“The fact that children find animals so appealing suggests that children may benefit from having an animal, like a pet, in their lives.”
Kids as young as 11 months showed more interest in live animals than toys, even ones made to replicate real living creatures, it was found in a new study.
As the number of Americans who are overweight has grown, studies show that they have gained some four-legged company.
Lacey, a white German shepherd, was crippled by a weight problem and hip dysplasia and was barely able to walk in the year before she died.
Continue reading… “Half of all dogs and cats in America are overweight: Study”
Signs of the impact on the regional ecosystem are ominous: mutated shrimp, fish with oozing sores, underdeveloped blue crabs lacking claws, eyeless crabs and shrimp – and scientists and fishermen point fingers towards BP’s oil as being the cause.
Two years after BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, fishermen are finding deformed fish and mutant shrimp in their seafood catch…
Continue reading… “The aftermath of BP oil spill: mutant seafood”
When life begin to look like the Matrix, it’s time to pause and drink the wine.
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Quote of the Day: “The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it’s just sort of a tired feeling.” – – Paula Poundstone
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Two young sweat shop workers on a smoke break,
huddled under an umbrella to talk rainbows and politics.
Quote of the Day: “I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.” – – Robert Benchley
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The first strips of muscle have been grown in a project to develop a new way to produce meat.
Scientists in the Netherlands have used stem cells to create strips of muscle tissue with the aim of producing the first lab-grown hamburger later this year.
Continue reading… “Scientists create lab-grown meat in the first step to artificial hamburger”
Imidacloprid is in a lot of commonly used products.
The likely culprit in sharp worldwide declines in honeybee colonies since 2006 is imidacloprid, one of the most widely used pesticides, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH)…
Continue reading… “Use of common pesticide, Imidacloprid, linked to Bee Colony Collapse”
Don’t ya just wanna cuddle em?
Imagine a tyrannosaur weighing one and a half tons, completely covered in soft, downy plumage. Even its tail is fluffy with feathers. Though we’ve known for a while that many dinosaurs were covered in feathers, a group of Chinese researchers have now provided direct evidence that gigantic, deadly tyrannosaurs might have looked a bit like wuffly birds. Three nearly complete, well-preserved fossils give us a glimpse of tyrannosaurs the way we’ve never seen them before…
Continue reading… “Hard evidence that giant tyrannosaurs were cute”
Now your dogs weight won’t impede his mobility. Is that a good thing?
With news that more and more pets are joining the growing ranks of the obese (spurred by too much processed food, sedentary culture and architecture) it’s only a matter of time before someone thought of designing a stairlift for these unfortunate animals, just like their human counterparts.
In a country where observers are predicting over half of its dogs will be obese by 2022, the Daily Mail reports that a UK-based insurance company is prototyping a device that will help pudgy pets climb stairs, which they’re calling “Stair Lift of the Dog 2022″…
Continue reading… “World’s first stairlift for obese pets”
Musical chairs is much trickier this way.
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Quote of the Day – “My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don’t really know what’s happening down there. Who is the real hero?” – – Mitch Hedberg
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This is great news for dogs and dog lovers: there is a new method to sterilize male dogs without surgery! It’s called Esterilsol, a solution of zinc gluconate, L-Arginine and water that is shot into the dog’s scrotum.
The method—also called zeutering—will sterilize your dog within a month. It has now been approved for 10-month and younger dogs in the United States. So far, about 300 dogs have been neutered in this way…
Continue reading… “New method neuters your dog without removing his testicles”
Researchers studied 75 people at a manufacturing company where each day for a week 20 to 30 people were allowed to bring their dogs to work.
Bringing a dog to work could come with practical difficulties, but a trial at an American company suggested it improved people’s job satisfaction.
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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