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This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist journal has 4 segments. Here are bits of every of them:
- Chasing the story — Silvia Leonetti and colleagues within the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, the US and Denmark don’t fairly clarify why dogs wag their tails, however they do clarify that it’s laborious to elucidate. In a paper referred to as “Why do dogs wag their tails?” in Biology Letters, these dog-tail contemplators confront one, presumably simpler, sub-question…
- Donald Duck dam jubilee — We are only a 12 months away from the jubilee – the fiftieth anniversary! – of the publication of essentially the most beloved technical report ever written by a deputy director of design and building for the US Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation. That report, which maybe wants no introduction, is “Construction of Grand Coulee (Dam’s) Third Power Plant”. Published within the Journal of the Construction Division in 1975, it was written by Donald J. Duck….
- Anti-covid tea gargling — The story of tea is now, in tiny half, the story of an attack – an attack by inanimate bits of tea on a virus that assaults people: the coronavirus.It is the story of “SARS-CoV-2 viral particles resuspended in saliva”, the place these particles are assaulted by one or one other form of tea commercially available in North America….
- Just a wee experiment — An ounce of prevention was not value a pound of treatment in Jorge Castro’s try “to find an easy to use, cheap, and universal substance to protect seeds against predators in forest restoration programs”. Restoration Ecology printed Castro’s clarification of what went mistaken. It known as “Human urine does not protect acorns against predation by the wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus): A field study with video recording”….
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