#Check out The Winning Design For The Tiny New york Apartments Of Tomorrowclick to enter the gallerya lot of New yorkers are accustomed to closet-like living quarters
which sounds awful and uncomfortable right? Doesn't have to be. This winning design from an NYC architecture competition has some clever ideas for making the most of a bite-sized apartment.
At less than 400 feet the winning design of New york's adapt NYC contest isn't the roomiest spot.
if you require a coffin that large. love those 5th element apart style sign me in---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
#Here's How Big A Problem Wolves Are For Cattle Ranchers Infographic We got a lot of heat for this essay about problematic wolf-hunting laws in Wyoming.
--if you'll notice wolves are not exactly on the top of that list. Much of the motivation for the laws allowing wolf-hunting in states like Wyoming (though this is national data) come from an assumption that wolves are a major problem for cattle ranchers--that wolves are responsible for significant so-called
unintended cattle loss. Unintended cattle loss by the way is the term the USDA uses for cattle who die before they are killed in slaughterhouses.
if they didn't allow hunting the wolf population would balloon with the easy meal that cattle present.
That means if you want to hunt deer elk moose antelope ducks geese cougars and now wolves you have to buy a permit.
You can only hunt the allotted number granted by your permit. It's called wildlife management
and we have to coexist with the fauna around us. It's hard to comprehend for someone who isn't fully aware that there's a large continent to the west of Manhattan
but the virtue of the system is that it limits the number of animals which also reduces the number of them that would otherwise die of starvation which is a particularly gruesome way to perish that entails a lot of suffering.
So be glad that we have adopted a more enlightened view of wolves that allows them to thrive enough that they are endangered no longer
and are back to being the occasional pests of farmers and ranchers. Looks like the Sierra Club's page with the infographic is more informative stating in its Editor's note that the data is for the entire United states
. I'd like to see these percentages redone drawing data from only states where wolves are indeed a threat.
In addition I'd like to point out that often the numbers for wolf kills only reflect the portion of kills the ranchers can find.
Wolves are a LOCAL problem that are only an issue in a very small section of the country (generally around Yellowstone
which of course makes the wolf problem seem very small. This is like comparing traffic problems in LA to the nation's traffic problems
Guilty of having nothing really to do with Popular Science no matter how you feel about the wolves issue.
I suppose that they should start issuing permits to hunt domestic dogs too! I'm sure hunters would jump at the chance.
and former farmers and ranchers who think reintroducing wolves into the lower 48 United states was a dumb treehugger move.
Myself I see the benefits to the local ecosystem of having wolves present to keep the populations of other species in check.
I grew up being taken to Glacier and Yellowstone national parks as well as many museums and zoos and I have been a subscriber to National geographic for most of my life enjoying especially the articles about wildlife.
One cannot blindly vote for the rights of wolves however and suppress the evidence or twist it to support the mostly metropolitan view that all animals everywhere should be protected all the time;
in this case you Mr. Nosowitz are willfully misleading to support your agenda of protecting an endangered species. It is not honest to imply that your infographic supports the claim that wolves are not a threat to livestock in any one state
when the statistics you're using are nationwide since wolf populations are not present nationwide
and indeed are present in only a small number of states currently. Further to put up the dollar figure as X-millions of dollars
But not all cattle ranchers can afford to lose livestock to wolves. Consider that. As for wolves being dangerous to humans or not
I think you may have been raised on too many Disney cartoons that portrayed animals as being able to talk
and being always the friends of people. These are not your pet wolves however sir.
And I think you'd do well to ask yourself why an animal that can hunt
and kill the American bison is safe to you and I. The fact is Dan is an idiot.
It isn't even acceptable to calculate it state wide in Montana given that so few cattle are exposed to wolves.
A given rancher may not have ANY death loss due to weather or domestic dogs or calving problems.
You can't possibly know for any given rancher what burden he is being forced to bear by wolves killing his animals nor can you begin to know his ability to bear those costs.
or night after extended periods of howling having them chased over rodent holes and across freezing rivers moms being separated from their calves
Damn wolves. lolthis is Popsci website blog and Dan is the assistant editor. Wouldn't it just be so funny all those insulting Dan found their login not working tomorrow...
