Here are some runners-up in the Hopping Variation in the Perched Chicken Competition. The competition was announced in mini-AIR 2007-09. The winner will be announced in mini-AIR 2007-10. The competition called for limericks that pertain to this published study: “Ability of Laying Hens to Jump Between Perches: Individual Variation and the Effects of Perch Separation […]
Month: October 2007
Dutch Museum Hunts Elusive Crab Lice
Dutch Museum Hunts Elusive Crab Lice By TOBY STERLING AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) ? A Dutch museum said Friday it is having trouble getting its hands on a parasite that just about everybody else is anxious to avoid: crabs. The Rotterdam Natural History Museum has appealed for somebody ? anybody ? to give it a single […]
Testosterone, angry faces — and dryness
Compare the zippy wording of a press release with the dry, scientificalistic wording in the study it describes. The press release is headlined “High-testosterone people reinforced by others’ anger, new study finds.” The press release says: ANN ARBOR, Mich.?Most people don’t appreciate an angry look, but a new University of Michigan psychology study found that […]
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Health
The danger of cigarettes is mostly not in smoking them, argues a study by three doctors at the KS Hegde Medical Academy in Mangalore, India. Or, put another way: the danger comes from not smoking. Figuratively blowing smoke in the face of conventional wisdom, the study asks: “Are lung cancers triggered by stopping smoking?” Arunachalam […]