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Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . Immense numbers of sharks each year are slaughtered for their
fins—not meat, just their fins. This harvest helps feed a growing
appetite throughout Asia for a popular soup, one with snob appeal
comparable to that of caviar. Indeed, a single bowl of shark-fin soup
can cost $100 in a high-end Hong Kong restaurant. http://louis3j3sheehan3esquire.wordpress.com
The key
ingredient of shark-fin soup is cartilage, which after hours of
simmering, takes on the |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire . To combat insect resistance to the widely used pesticide Bt, an
international research team has announced a new way to restore the
pesticide's punch. http://members.greenpeace.org/blog/purposeforporpoise
The insect-killing Bt toxins take their name from Bacillus thuringiensis,
the bacterium that makes them. Genetic engineers have borrowed the
bacterium's toxin-making genes and inserted them into cotton, corn, and
other crops so that the plants can make |
Louis J. Sheehan, Esquire. Small-town America has a life-enhancing lesson for people who are at
least 50 years old: Individuals, those in the heartland's middle class,
anyway, who have a positive outlook about aging live around 7� years
longer than those who take a dim view of their prospects as seniors. http://louis_j_sheehan.today.com/
"People
who have positive views about themselves as they age somehow cope with
society's negative attitudes toward the elderly," says |
Large stone-cutting tools dubbed hand axes regularly appear at
prehistoric archaeological sites from India westward across southern
Asia into Europe and Africa. In 1944, Harvard anthropologist Hallam L.
Movius Jr. proposed that those prehistoric populations, living 1.6
million to 200,000 years ago, existed on one side of a geographical
line that separated them from groups in central and eastern Asia, where
early humans fashioned much simpler stone implements. Now, the
discovery of ancient |
With commercial airline traffic
expected to top one billion passengers annually by 2016 (compared with
the 769 million who flew in 2007), there are more aircraft than ever
taxiing, taking off and landing on airport runways. All of this
airfield congestion requires technology that can monitor what is
happening at the dizzying pace it is occurring, and radar, a World War
II–era invention, is not up to the task. http://www.myspace.com/louis_j_sheehan_esquire
Recognizing this, the |
Peter Parker is lucky he was bitten by a spider and not a
silkworm. Not only does “Spider-Man” have way more superhero panache than
“Silkworm-Man,” but of all the silks made by various creatures, spider silk is
the standout. Exceedingly strong, yet elastic and lightweight, spider silks are
ideal for a range of materials, from bulletproof vests to scaffolding for
growing cartilage.http://ljsheehan.livejournal.com/ http://louis9j9sheehan.blog.com/ Scientists are coming closer to unraveling |
Somewhere between the laptop and the smart phone, the computer
industry has long believed there could be a small, low-cost device that
would please consumers and sell well.
The device would be more versatile than, say, an iPhone, but much
cheaper and more portable than, say, a ThinkPad. The trouble is, every
attempt to create such a category of computer has met with failure --
until now.
5:39Walt
Mossberg gives an overview of netbooks, |
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