======================================================================
The ScanSnap Network fi-6010N document iScanner:
Easy to manage for any size network. The ScanSnap iScanner plugs
right onto your network and touch screen buttons allows paperwork
to be sent directly to an email, folder, FTP or network fax or printer.
Get more info at ��
http://p.sf.net/sfu/fujitsu-news======================================================================
Slashdot Daily Newsletter
In this issue:
* Why Apple Is So Sticky
* Cutting Through the 4G Hype
* UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range
* Where Do You Go When Google Locks You Out?
* Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller
* Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List Released
* Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page
* Clickjacking Worm Exploits Facebook "Like" Feature
* New Sony OLED Display Can Roll Into Cylinder
* Breakthrough In Stem Cell Culturing
* Asus Joins Tablet PC Race
* Ancient Cave Art May Depict Giant Bird Extinct For 40,000 Years
* Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues
* Foxconn Workers Getting Raise With Apple Subsidies
* Publishers Campaign For Universal E-Book Format
* Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed
* The Life of a South Korean Pro Gamer
* Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Why Apple Is So Sticky |
| from the it's-the-candy-dip dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday May 30, @20:52 (Businesses) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/30/207243/Why-Apple-Is-So-Sticky |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]Hugh Pickens writes "'Sticky,' in the social sciences and particularly
economics, describes [1]a situation in which a variable is resistant to
change. For websites or products it usually means that visitors or
customers keep coming back for more. Now Fortune Magazine reports on an
analysis by Deutsche Bank's Chris Whitmore on what makes the
(iTunes-based) iPhone-iPod-iPad platform so sticky and why it's [2]going
to get harder, not easier, for Apple users to switch, no matter what
Google and the rest of Apple's competitors have up their sleeves.
Whitmore says the investment Apple's customers have made in content for
those devices in terms of apps, videos, and music purchased at the iTunes
Store creates Apple's 'stickiness.' Apple has an installed base today of
about 150 million iTunes-dependent devices that could grow to more than
200 million by the end of 2011. Whitmore comes up with a cumulative
investment in those devices of about $15 billion today, growing to $25
billion by the end of next year. 'This averages to ~$100 of content for
each installed device,' Whitmore writes, 'suggesting switching costs are
relatively high (not to mention the time required to port). When Apple's
best-in-class user experience is combined with these growing switching
costs, the resulting customer loyalty is unparalleled.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/30/207243
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/slashdot/
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_(economics)
2. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/05/29/what-makes-apple-so-sticky/
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Cutting Through the 4G Hype |
| from the sitting-out-a-generation dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Sunday May 30, @22:58 (Cellphones) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/0140247/Cutting-Through-the-4G-Hype |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
crimeandpunishment writes "Cell phone companies are about to bombard us
with advertising for the next big thing ��� 4G access. The first 4G phone,
Sprint Nextel's EVO, comes out this week. But just how big a deal is 4G?
Is it fast enough to warrant the hype, or are consumers better off
waiting a while? AP technology writer Peter Svensson looks at the
[0]differences between 4G and 3G technologies."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/0140247
Links:
0. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g-9J1V_QON7EkHyfAv96mxHNuPAgD9G19JI00
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| UK Students Build Electric Car With 248-Mile Range |
| from the helmets-and-goggles dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 31, @02:06 (Power) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/0211246/UK-Students-Build-Electric-Car-With-24|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
da_how writes "A group of students and graduates at Imperial College
London have built an electric car with a massive range ��� [0]248+ miles on
a charge at 'reasonable' highway speeds (60 mph). They did this by
filling the car to the absolute max with as many lithium iron phosphate
batteries as possible ��� 56 kWh ��� and designing a very efficient direct
drive powertrain, about 90% batteries-to-wheels at highway speeds. The
choice of vehicle is an interesting one: it's a converted Radical SR8 ��� a
track racing car with a speed record on the Nurburgring. Not an obvious
contender for an endurance vehicle (no windscreen either!) ��� but then
they claim it's lightweight to start with, being constructed of steel
space frame and glass fiber. Also, Radical is based in the UK and
provided some help and sponsorship. The students plan to drive their
'SRZero' 15,000 miles down the Pan American Highway, beginning July 8 in
Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, and ending up in Tierra Del Fuego three month later.
