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Gardening Map Of Warming U.S. Has Plant Zones Moving North
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:51 AM EST (NPR)
It's official: Gardeners and farmers can count on warmer weather. If that's you, it might be a good time to rethink those flower and vegetable beds for this year's growing season. That's the word from the U.S.
Can You Choose to be Gay?
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:50 AM EST (Discovery.com)
"I gave a speech recently, an empowerment speech to a gay audience, and it included the line 'I've been straight and I've been gay, and gay is better.' And they tried to get me to change it, because they said it implies that homosexuality can be a choice.
Let's Play 'History As A List'
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:36 AM EST (NPR)
A bunch of you have sent me this list.
Amazon rainforest mapped in unprecedented detail
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 7:52 AM EST (Guardian Unlimited)
Scientists record Amazon's structure and biodiversity by bouncing laser beams off forest 400,000 times per second.
Local News | Longtime Monroe dairy farm now turns manure into money | Seattle Times Newspaper
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:25 AM EST (The Seattle Times)
MONROE — It's 5 a.m. at the Werkhoven Dairy — happy hour for Holsteins. From a 5,000-gallon black tank containing beer and wine, Andy Werkhoven adds two pounds of alcohol to the feed of each of the 1,000 milking cows. "Cow-bernet," he jokes.
Fish Sounds Recorded: Deep-Sea Fish Grunt And Quack (VIDEO)
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:07 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Ecologists may have captured the first deep-sea fish sounds, hidden among the sounds of dolphins and humpback, fin and pilot whales, they report in a new study.
Even In Death, Egyptian Birds Were Fed
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:33 PM EST (Discovery.com)
Ancient Egyptians placed food in the mouths or stomachs of animal mummies, suggesting that animals were treated equally to humans in death and perhaps also in life. In this case the mummies were sacred ibis birds In a study, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science, …
Asteroid the size of a bus slides by Earth in 'near-miss'
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:27 PM EST (Raw Story)
An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a “near-miss,” though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact. The asteroid, named 2012 BX34, measured between six and 19 meters in diameter (20 t …
Stunning Images of Rare Albino Hummingbird
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 9:25 PM EST (Discovery.com)
Jan. 27, 2012 -- These shots of an extremely rare albino ruby-throated hummingbird were photographed by two Virginia teenagers and two preteens: Marlin Shank, 16, Shaphan Shank, 14, Darren Shank, 12 and Allen Shank, 9.
Grape seed extract kills head and neck cancer cells, leaves healthy cells unharmed
Seeded on Fri Jan 27, 2012 6:42 PM EST ()
A study published this week in the journal Carcinogenesis shows that in both cell lines and mouse models, grape seed extract (GSE) kills head and neck squamous cell carcinoma cells, while leaving healthy cells unharmed. "It's a rather dramatic effect," says Raje …
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