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Archive for December, 2006

28.12.2006

Snake Quake

Biology

Snake farms hooked up to webcams in China are being used to monitor for earth quakes. Snakes can detect quakes 3-5 days in advance up to 70 miles away.
When upcoming tremors are detected by the snake, they make efforts to escape their underground nests. The severity of the quake affects how franticly they [...]

According to Chris Rayner of the Royal Adelaide Hospital in Australia combining alcoholic drinks with a mixer containing artificial sweeteners, rather than sugar, results in a significantly higher level of alcoholic (EtOH) in the blood than if you didn’t opt for the “lite” version.

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21.12.2006

PVL MRSA

Medicine

The first tragic victim was a young nurse who had just given birth, reports The Times, prior to that a soldier who had scratched his leg on a gorse bush was reported as suffering from the toxic effects of PVL MRSA. But, this was in October 2004…so the evil PVL-MRSA has not spread quite so [...]

2006 will go down in history as the year of the spontaneously combusting laptop battery. Fortunately, some manufacturers have been on the case (no pun intended) and have developed a new type of Li battery that includes a heat-resistive insulator inside the battery cell, next to an existing separator that insulates the anode and cathode.

So, [...]

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