I don't really have any comment to make on the article. I just figured that since the game seems to be about using FFL Subject lines to feed keywords into Google so that future searches will find them, I might as well play, too.
Have a nice day, Tom. :-) Re: Scientists Isolate Barry Wright's Stench, Hope to use it as a weapon --- In [email protected], "It's just a ride" <bill.hicks.all.a.r...@...> wrote: > > http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/deathstench/ > > Next time you're faced with a serious bug infestation, you might try > spraying your house with eau-de-death. > > Scientists have discovered that insects from cockroaches to > caterpillars all emit the same stinky blend of fatty acids when they > die, and this sinister stench sends bugs of all kinds running for > their lives. > > Biologist David Rollo of McMaster University in Canada made this > morbid discovery while studying the social behavior of cockroaches. > When a roach locates a great new abode (like your kitchen cupboard), > it gives off a chemical signal to attract its cockroach friends. To > determine the chemical composition of these pheromones, Rollo and his > team started crushing dead cockroaches and spreading around their body > juice. > > "It was amazing to find that the cockroaches avoided places treated > with these extracts like the plague," Rollo said in a press release. > "Naturally, we wanted to identify what chemical was making them all go > away." > > Of course, there was nothing to do but grind up more bugs. The team > found that their concoction repelled not just cockroaches, but ants, > catepillars, woodlice and pillbugs. And even though they're > technically crustaceans rather than insects, dead woodlice and pill > bugs produced the same set of fatty acids as the other animals. > > Insects and crustaceans diverged from each other 400 million years > ago, so the researchers think their death mix represents a universal, > ancient warning signal. "Recognizing and avoiding the dead could > reduce the chances of catching the disease," Rollo said in the > release, "or allow you to get away with just enough exposure to > activate your immunity." The researchers published their findings in > this month's edition of Evolutionary Biology. > > The scientists hope the right concoction of death smells might protect > crops against pesky invaders. For instance, a log treated with the > fatty acids repelled wood beetles in a forest for a full month. > > Thankfully, human noses can't detect the fatty acid extracts. "Not > like the rotting of corpses that occurs later and is detectable from > great distances," Rollo wrote in an e-mail. "I've tried smelling > papers treated with them and don't smell anything strong and certainly > not repellent." > > > > > The early bird may catch the worm but the second rat gets the cheese. >
