Missing Tortoise, Reclaimed Fungi

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New York City was full of mysteries this week: Who was the idiot that approved the low-flying plane? Does being near the swine flu outbreak in Queens outweigh the benefits of all the delicious ethnic food in that borough? Who misplaced their 60-pound tortoise?

Also in today's links: sadistic spider sex, questionable professional practice and more.

• A collection of 2,000 species of Chinese fungi is set to be repatriated. The specimens were sent to the U.S. 70 years ago, after the Japanese invaded China, are set to be repatriated.
• Traumatic insemination indeed: within one species of spider, the males pierce the females' abdomens, and then fertilize the eggs while still in the ovaries. It'd make a good episode of Green Porno, if they were to revisit spiders.

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The Environment, Missing Links, M. Farbman, cellphones, fungi, links, missing links, reproduction, reptiles, spiders, tortoises
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• Barack Obama kept pretty busy for his first 100 days, as evidenced by his Facebook feed.