Science Links for Marsday, 20091110

Posted on 10th November 2009 by ideonexus in Science Etcetera
  • Sesame Street kicks off its 40th year with a two-year curriculum on the environment, but issues like Global Warming and deforestation are considered “too scary” for children who watch the show.
  • U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama teaches Sesame Street Muppets how to plant vegetables
    U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama teaches Sesame Street Muppets how to plant vegetables
    Credit: Richard Termine
  • The EPA is kicking off efforts to revive the Chesapeake Bay, which has been damaged from years of agricultural and urban run-off.
  • With bluefin tuna now at 15 percent of pre-industrial fishing levels, the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (Iccat)’s annual meeting this week is considered the “last chance” to turn things around.
  • Stem cells exposed to fresh air differentiated into lung cells, revealing an environment-based strategy for coaxing the cells into what we need.
  • The successful growth and grafting of penile tissue onto rabbits provides hope for men who need reconstructive surgery or just want an enhancement.
  • Bioengineered corporal tissue for structural and functional restoration of the penis
    Bioengineered corporal tissue for structural and functional restoration of the penis
    Credit: PNAS
  • A bird shut down part of the LHC on November 3rd, when it dropped bread crumbs on an external power supply, causing a short circuit.
  • People experience withdrawal symptoms when they switch from a sugary diet to a healthy one that can make them go on a sugar binge worse than if they hadn’t gone on a diet at all.
  • A site in Northwest Mexico contains pens for raising Macaws, colorful parrots, hundreds of miles north of their natural habitats a century before the Spanish arrived there.
  • Baby deer escapes Lions at the National Zoo:
  • 1 Comment »

    1. That was probably the highlight of that lion’s zoo life.

      Comment by ClintJCL — November 10, 2009 @ 9:12 am

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