Flashier birds produce stronger sperm. I wonder how that would play out in human males?
Hi-Res flyover pictures will help in the Haiti recovery. Satellite photos have been good, but these are 3-d pictures which make identification of buildings easier.
Maybe it’s the hippie in me, but I’d really love to see this type of technology developed for someone other than soldiers. Seems to me there are all sorts of non-military applications for a load-bearing human exoskeleton.
The recent cold snap in south Florida–and please don’t give me grief about how cold it was elsewhere–killed off a large number of iguanas and other lizards. It was tragic, but these were mostly invasive species, animals which had been pets released or escaped into the wild which had then bred and were out-competing the native species. There’s a move to ban the importation of certain species, especially of the Burmese python, which is long overdue.
And finally, just posted in our Video section, Anthony Atala at Ted talks about growing new organs for the human body so as to avoid transplant rejection.
