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June 23, 2012

#StorySaturday is a Guest Blog weekend experiment in which we invite people to write about science in a different, unusual format – fiction, science fiction, lablit, personal story, fable, fairy tale, poetry, or comic strip. We hope you like it. ========================= “I never meant for this to happen.” As Mark clicked on the recorder he [...]

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LEGO Faces are Getting Angrier; So What?

Transport yourselves back to sprawling across the living room floor—colored blocks scattered like confetti about the carpet—building the highest towers and fattest spaceships (without directions, of course), all the while ignoring your parents' yelps as they step on a rogue piece. There's nothing quite like LEGO. And certainly there's nothing quite like those ubiquitious yellow, blocky LEGO faces. But a piece in The Daily Mail last week cites that "LEGO faces are getting angrier," and that […]

BAIRD, A., GRUBER, S., FEIN, D., MASS, L., STEINGARD, R., RENSHAW, P., COHEN, B. & YURGELUN-TODD, D. (1999). Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Facial Affect Recognition in Children and Adolescents, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 38 (2) 195-199. DOI: 10.1097/00004583-199902000-00019

Mar, R. (2011). The Neural Bases of Social Cognition and Story Comprehension, Annual Review of Psychology, 62 (1) 103-134. DOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-120709-145406

Thomas, K., Drevets, W., Whalen, P., Eccard, C., Dahl, R., Ryan, N. & Casey, B. (2001). Amygdala response to facial expressions in children and adults, Biological Psychiatry, 49 (4) 309-316. DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3223(00)01066-0

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Thanks Dad!

Daddy's girl. Photo from freedigitalphotos.net.Let’s take a moment to appreciate just how special dads are. Across the animal kingdom, fathers caring for their young is the exception, not the rule. Paternal care is most often seen in species in which males can be pretty sure that they are indeed the father (for example, in species that fertilize eggs outside of the mothers’ bodies or in socially monogamous species). Mammals rarely act fatherly - Only 10% of mammalian species show […]

Curley, J., Mashoodh, R. & Champagne, F. (2011). Epigenetics and the origins of paternal effects, Hormones and Behavior, 59 (3) 306-314. DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2010.06.018

Wilkins, J. & Haig, D. (2003). What good is genomic imprinting: the function of parent-specific gene expression, Nature Reviews Genetics, 4 (5) 359-368. DOI: 10.1038/nrg1062

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Will we have fruit in a future without bees?

Do people really still hand pollinate orchards in China? And why don't they just get more bees? A story about the past and a possible future. … Continue reading →

Burkle L.A., Marlin J.C. & Knight T.M. (2013). Plant-Pollinator Interactions over 120 Years: Loss of Species, Co-Occurrence, and Function, Science, 339 (6127) 1611-1615. DOI: 10.1126/science.1232728

Garibaldi L.A., Steffan-Dewenter I., Winfree R., Aizen M.A., Bommarco R., Cunningham S.A., Kremen C., Carvalheiro L.G., Harder L.D. & Afik O. & (2013). Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance, Science, 339 (6127) 1608-1611. DOI: 10.1126/science.1230200

Partap U. & Ya T. (2012). The Human Pollinators of Fruit Crops in Maoxian County, Sichuan, China, Mountain Research and Development, 32 (2) 176-186. DOI: 10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-11-00108.1

Partap U. (2010). Innovations in revival strategies for declining pollinators with particular reference to the indigenous honey bees: Experiences of ICIMOD's initiatives in the Hindu Rush-Himalayan region, Pest Management and Economic Zoology, 18 (1) 85-95.

TangYa, Xie Jia-sui, & Chen Keming (2001). Hand pollination of pears and its implications for biodiversity conservation and environmental protection -- A case study from Hanyuan County, Sichuan Province, China, FAO Case studies on pollinators and pollination, Other: Link

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Whence the Earliest Berliners? (Part 1)

This week, I'm hanging out in Chapel Hill at the Isotope Geochemistry Lab on UNC's campus. I'm here to process human dental enamel from Medieval Germans for strontium, to test the hypothesis that the earliest residents of modern Berlin migrated east from Cologne. A bit of background for this project: In the early 13th century AD, two towns were built on opposite sides of the Spree River. Called Berlin (or, sometimes, Altberlin) and Cölln, they eventually became one city in the […]

C.M. Melisch & J.P. Sewell (2011). Historische Chance – eine umfangreiche, mittelalterliche bis neuzeitliche Skelettserie vom ehemaligen St. Petri-Kirchhof in Berlin-Mitte, Mitteilungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 32 107-120.

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Automotive Fuel Cells to be Used In Space

Automotive fuel cells are not only good for powering eco-friendly buses and potentially fuel cell cars, they also can be used in space exploration, according to an article co-authored by the JRC and the European Space Agency (ESA) in the scientific journal Acta Astronautica. The article analyzes the present-day hydrogen activities in the terrestrial and aerospace industries, highlighting possible performance improvements and cost savings. Read more »

Frischauf, N., Acosta-Iborra, B., Harskamp, F., Moretto, P., Malkow, T., Honselaar, M., Steen, M., Hovland, S., Hufenbach, B., Schautz, M. & Wittig, M. (2013). The hydrogen value chain: applying the automotive role model of the hydrogen economy in the aerospace sector to increase performance and reduce costs, Acta Astronautica, 88 8-24. DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2013.01.002

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