Today's Topics:
dated but relevent
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From: "Melissa N. Matusevich" <mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu>
Message-Id: <9304131513.AA07752@radford.vak12ed.edu>
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To: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 11:13:38 EDT
Arrrrrgh! I almost fainted reading that article. I am quite
squeamish and am trying to recover!
Last year I read an article on self-abortions. I was lying on
my bed at the time and I passed out cold. Please do not send me
any more of this medical "stuff." I can not stop my compulsive
self from reading anything you send me.
Crawling to the bathroom,
m
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mmatusev@radford.vak12ed.edu
"After a time you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing
after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true."
Spock to Stonn
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 93 18:04:03 EDT
From: gumby@cygnus.com
Message-Id: <9304132204.AA06873@tweedledumb.cygnus.com>
To: phy6jem@sun.leeds.ac.uk
Cc: Subgenius@mc.lcs.mit.edu, eichin@cygnus.com
In-Reply-To: <3605.9303221652@sun017.leeds.ac.uk.sun.leeds.ac.uk>
Subject: dated but relevent
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 93 16:52:23 GMT
From: phy6jem@sun.leeds.ac.uk
Kriedel managed to impart a
sort of magnetic sensitivity to crawfish. He noticed that young crawfish
poked tiny pebbles into their auditory organs, which tended to weigh on
the sensitive hair comprising a component part of their balancing organ.
The human ear also has similar pebbles or stones called otoliths.
It took me a little while to dig this up, but clearly these folks
should be talking:
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 92 16:45:51 PST
From: david d `zoo' zuhn <zoo@cygnus.com>
EVERETT, WASHINGTON, U.S.A., 1992 DEC 18 (NB) -- The Washington
State Department of Fisheries and Intermec have figured out a
clever way to bar code fish in hatcheries so their origin can
be traced. By identifying the fish, researchers hope to be able
to get better information on pollution, habitat damage, and
survival rates.
The method doesn't involve any handling of the fish, but is
done in the hatchery during the embryo state of Salmon. A
calcified element in the ear of fish, called an otolith, shows
daily growth rings. By slightly lowering and raising the
incubation water temperature for brief periods over 14 days,
Intermec has been able to produce in the otolith rings in an
Interleaved 2 of 5 bar code, representing the digit "6," on two
million salmon raised in the Cowlitz Hatchery in Washington
state.
The Interleaved 2 of 5 code was chosen because its more easily
visible to the human eye.
One digit isn't enough, however, and tests are currently being
done with 10 different incubation environments being used to
encode 10 different digits. Intermec says the technique could
be refined so it could be used to uniquely identify fish from
every hatchery, and even sub units of hatcheries.
Intermec, a division of Litton Industrial Automation, says it
has bar coded other animals including, bees and moths. The
company says its business is data collection hardware,
software, systems, services, and supplies.
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