Cripes wolves account for. 02%in 50 states but live in only 8 to 13 states (depending on who you ask
Are you another one of those lemmings packed into shiny metal boxes? Do you think that all those climate scientists are
I must be one of these lemmings packed into a box as you mentioned because
. i have heard of live animals to be tested as 2000 years old (though i have no reference).
@Addl The 2000 year old live animals you cite was from testing mollusk shells. The carbon in mollusk shells is dissolved from calcium carbonate in water.
Thus the measurement was an average of when the carbon formed not the age of the animal.
For this reason radiocarbon dating only works for organisms that obtain their carbon from air via carbon dioxide.
Even organisms that eat aquatic organisms should be calibrated to account for this (for example a seal that was dated to be 1400 years old.
a cramped roach-ridden studio apartment in Manhattan's West Village will run you $36000 a year;
and that the animals'facilities must be maintained in good care and soon enough they're filing a complaint that lists 17 of these little violations
and alleges that you have violated willfully the Animal Welfare Act. What are you going to do?
You could go through all the trouble of hiring a couple extra people to look the animals over
and that there weren't any animals inside it. The company may face fines or a suspended license for their violations of animal welfare and for lying to the USDA but an even bigger problem (for Santa cruz Biotechnology) may come from the NIH who currently exempts off-the-shelf antibodies from the set of animal treatment rules that governs NIH-funded research.
I hate abuse to animals. I understand some animals are used for medical science and all but they should still be clean and humane to the animals.
I hate big Pharm! They don't care about the animals under their supervision they don't care about people's illnesses they just care about corrupting governments
and selling their crap. whoa darth maybe you want to dial it back. First this doesn't seem to be a pharmaceutical company.
They're not making or selling drugs to anyone. They're extracting antibodies for use in research by other companies.
#DNA Test Finds Horse Meat In UK Hamburgersthe Irish version of the FDA called the FSAI has found distinctly non-beef animal protein in ground meat labeled beef in some supermarkets.
Meat from two Irish processing plants has been found to contain substantial portions of pig and curiously horse DNA.
neither pig nor horse is kosher and pig is not halal. The second is that
---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!..damn should have read the article first (sorry for paraphrasing)--Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
Well if they decide instead to get there cow or meat from China they all be dead including their pets.
Don't care what's in the meat so long as it tastes good eh? Guess you'll want to try this Soylent Green then...
---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys! Can't imagine a mad cow outbreak
i'm pretty sure that horse meat is supposed to be leaner and more nutritious for you than beef and pork. it'd make sense
Today it's horse. Tomorrow it could be altered genetically tree fungus. I wonder what exactly were they looking for in the meet to need DNA tests for...
Nothing wrong with eating horse meat though as long as you know what your eating and you aren't squeamish about it.
or pig but not eat something that looks healthy and beautiful as a horse???get outta heere!!!
not to mention how dirty cows and pigs are compared to horses@solarflaredont be an animal racist. ---Type 0. 72)= We are still just cleaver monkeys!
So horsemeat has been found in Tesco Products. A spokesman says it's bollocks. A woman has been taken to hospital after eating horsemeat burgers.
You know the horse d'oeuvres. Are you in favour of Horsemeat in your burgers?
I'm feeling a little horse Those Aldi horse burgers were nice but I prefer My Lidl Pony.
I really hope they launch a steward's inquiry into the Tesco horsemeat scandal. We must find out hoof to blame.
Good thing about these horse puns is it's stopped all the sick Jimmy Saddle jokes. vt007
if you're not familiar with the subject of a comment do your research first. Soylent green wasn't human meat.
In the great ordering of taste and texture I put European horse ABOVE European beef.
#Lifting James'Giant Peach Would Have required Way More Seagulls Than Roald Dahl Saidah physics: Taking the world's greatest mysteries and turning them into cold hard facts.
In the story orphaned James seeks refuge with a bunch of anthropomorphized insects inside a huge stone fruit which is toted then across the Atlantic ocean by a flock of seagulls.
Dahl said it would take 501 birds to do the job: I shall simply go on hooking them up to the stem until we have enough to lift us.
In fact 2425907 seagulls would actually be needed according to the students'research paper. Emily Jane Watkinson Maria-Theresia Walach Daniel Staab and Zach Rogerson calculated the mass of the peach
This greatly exceeds the carrying capacity of 501 Common Gulls the students write. To determine this they modeled the seagulls as airfoils
which you can think of basically like an airplane wing. These curved shapes create the force known as lift.
