by mikebaird from SF Gate “Their motive is a mystery. All I know is we suddenly have a couple of otters killing seals at a fairly fast pace,” said Jim Harvey, associate professor at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, which trains students from the California State University system. “And if we get five or six of these otters in the slough, we won’t have a seal pup left.” BROWSE / IN TIMELINE « Hunting Minefields in the Dark. BROWSE / IN articles ... Read Full Story

“The bugs can be mixed into a colourless solution, which forms green patches when sprayed onto ground where mines are buried. Edinburgh University said the microbes could be dropped by air onto danger areas. Within a few hours, they would indicate where the explosives can be found. ” then wait until it’s dark and walk quietly across the Korean border. Glowing bugs could find landmines (via cory @ BoingBoing) BROWSE / IN TIMELINE « Top Sirloin and Roasted Potat... Read Full Story

Beautiful landscapes of meat and towering slices of juicy hide. Carnivores delight. Vegetarians look elsewhere. Thanks to www.morganclevy.com. BROWSE / IN TIMELINE « more insects under our control BROWSE / IN photos « personal biospheres SPEAK / ADD YOUR COMMENT Comments are moderated. Posted on 10.07.09 to photos. Tags: beef, Meat. Subscribe to follow comments on this post. No comments yet. Add your thoughts or trackback from your... Read Full Story

Beautiful landscapes of meat and towering slices of juicy hide. Carnivores delight. Vegetarians look elsewhere. Thanks to www.morganclevy.com. BROWSE / IN TIMELINE « more insects under our control BROWSE / IN photos « personal biospheres SPEAK / ADD YOUR COMMENT Comments are moderated. Posted on 10.07.09 to photos. Tags: beef, Meat. Subscribe to follow comments on this post. No comments yet. Add your thoughts or trackback from your... Read Full Story

“By connecting electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles, the researchers were able to make them take off, dive and turn on command. The cyborg insects were created at the University of California, Berkeley, by engineers led by Hirotaka Sato and Michel Maharbiz as part of a programme funded by the Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).” - new scientist It’s stunningly similar to pulse based microcomputing. BROWSE / I... Read Full Story

“By connecting electrodes and radio antennas to the nervous systems of beetles, the researchers were able to make them take off, dive and turn on command. The cyborg insects were created at the University of California, Berkeley, by engineers led by Hirotaka Sato and Michel Maharbiz as part of a programme funded by the Pentagon’s Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).” - new scientist It’s stunningly similar to pulse based microcomputing. BROWSE / I... Read Full Story

“The spiders are harnessed … held down in a delicate way,” Godley says, “so you need people to do this who are very tactile so the spiders are not harmed. So there’s a chain of about 80 people who go out every morning at four o’clock, collect spiders, we get them in by 10 o’clock. They’re in boxes, they’re numbered, and then as they get silked, about 20 minutes later, they get released back into nature.” -npr BROWSE / IN TIME... Read Full Story

“The spiders are harnessed … held down in a delicate way,” Godley says, “so you need people to do this who are very tactile so the spiders are not harmed. So there’s a chain of about 80 people who go out every morning at four o’clock, collect spiders, we get them in by 10 o’clock. They’re in boxes, they’re numbered, and then as they get silked, about 20 minutes later, they get released back into nature.” -npr BROWSE / IN TIME... Read Full Story

This lamp makes you bleed for your light. We often just assume that energy to power our TVs, computers, cell phones, and other electronics will always be readily available. But the earth’s resources are scarce – a reality that designer Mike Thompson wants to illustrate (somewhat painfully) with his . The single-use lamp forces users to think about where every drop of their energy is coming from–literally. Article taken from inhabitat. BROWSE / IN TIMELINE « interspecies collabor... Read Full Story

This lamp makes you bleed for your light. We often just assume that energy to power our TVs, computers, cell phones, and other electronics will always be readily available. But the earth’s resources are scarce – a reality that designer Mike Thompson wants to illustrate (somewhat painfully) with his . The single-use lamp forces users to think about where every drop of their energy is coming from–literally. Article taken from inhabitat. BROWSE / IN TIMELINE « interspecies collabor... Read Full Story