonexus : )
  • More fun with proportional maps (a slideshow) (HT Carolyn)
  • Brewer’s yeast has evolved to cooperate, clumping together to protect inner cells from outer threats and sacrificing the outer cells in the process.
  • 30 hornets vs. 30,000 bees



    • 6 comments to “Science Etcetera, Saturnday 20081122”

    1. I’ve seen the documentary with the hornets vs the keys.. and also remember being curious and working out that each one had to continuously kill a bee like every X seconds (i forget… 2 seconds? 10 seconds? 15 seconds?) non-stop for however long they said the battle was in the video.
      Anyway, I wouldn’t want to mess with them.
      But somehow, I suspect a badger would not feel threatened.

           by ClintJCL November 22nd, 2008 at 8:59 pm

    2. Hehe. Didn’t expect you to post that on your blog. Glad you enjoyed it. :)

      -BMF

           by BMF November 22nd, 2008 at 11:42 pm

    3. I forgot to add: Are you following the President-elect’s weekly address on YouTube? If not, you can find it here: http://www.youtube.com/user/ChangeDotGov

      -BMF

           by BMF November 22nd, 2008 at 11:55 pm

    4. 30 hornets vs. 30,000 bees over 3 hours equates to 5.5555 bees dying per minute per hornet. And that’s assuming none of the hornets die, which the video says some of them do. That would lead me to believe the hornets are killing roughly 6 bees per minute per hornet.
      WOW!

           by SonOfEris November 23rd, 2008 at 2:36 pm

    5. so X = 10 seconds. Nice! :)

           by ClintJCL November 23rd, 2008 at 4:46 pm

    6. @BMF I am really glad to see the Internet used for Presidential fire-side chats. I haven’t checked it out yet, but it’s on my todo list.

           by ideonexus November 23rd, 2008 at 9:44 pm

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