PART V OF VI
JUNE 6, 2005



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ASPARAGUS, STINKY PEE, AND SCIENTIFIC CURIOSITY
By Willow King

DATING OILY ROCK
By David Secko


THE GIRAFFE: A FAVOURITE TEXTBOOK ILLUSTRATION OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES
By Richard Peachey

RESURRECTING DAMAGED NEURONS: ARE WE FIGHTING A HOPELESS BATTLE?
By Melvin Kwok

ELSEWHERE AND OVERHEARD

by Caitlin Dowling

ELSEWHERE AND OVERHEARD
By Caitlin Dowling

Overheard

"This is the first human-poultry interaction system ever developed."
Professor Adrian David Cheok who has been developing a system to enable people to stroke chickens over the Internet. I’m serious. (ananova.com)

"I've smelt one and tracked several since then and you cannot come much closer than that”
The fact that the Tasmanian "tiger" was officially declared extinct nearly 70 years ago does not deter Col and his fellow tiger hunters one bit. (BBC News)

“Wildlife and baby boys will be the losers.”
Gwynne Lyons, toxic adviser to the WWF, regarding gender-bending chemicals in plastics that leak into foods affecting male development. (New Scientist)


Elsewhere

Llamas to offer a new way of tackling disease…

Shocking new way to heal major wounds (Guardian)

Scientists crack the code for sarcasm? Yeah, right! (ananova.com)

The US is officially searching for ET (Washington Post)


Caitlin Dowling's mission is to reach Mars. If this doesn't work out, Seattle will more than do. While waiting for news on her impending travel, she'd really like to compile data for a science website and maybe even post an article or two.

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