That's about 60 charges."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/0211246
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/autopia/2010/05/racing-green-endurance-srzero/
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Where Do You Go When Google Locks You Out? |
| from the invisible-man dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 31, @05:11 (Censorship) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/0151202/Where-Do-You-Go-When-Google-Locks-You-Out |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Lobais sends in the cautionary tale of a man who was [0]locked out of
Google Groups for three years ��� losing the ability to administer his own
open source project in the process. "After about a year of using Google
Groups for the PyChess project, I started [noticing] a problem. When I
wrote mails to the list, no one would answer. And when I answered other
peoples' post[s], they seamed to ignore them and press for new answers.
As I tried to check the online group to see what was happening, I got a
403 Forbidden error. After a short while I realized that this error was
given for any page on the groups.google.com subdomain. The lockout meant
that I was unable to manage the PyChess mailing list. I was unable to
fight increasing spam level, and more importantly I couldn't reply to
anybody in my community. I wasn't even able to visit the Google help
forums, which are all on groups.google.com. As the services are free of
charge, I never really expected any support options. ... How can we know
how often this kind of thing happens? If any admin can lock you out by a
sloppy click, and give you no option to defend yourself, then it is bound
to happen once in a while."
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/0151202
Links:
0. http://lobais.blogspot.com/2010/05/when-google-locked-door.html
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Acupuncture May Trigger a Natural Painkiller |
| from the just-pull-the-thorn dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 31, @08:18 (Medicine) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/0125223/Acupuncture-May-Trigger-a-Natural-Paink|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]Pickens writes "USNWR is reporting that the needle pricks involved in
acupuncture may help relieve pain by [1]triggering the natural
painkilling chemical adenosine. There are also indications that
acupuncture's effectiveness can be enhanced by coupling the process with
a well-known cancer drug ��� deoxycoformycin ��� that maintains adenosine
levels longer than usual. Dr. Maiken Nedergaard of the University of
Rochester Medical Center and her colleagues administered half-hour
acupuncture treatments to a group of mice with paw discomfort. The
investigators found adenosine levels in tissue near the needle insertion
points was 24 times greater after treatment, and those mice with normal
adenosine function experienced a two-thirds drop in paw pain. By
contrast, mice that were genetically engineered to have no adenosine
function gained no benefit from the treatment." Read below for some
acupuncture skepticism engendered by other recent studies.
This story continues at:
https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/0125223/Acupuncture-May-Trigger-a-Natural-Painkiller
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/0125223
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/pain/articles/2010/05/30/acupuncture-may-trigger-natural-painkiller.html
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Latest Top 500 Supercomputer List Released |
| from the children-of-the-cray dept. |
| posted by StoneLion on Monday May 31, @09:23 (Supercomputing) |
| https://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/1225229/Latest-Top-500-Supercomputer-List-Released|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
chrb writes "BBC News is reporting on the release of the [0]June 2010 Top
500 Supercomputer list. Notable changes include a second Chinese
supercomputer in the top ten. A [1]graphical display enables viewing of
the supercomputer list by speed, operating system, application, country,
processor, and manufacturer."
Discuss this story at:
http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/1225229
Links:
0. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10181725.stm
1. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/10187248.stm
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Pakistan Lifts Ban After Facebook Deletes Offending Page |
| from the never-again-until-the-next-time dept. |
| posted by StoneLion on Monday May 31, @10:32 (Censorship) |
| https://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/1245202/Pakistan-Lifts-Ban-After-Facebook-Deletes-O|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
crimeandpunishment writes "[0]Facebook is back in Pakistan today. A day
after [1]Bangladesh banned the social networking site, the Pakistani
government lifted its ban after officials from Facebook apologized for
the 'Everybody Draw Mohammed Day' page and removed it from the site. The
page caused outrage and protests among Pakistan's Muslim population, and
led to the ban two weeks ago. A spokesman for Pakistan's office of
information technology said Facebook assured the government 'nothing of
this sort will happen in the future.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/1245202
Links:
0. http://skunkpost.com/news.sp?newsId=2504
1. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/30/2127234/Bangladesh-Blocks-Facebook-Over-Muhammad-Cartoons
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Clickjacking Worm Exploits Facebook "Like" Feature |
| from the it's-no-robert-morris dept. |
| posted by StoneLion on Monday May 31, @11:17 (Security) |
| https://it.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/1517232/Clickjacking-Worm-Exploits-Facebook-Like-Fea|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
An anonymous reader writes "For the last 24 hours, a series of attacks
have [0]exploited Facebook's 'Like' feature through a clickjacking
vulnerability. Using subjects such as 'This Girl Has An Interesting Way
Of Eating A Banana, Check It Out!' hackers have spread an attack that
links to web pages that use invisible iFrames to trick users into saying
they like the content. Users are presented with a innocent-seeming web
page that says 'Click here to continue,' but clicking at any point on the
page publishes the same message to their own Facebook page. Security
blogger Graham Cluley says that hundreds of thousands of Facebook users
have been hit, and offers advice on how to clean up affected Facebook
profiles.
