NOTCOT.ORG (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
Tamsin van Essen's Contamination cups are a little on the gruesome side - each appears to have been infected by a different bacteria type, bringing the microscopic to the macroscopic level.
A View from Rural Wales (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
First reaction to this was "What a load of bull". I've spent enough time with cows to have a fair idea what they think. I just do not believe the conclusions of the team of scientists from Diusburg-Essen University which find that cows face north because they have inbuilt compasses to align them with Earth's magnetic field. Its reported that that these scientists have been studying Google Earth,...
Slashdot (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Dr Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen have discovered that cows tend to point north. The researchers studied deer in the Czech Republic and looked at thousands of images of cattle on Google Earth. The animals tended to face north when eating or resting. "We conclude that the magnetic field is the only common and most likely factor responsible for the observed...
All Points Blog (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Hynek Burda of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany and his team determined that cows and deer tend to align along the invisible lines when grazing or sleeping. The original work was aimed at determining if people do so, but looking at camp sites in Google Earth. Instead, they found cows that followed the "rules." The why and how are not yet known. - NPR
CentOS, Linux and Operating Systems (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Dr Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen have discovered that cows tend to point north. The researchers studied deer in the Czech Republic and looked at thousands of images of cattle on Google Earth. The animals tended to face north when eating or resting. “We conclude that the magnetic field is the [...]
TechBlogger (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Dr Sabine Begall and colleagues from the University of Duisburg-Essen have discovered that cows tend to point north. The researchers studied deer in the Czech Republic and looked at thousands of images of cattle on Google Earth. The animals tended to face north when eating or resting. “We conclude that the magnetic field is the [...]
Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Confounding theories that cows are not too bright, German researchers at the University of Duisburg-Essen have found out that our bovine buddies actually have a spot-on sense of direction.
Here There and Everywhere (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
This is from BBC but I first heard this story on National Public Radio. Scientists at the University of Duisburg-Essen were studying naked mole rats and discovered that when they build a nest, the sleeping areas are always south. They wondered if humans also had an unconscious magnetic sensitivity and decided to use GoogleEarth to [...]
tahrcountry (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Mysteries of nature are a source of constant wonder for me. Here is something that shows that our behavior is influenced by heavenly bodies. Dr Sabine Begall, from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany using Google earth map has come to the firm conclusion that earth’s magnetic fields have profound influence on animal’s behavior. Cattle and Wild deer tend to align their bodies in a north-south...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008
Specialist insurance chief turned his back on the beach to make his mark in London, he tells Yvette Essen .
