Out of sight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long linear passes of a mowed lawn.
The strength of the reflected waves also helps distinguish metal from mud or coral. For a group like Bentprop the use of advanced oceanographic instruments is a huge technological leap forward
if the features are purely biological like coral heads or actual wrecks. Moline pauses on an image with an oblong shape.
On closer inspection it seems to have intact wings and a tail. We got a plane!
Terrill uses a laser pointer to indicate the newest find. The hard edges provide bright scatter he says.
He then shifts his pointer to a spherical object about 45 meters away and wonders if it could be the pontoon of a floatplane.
There are rounded edges at the tail. But if it is a floatplane the only U S. airplane it could be would be amphibious.
The shape looks like a Kingfisher. Flip Colmer a former Navy pilot who now flies for Delta also with Bentprop reaches for the book Floatplanes in Action
The Kingfisher O'brien explains was flown typically for observation and to rescue downed pilots. If they were in this deep it would have been on a risky endeavor.
Bentprop knew that two Kingfishers on reconnaissance missions had disappeared during the war and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up.
Well it's not a Kingfisher he says. After descending to the plane O'brien noticed that the windscreen on the cockpit was located behind the wing.
In Kingfishers it was situated in front. He'd also detected a subtle distinction in the shape of the fuselage near the tail.
I strap on a scuba tank and jump into the water with Scannon who wants to see for himself.
Long gangly strands of black coral grow up and through the corroded metal. The front motor and propellers have broken away from the body of the plane
It also had flattened a beaver tail around the vertical stabilizer an aft cockpit machine gun and no wing armaments.
a large bulbous coral head has taken up occupancy in the cockpit. Originally painted blue with a white star
So they help their brightly colored dominant brothers seduce hens in a process called rather coyly cooperative courtship.
#What Eating Crickets Is Really Like The Future Food Salon describes itself as a celebration of food in an arts-soaked setting that explores with enthusiasm what we will be eating in the future.
which you eat bugs. Lots of bugs. I headed out to the far west side of Manhattan yesterday evening to one of the many airy modern vaguely industrial event spaces that seem to be all there is between 18th and 34th streets west of 10th avenue.
Given that I don't think anyone can actually live out there I think I've spent about as much time as anyone in that part of town;
But yesterday I was going to eat bugs not play with new cellphones. The event was cheerful and moderately drunk;
the bartender was pouring like completely full-to-the-brim glasses of wine possibly to counter any trepidation the guests had about eating toffee that was covered intentionally with bugs.
and do-gooders interested in promoting sustainable bug-eating (mostly from Austin Texas) and the guests were a nice mix of journalists photographers NYU students who had come out to see the panels that preceded the tasting
I was there for the bugs. The eating of insects as food is called sort of clinically and unappetizingly entomophagy.
It's not unusual outside of North american and Western europe; in Mexico for instance chapulines or grasshoppers are a favorite bar snack and taco filling.
But here eating bugs is limited pretty much to reality TV SHOWS. That could change as we're looking at a near-inevitable food crisis brought on by factory farming.
and others have been looking to alternatives from lab-grown meat to well bugs. Entomophagy has a lot going for it.
Bugs are high in protein so they're a good replacement for mammal or bird meat.
They eat less food reduce our need for pesticides (because um that would kind of defeat the point)
Many types of insects (like mealworms) don't even require water since they get enough from their food.
Insects are also easy to raise at home and don't take up much space. At the Future Food Salon I was shown a mockup of an in-house cricket enclosure designed to be placed on your counter next to your microwave
and toaster oven (pictured above). It worked pretty much like a tiny chicken coop--a cricket coop you might say.
Click through to the gallery for a seven-item hors d'oeuvres spin through the wonders of bug-eating.
As a vegetarian I'm very interested in entomophagy as odd as it sounds. I make no illusions of the massive amounts of insects that must be killed
when harvesting the plants that I consume daily especially given the raw amount that I consume (which would likely be proportionally higher than a non-vegetarian).*
insect mortality for vegetarians would make an interesting study) Of course the leading reservations that I have when it comes to the consumption of animal meat is the suffering of the animal
when being raised the method in which the animal is killed and the intelligence of the animal.
