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| ELSEWHERE AND OVERHEARD by Caitlin Dowling Overheard “It is kind of like finding Elvis.” Frank Gill of the Audubon Society, an American bird conservation group, on the sighting of a woodpecker, thought to have been extinct for 60 years. (Scientific American) "You see the toads crawling along the ground, swelling and getting bigger as they go until they are like little tennis balls, and then they suddenly explode." Vet Otto Horst on the rather mysterious spectacle of exploding toads in Hamburg. (ananova.com) "She was able to look at them and apparently see what the problem was. Her ability is not x-ray vision, but she definitely has some kind of talent that we can't explain yet." Professor Yoshio Machi at Tokyo University, who specialises in studying apparent superpowers in human beings. The subject, Natalia Demkina has been undergoing tests in Japan into her apparent x-ray vision which has enabled her to diagnose medical conditions. (ananova.com) "If you get Martian soil on your skin, it will leave burn marks," believes University of Colorado engineering professor Stein Sture, who studies granular materials like Moon- and Martian soil for NASA. New findings show toxic irritants in moondust and martian matter. (nasa.gov) "It is nice to know that society has now embraced the technology to cure the sick and take away the pain. It has been a long and hard battle for all the family and we have finally heard the news we wanted to hear." Mrs Shahana Hashmi, on the court ruling in the UK that means she can design her next baby to be able to help cure her six-year-old son’s Thalassaemia major, a serious genetic disorder. (UK’s Medical News Today) Elsewhere Dragging politics into entomology… Slime-mould beetles named after Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney are “not meant to be controversial” How goldfish could save Britain’s cities from flooding. US Government trying to block production of a new abortion pill, which the World Health Organisation hope will stop 68,000 women dying of unsafe practices in poor countries each year.
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