Feed Earthbound experiment to recreate stress of Mars mission (pheedo.com)
As if being locked in a series of metal tanks for 500 days isn't bad enough, six people will also be subjected to experiments in a simulated Mars mission
Feed Why Are There So Many More Species Of Insects? Because Insects Have Been Here Lo (sciencedaily.com)
Scientists show that many insect groups like beetles and butterflies have fantastic numbers of species because these groups are so old. In contrast, less diverse groups, like mammals and birds, are evolutionarily younger. This is a surprisingly simple answer to a fundamental biological puzzle.
Feed How Lead Exposure Produces Learning Deficits (sciencedaily.com)
Exposure to levels of lead that are similar to those measured in lead-intoxicated children reduces the birth and survival of new neurons (neurogenesis) in the brain. A study of young adult rats provides evidence that explains exactly how exposure to lead during brain development produces learning deficits.
Feed Transfusion Expert Urges Wider Use Of Filtered Blood (sciencedaily.com)
Filtering white cells from donor blood before a transfusion is much safer for patients and long overdue as a national standard for all surgical procedures, according to researchers.
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Slashdot Posting Bug Infuriates Haggard Admins 262
Last night we crossed over 16,777,216 comments in the database. The wise amongst you might note that this number is 2^24, or in MySQLese an unsigned mediumint. Unfortunately, like 5 years ago we changed our primary keys in the comment table to unsigned int (32 bits, or 4.1 billion) but neglected to change the index that handles parents. We're awesome! Fixing is a simple ALTER TABLE statement... but on a table that is 16 million rows long, our system will take 3+ hours to do it, during which time there can be no posting. So today, we're disabling threading and will enable it again later tonight. Sorry for the inconvenience. We shall flog ourselves appropriately. Update: 11/10 12:52 GMT by J : It's fixed.
Comment Re:Spelling fix. (Score 1) 179
Actually, I just assumed that people had eaten a lot of sashimi and "baited" was intentional.
