The majority of community acquired (i.e., not caught in a hospital) cases of antibiotic-resistant staph can be linked to a single strain of the bacteria. And, now, scientists have pinpointed where that strain first evolved. It’s from the upper west side of Manhattan .
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MRSA is from Morningside Heights
Putnisite is a newly discovered purple mineral that, unlike the many minerals found each year, is not closely related to already-known minerals.
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New mineral discovered in Australia
Tesla won’t answer the Los Angeles Times on specifics, but city officials in the small California town of Lathrop told a reporter that “work is underway converting a 431,000-square-foot facility that once housed a Chrysler-Daimler distribution center into a Tesla factory.” More: Is Tesla planning another electric car factory in California? [latimes.com]
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Electric car maker Tesla said to be planning new factory in California
How scientists figured out that a set of 260 million-year-old footprints were probably made by an arachnid and why those footprints are still shrouded in mystery.
The Exosuit allows humans to move like scuba divers at depths that would make scuba wildly impractical . It’s got all the benefits of a small submarine, but with more flexibility and freedom of movement.
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The underwater spacesuit that’s going to revolutionize ocean research
At the Myrmecos blog, Alex Wild explains why all the baby ants are saying “YOPO” . (You Only Poop Once)
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And now, a post about ant poop
Can you guess why the Sony SRF-39FP is the most popular radio in America’s prisons ?
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Sony radio popular in clink
Choire Sicha reports on Mediaite managing editor Jon Nicosia, who turns out to be a con artist, Zachary Hildreth, with form. The “confession” . The fallout . On the internet, no-one know you’re a dog. But if they never see you because of “black ops”, well, you’d think some suspicion would kick in… [The Awl, Mediaite, Gawker]
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Top blogger scammed many
Starfish have eyes — not just light-sensitive “eye spots”, but real, honest-to-Poseidon eyes, one at the end of each of their arms. They probably see the world differently than we do (for instance, they’re likely colorblind and can’t see at near the level of detail), but they can see. And they know about that time you poked them with a stick.
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The eyes of the starfish
When the first excavations of the ancient Roman town of Herculaneum began in 1738, the diggers found what appeared to be charcoal and half-burnt logs . In reality, those blackened lumps were papyrus scrolls. Buried beneath the detritus of Mt. Vesuvius, a Herculanean villa contained a whole library of the things. And now, thanks to micro-CT imaging and other digitization techniques , researchers are finding ways to read those scrolls.
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How to: Read books buried 2000 years ago