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| 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. Im 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)
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