They are packed with vitamin B12, not B2. Read more
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Ed Cara
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Born and raised in NYC, Ed covers public health, disease, and weird animal science for Gizmodo. He has previously reported for the Atlantic, Vice, Pacific Standard, and Undark Magazine.
Why is he smiling? What does he know? Read more
The best way to get a cat’s attention is an open can of tuna. Read more
There’s a right way and a wrong way:
There’s one main difference between cats and dogs. Your cat would not hesitate to kill and eat you if it could. Read more
Cat attracting noise seems to differe between countries , the one in Ireland and the UK is similar to the US one (sort of a pspspsp noise , or maybe pishwishwishwish ), but my friends wife is from eastern Europe , and I was surprised when she called my cat over with tiss-tiss-tiss. Read more
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They recruited help from 12 cats living at a cat cafe. Read more
there might be some overlap between these causes. Read more
A bad idea. If these mice don’t get hangovers, there’s nothing to stop them from getting drunk every night.
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There was an outbreak in Wisconsin reported just a few weeks ago. Read more
The ability to recover and sequence human genomes from over the past forty thousand years or so has really expanded our knowledge of human history that didn’t get written down. And going further back, we know a lot more about human evolution now than we could have before the genomics revolution.
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They’re real! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoop_snake Read more
I was once considering retiring there, but maybe not, if they have disease carrying biting iguanas! Read more
So if I just pack some weed-killer, I should be fine against any rampaging rose-monsters?
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Everybody can help with this. Don’t demand an antibiotic every time you have a cold. It won’t get you better any faster and it contributes to the problem. Read more
So if I’m remembering correctly, bone marrow produces T-cells & macrophages, etc., so I suppose it would make sense that they’d have some “memory” of where they originated and the thymus only adds to that and doesn’t fully reprogram them to turn on themselves. Read more