A wet string works, for sending information from one computer to another, says a new experiment. This adds to the list of low-tech ways to move data, the most lively method involving a hungry snail. The string experiment is reported on the RevK’s Rants web site, with the headline “It’s official, ADSL works over wet […]
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When rats meet the legal system: Vermin trials reappraised
“Everyone has heard of a kangaroo court. But how about a court for kangaroos? What about a court for caterpillars? Impossible though it seems, for 250 years French, Italian, and Swiss legal systems had just that. Their ecclesiastic courts tried insects and rodents for property crimes as legal persons under the same laws and according […]
A snail clad in graffiti
Biology and art join almost as one, in this example of graffiti on the shell of a living, city-dwelling snail. It appears in the blog Inner City Snail. (Thanks to investigator Norma Inman for bringing it to our attention.) BONUS: The artist, named Slinkachu, has a blog called “Little People“, filled with artificially (thus the […]