Pat H

Pat H

Climate change: what’s good for elk is bad for birds

A just-published U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and University of Montana study demonstrates how the declining snowpack in the Arizona mountains over a 22-year span has affected songbirds, producing a “classic ecological cascade” according to Thomas Martin, USGS Montana Cooperative Wildlife Research Unit.…

FDA changing course on antibiotics in livestock

American farmers have been feeding antibiotics to their livestock (which includes cattle, pigs, chickens and turkeys) since the 1950s, claiming that the practice keeps the animals healthier and enables them to grow faster. Only 20% of the antibiotics sold in the…

Off planet energy source? Think small

That’s what the U.S. Navy Research Laboratory (NRL) is doing these days. Integrating the NRL developed technologies in microrobotics, microbial fuel cells, and low power electronics, space robotics scientist Dr. Gregory P. Scott at NRL’s Spacecraft Engineering Department inspires a…

What have they done for you lately?

According to their home page, here’s what TSA did for the period from December 26, 2011 through January 1, 2012: 1 artfully concealed prohibited item found at checkpoints 23 firearms found at checkpoints 1 passenger was arrested after investigation of suspicious behavior or…

Here’s another 1% that I’m not in

That’s the biggest users of the mobile airwaves. The world’s congested mobile airwaves are being divided in a lopsided manner, with 1 percent of consumers generating half of all traffic. The top 10 percent of users, meanwhile, are consuming 90…