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10:31 am
August 30, 2010
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The Echo Inside
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It's a bit of an old article (April) so you may have seen it before, but I've been trying to catch up some reading and just came across today. It involves the use of a cockroach by a wasp, manipulated by messing with it's neural abilities:
http://blogs.discovermagazine……oach-soul/
I'd known about the relationship before, but the extra detail is interesting… especially when the wasp can't find what it intends.
And for those who enjoy moving picture supplements:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?g…..fO0zHiAIG8
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"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers." – Kahlil Gibran
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11:47 am
August 30, 2010
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keanani
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Evidence that zombies actually do exist and not just humans who wander sleepwalking, drug addled and emotionally drained through life!
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The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
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5:25 pm
September 10, 2010
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keanani
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The world is but a canvas to our imaginations ~ Henry David Thoreau
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust
Fiction is a way to explore the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself…alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the sweat and the agony. ~ William Faulkner
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9:49 am
September 11, 2010
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Andrea_A
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And not even an animal is needed to make zombies… a fungus can do this trick, too.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/scie…..ant-fungus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..COQ0VU24xw
This leaf found in the "Messel pit" in Germany shows characteristic ant bites and is about 48 million years old.
http://www3.uni-bonn.de/Presse…..edia_2.jpg
Abstract: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublis……2010.0521
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10:30 am
September 11, 2010
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sheila
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See? This is why I think a symbiont could be used to explain how blampires could have had their behavior altered periodically to make them interact long enough to mate. something like toxoplasmosis &c. or maybe algal blooms. or something. Then they go extinct when the behavioral agonist dies out for some reason. climate shift? the organism stops surviving in areas where the blamps live.
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