With Diseased Animals, Disposal Isn't Simple

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Garbage disposal installation made
simple

Garbage disposal installation made
simple 12/27/2004 09:28 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: My parents are staying with us for the holidays, and today my father and I installed a garbage disposal in the guesthouse kitchen sink. My father did 90% of the work, since he's a lot better at this kind of stuff than I am, but I had to pitch in for certain parts, because one of his hands is out of commission. He has a rare condition called Dupuytren's contracture -- thickening of skin tissue in the hands that makes it impossible to open them. It's a genetic condition that seems to affect people with Viking ancestry. He had a "palmar fasciotomy," a surgical procedure to cut the bands of thickened tissue. So his right hand is all bandaged up. (Click thumbnails for enlargement).

We saved a few hours installing the garbage disposal by using this great wireless switch purchased at Home Depot. It cost $18 and has a range of 100 feet (we mounted it just a few feet from the disposal, of course). I'm wondering what else I use these things for. What a terrific idea!

Beef industry and government explore
high-tech plan to track diseased cattle

Beef industry and government explore
high-tech plan to track diseased cattle 12/25/2003 03:13 AM
San Francisco Chronicle Dec 25 2003 2:22AM ET

Proper Disposal Of Old PCs?

Proper Disposal Of Old PCs? 12/25/2003 06:56 AM

Document Disposal Law Kicks In

Document Disposal Law Kicks In 06/05/2005 11:40 PM
Slashdot Jun 5 2005 7:00AM GMT

PC disposal: recycle or build for
durability?

PC disposal: recycle or build for
durability? 02/11/2004 05:45 PM
Noxious rules for noxious waste

Warning on nuclear waste disposal

Warning on nuclear waste disposal 04/04/2005 08:02 AM
A committee says Britain's nuclear waste should either be buried underground or kept in storage facilities above ground.

E-Government at Bulgarians' Disposal
from 2005

E-Government at Bulgarians' Disposal
from 2005 01/22/2004 02:11 AM
novinite.com Jan 21 2004 7:17PM GMT

Dell addresses WEEE disposal problem

Dell addresses WEEE disposal problem 09/27/2004 07:02 AM
Computer Business Review Sep 27 2004 11:06AM GMT

Junxion Box Puts Cellular Data at
Workgroup's Disposal

Junxion Box Puts Cellular Data at
Workgroup's Disposal 06/21/2004 09:02 AM
Junxion Box acts as bridge between growing cellular data networks and the need for ubiquitous, driver-free workgroup access: In today's Seattle Times, I write about local firm Junxion which will shortly ship its Junxion Box, a small device that uplinks to cellular data networks through a PC Card, and shares the connection via built-in Ethernet and Wi-Fi. Think of it like a portable Internet feed. The Junxion Box is driver free in the sense that the company handles the software connection for several kinds of PC Cards to several national data networks. Local users connect via the LAN side--they don't have to install and configure the special PC Card drivers which are available for specific platforms with specific limitations. Temporary work sites and mobile workgroups will benefit most from the system, which is an effective modem and analog line replacement given current cell data speeds. But as cell networks increase in speed and prices continue to fall, it's likely that the Junxion Box's niche will expand as more of a broadband replacement for certain kinds of markets. I've tested a prototype of the Junxion box, and it's just as easy as the company maintains. You plug it into AC power or a DC car adapter. You wait a few moments for it to train up to the cell data network. You connect. Will cell operators allow the Junxion Box on their network, and can they do anything to stop its use? The answers seem to be maybe and no....

Vanguard sells nine bomb disposal robots
to New Jersey police

Vanguard sells nine bomb disposal robots
to New Jersey police 05/03/2004 11:02 AM
National Post May 3 2004 3:29PM GMT

Retech advises how not to be a corporate
victim of unsafe & Illegal asset
disposal.

Retech advises how not to be a corporate
victim of unsafe & Illegal asset
disposal. 05/31/2004 02:07 PM
Inform Businesses, corporations and the public on the information below: [PRWEB May 24, 2004]

"the animals we face"

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

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

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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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◊

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.

Weightless Animals

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

Glass Animals 1.0

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

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."

Amazing Animals

Amazing Animals 08/18/2004 06:30 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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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)

"Your Mommy Kills Animals"

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

Animals Saving the World

Animals Saving the World 09/24/2004 10:04 AM
Gift a goat to help lift more families out of poverty forever.

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.

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

Stench Leads to 200 Animals in Apartment
(AP)

Stench Leads to 200 Animals in Apartment
(AP) 05/06/2004 04:29 AM
AP - It was a stench of decay that caused authorities to search an apartment in suburban Milwaukee. They found a home crawling with life: About 200 creatures — including alligators, scorpions and carnivorous beetles — formed a bizarre menagerie kept alive by a woman who fed them roadkill.

Tiny Fossils Could Be First Complex
Animals

Tiny Fossils Could Be First Complex
Animals 06/04/2004 12:59 AM

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