Animals Saving the World

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Saving Disney's World

Saving Disney's World 04/23/2004 08:02 AM
Disney may have lost the keys to quality, but the spares aren't too far away.

New IFAW Site Gives Gift of Life to
Animals Around the World

New IFAW Site Gives Gift of Life to
Animals Around the World 12/17/2004 06:36 PM
Designed for animal lovers, last minute shoppers and hard-to-buy-for people alike, IFAW's gift guide makes it easy to give the gift of helping animals. Gifts of $25 to $500 purchased on behalf of your loved one will directly benefit animals. Choices include: protecting elephants from poachers in Asia and Africa, rehabilitating penguins hurt by oils spills, saving orphaned bear cubs in Russia, protecting Canadian baby seals and aiding the "Doctor Dog" program in China, which uses contact with dogs as a supplement to medical and behavioral care for kids and adults with amazing results.

Saving the World with Hostess Twinkies

Saving the World with Hostess Twinkies 12/19/2004 03:34 PM
Xeni Jardin: BoingBoing reader Isaac says,

"I was going through some old comics from the 1970s, and I stumbled upon a series of ads that I had forgotten about - Marvel and DC both had full-page ads in which their superheroes shilled for Hostess Fruit Pies, Twinkies and more! (Holy Flaky Filling, Batman!) There are links to ten different ads I've scanned and posted."

Link. See also the extensive Seanbaby archive of kitschy Hostess goodness: Link (thanks, Chris and tgr!)

Saving the world by building a better
light bulb

Saving the world by building a better
light bulb 06/16/2004 12:23 AM
Salon Jun 16 2004 4:11AM GMT

Intel Unveils Power-Saving Processors
(PC World)

Intel Unveils Power-Saving Processors
(PC World) 07/20/2004 02:31 PM
PC World - Four new chips can be used in ultraportable notebooks without a cooling fan.

""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain.""

""We're saving more people than should
be saved, probably," Lt. Col. Robert
Carroll said. "We're saving severely
injured people. Legs. Eyes. Part of the
brain."" 04/29/2004 03:19 AM

Weightless Animals

Weightless Animals 05/06/2004 11:07 PM
Weightless Animals: soundtrack to space.

FDA says it's OK to eat cloned animals

FDA says it's OK to eat cloned animals 10/31/2003 08:33 PM
USA Today Oct 31 2003 7:53PM ET

"the animals we face"

"the animals we face" 05/12/2004 05:27 PM

When animals go to school

When animals go to school 08/31/2004 09:52 AM
Maybe we can save endangered species, but can we teach animals to be wild? Salon contributor Susan McCarthy talks about her new book, "Becoming a Tiger" -- and debunks the 100th monkey theory along the way.

On The Emperor's Animals...

On The Emperor's Animals... 10/29/2003 12:10 AM

So here's a concept for a new Typepad weblog, inspired by the quirky and immensely pleasing post categories on a friend's weblog. The concept is called The Emperor's Animals and is basically a collection of funny animal links and stories from around the web. The site is designed to resemble 18th/19th Century illustrated guide to fabulous beasts and uses as post categories the The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge typology of animals outlined in Jorge Luis Borges' The Analytical Language of John Wilkins. Please please will someone make this. I'd read it every day! Just in case you don't know them off-by-heart already, these categories are:

1. belonging to the Emperor
2. embalmed
3. trained
4. pigs
5. sirens
6. fabulous
7. stray dogs
8. included in this classification
9. trembling like crazy
10. innumerable
11. drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
12. et cetera
13. just broke the vase
14. from a distance look like flies

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Stuffed Animals

Stuffed Animals 04/24/2004 05:03 AM

A few pictures from a trip to the Helsinki Hall of Taxidermy, a.k.a. the Finnish Museum of Natural History.

Ok, it's true, we were bored while Jarkko was on 2 weeks of holiday that didn't include a trip somewhere and also featured the 4-5 day Easter holiday. What do you do when you've got a few days to kill, no car, no plane tickets and don't want to sit at home answering email or aimlessly surfing the web from the couch? The Finnish Natural History Museum seemed like a good idea one afternoon. We went, we saw, we were impressed by the taxidermic skill and then we went to dinner. If you're into taxidermy and dioramas, head straight for this museum as it has them both in abundance.

