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Last login: 3 hours agoMostly-Mica: meika is a married guy from Hobart, TAS, Australia.; Likes 3,030 pages, 38 videos, 216 photos • 81 fans • Received 8 reviews; Member since Sep 20, 2005

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Outdoor enthusiasts scaring off native carnivores in parks: Jul 21, 11:11pm 1 review environment, pets, walking, dog-walking
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/uoc--oes072108.php; dog owners are losers

Canada Defiles an Astronomical Treasure (Fanboy.com): Jul 21, 4:53am 67 reviews astronomy, sociopaths
http://www.fanboy.com/2008/07/canada_defiles_an_astronomical_treasure.html; Theres a lot of corruption in canada right now, public institutions like University and museums are particularly targeted by sociopaths. david Naylor is probably getting a kickback.

We need laws against sociopaths doing anything but welfare.

Devil researchers encouraged by resilience - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting C…: Jul 20, 9:50pm 1 review animals
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/21/2309238.htm; good

Junk food diet fuels epidemic of pet obesity | UK news | The Observer: Jul 19, 11:09pm 1 review pets, consumerism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/20/animalwelfare.animalbehaviour?gusrc=...; I reckon, as a rule, that pets are a bad idea. No worse than a new iPod or genetically modified potatoes, but certainly no better. in fact, that thing about people loking like their pets, well, that's just the just, now people want to make pets look like themselves, fat lazy bastards.

"The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals warned that the trend is fuelling an epidemic of over-sized pets, ranging from dogs and cats to hamsters, gerbils, rats, rabbits and budgies. The charity estimated that over the past year alone there has been a 10 per cent rise in the number of overweight animals - weighing in at half a million pets."

What the cat dragged in: Jul 19, 8:18pm 1 review politics, corruption, offshore, gen-x, offshore-bank-accounts
http://paulwatson.blogspot.com/2008/07/xers-with-nothing-left-to-lose-when.html; When the Heinrich Kieber story - of the employee of LGT Bank in Liechtenstein who copied (/"stole") documents on accounts held by foreigners in the tax haven, and later sold these to the German government - first broke in February, my first thought was: "This guy's got to be an Xer". Sure enough, he's 43.

Eurozine - They removed the veil - Devrim Mavi, Pernilla Ouis, Anne Sofie Roald,…: Jul 18, 6:31pm 1 review culture, islam, scandinavia, headscarf
http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2008-07-18-roaldouis-en.html; What it's like to be one of the walking dead.

From the page: "It started as an act of radicalism. Anne Sofie Roald and Pernilla Ouis adopted the headscarf back in the 1980s at the same time as political Islam began to grow. Now they are part of a global trend towards secularisation in which more and more women are shedding their headscarves and veils."

The Scientist : A Sultans gift? [2008-07-01]: Jul 18, 2:55pm 1 review zoology, elephants, borneo
http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/54784/; suspect that the elephants are remnants of a population believed to be extinct for more than 200 years

From humming fish to Puccini: Vocal communication evolved with ancient species: Jul 17, 3:29pm 1 review evolution, fish, voice, speech, grunts
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/cuc-fhf071608.php; It's a long way from the dull hums of the amorous midshipman fish to the strains of a Puccini aria - or, alas, even to the simplest Celine Dion melody. But the neural circuitry that led to the human love song - not to mention birdsongs, frog thrums and mating calls of all manner of vertebrates - was likely laid down hundreds of millions of years ago with the hums and grunts of the homely piscine.

Yale researchers discover remnant of an ancient RNA world: Jul 17, 3:28pm 1 review biology, evolution
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/yu-yrd071408.php; Some bacterial cells can swim, morph into new forms and even become dangerously virulent - all without initial involvement of DNA. Yale University researchers describe Friday in the journal Science how bacteria accomplish this amazing feat - and in doing so provide a glimpse of what the earliest forms of life on Earth may have looked like.