| 02/12/08 | Human pathogens attack their mosquito hosts (Gordon's Notes) |  |
Publié le 02/12/08 04:25:00
In medical school, about 250 years ago, I was very interested in comparative and evolutionary immunology. How, I thought, could we hope to understand the human immune system without knowing how it evolved, and without comparing our strategies to those of very different animals? Happily, at the time I was asking those questions, other people were studying them. Now, 24 years later, we're... Source : Gordon's Notes (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | BLU-RAY REVIEW: Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (EclipseMagazine.com) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 04:06:08
If you have read my reviews for any length of time you will know that one of my many film bias is an extreme dislike of talking animals in my movies. Generally, they creep me out and take me right out of the experience. The one exception to that rule was The Chronicles of Narnia. [...] Source : EclipseMagazine.com (subscribe) Explore : Prince |
| 02/12/08 | Kung Fu Panda Blu-Ray Review (PopCultureShock) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 03:41:04
92 Minutes Studio: Dreamworks Rated: PG First it was the penguin, and now the panda has become the new star on the animal parade in a big way. In Kung Fu Panda, Jack Black breathes big life into Po, noodle-hustling, chop saki flick dreaming giant panda bear. Po?s father, Mr. Ping (played by the great James Hong) has [...] Source : PopCultureShock (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | UT, Georgia, Canadian scientists working to develop vaccine for two bacterial diseases (UTNews) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 03:36:41
UT's Dr. Mark Wooten is working with researchers to develop vaccines against two highly infectious diseases ? glanders and melioidosis ? that can be spread between animals and humans with fatal results. Source : UTNews (subscribe) Explore : Diseases, Georgia, Infectious Diseases |
| 02/12/08 | Bargain gifts for kids (Salon) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 03:33:18
Long after most holiday gifts have been broken or discarded, this present will be arriving in the mailbox, month after month -- a ($19.95 per magazine for a one-year subscription, plus free gift). Wild Animal Baby magazine, for 12 months to four years, will enchant the youngest wildlife watcher with images and interactive information about cuddly polar bears, scurrying squirrels and fuzzy,... Source : Salon (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | 2 Men Receive 5 Years For Los Angeles Dogfighting Ring (Fox News) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 03:01:51
Two men who bred and trained pit bulls for fighting have been sentenced to state prison after animal cruelty investigators broke up their dogfighting ring, officials announced Monday. Source : Fox News (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | Another Reason To Skip That Beef Burger (Veggie Chic) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 02:55:15
... looking for corn and they were looking for signs of confinement, as evidenced by diet. (Confined animals end up eating their own waste). Corn is a cheap way to quickly increase the size of livestock , but it?s part of the natural diet of a cow and it produces an animal that is fatter than if it was fed a traditional diet of grass. Evidence of a corn-based diet was found... Source : Veggie Chic (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | Gift of farm animals gives new meaning to 'away in a manger' (USA Today) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 02:16:52
"All our projects are examples of agroecology or green agriculture," says Ray White, a spokesman for Heifer International, a non-profit group that works to relieve hunger and poverty by providing animals, trees and other services. Among the green gift ideas: tree seedlings for $60 (a share for $10) for the environmental health of small farms, and bees ($30 for box, hive and training) that... Source : USA Today (subscribe) Explore : Hockey, Hockey Players, US |
| 02/12/08 | Palm oil offers no green solution (BBC News) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 01:37:07
A major international study says palm oil plantations reduce plant and animal diversity, and do little to reduce carbon emissions. Source : BBC News (subscribe) Explore : Hockey, Hockey Players |
| 02/12/08 | Good people across the nation wept with prozac that America. (Prozac does have a role to play) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 01:33:00
FloriDUH Where we bring you every strange, stupid and salacious thing that happens in this fabulous state. Many Christian pastors dismiss mental illness. Dodman, director of the Animal Behavior Clinic at Tufts Benzo and steri strips in Grafton, Mass. Cop spots suspect driving his truck. This expanable content box is made using a. Prozac was also thirteenth in the survey, making that five... Source : Prozac does have a role to play (subscribe) Explore : Mental Health and Behavior, Mental illness |
| 02/12/08 | Cruel drunks set possum on fire (News.com.au) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 01:25:00
