<< Here's what we humans have in common with oceans, lakes and rivers: We have solitons coursing through us >>
Sonia Fernandez. This Soliton is About You. Monday, October 3, 2016 10:30
http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017218/soliton-about-you
L. L. Bonilla, M. Carretero et al. Soliton driven angiogenesis. Nature. Sci. Rep. 6, Article number: 31296 (2016)doi:10.1038/srep31296. Publ. 09 Aug 2016.
<< sharks [sand tiger sharks Carcharias taurus] prefer to travel in groups of various sizes and spend a surprising amount of time together. Some individuals even spent up to 95 consecutive hours together over the course of the year. >>
Researchers Examine the Social Networks of Sharks. Released: 4-Oct-2016 3:05 PM EDT
http://www.newswise.com/articles/researchers-examine-the-social-networks-of-sharks
Danielle E. Haulsee, Dewayne A. Fox, et al. Network Analysis Reveals Potential Fission-Fusion Behavior in a Shark. Nature. Scientific Reports 6, Article number: 34087 (2016)
doi:10.1038/srep34087 Published online: 30 Sept. 2016
<< In certain parts of the ocean, towering, slow-motion rollercoasters called internal tides trundle along for miles, rising and falling for hundreds of feet in the ocean's interior while making barely a ripple at the surface >>
<< Internal tides are generated in part by differences in water density, and created along continental shelf breaks, where a shallow seafloor suddenly drops off like a cliff, creating a setting where lighter water meets denser seas. In such regions, tides on the surface produce oscillating, vertical currents, which in turn generate waves below the surface, at the interface between warmer, shallow water , and colder, deeper water >>
<< Now for the first time [AA] have accurately simulated the motion of internal tides along a shelf break called the Middle Atlantic Bight ... >>
Jennifer Chu. Researchers find explanation for interacting giant, hidden ocean waves. Sept. 28, 2016.
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-explanation-interacting-giant-hidden-ocean.html
Samuel M. Kelly, Pierre F. J. Lermusiaux. Internal-tide interactions with the Gulf Stream and Middle Atlantic Bight shelfbreak front. Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. Volume 121, Issue 8 Aug. 2016 Pages 6271–6294 DOI:10.1002/2016JC011639
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016JC011639/abstract
AA << say that they'd now like to explore other types of camouflage in fossils and to use this evidence in understanding "how predators could perceive the environment and to understand their role in shaping evolution and biodiversity" >>
Joseph Caputo. What dinosaurs' color patterns say about their lives.
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-09/cp-wdc090816.php
Jakob Vinther, Robert Nicholls, et al. 3D Camouflage in an Ornithischian Dinosaur. Current Biology. Volume 26, Issue 18, p2456–2462, 26 Sept. 2016
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822(16)30706-0
<< Author Stephen King spoke to Ron Charles, editor of The Washington Post's Book World, during a Facebook Live interview Saturday >>
<< If there's one man who would seem immune to fear, it's Stephen King, the best-selling author and master of horror fiction. But after more than 50 novels, hundreds of short stories and numerous film adaptations of his voluminous work, the 69-year-old still gets spooked >>
<< "A Tump presidency scares me more than anything else," King told Ron Charles [..] "I'm terrified that he'll become president" >>
<< "I would have laughed three or four months ago, but I think that Trump has a real shot" >>
Peter Holley. Stephen King: ‘A Trump presidency scares me to death’. POST, The Fix. Sept. 24, 2016
<< This is wild: a team of Israeli scientists developed a contraption that uses a person's brain waves to remotely control DNA-based nanorobots — while the nanobots were inside a living cockroach >>
Arnon S, Dahan N, et al. Thought-Controlled Nanoscale Robots in a Living Host. PLoS ONE 2016 11(8):e0161227. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0161227
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0161227
also: imprinting and recalling inside a single network of brain cells with thin beam of light (as if switching on a TV )
http://flashontrack.blogspot.it/2016/08/s-brain-imprinting-and-recalling-inside.html
<< Male peacock spiders know how to work their angles and find their light. The arachnids, native to Australia, raise their derriere — or, more accurately, a flap on their hind end — skyward and shake it to attract females. Hairlike scales cover their bodies and produce the vibrant colorations that make peacock spiders so striking >>
Helen Thompson. Tiny structures give a peacock spider its radiant rump. Sept. 09, 2016
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tiny-structures-give-peacock-spider-its-radiant-rump
Doekele G. Stavenga, Jürgen C. Otto, Bodo D. Wilts. Splendid coloration of the peacock spider Maratus splendens. J. R. Soc. Interface 2016 13 20160437; DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0437. Published 10 August 2016
http://rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/13/121/20160437
