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Comment Re:WIFI (Score 1) 77

by Bretai on Wednesday March 19, 2008 @10:37AM (#22795262) Attached to: Intel Wi-Fi Provides 6 Mbps Over 100 km

"i love how intel is touting how (even though wifi has been tech since the late 90's early 2000's) that they finally got around to making it work over "long" distances."

I love that they chose to make a big deal about a Wi-Fi solution when WiMax was supposed to be here already. Wasn't it this time last year when they were talking about WiMax adapters being standard on laptops? ...and over long distances too?! This the kind of tech that Intel should kill, not promote... if WiMax were really on its way, that is.

The Coevolution of Lice & Their Hosts 179

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday March 07, 2007 @11:43PM from the lets-be-adults-about-this-everyone dept.

eldavojohn writes "It might be an uncomfortable subject but parasites are an interesting subject when it comes to evolution. Ever wonder if pocket gophers have lice? Well, they do. And most interesting of all is the evolution of these lice mirroring the evolution of gophers. To study the genes of lice may shed just as much light on evolutionary trees as studying the genes of the actual host the lice has evolved to. The most unsettling result from these studies is that human head lice and human pubic lice (crabs) vary so greatly that they are in two separate genera. There were similarities between our pubic lice and the lice found on gorillas. Scientists came to the conclusion, which they published today in BMC Biology, is just as striking as their earlier one about head lice. But it is hardly the same. We did not get pubic lice from other hominids. We got them from the ancestors of gorillas."

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