New Scientist explores some ideas about Kangaroos and methanogenic microbes in this recent article. Readers of Small Wonders can only shake their heads in a complacent manner and say “we knew that already”. No, I’m kidding. It’s got some good stuff and recent advances on the subject. Also in New Scientist, while we browse this...
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While researching the life and work of Prof. Max Von Pettenkofer, distinguished chemist and one-time cholera-sample drinker (“The Pettenkofer Files” in SW will give you the full story), I came across a link to a NY Times news story about his his (non cholera-related) 1901 suicide. result 19 of googling “Pettenkofer” (near the bottom...
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Pilobolus – the artillery fungi I wrote about in “Cow Crap Cannons” – are definitely going places. Check out this post in Zimmer’s “The Loom”, featuring the world’s first fungal opera.
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