People need to be named and shamed. There needs to be a register, and convicvtions placed against anybody who abuses animals. I don't care what age they are! Maybe that would be something to deter them.... Drunk is now excuse.... I hope they woke up today and felt disgusted by what they did, and scared by the fact that everyone is calling for their blood..... It's good to see people so... Source : News.com.au (subscribe) Explore : Australia, Blood and Fire, Record Labels |
| 02/12/08 | Video: Foxes come back from brink of extinction (MSNBC.com: Nightly News) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 01:12:20
Dec. 1: The Island Fox, a five-pound mammal found only on Southern California's Channel Islands, was recently in danger of disappearing, but its rapid recovery has been faster than any other endangered animal in history. NBC's Mark Mullen reports. (Nightly News) Source : MSNBC.com: Nightly News (subscribe) Explore : California |
| 02/12/08 | Study finds Antarctic seas richer in life than tropics (The Guardian) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 01:06:17
Seas surrounding an archipelago near the tip of the Antarctic peninsula are richer in animal life than the Galapagos islands, scientists claim today. Their findings challenge the notion that tropical regions are more rich in species than the poles. Much less is known about the South Orkney islands than the tropical islands that helped to shape Charles Darwin's thoughts about natural... Source : The Guardian (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | Podium: Animals should run free ? not sit in cages for our entertainment (The Independent) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 01:00:01
Wildlife programmes have made us much more aware of the natural world. This has prompted public revulsion against the squalid, imprisoning conditions in the world's zoos. Increasingly, people find it unacceptable to see lions and tigers pacing up and down tiny concrete cages. Source : The Independent (subscribe) Explore : Entertainment |
| 02/12/08 | Artist who owes it all to Felix the Cat wins Turner Prize (The Independent) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 01:00:01
Animals, it seems, are the key to success. Last time round, a man in a bear suit walked off with Britain's premier art prize. This year, the Turner Prize, announced last night, was awarded to a man who took inspiration from Felix the Cat. Source : The Independent (subscribe) Explore : Cartoon, Entertainment, The Simpsons |
| 02/12/08 | New theory on how Salmon find their way back to their Scottish birthplace (News Scotsman) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 01:00:00
... of North Carolina in the United States, said: "Natal homing can be explained in terms of animals learning the unique magnetic signature of their home area early in life and then retaining that information."The Earth's magnetic field varies across the globe ? each oceanic region has a different magnetic signature. Researchers believe that by remembering the unique "magnetic... Source : News Scotsman (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | New theory on how Salmon find their way back to their Scottish birthplace (Scotsman.com) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 01:00:00
... of North Carolina in the United States, said: "Natal homing can be explained in terms of animals learning the unique magnetic signature of their home area early in life and then retaining that information."The Earth's magnetic field varies across the globe ? each oceanic region has a different magnetic signature. Researchers believe that by remembering the unique "magnetic... Source : Scotsman.com (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | Runaway tiger killed in Pocahontas County (Big Cat News) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 00:54:00
Runaway tiger killed in Pocahontas County By Staff reports December 1, 2008 The owner of a tiger on the loose in Pocahontas County put the animal down Monday afternoon, said Hoy Murphy, spokesman for the state Division of Natural Resources. David Cassell of Cass found the tiger and killed it, Murphy said. He was not sure where or how the animal was killed Monday. He was waiting for... Source : Big Cat News (subscribe) |
| 02/12/08 | BowTie, Inc. Unveils New Interactive Video Feature for its Websites (PR News Wire ) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 00:36:00
All websites hosted by BowTie are dedicated to the care of specific animals or group of animals and offer visitors useful, free information, including more than 50,000 articles on health, care, training and behavior from experts in their field, interactive tools, games, online communities, related news, experts' advice and much more. The following channels are hosted by BowTie: and Source : PR News Wire (subscribe) Explore : Entertainment |
| 02/12/08 | Thinking in Calendar Time (Annsnewfriend's Weblog) | |
Publié le 02/12/08 00:25:44
I?ve been thinking how wonderful is the invention of the calendar. We are creatures of time. Time is the fluid into which we move. Whether the animals can peer into the future cannot be determined exactly, but I doubt that animals look very far ahead. ?The present only toucheth thee.? ? But people can imagine deep [...] Source : Annsnewfriend's Weblog (subscribe) |
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