Giant Armadillos in South America. No, this is not a SyFy original. These are very important "ecosystem engineers." Now, with lots of great photos!
http://news.mongabay.com/2013/1024-hance-giant-armadillo-burrows.html
Carnivore, Herbivore, Scavenger? Turns out animals don't read the biology textbook and don't fit into neat and tidy categories.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/11/08/looking-nature-in-the-mouth/
An excellent article on which alternative medicines work and which ones don't. tl:dr? Most of them don't.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/alternative-medicines-are-popular-but-do-any-of-them-really-work/2013/11/11/067f9272-004f-11e3-9711-3708310f6f4d_story.html
An interesting overview of tool use. Unfortunately this article only covers birds and mammals and leaves out tool use in invertebrates (particularly octopus).
http://io9.com/the-mysterious-tool-making-culture-shared-by-crows-and-1460350033
Biology will find a way. We are polluting our oceans with tons of plastic; some forms of marine life have started creating a new ecosystem by feeding or living on this floating debris. We are definitely changing life in the oceans (and destroying our fishing industries) but some form of life will survive. Things will look very different in another 50 or 100 years.
http://nautil.us/issue/7/waste/when-waste-becomes-home?utm_source=feedly
Funny of the week. Gourmet Himalayan Pink Salt. Now without any GMOs! If you don't understand what's funny about that try reading the reviews of this product or bring your questions to lab and I'll be happy to explain just what is GMO and what does ORGANIC mean and why it's so funny when they use these terms to discuss salt!
http://www.amazon.com/Salt-Himalayan-Gourmet-Chemicals-Non-gmo/dp/B007PR93EU/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1384121001&sr=8-4&keywords=pink+himalayan+salt
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