It seems that entomophagy doesn't suffer from the problem of ill-treatment during animal raising
I would wish on my worst enemy nor wish on a reasonably simple insect. Do you have any information on how these insects are typically transitioned from living creature to food?
seaniumly Since many users and what appears to be Popsci ok with the use of marijuana with possible (hype) reasons of it being healthy just get you animal bug really high off marijuana (mellow) prior to killing it
so you do not have to feel bad about killing it and both enjoy the benefits of eating meat bug and the health aspects (hype) of the marijuana in the animal.
Bon appetite and enjoy! Seanlumly I attended the meetings was one of the speakers during the morning session on entomophagy as well as consumed crickets during the Future Food Salon tasting.
The crickets used in the tastings had been frozen during their processing. Freezing in arthropods is one of the most humane methods.
In a natural setting during change of seasons from autumn through winter insects are frozen which causes antifreeze chemicals to be produced (in those that do this)
but this process is triggered over a period of time measured in days and months but not if they are frozen quick in a freezer.
Freezing causes no pain in insects; their metabolism is slowed simply down until totally frozen. If frozen for 10
or 20 minutes or so the crickets wake up after thawing but for longer periods of time it is not a process that can be reversed.@
@loubugdrthank you very very much for the information! It gives me some hope and gives me something to look into further.
@seanlumly-all the bugs at this event came from us (World Ento) Every single bug was frozen slowly to death in their homes.
What types of insects do you carry? I am interested in trying something out at some point. ne peuvent pas profiter de mon repasevery year the North carolina Museum of Natural science holds a Bugfest (September 21 this year.
One of the biggest draws is their Cafã Â Insecta. Local restaurants and chefs (including myself) prepare dishes utilizing various insects.
We have done dishes like chirps and salsa (toasted cricket corn flour) and a cricket moon pie with mill worm filling.
I make a point to run the dish at my restaurant during the week before the event.
By far crickets have been the favorite bug of choice. As a chef I am willing to try any thing at least once.
I love crickets. They taste like toasted pistachios. Hopefully people will realize that a shrimp isn't any thing more than a sea roach
and will not scoff at a plate of land crawling snacks. Together with Elke Grenzer of the Culture of Cities Centre I host the Future Food Salons.
Crickets are a great gateway bug for people keen to try them. And we're very fortunate to have companies like World Ento to sell ready to cook crickets as well as Chapul
which makes tasty high protein bars from the crickets. Jakub Dzamba our featured speaker for the series is also working on cricket reactors (farms) that can sit on your kitchen counter.
We're hoping to have the prototypes in testing by the fall with a view to launching the product next spring.
If you are interested in inviting us to come to curate a Future Food Salon in your city festival
alimentaryinitiatives. combut you don't once mention what it is like to eat crickets?..what like CHICKEN I
#New Awesome Mammal In The Raccoon Family Found In South Americawe don't discover new mammals very often let alone new mammals in well-known families like Procyonidae (which includes the raccoons coatis and ringtails.
The olinguito as its name suggests is highly similar to another member of the raccoon family the olingo an arboreal nocturnal animal that looks more like a combination of a possum and a monkey than a raccoon.
In fact says Smithsonian there was actually an olinguito in American zoos in the 1960s kept in cages with olingos.
Kristofer Helgen curator of mammals at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural history and author of the paper stumbled on some olinguito skins
and eats mostly fruit supplemented with insects. It lives in the high forest of Ecuador
I honestly think that this could be the last time in history that we will turn up this kind of situation both a new carnivore
if beautiful species such as this animal is to survive into the distant foreseeable future e
Cechetti an engineer at the water-sports-equipment manufacturer Cobra International is always hunting for techniques to make surfboards stronger and lighter.
