New research on DEET

An interesting new paper released online by Science this week finds that DEET doesn’t actually repel biting insects–it makes you invisible to them. From the Abstract:
“Here we show that DEET blocks electrophysiological responses of olfactory sensory neurons to attractive odors in Anopheles gambiae and Drosophila melanogaster….We conclude that DEET masks host odor by inhibiting subsets [...]

I pity the fool…

For April, a list of fools. Some of them I don’t pity, though. That’s not the verb I had in mind.
Lou Dobbs: For chastising Condi Rice when she agreed with Obama that race is still an issue in this country–and choosing to do it by complaining about “these cotton-pickin’ people.”
Sally Kern: A [...]