Just when I think I’ve seen everything…I discover there is an app for your iPhone that claims to repel mosquitoes with high frequency sound:
“Have you ever been camping and you were worried about those mosquitos [sic] outside near your camp light? Wondering how soon it will be before they attack you in your sleep? Well, [...]
In case you missed it–NCSE is now offering all back issues (1980-1996) of the Creation/Evolution Journal online, free, as PDFs!
Also, many of the articles are online in HTML format too. Example: Gene Kritsky’s article on Fossil Insects!
DEET is the gold standard for insect repellent. I’ve covered it fairly extensively at the Bug Blog–it’s the best thing we have to prevent a wide spectrum of insects from biting and transmitting an even wider spectrum of diseases.
So…Sigh.
Some new DEET research was published this month, and the media…well, has done a crappy job of [...]
In case you missed it–Rebecca and Sid got married at TAM. So bummed I couldn’t be there, but so happy I could see it on JREFmedia stream!!
You can’t live in Michigan long without running into a building, or project, or something that is named after W.K. Kellogg, founder of the Kellogg cereal company and major philanthropist. It’s his brother, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg, who is really the interesting one, though.
Dr. Kellogg was profiled (sort of) in the book and movie The [...]
Amazing. Under this headline:
“Science still cannot explain why women sleep around”
“A study published today in Science details a series of careful experiments Swedish researchers conducted on mating seed beetles (pictured). They want to find out what the benefits were to females who mated with multiple males….”
Now, as a normal person, you are probably thinking: [...]
I’m back in town and trying to catch up on all the sleep I missed by being at SkepchickCon. After some calculations this afternoon, I determined that the last time I attended a science fiction convention was in 1982.*
Seriously.
I was at (and helped to plan) AggieCon XIII. AggieCon is “the oldest and largest student-run science [...]
There is a really interesting interview with Entomologist Greg Henderson in Monday’s New Orleans Times about termites!
Sadly, in addition to many other issues facing New Orleans, Formosan termites have invaded. In the interview Greg discusses how to know when you have an infestation, and also explains that termites are actually an important part of the [...]
Sociological Images caught something very interesting—packaging the same mosquito repellent product in two different ways:
“the mostly blue package includes a male figure fishing and logos for hunting, camping, and fishing. ….the mostly orange package includes a female figure, perhaps on a walk.”
In addition to the colors, there are completely different fonts and images on each [...]
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