This squirrel-sized dude evolved long before the rise of modern mammals but the hair and fur residue found preserved in its fossil indicate that those traits existed even back in the Jurassic era.
Hair and fur have generally been considered unique to mammals so it's exciting to find that they could have been around even before the first mammals arrived on the evolutionary scene.
This bolsters the 2006 finding of one other pre-mammalian fossil with fur the only other hairy ancestor we've discovered.
Megaconus probably ambled around with a gait similar to a modern rock hyrax or an armadillo and had teeth similar to modern rodents.
On its heels it had a long perhaps poisonous spur like male platypuses do now. Megaconus confirms that many modern mammalian biological functions related to skin
and integument had evolved already before the rise of modern mammals says Zhe-Xi Luo one of the fossil's discoverers and a professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.
Some of its other features though differentiate it from today's mammals. A middle ear still attached to the jaw is more reminiscent of reptiles
and the structures of its anklebones and vertebrae look very similar to other mammal-like reptiles.
We cannot say that Megaconus is our direct ancestor but it certainly looks like a great-great-grand uncle 165 million years removed Luo says.
The paper detailing the discovery can be found in Nature. UCHICAGO News...The aquatic-ape hypothesis suggests that six million to eight million years ago apelike ancestors of modern humans had a semiaquatic lifestyle based on foraging for food
in shallow waters. Fur is not an effective insulator in water and so the theory asserts that we evolved to lose our fur replacing it as other aquatic mammals have with relatively high levels of body fat.
Imaginative as this explanation is and helpful in providing us with an excuse for being overweight paleontological evidence for an aquatic phase of human existence has proven elusive...
This animal was designed clearly and if it did predate anything then that would show De-evolution
How could something first evolve hair only to then decide later Hey I need scales or maybe feathers!
and water filled A lot of the work is done my hand or with the assistance of animals.
or animals Like so many lies the safety of genetically modified food relies on yet other lies.
Also note the FAO APHIS and FDA all acknowledge the risks involved with GMO's. Their adverse affects on environment have been shown
(i e. they don't die from) pest and herbicides that are sprayed on them. Tomatoes Tomahtoes I guess
because it is highly effective at controlling Lepidoptera larvae caterpillars. It is during the larval stage
when most of the damage by European corn borer occurs. The protein is very selective generally not harming insects in other orders (such as beetles flies bees and wasps.
For this reason GMOS that have the Bt gene are compatible with biological control programs
because they harm insect predators and parasitoids much less than broad-spectrum insecticides. The Bt endotoxin is considered safe for humans other mammals fish birds and the environment because of its selectivity.
Bt has been available as a commercial microbial insecticide since the 1960s and is sold under many trade names.
or animal that has been modified genetically through the addition of a small amount of genetic material from other organisms through molecular techniques.
Currently the GMOS on the market today have been given genetic traits to provide protection from pests tolerance to pesticides
and Chemical Toxicology found that rats fed on a diet of 33 per cent NK603 corn
and digestive problems. www. english. rfi. fr/americas/20120920-monsanto-gm-maize-may-face-europe-ban-after-french-study-links-cancersincerely-Joewww. joesid. compoor rats...
The study cited in the article was a 2-year toxicology study of rats fed Monsanto's Roundup-resistant NK103 maize (corn) and the herbicide Roundup.
It turns out that the Sprague-Dawley rats in the study have a lifespan of about 2 years
In other words SÃ Â ralini is accused of scientific malpractice for not including a high enough sample of rats in the study to control for naturally occurring tumors and cancers.
http://dotearth. blogs. nytimes. com/2012/10/19/six-french-science-academies-dismiss-study-finding-gm-corn-harmed-rats/?
After proposing the use of rats in long-term experiments it exposed that Monsanto and every other case study did not do a long-term study.
Because they all use rats. The very rat that is in question in SÃ Â ralini's work.
How can anyone claim that the food is safe if you only test it for 90 days?
