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While some mosquito species mate at dusk, A. aegypti engages in daytime rendezvouses. A male flies into a swarm to scope out potential mates, chasing a few specimens (see one such chase here) and checking them out at a range of 1 to 2 cm. If the female has recently mated, she'll rebuff the male's advances, but once a love connection is made, the two will adjust their wing speeds: females typically beat their wings at about 400 Hz, or beats per second, and males flap at a frequency of about 600 Hz; however, when two potential mates...
...like some 80% of Americans, you'll simply toss your obsolete gizmos into the trash. After all, that Jurassic 15-in. (38 cm) computer monitor doesn't look as though it's packing up to 7 lb. (3 kg) of lead. Every day Americans throw out more than 350,000 cell phones and 130,000 computers, making electronic waste the fastest-growing part of the U.S. garbage stream. Improperly disposed of, the lead, mercury and other toxic materials inside e-waste can leak from landfills. (See pictures of China's electronic waste village...
...rumors are to be believed, Jobs could do the same thing for the print business. (Please! Hurry!) Tech blog Techcrunch reported recently that Apple is working on a 7- or 9-in. (18 or 23 cm) iPod Touch--big enough to read on comfortably--which is expected to be out later this year...
...Cleveland Clinic gave Siemionow the green light for the improbable operation, one that involved the transplantation of about 500 sq cm of skin, arteries, veins, nerves, muscles and bony structure, all of which had to be attached with sufficient dexterity to restore the patient's ability to feel, blink, eat, smell, speak and - not incidentally - smile. This was not what doctors call solid-organ transplant; it was a multitissue transplant, which is an order of magnitude more difficult than, say, a heart transplant or a hand graft...
...shop at the air-conditioned hard-currency stores. That's where Damaris goes to find a specialized nail clipper she needs for the manicurist test she's taking the following week. But it costs nearly $20, three times what it would in the U.S. A knockoff 26-in. (65 cm) "PanaBlack" TV--one of those outdated crt behemoths--is listed at over $750. It's the result of a supply chain gone insane. Chinese influence is everywhere here--from the ubiquitous Yutong buses to the new renovations financed by the Chinese at Lenin Park on the outskirts of town...