Science Etcetera, Saturnday 20081122

Posted on 22nd November 2008 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera
  • 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



    • Comments (6)

    6 Comments »

    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.

      Comment by ClintJCL — November 22, 2008 @ 8:59 pm

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

      -BMF

      Comment by BMF — November 22, 2008 @ 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

      Comment by BMF — November 22, 2008 @ 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!

      Comment by SonOfEris — November 23, 2008 @ 2:36 pm

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

      Comment by ClintJCL — November 23, 2008 @ 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.

      Comment by ideonexus — November 23, 2008 @ 9:44 pm

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