Strange, but true …

Researchers at the University of Calgary said in July that female mice in their study were not only sexually aroused by whiffs of male mouse pheromones but that the scent apparently made the females’ brains grow larger.

I wonder if they’ve tested other animals?

I’m sure a few of us in the blogisphere have already figured this out but …

A study released earlier this week suggests that the United States could be rife with Internet addicts as clinically ill as alcoholics.

Researchers at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, said that their telephone survey indicated that more than one in eight US residents showed at least one sign of “problematic Internet use.”

Most disturbing was the discovery that some people hid their Internet surfing, or went online to cure foul moods in ways that mirrored the way that alcoholics use booze, according to the study’s lead author, Elias Aboujaoude.

According to preliminary research, the typical Internet addict is a single, college-educated, white male in his 30s, who spends approximately 30 hours a week on non-essential computer use.

• What kind on internet user are you? Are you only on the internet for an hour or so each day, or perhaps even less?
• Do you use the internet while your spouse is out, before you spouse comes home from work, or after he or she has gone to bed at night? And does your spouse know that you are on the internet when he or she is not home or sleeping?
• Do you think that you are on the internet too much and that it might be becoming a problem?

Maybe we should start a group - Internetaholics Anonymous?

Pigs may not be able to fly just yet, but they have moved up another step on the evolutionary scale. At least three pigs on this planet can glow from the inside out.

Researchers in Taiwan have bred pigs with a fluorescent material created by jelly fish. The pig embryos were injected with a fluorescent green protien taken from jelly fish. The scientists hope that these glowing pigs will help their stem cell research effort. Researchers hope that the glowing pigs will help them monitor tissue changes over time as the cells would show up during stem cell treatments of diseased organs, aiding physicians in monitoring the healing process.

The pigs are fluorescent green inside and out. Their heart and internal organs glow. When observing one of these pigs they glow with a light green tint, particularly their eyes, snout and hooves.

If the glowing pigs don’t work out for research I can think of another use for them. Horror Movies! Can you imagine a scary scene with a flash of glowing eyes and snout? These pigs could be the first fluorescent movie stars.

For more information on Glowing Pigs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4605202.stm

http://www.animationnation.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=001559;p=

http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ap_060115_glowing_pigs.html