If this is true, then it is possible that by introducing one mosquito manually would discourage other mosquitos from entering the mosquito net. This led to a strange contraption where the mosquito net had a hollow pipe running through it so that mosquitos can enter the net but not touch the human inside....
Sigh.
Nishant
On 12/26/05, Udhay Shankar N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=scienceNews&storyID=10680956&src="">
A spoonful of science..
Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:31 AM ET
LONDON (Reuters) - Australian scientists have proved what is common
knowledge to most people -- that teaspoons appear to have minds of
their own.
In a study at their own facility, a group of scientists from the
Macfarlane Burnet Institute for Medical Research and Public Health in
Melbourne secretly numbered 70 teaspoons and tracked their movements
over five months.
Supporting their expectations, 80 percent of the spoons vanished during
the period -- although those in private areas of the institute lasted
nearly twice as long as those in communal sections.
"At this rate, an estimated 250 teaspoons would need to be purchased
annually to maintain a workable population of 70 teaspoons," they wrote
in Friday's festive edition of the British Medical Journal.
They said their research proved that teaspoons were an essential part
of office life and the rapid rate of disappearance proved that this was
under relentless assault.
Regretting that scientific literature was "strangely bereft" of
teaspoon-related research, the scientists offered a few theories to
explain the phenomenon.
Taking a tip from Douglas Adams' Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy books,
they suggested that the teaspoons were quietly migrating to a planet
uniquely populated by "spoonoid" life forms living in a spoonish state
of Nirvana.
They also offered the phenomenon of "resistentialism" in which
inanimate objects like teaspoons have a natural aversion to humans.
On the other hand, they suggested, people might simply be taking them.
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