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This week, we're looking into the many strategies that animals employ in the struggle to eat other animals. We're joined by freelance science writer Matt Soniak, to discuss the often complex relationship between hunter and hunted. And on the podcast, biological...
Just wanted to let you know that Matt Soniak, science writer, was interviewed on Skeptically Speaking last Sunday, March 25th, and a cleaned up version of the interview will be released on Saturday as a podcast . Matt was talking about Predators and Prey.
And, on the podcast there will be a...
Meet the Sand Shark. Unveiled this week on the sands of Alabama, this imperfect tool is perhaps the best weapon yet against the oily disaster BP has wrought against the Gulf coast. More »
In Robert Gardner's documentary film Dead Birds, the men of a highland New Guinea village guard the perimeter of the territory, watchful for men of the neighboring group who may be intent on sneaking into the gardens to capture and kill an unwitting child or woman in order to avenge a prior...
I want to say it was in the Galapagos islands, but not certain. Either or it was a wild dog that had been brought over with sailors, onto an island, and was left for whatever reason. This dog(s) was isolated and needed to feed, so it began to hunt. Its prey was in trees and so over generation...
I am attempting to write a paper on the anti-predation strategies employed by fish to avoid piscivores. I have found 5 (not too good) sources, but need 8.
I know this sounds like an easy subject, but nothing has been written on it as of recent (2000 to now).
Of the 5 sources, Ive managed to...
I am attempting to write a paper on the anti-predation strategies employed by fish to avoid piscivores. I have found 5 (not too good) sources, but need 8.
I know this sounds like an easy subject, but nothing has been written on it as of recent (2000 to now).
Of the 5 sources, Ive managed to...
McClatchy News Service/The Miami Herald: "[S]cam artists are working overtime. They're hawking fake insurance policies by preying on the fears and confusion that surround" the new health overhaul law, according to consumer advocates. "For the record, there is no government health insurance...
Starting from rest, what con? A cheetah is hunting. Its prey runs for 3.2 s at a constant velocity of +9.4 m/s. Starting from rest, what constant acceleration must the cheetah maintain in order to run the same distance as its prey runs in the same time?
how about holding off on corrupting kids with superstitious fairy tales until they're at least 18, then they can make an informed choice to join or not
Nadja: since when does morals = religion ?