Friday, March 14, 2014

Weekend Reading - Spring Break Edition

Elephants are fucking amazing! They can distinguish between human languages, male and female voices and adult and child voices and react accordingly.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/03/10/elephants-hear-age-gender-ethnicity-in-human-voices/

A company has made health claims about a new product. It cites publication, patents and patients. Can you trust this company? Turns out, no, you can't. The publications have nothing to do with their product, the patents are not for their product and the patients? Anonymous and they don't mention results in those patients. Advertiser lie.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/accused-of-lying-about-asea-not-guilty/#more-30540

The Ocean Dandelion. An animal that puts the "what" in WTF?

http://deepseanews.com/2014/03/ive-been-waiting-16-years-to-know-what-is-the-ocean-dandelion/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

It's not quite spring - the season of the Fairy Shrimp.

http://thesmallermajority.com/2014/03/02/tough-as-nails/

How to get bitten by a Black Widow Spider. It's not as easy as you think.

http://spiderbytes.org/2014/02/14/what-happens-when-you-poke-prod-and-pinch-black-widow-spiders-you-might-be-surprised/

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