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TwitterPizza boxes are recyclable, but grease and cheese make them less so and can cause a whole batch of recyclable material to be diverted to the trash. Image credit: DreamstimeFrom Live Science:Many people assume that pizza boxes are recyclable. In fact, most boxes have recycling symbols on them and are traditionally made from corrugated cardboard.
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The Challenge of Pizza Box Recycling
March 3rd, 2009 
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March 2nd, 2009 admin From Live Science:When it comes to public consumption of nutrition studies, an old adage applies: Everything in moderation.The latest study looking at what you should eat involves eggs. Despite decades of advice that the cholesterol in eggs is bad for you, researchers in Canada now report evidence that eggs might reduce another heart disease risk factor — high blood pressure.The scientists found egg proteins that, in laboratory simulations of the human digestive process, seem to act like a popular group of prescription medications in lowering blood pressure.
Posted in Science News Tags: American Chemical Society, Cholesterol, Egg Proteins, Eggs, Everything In Moderation, Heart Disease, Heart Disease Risk, High Blood Pressure, Human Digestive Process, Journal Of Agricultural And Food Chemistry, Laboratory Simulations, Live Science, Lowering Blood Pressure, Nutrition Studies, Old Adage, Popular Group, Prescription Medications, Public Consumption, Risk Factor, Sunny Side Comments OffComplexity of Spit Revealed
March 1st, 2009 admin From Live Science:Saliva tells a lot about a person these days, ranging from ancestry to criminal connections. But drool still holds many mysteries, including what the heck lives in it and why each of us has our own salivary signature.A new study tries to clean this up a bit, revealing that there is a lot of bacterial diversity living in the moisture in our mouths, both within and among individuals.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Ancestry, Bacterial Diversity, Complexity, Drool, Live Science, Lot, Many Mysteries, Mouths, Saliva, Signature, What The Heck Comments OffThe Shoe Fits! 1.5 Million-Year-Old Human Footprints Found
February 28th, 2009 admin A photograph of the footprint’s upper footprint surface showing good definition of the toe pads; the second toe is partially obscured by the third toe. Credit: Matthew Bennett/Bournemouth UniversityFrom Live Science:Early humans had feet like ours and left lasting impressions in the form of 1.5 million-year-old footprints, some of which were made by feet that could wear a size 9 men’s shoe.The findings at a Northern Kenya site represent the oldest evidence of modern-human foot anatomy.
Posted in Science News Tags: 5 Million, Anthropologist, Bones, Bournemouth University, Early Humans, Flesh, Foot Anatomy, Footprint, Human Anatomy, Human Footprints, John Harris, Koobi Fora, Lasting Impressions, Live Science, Matthew Bennett, Photograph, Rutgers University, Size 9, Tree Dwellers, Walkers Comments OffMoon and Venus Converge Friday Night
February 27th, 2009 admin The scene about two hours after sunset from near Phoenix, Arizona on Friday, Feb. 27, 2009. Simulated sky map made using Starry Night Software.From Live Science:It has been a superb winter for viewing the queen of the planets, Venus. February marks the pinnacle of its evening visibility as it stands like a sequined showgirl nearly halfway up in the western sky at sunset.You can’t miss it.
Posted in Science News Tags: Friday Night, Live Science, Moon, Phoenix Arizona, Pinnacle, Planets Venus, Queen, Showgirl, Sky Map, Starry Night, Sunset, Visibility, Western Sky Comments OffSex Goes Way Back, Fossil Find Shows
February 26th, 2009 admin The armored fish, Materpiscis attenboroughi, may have given birth to its young tail-first, similar to some sharks and rays. Credit: Museum Victoria.From Live Science:Remains of embryos entombed in their fish mothers’ wombs for 380 million years have been found in fossils from an ancient rock outcrop in Western Australia. The finding is a big deal because it suggests that sex goes way back.The prehistoric fish, called placoderms, are found at the base of the vertebrate evolutionary tree (in a large group we humans also belong to), so it now looks like sexual intercourse, and the mating behaviors that go along with it, were more widespread in these ancient animals than previously thought, said the scientists who made the discovery.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Ancient Animals, Discovery, Embryos, Evolutionary Tree, Fossil Fish, Fossils, Large Group, Live Science, Million Years, Museum Victoria, Prehistoric Fish, Rock Outcrop, Scientists, Sex Shows, Sexual Intercourse, Sharks, Western Australia Comments OffThe Evolution of Human Aggression
February 26th, 2009 admin From Live Science:Everyone has experienced anger at one point in their lives and some of us — males mostly, going by statistics — have channeled that anger into violence, perhaps by throwing a punch during a hockey game or after too many beers at the bar.Then there’s aggression on a much more sinister scale, in the form of murder, wars and genocide. Trying to understand what fuels the different levels of human aggression, from fisticuffs to nation-on-nation battle, has long preoccupied human biologists.Read more ….
Posted in Science News Tags: Anger, Beers, Evolution, Fisticuffs, Genocide, Hockey Game, Human Aggression, Human Biologists, Live Science, Punch, Statistics, Violence Comments OffIs The Internet Warping Our Brains?
February 24th, 2009 admin Image from Esther’s SpaceFrom Live Science:The Internet is no doubt changing modern society. It has profoundly altered how we gather information, consume news, carry out war, and create and foster social bonds. But is it altering our brains? A growing number of scientists think so, and studies are providing data to show it.What remains to be seen is whether the changes are good or bad, and whether the brain is, as one neuroscientist believes, undergoing unprecedented evolution.Read more ….My Comment: I do not know about my brain …. but my hands suffer from carpel syndrome.
Posted in Science News Tags: Brain, Brains, Evolution, Image, Live Science, Neuroscientist, No Doubt, Scientists, Social Bonds Comments Off