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"Nearly three years after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology fraternity prank caused an explosion that severely injured two environmental cleanup volunteers, a six-figure settlement has been reached, the plaintiffs’ lawyer said yesterday."
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"A flight attendant accused of cursing out a passenger on an airplane public-address system and using an emergency slide to hop off looked happy and relieved afterward, a passenger said Tuesday."
links for 2010-08-05
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"One theory is that the Western diet has made people more susceptible to developing allergies and other illnesses. A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences compared the gut bacteria from 15 children in Florence, Italy, with gut bacteria in 14 children in a rural African village in Burkina Faso. They found that the variety of flora in these two groups was substantially different."
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"Keep the family cat indoors: that is the message from MassWildlife to residents in cities and towns around Boston after a recent spike in reports of fisher sightings."
links for 2010-08-03
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This one is more in line with my thoughts.
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Blah blah blah.
links for 2010-08-02
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"Why does human conversation come so easily? A new study chalks it up to a sort of "mind meld" between participants. Researchers have found that the brains of speakers and listeners become synchronized as they converse and that this "neural coupling" is key to effective communication."
links for 2010-07-31
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Yum. About 30 of the best in the region.
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"Tomorrow, Keller and crew — daughters Jennifer Manglass, 18, and Isabella Gagliardo, 12; son Alexander Gagliardo, 13; and family friend Meagan Franz, 17 — embark on a journey that many families fantasize about, but few have the means or resolve to undertake. For the next 12 months, they’ll travel around the world, volunteering at a dozen humanitarian projects stretching from Europe to Asia to South America."
links for 2010-07-29
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"Change will come, Kaufman believes, only when a “culture of safety” akin to that widely cultivated in industry permeates universities and when lab chiefs are held responsible for everyone knowing and following accepted safety practices."
And now what happens with safety when you don't even work in an institution? Oyvey.
[via EmilyAnthes]
links for 2010-07-28
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"The Scienceblogs saga continues to rumble on, with more people quitting – the departure of Bora Zivkovic making perhaps the biggest ripples in this latest group – and now PZ Myers going on strike (see some discussion in the comments here)."
When are folks going to realize that bottom up blog writing is so 2005? I can't see this happening at Gizmodo or HuffPo.
links for 2010-07-19
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"The research, says the team, could someday help scientists grow other types of crystals, such as those needed to house quantum computers or superconducting materials." Another protein as seed for crystal. Might the same be happening in mollusks?
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"By replacing essential genes in a mammalian pathogen with their counterparts from Arctic bacteria, they have created strains that provoke a protective immune response in mice."
Genomics meets microbiology. Cool (so to speak).