For those of you who have doing the cat science projects, try adding coffee to the smells experiment. I accidentally dropped a few coffee beans of the floor yesterday and my cat went wild for them. See how your cat reacts to coffee and tea and let me know. By the way, chocolate can make dogs and cats very sick, so avoid letting your animals eat any.
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In a previous post, I mentioned two Arizona State University scientists have a project to grow algae to convert into fuel, particularly jet fuel. They made the news again this week because they just got a $3 million-dollar grant to start a pilot project. Exciting stuff!
Follow the link to the newspaper article:
Algae-to-fuel work gets $3 mil
ASU spinoff believes organisms key to renewable energy for jets
by Ken Alltucker – Sept. 2, 2008 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
Did you know that all the hamsters in the United States, all the different shapes and colors and sizes, all came from a single brother and sister pair brought over from Turkey in the 1930’s? Did you know that hamsters are endangered in the wild? Even better, did you know that female hamsters are active during the day in the wild, instead of up all night like they are here? I sure didn’t until I caught this post about hamsters at the Urban Science Adventures blog. Note for parents of squeamish children: the video clip does talk about how the farmers kill hamsters.
For more information, see Roberta Gibson Writes.