Infrasound animals

Infrasound animals 01/03/2005 10:02 PM
"Infrason ic Symphony" Intrigued by reports of tsunami-avoidance behavior in Sri Lankan wildlife? Science News offers a timely antidote to simplistic mumbo-jumbo about the "mythical power" of animal earthquake detection with a detailed look at the latest research into low-frequency sound. The Elephant Listening Project is particularly interested in elephant rumblings that produce Rayleigh waves. "Mammals, birds, insects, and spiders can detect Rayleigh waves," notes The Explainer. "Most can feel the movement in their bodies, although some, like snakes and salamanders, put their ears to the ground in order to perceive it."

Animals on the Underground

Animals on the Underground 02/15/2004 03:45 PM

Sometimes it is a totally obvious and simple idea that is the most brilliant. Animals on the Underground is just that sort of brilliant, simple idea. Constellations of stars have been illustrated for centuries using the connect the dots technique, but applying it to the underground station map is clever and the animals are adorable. Maybe I'll dig out my underground map and try to find a few new ones.

Tool Use in Animals

Tool Use in Animals 05/03/2004 06:43 AM
“Tool Use In Animals”, a tidy little informative set of pages from Dr. Robert Cook's much larger “Animal Cognition & Learning Website” at Tufts University. See also (worth repeating because it’s the coolest thing ever) the previously featured “Betty the Crow”.   ◊via milovoo in Ask MetaFilter◊

Amazing Animals

Amazing Animals 08/18/2004 06:30 PM

Glass Animals 1.0

Glass Animals 1.0 05/17/2004 10:32 AM
Cute and shiny animal icons.

"Your Mommy Kills Animals"

"Your Mommy Kills Animals" 12/18/2003 08:39 PM

Animals in classic art photoshopping

Animals in classic art photoshopping 06/08/2004 04:26 AM
Today on Worth1000's photoshopping contest: Cute ani-mules matted into classical paintings. Link

Your Mommy Kills Animals

Your Mommy Kills Animals 12/22/2003 11:26 AM
PETA advises children to "ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes." While you're prying, kids, see if you can figure out why she owns so many vibrating rabbits. (12-22)

Where Are All the Dead Animals?
(Reuters)

Where Are All the Dead Animals?
(Reuters) 12/29/2004 12:15 PM
Reuters - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.

Woman to Surrender More Than 130 Animals
(AP)

Woman to Surrender More Than 130 Animals
(AP) 06/15/2004 04:43 PM
AP - A woman found with more than 130 animals in her two-room house and on her half-acre lot has been ordered to surrender the pets to an animal rights organization.

In Sri Lanka, animals seem to have
survived

In Sri Lanka, animals seem to have
survived 12/29/2004 02:36 PM
Xeni Jardin: Strangely, amid massive loss of human life, there seems to be little or no dead wild animals in Sri Lanka. Snip:

Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.

Link

Did animals have quake warning?

Did animals have quake warning? 12/31/2004 06:41 AM
The BBC's Sue Nelson investigates claims that wild animals, who escaped the impact of the quake, may have a sixth sense.

How Did Animals Escape Tsunami?

How Did Animals Escape Tsunami? 12/31/2004 07:04 AM
No wild animals were found dead along the Sri Lankan coastline, adding credence to the belief that beasts have a sixth sense that warns them of impending disasters.

An Off-and-On Switch for Controlling
Animals?

An Off-and-On Switch for Controlling
Animals? 04/11/2005 05:29 PM
Researchers at Yale can make fruit flies walk, leap or fly by shining a laser at the insects, a discovery that could, in theory, lead to a sort of animal remote control.

U.S. May Pay Farmers to Test Animals for
Mad Cow

U.S. May Pay Farmers to Test Animals for
Mad Cow 01/02/2004 09:55 PM
Reuters via Wired News Jan 2 2004 9:38PM ET

Chiropractor Offers Help to Animals (AP)

Chiropractor Offers Help to Animals (AP) 01/03/2005 07:12 PM
AP - A chiropractor who applies his skills to animals as well as people is finding new ways to help four-legged patients.

