July 10 - What's your favorite story?
July 10, 2009
Feedbag preview - happy Einstein robot, huge bat noses, underwater Americans
Yup, it's been a long time since I posted a blog entry. My bad. Too busy tweeting and facebooking and podcasting... excuses, excuses.
Anyway, we just finished taping this week's show and I am ON THE BALL in posting the stories I just discussed. Consider this a preview to this week's show. Unfair advantage? Perhaps. But lately James has been trouncing me in the voting, so hey... all's fair in love and Feedbag.
Here are this week's stories I picked as "The Best and Most Interesting Science Stories That I Found and Thought You Should Know About:"
1. Einstein robot learns to smile and frown (and probably soon, take over the world) (WITH VIDEO!)
2. Huge bat nose mystery solved
3. Archaeologists look underwater for ancient Americans
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No bag this week :(
July 02, 2009
Hi Feedbag Nation,
Do to some insurmountable scheduling issues, we aren't able to produce a podcast this week. BUT we will be back next week for you and I promise this isn't because Will quit the show or Jorge's all mad because I'm whippin' up in votes these last couple weeks. Have a great holiday weekend!
Image Of Memory Being Made In Your Brain
June 23, 2009
I wonder where this research will lead...it's crazy to think we can see a memory created.
Snake Gets Fish To Swim Into Mouth
This snake uses a sly technique to get little fishies to swim into its mouth. It moves its body to scare the fish from one direction. As the fish tries to swim away from the movement, it ends up going straight into the snakes mouth waiting on the other side. This snake is both gross looking and a genius.
How Flies Dodge A Swat
June 18, 2009
Sick of hearing about fly swatting yet? No? Good! Cause I asked Gwyneth Card - a scientist who studies fly flight - how flies stay alive when you're trying your hardest to kill them. She says:
Our research found that flies are experts at jumping away from an incoming swat. When a fly detects a threat, its first reaction is to stop whatever it as doing and freeze. The fly next carefully repositions it's legs into the perfect escape posture. Finally, once positioned, the fly performs a rapid jump, propelling itself into the air and away from the swat. What is remarkable about this behavior, and what makes flies so hard to swat, is that the fly can perform this entire escape sequence is less than 200 ms -- litterally in the blink of an eye!
Here's video of the flies doin' their fly thing:
Water Strider Mating Not Pretty
June 15, 2009
This is a water strider trying to mate (click the photo to see the mov file):
Not pretty, right? You can learn more about that here:
- Female Genitalia Concealment Promotes Intimate Male Courtship in a Water Strider
As well as my other stories:
- July 10 - What's your favorite story?
- Feedbag preview - happy Einstein robot, huge bat noses, underwater Americans
- No bag this week :(
- Listen and Vote - 6/26/09
- Image Of Memory Being Made In Your Brain
- Snake Gets Fish To Swim Into Mouth
- June 19th Show/Voting with Titanic Interview!
- How Flies Dodge A Swat
- Water Strider Mating Not Pretty
- June 12 - What's Your Favorite Story?
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