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I'm very pleased that SJ Tucker has written a selkie song that is not a tragic love story. It's possible that the selkie in the song is not exactly nice, but I'm somewhat tired of the tragic love story selkie trope. And we're not always nice, it's true. Even those of us raised inland enough that we're otter rather than seal. -
this sounds promising
MIT researchers have come up with a sweet-sounding antiviral that couples double-stranded RNA detection with caspase activation. In laymans terms, this means that if double stranded RNA, which is produced by replication viruses, and not by normal cells, is present in a cell then the 'death switch' is flipped, and the cell self-destructs and ( Read more... ) -
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At faerieworlds, hoping it stops drizzling today. Yesterday was gorgeous, but today is bad faerie day, and bad faeries are more fun. Also, I've painted ursuscelticus, looky!
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CDC on the upcoming zombie apocolypse
The CDC seriously does have a web page on how to prepare for a zombie apocalypse (or, in more technical terms, neurodegenarative ataxic satietiy deficience syndrome). When I first encountered this, I had to go to the main CDC website and check to see if it was really them, or just a site made to look like theirs, and yes, it's legit. Though pretty ( Read more... ) -
why eating undercooked chicken is like drinking out of the sewer
There's an article in the Seattle Times about a recent food safelty study showing that 80% of supermarket chickens test positive for pathogenic bacteria, mostly salmonella and camplyobacter, with antibiotic resistant staph making a showing as well. This isn't really news, other studies have had similar findings (a colleague of mine at VT did a ( Read more... ) -
turns out chitons have crystal eyes
Chitons (in case y'all don't already know) are molluscs with awesome jointed shells vaguely resembling a trilobite. Some of the most awesome eyeballs on the planet are grown by molluscs, namely squid and octopi, which have eyes wired the right way around, as opposed to our own, backwards-wired eyes (I mean really, if you were designing a light ( Read more... ) -
Mummy puppies and dogs decoded
This made me think of primaldog
Egyptian catacombs hold millions of mummified puppiesThere's not a ton of information in the article. The catacombs were apparently sacred to Anubis (no big suprise), and many of the mummies were hours to days old. Some speculation, but I don't think they really know what their significance is (the thought of breeding ( Read more... ) -
*headdesk*
"Hey doc, I've been breaking open the leftover antibiotics from my dog and putting some of the powder in my cat's food. Is that all right?"
Where do I even start? How many things can you find wrong with that question?
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