Fresh Science 8 August 2007

We do the hard work of leapfrogging the globe for the springiest science articles - so you don't have to.

Technicolor lab coat (Bayblab - Canada)
Rainbow colour is the new white...













Carnivory in Hippos (Laelaps - USA)
Meat is the new veggie...

Brands affect perceptions of preschoolers (Mind Hacks - USA)
Brand worship starts early...

Madam, I believe you have a pencil in your head (Pure Pedantry - USA)
You don't say!

Funny Signs

Here's a collection of fairly innocent-looking signs that have been re-interpreted by my twisted little mind...

















Descent of Man












All Abord!










SHHH!








I have a clamp in my right foot
















Vehicles over 4.5m will spontaneously explode











Please float quietly to your seats






Very bad diarrhoea


You can stop laughing now - take a few deep breaths.

It's not that funny.


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Fresh Science 6 August 2007

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Swarm behavior (Bayblab - Canada)
Simple interactions can result in complex emergent behaviours...

The obvious and not-so-obvious in psychology (Mind Hacks - USA)
Common sense can be wrong - some notable examples of counter-intuitive discoveries...

Art vs Science (Rat in the Lab - Singapore)
Just make it up as you go along...

A toothbrush that can redirect water from the faucet to your lips for easy rinsing (Sour Grapes - USA)
You always needed one - just never realized it...











Dinosaurs as Art: Royal Tyrrell Museum (The Flying Trilobite - Canada)
Illuminating the unknown, one spotlight at a time...

Fresh Science 4 August 2007

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Phoenix to launch Saturday (Bad Astronomy - USA)












The science of cooking (Bayblab - Canada)

Gene may influence traumatic memory impact (Mind Hacks - USA)

Spider-goat, spider-goat... (Moonflake - South Africa)

Megafishes: The Chinese Paddlefish (The Lord Geekington - USA)

Fresh Science 3 August 2007

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Daphnia genome mapped (Computational Biology News - India)

Who buys anti-God books? (Entertaining Research - India)

Michael Behe, please allow me to introduce myself... (ERV - USA)

What big neural spines you have... (Laelaps - USA)













Zimbardo interviewed on All in the Mind (Mind Hacks - USA)

Why sugar is so damn addictive (Pro-science - Denmark)