Skip to main content
Advertisment
Home

Main navigation

  • Life Sciences
  • Physical Sciences
  • Environment
  • Social Sciences
  • Education
  • Policy
  • Medicine
  • Brain & Behavior
  • Technology
  • Free Thought
  1. zooillogix
  2. FYI

FYI

  • email
  • facebook
  • linkedin
  • X
  • reddit
  • print
User Image
By zooillogix on August 19, 2009.
Tags
Cat
weird japanese
cat massager japan

More like this

Advertisment

Donate

ScienceBlogs is where scientists communicate directly with the public. We are part of Science 2.0, a science education nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Please make a tax-deductible donation if you value independent science communication, collaboration, participation, and open access.

You can also shop using Amazon Smile and though you pay nothing more we get a tiny something.

 

Science 2.0

  • Why Oxygen, Not Time, Is What Makes Much of Our Food Go Bad
  • Why People Are Turning To AI For Spiritual Guidance
  • Some Tests Of The Radiacode Zero
  • Sorry Higgs, There May Be A New Contender For Low Energy States
  • Beauty Is In The Pupil Of The Beholder - Glossiness Too

Science Codex

  • Why Flu Cases Are Different This Year

More by this author

Julia + Hawaii + Your Friends = Good Times + Great Oldies
September 27, 2010
In just a few days, my good friend and fellow Zooillogix blogger, Julia, will leave the safety of Chicago for the violent, pineapple-strewn streets of Honolulu for a new job. Here are some things you should know about Julia: #1 - She is the best kickball player in the Midwest. #2 - She has a margay…
Turtles Are Not Pure Evil
July 1, 2010
New YouTube research definitively proves that turtle society is highly altruistic and that Disney's heretofore refusal to make a movie about them is racism, pure and simple.
Hot Molting Action
June 22, 2010
In this nightmarish time lapse video, a gentle spider crab is internally consumed by a terrifying angry red spider crab who then dispenses of the empty husk of its former host. ... or maybe its just molting Thanks to our Asian friend Kangatron for sharing.
Spectacular Deep Sea Squid Footage
June 21, 2010
Stunning footage of deep-sea squids from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), where researchers use remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) to observe and record deep-sea animal behaviors.
Meth Snails Feel the Need... the Need Not to Extend Their Breathing Tubes Lest They Get Poked
June 3, 2010
Turns out casual experimention with a little meth here and there is a good thing, if you're a snail. A paper recently published in the Journal of Experimental Biology explains how snails were able to remember negative stimuli longer when under the influence of a bit of speed. When great pond…

More reads

Kalahari Green and Red
I have a childhood memory of a troop of baboons, waiting among nearby rocks on a sun baked kopje, taking notice of nearby humans and watching and waiting until they saw a weakness and finally moving in for the kill, barking, grabbing, ripping livid flesh with long sharp canines, howling like wolves. And for the longest time I thought that memory was a scene from a movie called Flight of the…
A History of our Galaxy's Fireworks!
"When I had satisfied myself that no star of that kind had ever shone before, I was led into such perplexity by the unbelievability of the thing that I began to doubt the faith of my own eyes." -Tycho Brahe When we look out at galaxies throughout the Universe, we find that every so often -- about once per century -- a bright star flares up so brightly that it can, for a brief amount of time,…
Fornvännen's Summer Issue On-Line
Fornvännen 2013:2, last summer's issue, is now on-line in its entirety on Open Access. My friends Mattias Pettersson and Roger Wikell on the Stockholm area's earliest post-glacial settlement site, covered here on Aard during fieldwork in 2010. Tony Björk and Ylva Wickberg on an early-1st millennium linear monument related to a cemetery and a river ford in Scania. Svante Fischer et al. on how mid…

© 2006-2026 Science 2.0. All rights reserved. Privacy statement. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of Science 2.0, a science media nonprofit operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions are fully tax-deductible.