The rats they used in the test are used in every lab experiment across the country. They are the most common lab rat in use today
It's because of this rat dilemma they have highlighted another study that used a different animal for 5 years.
and the case has been highlighted because of the use of rats. The Sprague-Dawley (SD) rat strain that SÃ Â ralini used is used also in long-term 2-year toxicity
If this was the wrong type of rat for SÃ Â ralini to use it was the wrong rat in all these other studies
GMO versus NON GMO www. momsacrossamerica. com stunning corn comparison gmo versus non gmoknown to Kill Cows Castrate Wildlife Induce Spontaneous abortion in Lab Rats...
and sold in the world today affects the fertility of mice. The mice which were fed the GMO corn had significantly lower fertility rates than the mice fed natural non-GMO corn.
Disturbingly this declining ability to have continued babies down through future mouse generations as well. ÃÃÚÂ Ã 2. A comparative analysis published in the International Journal of Biological sciences examined the health effects of three different varieties of Monsanto-developed GMO corn on mice.
While the specific effects differed depending upon the variety of GMO corn that was eaten the dose that was consumed
and the sex of the mammal all three varieties of GMO corn caused damage to the animals major detoxifying organs namely the liver and the kidneys.
Other effects were also found in the heart adrenal glands spleen bone marrow lymph nodes and other blood-making organsã¢Â#Âll of which are signs of severe toxicity. 3. This past year Food Chemical Toxicology published the results of a two-year study conducted by scientists at the University of Caen
and female rats the death rates for the animals fed GMO corn was two to three times higher than the animals eating non-GMO corn.
The GMO-fed mice were also four times more likely to develop tumors. GMO-eating females developed more mammary tumors as well as pituitary gland and hormonal abnormalities.
Other studies are beginning to discover certain insects that are adapting to GMO corn s inherent insecticide abilities.
While one study found that 0. 97 ppm of formaldehyde is toxic to mammals GMO corn was found to contain 200 times that amount. these comments...
and look at the worms on the roads. The worms end right at the edge of the farmers fields.
Thus no new dirt is made from leaves etc. or aireation (Sorry about the spelling. of our fields.
and we need to find a way to keep the worms in the fields before we can't raise crops any more.
Worms help (breakdown of large material to increase surface area and aereation) but it is bacteria that do the job of turning life into soil.
Those pesticides are bad for the worms frogs and most everything else but things still rot back into soil
Oak is right soil is made irregardless of the presents of worms. I haven't done enough research
The term soil is used usually to describe a more organic compound that's broken down plants and animals and fungi.
Oak is right soil is made irregardless of the presents of worms. I haven't done enough research
Plants animals whatever it eats to survive. Where did that come from? On and on and on until finally you say it came from the constituent elements that are 3. 9 billion years old.
As a matter of fact the only thing I've seen farmers do as far as interacting with worms is farm them to get MORE of them...
Philippine governmental authorities will evaluate the rice's food safety feed safety environmental safety safety to humans safety to animals all these are considered Antonio Alfonso the lead scientist for the Philippine Rice Research
@shutterpod...serioiusly genetic modifications happen each time an animal or plant reproduces. Domesticated animals and cultivated crops are genetically different from the wild varieties they were derived from
and this did not originally occur in the lab negative cheers.@@drmoronic...if you think a chemically/electrically lab-created life-form is analogous to any'similar'variety made through breeding...
Genetic engineering allows scientists to cross the species barrier mixing genetic material among of animals plants and microorganism.
To print the liver tissue at Organovo Vivian Gorgen a 25-year-old systems engineer simply had to click run program with a mouse.
Then they graduated to larger mammalian cells farmed from Chinese hamsters and lab rats. After printing 90 percent of the cells remained viable
There are some pretty significant species differences between animals like rats and humans says Organovo's Presnell.
So you can get a lovely answer from a rat that says'Yeah go forth!''And in reality in a human it would not do well.
At Stanford researchers have tried to get around this problem by breeding mice with livers made up mostly of human cells.
A study published in October showed the mice predicted how well a drug for treating hepatitis C would be metabolized by humans.
