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Blog Post: Some Amazing Outdoor Water Fountains For House: No matter how beautiful the house is, unless it is decorated with heart and soul it cannot give an attractive and appealing look. Certainly arranging the house with love is the most difficult task…; Added by Geo Msn at 2:58am on June 1, 2016

Comment on: Topic 'WHOA MAMA! - Homage to IRENE - Irene_tmo_2011237 #!': torms spiral tightly around a dense center, forming the circular shape of a well-developed hurricane. At the time the image was taken, 11:50 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Irene was moving over the Bahamas with sustained winds of 185 kilometers per hour (115 miles per hour)." Hurricane Irene reached Florida blowing winds in at 115 mph. Have you ever felt wind at 115mph? In a way, I came close at 110mph. No brag—just fact. In my young and dumb years, commuting from college to home on the occasional weekend, I traveled the badland highways of New Mexico on a Moto Guzzi motorcycle. The ’71 Guzzi I rode was a big Italian touring bike designed to ride smooth and fast (The Moto Guzzi was later modified and introduced to a number of police departments throughout the U.S.). On the occasions I pushed my bike to 110mph, I can recall how I had to lay-flat against the gas tank so as to minimize wind resistance. So I’m peeking over the handlebars, hanging-on-for-dear-life. Peripheral vision is no longer important because what is left and right of you flying down the road is a blur anyway. You can only (better only) see the road front and center rapidly disappearing beneath you. The yellow spaced highway dividing line appears like a rapidly streaming ribbon. Grains of sand, gravel, grasshoppers, bugs, bees, and dragonflies pockmark my helmet and face-shield. Rat!-a-Tat!-Tat! Bug guts leave mustard colored splats and streaks also onto my, shoulders, gloved-knuckles and forearms. Insect legs, wings and antenna are pieces of the road kill that decorate my headlight and me—with the occasional shredded remains of day-old dead snakes, birds, rabbits, prairie dogs await you. And veering left and right, weaving past others doing the speed limit seemed almost cartoonish. Yeah, I kinda know what a force of nature like Irene would feel like if she passed over me at 115mph.…; Added by Valentino Martinez at 4:20am on August 27, 2011

Blog Post: Whazzup? The latest online recruiting and job board news!: It's that time of the month - time to see what happened, to whom, and how. Not…; Added by Jeff Dickey-Chasins at 8:50am on April 21, 2015

Blog Post: "Vegetable Gardening and the Job Search": Once again, I am awakened by a dream and inspired, and at 3:15 am I sit here writing this article to you. What woke me was a dream related to my vegetable garden…I know…weird huh?…; Added by Steven Coyne at 11:27am on June 14, 2010

Topic: OT - Zombie Insects - No Joke!: overTitle: Professor of entomology, Pennsylvania State UniversityLocation: University Park, Pa. You recently identified a gene known as egt that allows a specific group of viruses to control the behavior of caterpillars. Tell me what it does.Gypsy moth caterpillars have a normal behavior they do every day. They climb out onto the leaves to feed at night. During the day they climb back onto the branches or bark to hide from predators because they’re very obvious when they’re on the leaves. But once caterpillars are infected with these viruses, known as baculoviruses, their levels of the EGT protein become elevated. Once that happens, you find them on leaves in the middle of the day. It’s like: “What are you doing here?” And how does that harm the caterpillars? Eventually they climb to the tops of trees, where they get converted into a sac of virus that liquefies and rains virus particles down on the foliage below so that new hosts can be infected by eating the virus on the leaves. Egt is manipulating the insect to die in the right location to transmit the virus to new hosts. What is the mechanism by which the gene does that? In short, we don’t know, but we have a couple of ideas. It was already known that egt blocks molting in caterpillars. What happens when the insects molt is they stop feeding for quite some time; if they’re kept from molting, they’re kept in a feeding state. It’s possible that because they’re being stimulated to keep feeding, they’re staying up in the tree when everybody else is climbing down. What are some other viruses that can change host behavior? If you think about rabies, rabies causes the infected animals to come out during the day when they’re normally nocturnal, and their behavior becomes more aggressive. There’s also a really cool virus that is sexually transmitted in moths. It causes the female moth to keep calling for mates by sending out pheromones, even though she already just mated. That way she infects more and more males. Finally, in toxoplasmosis, cats are the primary host, but mice get infected. When mice are infected, they lose their fear of cats, and they’re more likely to get eaten, which allows the pathogen to be transmitted to cats. What does this mean for humans? It certainly does suggest that other pathogens may contain genes that influence behavior, even in humans. When you have the flu, you cough a lot, which can help transmit the virus to other people. Is that a symptom, or is it the virus making us do that? And has that been selected for through evolution? Who knows?…; Added by Valentino Martinez at 10:46am on October 29, 2011

Blog Post: A newbie’s 10 considerations for social media recruitment (UPDATED): Have you seen the film A Bugs Life? If you have you’ll…; Added by Ben at 3:53pm on August 21, 2011

Blog Post: Irritating co-workers. The definitive list.: I originally wrote these observations with the intent of making some kind of HR Top Trumps game out of them. I thought it would make a nice leave-behind gift for recruiters, but as I am no…; Added by Alasdair Murray at 10:24am on January 10, 2010

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