Category: Survival
Canna.
Scottish island with only 15 inhabitants is seeking tenants. (via)
Post date: Thursday, October 12th, 2006.
Homologous recombination.
Scientists discover that plants pass on stressful memories to their offspring. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 9th, 2006.
Vecna BEAR robot.
Robot that will extract wounded troops from the battlefield. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 9th, 2006.
Yogic flying.
People are trying to build a shield of invincibility around Israel through transcendental meditation. (via)
Post date: Thursday, July 27th, 2006.
Personal powdered blood packs.
Freeze-dried blood being developed for battlefield transfusions that soldiers will carry in their personal supplies. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, July 25th, 2006.
Low-density amorphous ice.
Research on a form of water supports the idea that living cells could survive cryopreservation and be reanimated. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, June 20th, 2006.
Shear thickening fluid.
Post date: Thursday, June 15th, 2006.
Beating-heart transplant.
British doctors keep a donor heart alive and pumping blood for five hours before successfully transplanting it into the patient.
Post date: Monday, June 5th, 2006.
High expression of osmotically responsive gene 1.
Biochemical regulator discovered that allows plants to survive cold weather condtions. (via)
Post date: Thursday, May 18th, 2006.
Terra firma, terra firma.
Two men cross the Bering Strait on foot. UPDATE: Russian authorities have detained them.
Post date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2006.
Maize insect resistance cysteine protease.
Corn enzyme that protects the plants from herbivores by disrupting their attackers’ ability to digest food. (via)
Post date: Friday, March 31st, 2006.
Southpaw competitive advantage.
Snails are better-suited to survive against predators if they are left-handed.
Post date: Friday, March 24th, 2006.
Tornado-propelled human flight.
Man is whisked 1300 feet away from his home by a tornado and lives. (via)
Post date: Monday, March 20th, 2006.
QuikClot.
Sand-like material that is poured directly into wounds to prevent bleeding to death.
Post date: Thursday, March 16th, 2006.
Mutational deterministic hypothesis.
Sex has evolved as a population cleansing mechanism by concentrating harmful gene mutations into individuals that will eventually be thinned from the herd. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2006.
Geoengineering.
Theory of shading the Earth with mirrors to counter the effects of global warming. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, March 7th, 2006.
Methyl jasminate.
Chemical released as a defense mechanism that prepares plants for attack is an ingredient in Chanel No. 5 perfume. (via)
Post date: Friday, March 3rd, 2006.
Expanded Programme on Immunization.
Vietnam has eliminated maternal and neonatal tetanus as a public health problem.
Post date: Tuesday, February 28th, 2006.
Dead Man Dancing.
Comatose man given up for dead regains conciousness after life support is turned off and attends his daughter’s wedding.
Post date: Monday, February 27th, 2006.
Brincos.
Shoes designed to help illegal immigrants cross the U.S.-Mexican border. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006.
Diapause.
Scorpion lives for 15 months trapped inside a plaster mold. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 26th, 2006.
Autotrophs.
People who live for years without food or water and claim to get their nutrition from cosmic energy. (via)
Post date: Monday, January 23rd, 2006.
Profound hypothermia.
Doctors have successfully put pigs into suspended animation. (via)
Post date: Friday, January 20th, 2006.
Shaken, not stirred.
Russian winter has been so brutally cold that travelling circuses are giving buckets of vodka to elephants. (via)
Post date: Thursday, January 19th, 2006.
Tandem running.
Ants learn how to find food by being taught by other ants.
Post date: Wednesday, January 11th, 2006.
Latimira chalumnae.
400 million year-old species of fish, called a coelacanth, is in danger of finally going extinct. (via)
Post date: Tuesday, January 10th, 2006.
Caenorhabditis elegans.
Worms that were experiments aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia were recovered alive from the wreckage. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, January 4th, 2006.
Unstoppable.
Man who dies 32 times in 20 minutes survives. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, December 14th, 2005.
Your bad.
Indian astrologer fails to die after predicting his own death because too many people had ‘prayed for him to live’.
Post date: Thursday, October 20th, 2005.
Heat exchange disorder.
Russian man with rare disease has been living in a giant refrigerator for 15 years. (via)
Post date: Saturday, October 1st, 2005.
The gods must be crazy.
Hurricane Katrina causing massive shortages of beer and cigarettes in affected areas.
Post date: Tuesday, September 6th, 2005.
Half the man.
Russian man survives after cutting himself in half with circular saw. (via)
Post date: Thursday, September 1st, 2005.
Rock still lives.
Hard Rock Cafe’s 112-foot electric guitar sign survives 7 hours of 100-mph hurricane-force winds in Biloxi. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Social web.
Craigslist Lost & Found for New Orleans being used to track lost family and friends displaced by Hurricane Katrina. (via)
Post date: Wednesday, August 31st, 2005.
Martial law.
Prisoners from the Orleans Parish Prison are staged on the highway as floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina cover the streets.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Stranglehold.
Ted Nugent is offering his hunting skills to protect Manitoba from bears.
Post date: Tuesday, August 30th, 2005.
Hey Booboo.
Bear arrested and put behind bars in Russia for ‘begging’.
Post date: Thursday, August 25th, 2005.
Bumvertising.
Putting the homeless to work by putting advertisements on them.
Post date: Monday, August 15th, 2005.
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