People normally do a reaction purify the chemicals take the drug add it to cells look at the response formulate maybe do animals
The same would be found in cuticles of the fingernail âÂ#ÂTHE thing here is that to grow new STUPH cell division must take place.
or fingernail cuticle (instigating cell division) would help in cell division of cells in a packed state.
Can they use this technology to make burgers from less common animals? Penguins? I don't like the smell of penguins
but I guess we can. You can do it with any sort of satellite cell from an animal.
The leftovers were taken home for Dr. Post's children. well with any new product lets see what happens to the first few people who eat this
. if no ones dies i'll have one . but if we successfully start growing meat then
obviously there would be no purpose in keeping animals meant for food. will the vegetarians jump on board?
Save the seals choose invitro. Thats the name brand I'll choose Tasty Invitro Meats or TIM'sbeef chicken or Exotic:
and would signify any real meat that has not been taken from animals but grown). Or Growth Meatwe can't just keep ading more and more cattle pigs chickens ect.
and mennonites and zoos and peta freaks cows will go extinct well we might keep a herd for genetic improvement
Would you like to try our new Bald eagle petri-nuggets? http://www. joesid. comsounds great! Does it have less purines that a regular hamburger
We can reduce the number of livestock and stop KILLING helpless animals!!!I'll take A g-burger please!!!
Those 28 calories of grass the cow uses to make a calorie of beef are mostly celuloise a long chain poly-sacaride that is indigestable to humans and most other mammals.
or those morally opposed to killing sentient animals for food. I see where this can have value
if a non-animal growth medium could be developed. As long as the growth medium production does not require even more productive land to produce the cultured meat than actually running animals on the land.
Even as a vegetarian I realize that animals as a food source leverage land that is not possible to efficiently cultivate.
Let's just get to the point where it is more efficient than ranching and not dependent on a slaughterhouse before we start jumping up and down with joy..
Thanks to good old Barry Bonds who used maple bats in his 2001 marathon home-run season players increasingly favor the lighter wood which according to one collector just has more pop than other bat
The scientists found that the more the cut of the wood strayed from the original grain the more likely the bat was to shatter The New york times reports.
The baseball league altered regulations to require that the grain in the bat not deviate from the original grain of the wood by more than 3 percent as well as adding minimum densities and weight-to-length ratios.
when they are hit by these bats. why not just laminate the bat? kinda like a car window or bullet proof glass glazing?
Seems to me many shards are likely coming from the inside core of the bat (judging by the picture.
What laminating materials could be used that would not significantly improve the desirable characteristics of an ordinary wood bat?
the bat might just look shiny due to a glossy effect of the resin. Polyurethane could also work. thats the stuff bedliners are made out of...
although the bat might look plasticized after. too thick of a coating may have an affect on the bat.
and the animals that rely on them so it is good that this is being proposed for counties that are obsessed less about not upsetting a natural balance in a human-created desert.
and feels exaggerated like the tortoise and the hare but plays on people's positive conceptions of space exploration:
or wild animals and there were no fields or forests or streams. Worst of all the air was thick and stinky.
the dodo. Does not have to memorable so stop waiting for the approval of your peers.
#Grizzly bear Survival: Yet Another Reason Not To Shoot Yellowstone Wolveseven though every respectable regulatory service says shooting wolves in
and around Yellowstone national park is bad for everyone involved wolves are still being shot. Well add one more paper to the pile:
a new study published in the Journal of Animal Ecology finds that the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone has had a positive effect on the population of...
wait what? Grizzly bears? How? Putting together the puzzle pieces of a diverse ecosystem like Yellowstone is tricky;
shooting wolves is like pulling out a piece of an enormous Jenga game. Some parts seem unaffected some parts are balanced distinctly less
and eventually the whole game will crash. This study looks at how the wolf affects the ecosystem as a whole
and as we thought wolves are an essential part of the health of Yellowstone. The iconic endangered-in-the-U s. grizzly bear relies on lots of fruit especially berries
when preparing for its winter hibernation. High in sugar and containing lots of important vitamins the berries including serviceberry chokecherry buffaloberry twinberry huckleberry
and others and make up a substantial portion of the grizzly's diet in the summertime.
