Bored during dinner?
Then maybe you need this table–it has Pong embedded into the surface and was a big hit at MOMA. Alas, it is not currently being mass produced.
Bored during dinner? // Current
Month: May 2008
Air Pollution Impedes Bees’ Ability to Find Flowers
Air pollution interferes with the ability of bees and other insects to follow the scent of flowers to their source, undermining the essential process of pollination, a study by three University of Virginia researchers suggests.
via Washington Post
Bats In Hell? Deadly Bat Illness Baffles Researchers
Researchers race against time to solve deadly bat illness – The Boston Globe
http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1185143625/bctid1534625573
DORSET, Vt. – The little brown bat careened out of Aeolus Cave into the bright March afternoon. Crashing into a snow bank, it clawed up the icy mound, wings flailing wildly. Spent and starving, it fell still.
Dozens of furry bats, many shivering uncontrollably, littered the snow around the cave’s mossy entrance. Others in various stages of dying were tucked into rock crevices nearby – deeply bizarre behavior for animals that avoid light and so despise winter they can hibernate until early May.
A wildlife biologist breathing through a respirator gingerly picked up the still creature – one more critical clue to a mysterious illness that is killing the bats of the Northeast.