Animals escaped tsunami

Animals escaped tsunami 12/31/2004 10:26 AM
David Pescovitz: While tens of thousands of people along the Sri Lankan coast were killed by the tsunami, wildlife officials say that they haven't found any dead animals. The waves swept inland to the island's largest wildlife reserve but none of the elephants, tigers, jackals, crocodiles, or other animals drowned. From the BBC:

Debbie Marter, who works on a wild tiger conservation programme on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, one of the worst-hit areas in Sunday's disaster, said she was not surprised to hear there were no dead animals.

"Wild animals in particular are extremely sensitive," she said. "They've got extremely good hearing and they will probably have heard this flood coming in the distance. There would have been vibration and there may also have been changes in the air pressure which will have alerted animals and made them move to wherever they felt safer."

Link

Tumors grow just like animals

Tumors grow just like animals 11/17/2003 05:46 AM
The same equations used to model animal growth also describe the growth of tumors:

As an animal's mass increases, so does the number of cells within it. But the blood supply that feeds those cells grows more slowly. As a result, an increasing proportion of the available nutrients go towards maintaining existing cells rather than the growth of new ones, so the rate of growth slows and ultimately comes to a halt...

When they compared their predictions to the growth of 13 rodent or human tumours, they found the tumours' growth closely followed the same universal law.

Link

Animals laugh says scientist

Animals laugh says scientist 04/06/2005 12:36 PM
David Pescovitz: Dogs, chimps, and rats laugh when they're having fun, according to psychologist Jack Panksepp of Bowling Green State University. Reporting in the journal Scien ce, Panksepp suggests that laughter may be an ancient emotional response older than humans. From BBC News:

Young chimps "play pant" as they mischievously chase and tickle each other.

And when rats play, they make chirps which some scientists associate with positive emotional feelings.

When rats are tickled in a playful way, they become socially bonded to humans and are rapidly conditioned to seek tickles, the US neuroscientist explains in Science.

Link

Denver Rejects Ban on Circus Animals
(AP)

Denver Rejects Ban on Circus Animals
(AP) 08/11/2004 08:16 AM
AP - A proposal from a 15-year-old girl to bar circus animal acts within the city limits of Denver was soundly defeated Tuesday by a more than 2-to-1 margin.

Claire Robertson's stuffed animals

Claire Robertson's stuffed animals 02/01/2005 08:38 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Loobylu blogger Claire Robertson sure makes cute stuffed animals. Link

Who is killing the animals at Sao Paulo
zoo? (Reuters)

Who is killing the animals at Sao Paulo
zoo? (Reuters) 02/10/2004 02:50 PM
Reuters - The zoo in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo is facing a murder mystery worthy of an Agatha Christie novel.

38 Animals Rescued From Woman's Home
(AP)

38 Animals Rescued From Woman's Home
(AP) 01/05/2004 04:17 PM
AP - Investigators rescued 39 exotic animals, including seven monkeys, a rat and four tortoises that were living inside a woman's two-story home here.

Thieves Take $40K in Cold-Blooded
Animals (AP)

Thieves Take $40K in Cold-Blooded
Animals (AP) 07/27/2004 04:12 PM
AP - Thieves broke into the Lowcountry Reptile and Amphibian Expo in Ladson over the weekend and got away with loads of slithering and shelled creatures.

Did animals sense tsunami? (Reuters)

Did animals sense tsunami? (Reuters) 12/29/2004 03:05 AM
Reuters - Sri Lankan wildlife officials are stunned -- the worst tsunami in memory has killed around 22,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast, but they can't find any dead animals.

Some dolphins are party animals
(Reuters)

Some dolphins are party animals
(Reuters) 08/11/2004 01:44 PM
Reuters - Some people are born to be the life and soul of the party -- and so it seems are some dolphins.

Order of Magnitude Quiz: Animals

Order of Magnitude Quiz: Animals 12/28/2003 10:06 AM
How many animals raised on farms are killed for consumption in the US each year? Getting within an order of magnitude constitutes winning. Reveal the answer by drag-selecting the seemingly blank space between the X's: X ————8 billion ———— X...
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