If your smoke alarm starts wailing and you’re not home to hear it, you’d better hope one of your neighbors does — or else you might come home to a smoldering pile of rubble. But with the Leeo smart night light, even if your nearest neighbor is miles away, you’ll be alerted to potential fires as soon as the alarm goes off. Read more…
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Leeo SmartAlert Review: A $100 Night Light That Listens For Fire
“Oh look a king, let’s break out the thermocycler,” writes osteoarchaeologist Alison Atkin in a piece on the not exactly essential DNA analysis of the remains of Richard III.
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Why should you care about a dead king’s DNA?
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.
A hotel restaurant in Onitsha, Nigeria was reportedly shuttered after authorities confirmed it was selling dishes containing human meat. According to the Naija Zip , self-described as an er, “gossip news” site, police discovered two human heads on the premises along with weapons and ammunition. “I went to the hotel early this year, after eating, I was told that a lump of meat was being sold at N700, I was surprised,” a pastor who tipped off the cops was quoted as saying. “So I did not know it was human meat that I ate at such expensive price.”
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Nigerian restaurant busted for cannibal cuisine
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
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