A common gull can provide 2. 02 N of lift the students write. For a peach of the dimensions calculated it would not be possible to fly such a heavy object with the assistance of such a diminutive number of birds they conclude.
Their course leader Mervyn Roy said the exercise prepares his students for a career in scientific publishing.
They forgot to take into account the fact that talking animals warp space-time to reduce the mass of objects around them.
Considering the quantity of Gulls that peach should be covered completely like icing on a cake with bird do do lol!
but they give a gull count to seven digits s
#Clever Measures: Three Projects That Reimagine Conventional Calculatingartist and cycling enthusiast Gregory de Gouveia based in Chico California has built bike sculptures before.
$0 Thomas Hudson an engineer and bee keeper in Portland Oregon wanted to log his insects'comings
and goings so he built a row of 22 tunnels at the mouth of their hive.
Hudson maps hive patterns with the data. Researchers might use the device to study honeybee ecology.
TIME: 3 monthscost: $110mapping energy leaks in poorly insulated homes no longer requires hiring a technician.
#Gorillas, Watermelons and Sperm: The Greatest Genomes Sequenced In 2012click to launch the photo galleryclick to launch the photo galleryin the 10 years
In 2012 genome researchers sequenced the DNA of an unborn human baby the western lowland gorilla fruits and grains and livestock.
Click through our gallery to see the highlights. in 30%of the genome gorilla is closer to human
or chimpanzee than the latter are to each other. from a nature article on the gorilla genome...
Conservationists hope eventually the iconic animals will once again roam freely (and safely) across the grasslands of the American Midwest n
It would also mean an awful lot to the dozens if not hundreds of animal and plant species that call these forests home now
and hunt insects. We speculate that these are evolved behaviors that in trees and the bats basically can t tell the difference between wind turbines
Without the predators and diseases that normally munch at them in places like Russia and Hungary they can grow in incredible numbers.
what species a biological control agent living thing meant to kill weeds or pests ill affect.
what needs doing as a result in simple terms says Thomas Stocker. So political leaders can't use the excuse anymore that they don't have time to sit down read
Climate scientist Thomas Stocker of the University of Bern Switzerland and member of the IPCC gives an impressively concise summary of the latest science about global warming.
Stocker contributed to the development of hockey stick graph a plot of historic and contemporary data that shows a sharp rise in mean global temperatures over the 20th century.
Bird and whale migrations have been changing. They're coming later then they used to. We knew from this that climate change was here before the term was introduced to us in English.
They also eat underground mushrooms and deer truffles which are known to store radiation. Apparently researchers have been cataloguing this pattern of boar radioactivity for some time
Swine are susceptible to avian human and swine flus and these virus can circulate inside pigs for varying lengths of time with no signs of illness.
Out of 40 unnamed fairs where researchers swabbed piggy noses 10 had more than one animal that carried H3n2v.
and streams to keep mosquitoes from breeding. Such practices would be frowned upon today but apparently these methods saved thousands of lives in the early 1900s.
In this essay from the September 1913 issue of Popular Science Dr. John Silas Lankford from the University of Texas describes how the country where death with grim terror reigned as king queen
The land of the jungle where the mosquito sang her weird song of death unmolested for four hundred years vying with the germs of dysentery typhoid fever and pneumonia in the destruction of human life;
the country where death with grim terror reigned as king queen and prime minister has yielded to modern methods of sanitation
In comparison with similar expenditures in American cities it should not be forgotten that practically nine-tenths of the cost of sanitation in the Zone is in mosquito fighting and quarantine.
and malarial mosquitos thrive in countless millions; the perpetual moisture warmth and rich soil lead to extravagant growth of hundreds of varieties of tropical grasses plants flowers vines and trees furnishing favorable harbor for the insects;
and there is an almost constant stream of decaying vegetable and animal matter pouring into lakes
Decaying animal matter leads to the generation of innumerable flies ever ready to convey disease
the cisterns puddles and lakes furnished convenient breeding places for mosquitos; the streets and sidewalks were in horrible condition
and flies literally swarmed over the food. The conditions were little better in Panama city and in the intermediate towns.
