Dad29 (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have two nominations, both from Madistan. 1) Capitol workers jaywalking across Webster St on the hill in the middle of traffic. No big deal, except when Webster Street is slick as a snake with light but wet/freezing slush-ice. Good way to clean the gene-pool. 2) Dedicated bicyclist, with NO lights, wearing BLACK, at 8:30 PM, riding a lightweight bike in 3"++ of snow/slush, in a...
The Independent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scientists in France have isolated a new giant virus that lurks inside amoeba and whose gene pool includes genetic material from other species.
Physorg (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scientists in France have isolated a new giant virus that lurks inside amoeba and whose gene pool includes genetic material from other species.
JammieWearingFool (Free subscription) | yesterday
News from the shallow end of the gene pool.Memo to children — and adults for that matter — everywhere: Don’t try to emulate Flick from "A Christmas Story." Ever. Your tongue will get stuck to a metal pole when the temperature is -2.Boise fire officials were able to help a boy whose tongue was stuck to a metal fence pole outside the Fairmont pool near...
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
Scientists in France have isolated a new giant virus that lurks inside amoeba and whose gene pool includes genetic material from other species.
Allie Is Wired (Free subscription) | yesterday
Well, the worlds gene pool just got a little prettier. Tom Brady has drafted a pint-size player for future backyard ball games as the New England Patriot Quarterback and supermodel wife, Gisele Bündchen, have welcomed a son. Earlier this month, Brady said he was the only one that knew the baby’s sex during an interview [...]
The Lone Voice (Free subscription) | yesterday
Human gene pool inproves.... Two quad bikers who were killed riding along the main railway line between Cardiff and London are believed to have been escaping after a ram raid on a sports store. The men died of multiple injuries after being hit by a train at Rumney, near Cardiff. Two other men on another quad bike were also hit by the train but escaped uninjured and ran off. Minutes earlier,...
Life Science World (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
[NEWS] Contact: Jonas Warringer jonas.warringer@cmb.gu.se 46-730-226-322 University of Gothenburg We don't always turn out like our parents. Sometimes we become even better. How this happens is the subject of a new research project at the University of Gothenburg. When two gene pools combine, you might expect the cha…
Migrations (Free subscription) | yesterday
... whether selection could act strongly and consistently enough in sympatry to separate a united gene pool. “In highly mobile organisms such as birds, the consensus is that sympatric speciation is extremely rare, mainly because it is difficult to envisage how gene pools could be kept separate until speciation has occurred,” Schaefer said. “Our results now show that the...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
RIO DE JANEIRO, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- International beauty contests tend to go down to the wire in deliciously fought competitive entertainment. But results often prove that those left towering above their pageant rivals are, more often than not, of the breathtaking Latina variety. Spawned from first-rate gene-pools derived from a historic blend of nationalities, Latin American women...
gearfuse (Free subscription) | yesterday
What more inspiration do you need? A little too skinny for my liking, but who am I kidding, I’d trek it . While I’ve never really been a hardcore Trekkie (I know, I know, I claim to be an alpha geek yet don’t know the finer points of Klingon grammar. I’m so ashamed.) I think I would have been a tad more interested if Vulcans shared a little more DNA from this little Trekkie’s gene pool....
Scooter's Report (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
... for sterilizing the stupid." My comments: While it's painfully obvious somebody peed in Harry's gene pool, I'm more concerned by the fact there are beings among us who actually voted this mouth-breather into office. Margarita time for sure.
Steel (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
... be competing with our precious natives and thus aiding in the slow process of watering down the gene pool. Many people stop fishing for these fish because the quality of their meat are no longer the quality of just a few months ago, not to mention the increased difficulty to swing these fish up in the current cold conditions of winter. The ethical issues of catching native fish that...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 12/06/2009
I've always had 20/20 vision. If I'm honest, I used to look at people wearing glasses with a touch of disdain. To me, it was a physical manifestation of a weak gene pool – a little hint that all was not well within their DNA.
Why Evolution Is True (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Thanks to Otter and Greg Mayer for alerting me to a BBC report on a dividing gene pool in blackcap warblers, which led me to the original paper in Current Biology. What the authors have demonstrated is that within the last thirty years, the blackcaps (Sylvia atricapilla), which formerly overwintered in Spain and returned to central [...]