A lower amount of berries has been found to have a negative effect on the survival and reproductive abilities of grizzlies the following year.
There have been quite a few low-berry years lately. That problem says the study can be attributed to the lack of wolves in Yellowstone:
wolves typically prey on the abundant elk herds in the park. Elk eat berries just like the bears do.
But without wolves the elk population has exploded which means there's hardly any berries left for the bears.
So the bears aren't as well fed which makes them less healthy. And it's not even just as simple as that.
The elk are eating so many berries including the entire berry shrubs that animals that rely on the shrubs like bees
and butterflies are also in decline. The bears without access to the fruit they'd normally be eating have to eat more meat
which means they sometimes prey on elk but just as often on livestock nearby. And that makes the ranchers angry
and the ranchers shoot bears or wolves or whatever else they feel like because Wyoming does not know
or care how ecosystems work. Neither does Friends of the Yellowstone Elk Herd a pro-hunting organization.
But the reintroduction of wolves the study finds has had marked a improvement on that entire system. The researchers from Oregon State university and Washington state University analyzed grizzly bear scat and found that the percentage of berries in the scat has doubled since the reintroduction of the wolves.
Turns out the two most iconic animals of Yellowstone depend on each other in more ways than we thought. via Physorg...
because Wyoming does not know or care how ecosystems work. Great writing? How about firing the undergrads and hiring actual writers?
These articles are quickly becoming a joke. Maybe you don't understand the difference between wildlife management and extermination.
We stopped exterminating wolves and a host of other species in the U s a long time ago.
Allowing hunters to purchase licenses to hunt a limited number of wolves is called wildlife management.
For an excellent example of how management works look no further than the link to the U s. Fish
and Wildlife Service page on Grey Wolves you so helpfully provided: Long-term the Service expects the entire NRM population to maintain a long-term average of around 1000 wolves.
These wolves represent a 400-mile southern range extension of a vast contiguous wolf population that numbers over 12000 wolves in western Canada and about 65000 wolves across all of Canada and Alaska.
The Service and our partners will monitor wolves in the region for at least 5 years to ensure that the population s recovered status is compromised not
and if relisting is warranted ever we will make prompt use of the Act s emergency listing provisions.
Really this again? Your bias is showing and the worst part is you write like you assume you're right
because you have all this science to back it up. Outdoor life had an article that showed some science in argument of the other side of this issue
Unfortunately in the name of'saving the wolves'you alienate the people you most need on your side to help'save the wolves
and animals (and conservation models and ecological history and etc. etc.)that they live with every day.
I now thanks to you support wanton murder of wolves in Wyoming. Yup you're disregard for all things scientific and logical annoyed me that bad.
Sorry wolves. I genuinely don't understand how a scientific magazine can publish an article this biased...
The wolf hunting is being managed by the Fish Wildlife and Parks department there which I have worked at.
It is a very competent agency with many educated biologists who have done extensive research on the wolf population...
There are reasons to control the population by shooting wolves and despite the fact wolf hunting has been possible for many years the population is still thriving.
This article is garbage with the bias so pathetically unsupported that its own links contradict the article.
If a bear or some wolves wonder onto my property and effectively steals a thousand dollar cow from me
and i'm going to drag their dead carcass out for all the other hungry bears and wolves to see
so they don't come back. Because I don't care if that poor little wolf is hungry
i'm hungry too and so is my family. Nature is just going to have to remember who's is who's. Such sentiment certainly doesn't speak for everyone who kills a wolf and
i condemn those who shoot wolves illegally. Formally Nooneyouknow...Keep'em coming Dan. The yahoos commenting just don't like simple facts.
The most important one being that humans are very poor at managing nature. With Friends like these wildlife doesn't need any enemies!@
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