Gorgas himself says that the Americans could have done no better than The french without the knowledge of the mosquito as a disease carrier.
and after spending over $260000000 he met with complete failure a failure that glares like a death dragon from the old discarded machinery
so that the operatives might be protected from mosquitoes during sleeping hours. Colon and Panama city are in the Zone
and marshes so that mosquitoes could not breed. Each little station or town was furnished a pure water supply brought down from the distant hills in some instances and provided with an efficient system of sewers or in some rare instances well arranged cesspools.
so that the mosquito could find no resting place. Plague-carrying rats and other vermin were destroyed.
Disinfectants were used freely and fumigation resorted to when necessary in handling contagious diseases. Rotting vegetable and animal matter offal
and garbage were burned. The life and habits of the men were regulated carefully Government dining halls furnished good meals well cooked
This proposition was demonstrated beyond all question in a great educational campaign on the mosquito in the San antonio public schools several years ago in
which the mosquito was exterminated completely. It is an inspiring sight to witness this unseemly death-ridden tropical country changed into a place of beauty
He burst into hives his tongue swelled and he eventually passed out prompting his wife to call 911.
non-primate mammals such as pigs sheep and cows. Humans don t make the sugar and we all have some form of immune response to it.
the sugar found in the animals organ tissues triggers rejection in humans. Yet most people have no biological reaction to eating livestock
and the birds may have carried the Lone Star tick with them. A rising deer population may also explain the tick s spread as they are also big carriers of the parasites.
Whatever the cause Mcgintee expects to see more cases in the future: I don t think it s a nationwide epidemic
and does not come from an animal into living baker's yeast cells temporarily turning the yeast into a so-called protein factory that produces milk protein.
No animal is tortured in the production of this said Counter culture Labs member Ahnon Milham who is vegan.
Could the yeast hacks and subsequent processing that Real Vegan Cheese proposes really work? Responding to our questions via blog post Dr. Ricky the pseudonymous writer behind Science Based Cuisine stated that the campaign makes some scientifically dubious promises
and vegan and whether you call yeast animals or plants. But synthetic biologist and writer Christina Agapakis a postdoctoral research fellow at University of California Los angeles thinks Real Vegan Cheese could work.
#Pest In Brazil Has evolved Resistance Against GMO Corncrop-munching caterpillars in Brazil are no longer put off by genetically modified plants designed to kill them Reuters reports.
and the pest in question is the Spodoptera frugiperda which is native to tropical regions of The americas.
The genes produce crystalline chemicals that kill insect larvae when they eat it. A larva that chows down on a Bt-crystal-producing GM plant soon stops eating.
A few days later it dies.**In addition to Bt corn Bt cotton is popular. Yet resistance to Bt crops has been occurring with pest species throughout the world.
The first publicly announced case of insects in a field evolving resistance to Bt plants occurred in India in 2009.
The first U s. case followed in 2011. Since then there have been dozens of similar incidents.
The team found that in 2005 only one of the 13 pest species examined could eat Bt plants without dying.
but not long afterward scientists noted that insects would likely evolve resistance to them. Controlling pests whether it's with microbes in a hospital
or grubs in a field is always an arms race against evolution. That evolution happens whether you use genetic engineering or plain old spraying.
because their Bt crops failed to deter pests. Companies are also likely developing new GMO crops perhaps with more insect toxins engineered into them to combat the newly evolved resistance.
There is already a second generation of genetically modified Bt crops that make two Bt toxins instead of just one.
Some pests have evolved resistance against those plants however. There are some scientifically proven ways to slow bugs'ability to adapt to GMO toxins.
Planting a mix of GMO and non-GMO plants helps. So does planting first-and second-generation Bt crops separately.
Both strategies lessen the deadly pressure against insects susceptible to Bt poisoning so they'll evolve more slowly.
*P. S. What about the butterflies?!:Most non-scientist Americans first learned about Bt corn when a study came out finding that pollen from the corn may kill caterpillars of the monarch butterfly.
Later studies have found that Bt corn doesn't significantly affect the numbers of monarch butterflies
although other modern farming practices may. Reuters i
#MERS Virus May be Able To Spread Through The Air Research strongly suggests that camels carry Middle east Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) a viral illness that has sickened nearly 700
and killed at least 209 people as of early June according to the latest update from the World health organization.
For this reason the government of Saudi arabia recently warned people to stay away from close contact with camels at least those that appear to be sick
which prompted some to defiantly post photos of themselves kissing camels on various social media sites.
A study published in the journal mbio found the virus in an air sample taken from a camel barn near Jeddah Saudi arabia.
The genetic signature of the virus was identical to that found in the sick camels and the owner who came down with MERS a week after administering a topical medicine to his camels'runny noses.
The owner later died from MERS. The clear message here is that detection of airborne MERS molecules
which were 100 percent identical with the viral genomic sequence detected from a camel actively shedding the virus in the same barn on the same day warrants further investigations
They only found the virus one of the days the same day that one of the camels tested positive for MERS.
#Eating Poo Helps Packrats Digest Toxic Plantsdesert woodrats are picky but not in the way you might expect:
several woodrat populations in the U s. Southwest specifically eat a type of highly toxic creosote bush.
Another group eats juniper which is also toxic to many animals. This gives the woodrats (Neotoma lepida) a nice niche allowing them to dine on a plant that others avoid.
But how do they do it? A new study suggests that the microbes in their gut break down the toxic chemicals in the plants
In one test they found that packrats (as the animals are known also) fed creosote had much higher levels of bacteria thought to be involved in breaking down the plant's secondary chemicals
Then they fed two groups of the animals antibiotics killing off many of their gut microbes.
Animals that were fed creosote stopped eating the plant and lost weight whereas animals given rabbit food (devoid of toxins) seemed to do just fine
and didn't lose weight. But it gets better. Packrats regularly feed on other animals'droppings in the wild
and with that in mind the scientists fed a group of juniper-eating packrats a mixture of rabbit food and feces from creosote-eaters.
These animals apparently developed the ability to break down the plant compared to those just fed rabbit food who couldn't subsequently eat the toxic plant.
All this work with toxic plants poo and packrats has wider implications than you might imagine however.
It may be possible for example to help livestock feed on toxic plants like juniper which is spreading throughout the Southwest
or perhaps even use bacteria found in the droppings of other animals (here's looking at you packrats).
This kind of intervention roughly equivalent to a fecal transplant--in which poop is transferred from one animal to another and
which has seen growing popularity amongst humans--could also possibly help in reintroducing endangered animals back into their natural environment
since breeding in the lab can cause the animals to lose microbes necessary for digesting certain toxic plant compounds found in the wild.
and Malaysia and is one of only two remaining habitats for orangutans. Between 1980 and 2000 more wood was harvested from Borneo than from Africa
and less depressing news a new species of ground squirrel was discovered recently in Borneo which breaks a record for tail size
and may eat deer's hearts. a
#Another Chinese National Indicted For Stealing American GMO Cornsometimes even a high-tech heist requires a little digging around in the dirt.
Earlier this month a federal court indicted a Chinese national for trying to steal GMO corn technology from Dupont Monsanto and Agreliant Genetics.
and seedlings of the parent plants that companies crossbreed to create the seeds they sell to farmers.
As consumers we are guinea pigs because we really don't understand the ramifications. But the truth is GMOS have been studied intensively
Biologists also introduce genes to make plants pest-and herbicide-resistant; those traits dominate the more than 430 million acres of GMO crops that have already been planted globally.
One frequently cited study published in 2012 by researchers from the University of Caen in France claimed that one of Monsanto's corn GMOS caused tumors in lab rats.
770 examined the health impact on humans or animals. They found no evidence that the foods are dangerous.
And if some GMO pollen does blow into an organic field it won't necessarily nullify organic status. Even foods that bear the Non-GMO Project label can be 0. 5 percent GMO by dry weight.
resists insects Total U s. crop by acreage: 85%herbicide-tolerant; 76%insect-resistant Found in:
Processed foods such as crackers and cereals; corn on the cob; livestock feedcottontrait: Tolerates herbicides; resists insects Total U s. crop by acreage:
82%herbicide-tolerant; 75%insect-resistant Found in: Processed foods including salad dressings; livestock feedpapayatrait: Resists ringspot virus Total U s. crop by acreage:
More than 50%Found in: Whole fruit and other productsrapeseedtrait: Tolerates herbicides Total U s. crop by acreage:
More than 50%Found in: Canola oil; processed foodssoytrait: Tolerates herbicides Total U s. crop by acreage:
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