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- Science
The 'Whos' and 'Whichs' of Chimpanzees
Ive been thinking about chimps lately. I called them a who and not a which in a recent piece I produced for the American Museum of Natural History. This earned me a virtual slap by my copy editor. As in: Chimpanzees, who WHICH are not bipedal… I was just giving a nod to a fellow hominid—the taxonomic group that includes chimpanzees, gorillas, orangutans, and humans. Pan troglodytes are 99.8% genetically similar to us, making them our closest living relative.
4.21.2008 at 09:27am - Comment by Luarel7I believe that all humans should treat animals nicer than animals treat each other or should be put in cages like the animals they turned out to be themselves.
- The Environment
Breeding the Oil Bug
It could be an aerial photo of an oil spill: liquid spheres pooling, oozing, dwarfing a bedraggled landscape. I half expect to zoom in on poisoned seal pups or waterbirds dragging their oil-soaked feathers. But the scene is microscopic. The landscape is made of E. coli. And whats happening is exactly the opposite of what it seems. The little bugs arent drowning in fuel. Theyre making it.
4.21.2008 at 09:09am - Comment by Luarel7I think this could go two ways: Revolutionary or plain dangerous. We could be living in near-unpolluted paradise or living in hospitals being slowly and painfully converted into hydrocarbons because of our sugar content. But it would actually be interesting to see a bug defenselessly ripped into a joke on ethanol, huh? I Think Not. Of course we could also go as fast as a normal car, but without large amounts of emissions. We could, but the danger rate is too high. Sorry, but try something else.
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