Dr. Charles Adams Eaton, who is an instructor at the University of New Mexico, has invented the “Venturi Didgeridoo” (or “Reverse Didgeridoo”) for which a US patent 8,466,361 was granted June 18, 2013. The new didgeridoo not only manages to produce much lower tones than would normally be expected for its length, it also converts […]
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Hare in the air: How rare?
One vital statistic is only implied, and that just barely, in the Australian Transport Safety Bureau‘s report “Australian aviation wildlife strike statistics: Bird and animal strikes 2002 to 2009“. The report lists the number of times various animal species struck (or were struck by) aircraft. But it does not specify what percentage of those strikes […]
Beetles, bottles, and enraptured togetherness
Robert Krulwich wrote an essay about the beetles/bottles discovery that resulted in the 2011 Ig Nobel biology prize. That prize was awarded to Darryl Gwynne (of CANADA and AUSTRALIA and the UK and the USA) and David Rentz (of AUSTRALIA and the USA) for discovering that a certain kind of beetle mates with a certain kind of Australian beer […]
How to manage invasive carp (2 methods)
There are several documented methods for managing invasive carp. Here’s one, used in Australia: “Managing invasive carp (Cyprinus carpio L.) for habitat enhancement at Botany Wetlands, Australia,” L. Pinto, N. Chandrasena1, J. Pera, P. Hawkins, D. Eccles, R. Sim, Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, Volume 15, Issue 5, pages 447–462, September/October 2005. Here’s another, used […]