Things I have recently spotted that may
be of interest to someone else:
Education: A former University of North Carolina football player has filed
suit, claiming that the university did not provide him with the
substantial education that he was promised when recruited. (The university apparently let some students "take" classes that they didn't even attend.)
Health: (or not) We're running out of chocolate, according to The Washington Post and other outlets.
Science: Wired reports on how a study of the
cat genome sheds some light on how domestic
cats are genetically different from their wild relatives.
National Public Radio has
a fine series on color. One post is about how our perception
plays tricks on us when we are considering color. Another is about how
animals get color from what they eat, partly -- flamingos are an example -- and how
rare blue coloring in animals is.
Wired also reports on nudibranches,
sea slugs, who eat
defensive mechanisms from other creatures, and use them to defend
themselves. They are also spectacularly colored -- some are blue.
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