Flora Lichtman of Science Friday interviewed “Brenda Tan and Matthew Cost, high school seniors from Trinity School in New York City, used a technique called DNA barcoding to find out what species were present in over 200 animal products.” A surprising finding: most street vendors’ hot dogs — at least the ones the students tested […]
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Calculating pH in Pig Manure, Carefully
The Davies equation plays a featured role in this take on pig manure “Calculating pH in Pig Manure Taking into Account Ionic Strength,” A. M. Nielsen, H. Spanjers and E. I. P. Volcke, Water Science & Technology—WST Vol 57 No 11 pp 1785–1790. Doi:10.2166/wst.2008.099. (Thanks to Adam Eyring for bringing this to our attention.) The […]
Pet-face-detecting camera
The Pentax Optio I-10 camera includes face detection technology for detecting pet faces, according to Pentax, which has not trumpeted the news but instead mentioned, almost mumbled, it in the device’s lengthy technical specifications: Face detection available: Yes (up to 32 faces in 0.03 sec), Smile Capture, Blink Detection, Pet Recognition (3 faces) (Thanks to […]
Animal bias at BMJ?
Marmot. “Bit of an animal”. Hawkes. What seems a strange animal bias is evident the past two weeks in the features section of BMJ, the publication known until a few years ago as the British Medical Journal. Here are two screen captures from the BMJ web site: