2.2. phishing

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Synopsis: 2.2. phishing:

How salmon help keep a huge rainforest thrivingthe Great bear Rainforest is vital to the health of the planet.

the perilous journey of the Pacific salmon from the sea through the forest rivers to spawn in its creeks.

The salmon run draws carnivores such as bears and wolves to the river bank, where they gorge on the migrating fish.

In this film, ecological economist Pavan Sukhdev, The Nature Conservancy's lead scientist Dr M Sanjayan and camerawoman Sophie Darlington talk about the salmon's unsung role in fertilising the forest.

The bears who feast on the spawning salmon don't eat on the river oe they drag the carcasses far into the forest.

The remains of the salmon contain vast quantities of nitrogen that plants need to grow.

Eighty percent of the nitrogen in the forest's trees comes from the salmon. In other words, these ocean dwellers are crucial for the forest's long-term survival.

The fish that find refuge form the basis of an immense ocean food web and a huge fishing industry.

or some dog waste on the sole of your shoe. It probably won't make them smell of roses though.

Dwindling fish stocks from overfishing have prompted humanity to create farmed supplies, beginning with the most accessible environments on or near land.

But the drawbacks of current fish farming has created opportunities for technology like the floating"drifter pens  pioneered by Kampachi Farms.

Given enough time, Kampachi Farms will replace stagnant ponds with GPS-tracked cages stitched out of copper wire to enable a constant inflow of fresh ocean water without flushing out the precious fish.

Collapsing fisheries are of immediate concern but land-based agriculture may also be in danger due to a predicted shortage of the crucial nutrient phosphorus by the year 2050.

At the bottom of this food chain, algae will feed fish, which feed bigger fish, which will feed in turn seafarers and landlubbers alike.

Sinking fish waste and seaweed detritus will gradually sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and deposit it on the seafloor to restart nature's eons-long process of creating fossil fuels.

near his home in Anguilla, Cate has found that suspending a heavy weight well below the surface keeps the ball from moving amid the waves.

the disturbingly more-ish soda made from the secretions of giant extraterrestrial slugs in Futurama.

There may be plenty more fish in the sea but not the ones we're used to eating.

and waters warm there will be a global shift"from a fish to a jellyfish ocean Â. Its author Ferdinando Boero, Professor of Zoology at Salento University,

Unhappy truckers and other algorithmic problems Tom Vanderbilt Nautilus 19 july 2013 On the"travelling salesman  problem.

and closing solar powered sunflower umbrellas capture the sun's rays during the day and fold at night releasing stored heat in a continual cycle.

and Farmedhere in Bedford Park, Illinois, a 90,000 square-foot (8, 360 square metre) empty warehouse several storeys tall that was converted into an indoor farm producing tilapia (freshwater fish), a variety of leafy green vegetables,

rivers swim with fish and populations of animals that have become rare in the countryside are thriving in urban niches.

As their traditional food oe fish oe becomes scarcer, they scavenge human rubbish. Whether traditional conservationists and wildlife lovers learn to value these new flourishings that are occurring at such a rapid rate is still to be seen.

The practice of biomimicry already taps into nature's ingenuity oe for example, the famous hexagonal skin of Norman Foster's Gherkin was inspired by the Venus Flower Basket sponge,

For example, in estuary environments so-called oystertecture, in which shellfish are farmed on sculptural metal structures, could be used to filter impurities,

 Where uniqueness lies Gary Marcus Nautilus 29 april 2013 Advances in genetics, biology, neuroscience, anthropology, tend to point up how similar humans are to other animals, not how different.

he immediately remarked"petting the sharks at the aquarium, Â then, after a pause,"oh, and seeing Bono!

Another service called Elephant 911 crowdsources information on incidents involving elephants oe such as suspected poacher activity

but this is nothing compared with the blacktip reef shark (Carcharhinus melanopterus) found in the tropical and subtropical waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans.

Female sharks of many species may have evolved thicker tougher skin than males for this very reason.

The mourning cuttlefish (Sepia plangon) takes its cross dressing even further. This cephalopod, found in the waters off the eastern coast of Australia, controls the appearance of its skin with exquisite precision.

When a male cuttlefish attempts to seduce a nearby female he offers her a courtship display by controlling the arrangement of pigments that appear on the surface of his skin.

If a rival male approaches, he changes his skin on the side facing the rival to appear female.

However, it could equally have been powered by one of a number of biofuels made from algae, flax, coconut husks or even from used cooking-oil.

scientists increasingly advocate the use of crops that grow in areas that would not normally support agriculture oe such as salicornia, a salt loving plant oe or the use of algae,

with the theme of"inspiring hope Â. Solar fishing in Yementhere's been a long history of negative perceptions of Yemen...particularly from western media,

where fish would thrive in ponds and solar panels would be used to generate electricity, while also drawing tourists.

this treacherous bit of sea is known as the triangle of death for good reason oe the considerable threat of great white sharks is increased by the conspicuous absence of kelp that otters normally use to hide.

which is also common in fish and birds, reduces the risk of being attacked. Lions and cheetahs stalk before they ambush prey,

designed to block out nearly all particles from cosmic rays that could hamper scientists'readings.""With its labyrinth of tunnels, uniformed guards and glittering racks of equipment, it is one of the world's most spectacular laboratories,

and squirrel monkeys, lemurs, dolphins, elephants, birds, salamanders and fish. Recently, researchers from Oakland University in Michigan added black bears to the list of the numerically skilled.

That's because unlike nitrogen or oxygen, carbon dioxide molecules absorb the Sun's heat rays

even though they let light rays pass through, like a greenhouse. Scientists are looking at ways to modulate the global temperature by removing some of this greenhouse gas from the air.

Meanwhile, photosynthetic organisms like plants and algae take in carbon dioxide and emit oxygen. This balance has kept the planet at a comfortably warm average temperature of 14c (57f),

The professor of genetics at Barnard College sent his students out to trawl the markets'open-air displays of exotic fish, fruit and vegetables,

There, on the fifth floor, one lab is trying to catch everything from fraudulent fish, to mislabeled toy cats, to illegally prepared sheep placenta in traditional Chinese medicine.

very intact fish oe head to tail. Towards the back of the fish popsicle, Birck had cut a small square for sequencing a little bit of DNA called the CO1 gene oe also known as the"barcode of life Â. Normally Birck

and his lab don't get an entire fish oe or an entire anything really. Instead, they often get parts of the animal in the form of pills, snippets of hair,

and chunks of vegetables or meat. Most recently they've been inundated with fish filets, which are nearly impossible to identify."

and dye their fillets to look like the fish they're trying to imitate. But for Birck,

and dying can pass tilapia off as salmon. He extracts a sample of DNA, copies the gene they're looking for

So if a fillet says it's salmon, Birck can compare that DNA with the salmon barcode."

"This is really cut and dried, Â he says, "it matches or it does not, end of story.

Researchers have used it to figure out what's inside an eel's stomach, identify bird flu and figure out what plants the bees that made your honey were pollinating.

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is not only a lucrative business globally, estimated to be worth between $10 and $30 billion a year,

it's the biggest threat to the sustainable management of fish stocks. Using DNA barcoding,

the Boston globe revealed last year that 48%of the fish their reporters purchased in restaurants,

One importer was labelling some salmon as"farm raised. Â Customs asked Birck to confirm

except that only Atlantic salmon is farmed. Pacific salmon is caught almost always in the wild. So by figuring out which species they were looking at

Birck could tell customs whether or not the importers were lying or not. However, the method isn't without its glitches.

Sturgeons, for example, simply can't be barcoded using the CO1 gene oe the gene hasn't evolved enough between different species oe so identifying their caviar through barcoding is impossible.

This includes canned tuna.""I can get DNA out of mayonnaise, Â he laughs, "but canned tuna is hard.

 There are sometimes workarounds for answering questions that barcoding can't. Birck laughs as he describes one case in which they got a little snippet of fur that had come from a stuffed cat.

because nitrogen is also a superb fertiliser of algae and bacteria. Fertiliser pollution in lakes and the ocean causes massive blooms of algae,

which use up the oxygen dissolved in the water, suffocating other species. The vast blooms of red or green algae cause dead zones for kilometres, with the associated stench.

which records"sightings  of giant squids and whale-like animals. During the visit, the pair began to wonder

however, inappropriate flooding of vegetation can cause greenhouse gas emissions and poison the water for fish.

Fish that lay their eggs in the shallows among submerged tree roots, for example, may find a few hours later that those sites are high and dry with the eggs desiccated.

Conservatives argue that we should reduce consumption, waste, population, fertiliser use, pesticides, fishing, etc. and in this way reduce our species'influence back to being just another part of the biosphere, rather than its driving force.

rather than passively allowing their idle computer to do the grunt work.""Their feeling is that science is too important to be left to scientists alone,

Most conservation strategies rely on guarding the cats against poachers and protective farmers. Successful efforts on India have relied on bureaucratic form-filling with identification requirements for everyone who wishes to visit tiger reserves,

they presume future generations will conform to whatever Ëoescience finds'oe pills, algae or other dystopian horrors.

Long's team broke photosynthesis down into a long series of mathematical equations and fed them to the National Center for Supercomputer Applications in Illinois. The supercomputer whirred through the numbers and spat out a list of"best-bet

whether it is about'peak soil',peak timber','peak silver','peak fish','peak oil'or'peak freshwater,

#Giant Moonpies, Cherries and Sardines Get Dropped on New Years Eve The city of Mobile, Ala.

says the colossal cod will descend 60 feet down to Oyster Pond Beach. It took him six months to build the fish,

which is lit internally and, chances are, the folks watching it will be too. Other cities with their own version of the Times square ball:

Port Clinton, Ohio, residents will celebrate at midnight when a 20-foot, 600-pound fiberglass walleye fish drops from a tall crane.

realistically painted wooden sardine drops from the window to ring in the American New Year.

The Brits are behind studies which consist of attaching a chunk of rat brain to a robot to see

from Super Mario Bros. The stars of Angry Birds do not express themselves much apart from squawks and grunts,

The Mapo Center for Dementia perches at a busy crossroads of old and new, near a university and a shop selling naturopathic goat extracts.

#Sharks and Wolves: Prey Interactions Similar On land and in Oceans major predators help control the populations of their prey

as well as sharks and dugongs in Australia. In each case, the major predators help control the populations of their prey,

what has been learned about wolf and elk interaction in Yellowstone national park in the U s. to the interplay of tiger sharks and dugongs in Shark Bay, Australia.

that feed primarily on seagrasses and are a common prey of sharks. In studies with elk, scientists have found that the presence of wolves alters their behavior almost constantly,

Conceptually similar activities are taking place between sharks and dugongs, the researchers found. When sharks are abundant,

dugongs graze less in shallow water where they are most vulnerable to sharks, and sacrifice food they might otherwise consume.

This allows the seagrass meadows to thrive, along with the range of other plant and marine animal species that depend on them.

As shark populations were diminished by overfishing, the number of rays increased, which in turn reduced the level of sea scallops, an important fishery.

The marine/terrestrial similarities are reflected also in the body condition and health of species, the researchers noted.

In Shark Bay, green sea turtles are more willing to face risks from sharks and seek the best grazing areas when their body condition is strong.

#Aquabundance Worlds First Aquaponic Gardening System Featured invention at the Davinci Inventor Showcase Aquabundance is the worlds first green gardening system that has been designed to grow plants and fish, year-round

Aquabundance is a highly productive aquaponic system that grows a nearly boundless variety of plants using organic nutrients supplied by fish growing in an attractive adjoining tank.

which fosters the growth of algae, a decrease in the level of oxygen dissolved in the water,

¢Tuna fish Eyes The fatty, jellylike tissue around the eyeballs of a tuna fish is considered to be a great delicacy in Japan that costs about US $1.

#Finance Site Lists Most Expensive Invasive Species A Canadian goose Asian carp arent the only invasive species causing trouble in the United states

2. Cownose ray (below) for gobbling up the thousands of farmed oysters that wildlife officials have farmed throughout Chesapeake bay;(

image Tim Sackton) 3. Asian Carp for depleting plankton and pushing out other species; 4. Coyotes for eating cows, sheep and other livestock,

I suppose we should all take comfort that popcorn still comes first in the ranked list before Artificial Flavors and Fish.

as we eat shrimps, which are very comparable. Grasshoppers The advantages of this diet include insects high levels of protein, vitamin and mineral content.

insects could be used to feed farmed animals such as chicken and fish which eat them naturally.

165 per 100g 4, 818 calories per year Fish, coated or fried: The average child eats 3, 650g a year Equal to:

#Genetically-Modified Salmon Will be First GM Animal Available for Human Consumption Genetically modified salmon could be on supermarket shelves within a year.

Usually Atlantic salmon do not grow during the winter and take three years to fully mature.

A salmon that grows at twice the normal rate is set to be the first genetically modified (GM) animal available for human consumption.

But by implanting genetic material from an eellike species called ocean pout that grows all year round,

US scientists have managed to make the fish grow to full size in 18 months. They hope that the sterile GM salmon can offer an efficient and safe way to breed salmon in fish farms

so that the wild fish can be left in the oceans. US watchdog the Food and Drug Administration is currently considering whether the GM Atlantic salmon,

called Aquadvantage, is safe to eat. The fish could be on supermarket shelves within a year.

But environmental campaigners question whether the GM material is safe for humans to consume and fear the sterile salmon will mutate in the wild

and be breed able to. At the moment only GM CROPS like corn or soy are available for human consumption.

Also the Daily telegraph revealed recently that most animal products available in supermarkets like meat, eggs or dairy, are fed from livestock GM.

Aquabounty, the Massachusetts company behind the GM salmon, say the fish will be sterile and therefore poses no risk to the wild.

and there is no guarantee these fish remain sterile. It poses far too great a risk to wild salmon.

A fish that grows that quickly is likely to lose some of its environmental benefits.

There is no such thing as a free salmon lunch and we will pay the price,

he said. It will be a huge victory for the biotechnology industry if a GM animal becomes available for human consumption.

and Kipper stepped in to help raise him, going for walks and snuggling as a group, until the deer was introduced back into the herd.

Watch more Funny Videos The smoking toddler was witnessed by a reporter who recently visited his home in the fishing village of Musi Banyuasin,

But like so much else in American culture these days, Elijah Craig, Pappy Van Winkle, George T. Stagg and their brethren have a new generation of rivals,

They have been fighting court cases, poachers, and any threat to the environment they cherish. If not for the Bishnois, the Black buck and Chinkara,

The suns rays, collected through reflecting mirrors, are used to heat water which then produces steam to power turbines.

Fisheries and Forestry and several state agencies said they were aware of the projection and had funding,

and cold water fish like herring, mackerel and sturgeon. LINK Share Thissubscribedel. icio. usfacebookredditstumbleupontechnorati c

#FDA Pressured to Take on Food Fraud Of the hundreds of customers who bought 10 million pounds of mislabeled Vietnamese catfish including national chains

And a jar of oesturgeon caviar was, in fact, Mississippi paddlefish. Some honey makers dilute their honey with sugar beets or corn syrup,

frozen catfish fillets from Vietnam as much more expensive grouper, red snapper and flounder. The fish was bought by national chain retailers,

wholesalers and food service companies, and ended up on dinner plates across the country. oefood fraud has been documented in fruit juice, olive oil, spices, vinegar, wine, spirits and maple syrup,

DNA can be extracted from cells of fish and meat and from other foods, such as rice and even coffee.

whether a fish was farmed or wild, for example, or whether caviar came from Finland or a U s. stream.

The techniques have become so accessible that two New york city high school students working with scientists at the Rockefeller University and the American Museum of Natural history last year, discovered after analyzing DNA in 11 of 66 foods including the sheeps milk cheese

and caviar bought randomly at markets in Manhattan were mislabeled. oewe put so much emphasis on food

local vegetables and fish) should give you plenty to write home about. Hapuku Lodge The owners of Hapuku Lodge in New zealand know that people come from all over the world for the environmentassive mountains, clear water,

fresh vegetables or even frozen ones without the goo, whole grains and lean meats and fish.

then move to the sections offering bulk grains (including rice), canned beans and tomatoes, milk, eggs and maybe a piece of meat or fish.

Public transit smart cards, such as Suica (Tokyo), Octopus (Hong kong) and Oyster (London), can be used as e-cash

while others cool the planet by blocking the Suns rays. Now a new study led by Nadine Unger of NASAS Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New york city offers a more intuitive way to understand whats changing the Earths climate.

Because of their success and importance, scientists have been trying for decades to out the family relationships that link lobsters to millipedes

or oestrange shrimp would be found at the base of the crustacean family tree. Now after analyzing 62 shared genetic sequences across all the arthropods,

the researchers are putting the strange shrimp together with the six-legged insects, Hexapoda, to form a new group they dubbed Miracrustacea,

or oesurprising crustaceans. As a oesister clade to hexapods, the Xenocarida likely represent the sort of creature that came onto land to start the spectacular flowering of the insect lineage,

Triops, a 2-inch crustacean that looks like a cross between a horseshoe crab and a mayfly, had also been thought of as an early crustacean,

but it too was shown to have a relatively modern origin in the new analysis, Cunningham said. oetaxonomists have been arguing about these things for decades,

scorpions, dragonflies, barnacles, copepods and centipedes. Remipedes, one of the two species of Xenocarida in the study, had to be fetched from partially submerged limestone caves in the Yucatan peninsula and preserved just so.

capsule or liquid form. 3. Raw Oysters by the Bucketful You only need to gaze upon Botticellis Birth of Venus (otherwise known as Venus on the Half Shell) to know why oysters are one of the worlds most popular aphrodisiacs.

For starters, the word aphrodisiac comes from Aphrodite, the goddess of love (and Venus Greek counterpart.

Actually, its been theorized that oysters are considered aphrodisiacs because, evolutionarily, the origins of life began in the water.

oysters are high in zinc content, which is essential to testosterone productionestosterone being a key component in both male and female arousal.

Now we know why Casanova liked to start his day in a hot tub with oysters served on a womans breasts.

the rhinoceros is on the verge of extinction fact that can certainly be blamed in part on poachers seeking the high-value horns.

Le Lit Perch: Alain Laurens, a former chairman of a major French advertising agency, left his position there in 1999 to found La Cabane Perche, a Paris-based studio that designs and builds treehouses.

but none so much so as Le Lit Perch, a roomy 42-square-foot bed made from six segments of mattress perched on a red cedar platform within a railing of slender steel cables.

Le Lit Perch, which costs $15, 000, oeis for people to sleep in trees without having to spend the money to build an entire treehouse,

We are mesmerized by such extravagances as Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen s 414-foot yacht, the Octopus,

Similarly, more than two-thirds of the Brits had worked abroad for at least a year, whereas just a third of the Americans had done so.

#Two-headed cyclops pig born in China Two heads are not always better than one.

to aquaponic and aquaculture projects, to experimental vertical farms. The next shift with see crops grown underground.

or a fish molecules, or a wheat molecules. We have other types of molecules that make up plants and animals,

in addition to adhering to a healthy diet with lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains and protein from fish, poultry and low-fat dairy products.

and works closely with the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service to preserve species on its land.

The Triggerfish, created by Sensimed, a spin-off from The swiss Federal Institute of technology in Lausanne, is powered a wirelessly contact lens designed to help people with glaucoma manage their treatment.

#He said bugs were biologically similar to shellfish and that flying insects should be regarded as shrimps of the sky#.

In 1885 the Victorian writer Vincent Holt wrote a book suggesting the rural poor try recipes such as woodlouse sauce.

tofu with hoisin sauce and udon noodles. 9. Swedish meatballs Celebrity chef Rachael Ray whipped up Swedish meatballs,

and German pumpernickel bread. 5. Shrimp Among the lessons six-time flier Story Musgrave passed along to rookie astronauts:

The dehydrated crustaceans, coated in a spicy sauce, are requested the most food item in NASAS space pantry.

have public bathrooms#a rarity in the city#and sell single portions of fresh meat, poultry or fish,

It joins the fish and butcher shop, a farmers market, and a high-end food importer#and busing in the seniors once a month boosts the still thin customer traffic.

Last year Portsmouth University scientists found that fish were being contaminated with the antidepressant Prozac. The drug enters rivers from the sewer system and tinkers with the brain chemistry of fish,

the researchers claimed. Previous studies have shown that caffeine is released into our waterways after surviving the sewage treatment process.

The hormones from the contraceptive pill and HRT have been blamed for feminising fish, leading to male fish producing eggs.

The effects of antibiotics, blood pressure drugs and cholesterol-lowering drugs on wildlife are also being studied around the world.

Yet because of a strong economy and proximity to the booming Asia Pacific region, many overseas visitors might find it more expensive to slip an extra shrimp#or just about anything else for that matter#on the barbie here than in most other countries around the world.

$17. 30 Stavanger was mainly a fishing community until oil was found in the North sea in the 1960s,

skinny rooster feathers fishermen use to make lures are the latest trend in hair extensions.

skinny rooster feathers fishermen use to make lures. She brought a bunch up to the counter

Fly fishermen are not happy, bemoaning the trend in online message boards and sneering at so-called feather ladies.#

#said Matt Brower, a guide and assistant manager at Idaho Angler in Boise. I think thats the reason a lot of people are peeved a little about it,

At Whiting Farms, Inc.,in western Colorado, one of the worlds largest producers of fly tying feathers, the roosters live about a year

Whiting Farms is harvesting about 1, 500 birds a week for their feathers and still cant keep up with its current orders,

said owner and founder Tom Whiting, a poultry geneticist. The company has stopped taking on new accounts.

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