Favolaschia è un genere di fungo molto strano, infestante, originario dei tropici. Ma la globalizzazione l'ha portato anche nei nostri boschi! Questo sito non parla di funghi, ma favolaschia mi sembrava un nome significativo e evocativo di qualcosa di simile a quello che qui viene raccontato...

03 febbraio 2009

Robotic children
Nick Kettles 02/02/2009
Our conveyor-belt education system is geared towards the production of clones and parrots, not imaginative, creative and curious human beings. Is it any wonder our children are stressed and unhappy? Nick Nettles reports
http://www.theecologist.org/pages/archive_detail.asp?content_id=1946

New Google Ocean Takes Google Earth Beyond the "Dirt"
Exploring the oceans no longer requires a wetsuit.
Ocean in Google Earth, which launched today, builds on the free, popular 3-D mapping software Google Earth by allowing users to navigate underwater in unprecedented clarity. (See new Google Earth ocean pictures.)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/02/090202-google-oceans-missions.html

World's oldest crystals get protection
Australian geoheritage reserve will save ancient zircons from abuse.
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090130/full/news.2009.69.html

Early humans evolved to crack a nutty problem
Our earliest ancestors might have been crackers - specialised crackers of tough nuts and seeds, that is. Australopithecines boasted mouths ideal for accessing such well-protected food, suggests a new calculation of the ancient, upright hominin's bite.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16519-early-humans-evolved-to-crack-a-nutty-problem.html

Turtles Island-Hopped Their Way Across a Warm Arctic
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/202/2

Diventare maschio alfa grazie alla diplomazia
Anche tra gli scimpanzè, i maschi meno dotati dal punto di vista fisico usano le buone maniere e la diplomazia per conquistare un posto di rilievo nella società. La scoperta è il risultato di uno studio condotto presso il Gombe National Park, Tanzania.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090202174958.htm