Morning Ed: Creatures {2016.05.08.Su}
Let’s see, no backbone and a sense of impending doom. I think the successor to the GOP has found its new mascot! The Democrats can have this one, which is special and glows.
Weasel 1, Hadron Collider 0.
While dogs are so awesome, do we really want to know what our cats are saying to us? That seems like a recipe for disappointment.
Australia is home to all sorts of very interesting creatures. Also, too many carp.
Dissecting a Komodo Dragon.
Humans are responsible for a lot of cougar deaths, but they’re re-establishing in middle America.
If you’re looking for a way to get rid of ants, you can’t get rid of them by getting rid of gravity.
It’s an ongoing war. Back when it was one Bell System, it was interesting to find that Bell Labs employed some of the world’s experts on the habits and tastes of assorted burrowing animals. One of the ongoing research questions was what could be mixed with the various plastic insulation and jacket layers that was (a) non-toxic, (b) didn’t compromise the other properties, and (c) tasted really, really bad to animals that might try to gnaw on it.Report
And which could serve the dual purpose of being used as insulation and being served in the employee cafeteria.Report
Seems fiberglass would fit the bill, in hat the glass fibers would be painful to gnaw onReport
Now we know where Ted Cruz is: Geneva.Report