Discuss this story at:
http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/1517232
Links:
0. http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2010/05/31/viral-clickjacking-like-worm-hits-facebook-users/
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| New Sony OLED Display Can Roll Into Cylinder |
| from the still-can't-spindle-or-mutilate dept. |
| posted by StoneLion on Monday May 31, @11:59 (Displays) |
| https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/1351210/New-Sony-OLED-Display-Can-Roll-Into-Cy|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Anarki2004 writes "Sony recently debuted its latest in OLED technology: a
4.1-inch screen that's only 80 microns thick. The super-flexible
[0]display can roll up into a cylinder just 4mm in diameter while still
showing moving images at 432��240 resolution. Instead of brittle
integrated circuit chips, the screen has an on-panel gate-driven circuit
��� a world first, according to Sony. That innovation would allow
everything but the power supply to roll and flex in applications."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/1351210
Links:
0. http://singularityhub.com/2010/05/29/sonys-new-flexible-oled-display-can-roll-into-tiny-cylinder-while-playing-video
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Breakthrough In Stem Cell Culturing |
| from the stem-celebration dept. |
| posted by StoneLion on Monday May 31, @12:46 (Biotech) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/1410229/Breakthrough-In-Stem-Cell-Culturing |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Science Daily reports that for the first time, [0]human embryonic stem
cells have been cultured under chemically controlled conditions without
the use of animal substances, which is essential for future clinical
uses. "Now, for the first time, we can produce large quantities of human
embryonic stem cells in an environment that is completely chemically
defined," says professor Karl Tryggvason, who led the study at Sweden's
Karolinska Institutet. "This opens up new opportunities for developing
different types of cells which can then be tested for the treatment of
disease."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/1410229
Links:
0. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100531082905.htm
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Asus Joins Tablet PC Race |
| from the aiming-for-a-piece-of-the-apple-pie dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday May 31, @13:37 (Handhelds) |
| https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/1657218/Asus-Joins-Tablet-PC-Race |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
WrongSizeGlass writes "Reuters is reporting that netbook pioneer Asustek
Computer Inc. has become the latest technology company to [0]jump on the
tablet PC bandwagon. The device [1]will be called the Eee Pad, will run
on Intel or ARM chips, and use Microsoft's Windows operating system. 'The
Eee Pad can display Adobe Flash for the full web experience, has a USB
port and a camera,' Asus Chairman Jonney Shih said. Asus did not release
pricing details or a potential release date, and did not provide further
details on the format or a launch date for the new app store."
Discuss this story at:
http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/1657218
Links:
0. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTOE64U05Q20100531
1. http://www.slashgear.com/asus-eee-pad-ep101tc-ep121-and-eee-tablet-get-official-3187644/
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Ancient Cave Art May Depict Giant Bird Extinct For 40,000 Years |
| from the was-its-best-friend-a-wooly-mammoth dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday May 31, @14:27 (Australia) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/178239/Ancient-Cave-Art-May-Depict-Giant-Bird-E|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
grrlscientist writes "Recently studied Australian Aboriginal rock art may
[0]depict a giant bird that is thought to have become extinct some 40,000
years ago, thereby making it the oldest rock painting on the island
continent. The red ochre drawing was first discovered two years ago, but
archaeologists were only able to confirm the finding two weeks ago, when
they first visited the remote site on the Arnhem Land plateau in north
Australia. 'Genyornis was a giant flightless bird that was taller and
heavier than either the ostrich or emu. It had powerful legs and tiny
wings, and probably closely resembled ducks and geese, its closest living
relatives. ... Interestingly, Genyornis bones have been excavated in
association with human artifacts in Cuddie Springs in the Australian
state of New South Wales. It is likely that humans lived alongside these
birds, and some scientists think that humans may have contributed to
their extinction." Jamie recalled that in the essay "A Lesson from the
Old Masters," in the volume [1]Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet
of Worms, Stephen Jay Gould thanks our ancestors who drew Irish Elk on
cave walls for "providing the only possible evidence for a hump that
would otherwise have disappeared into the maw of lost history."
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/178239
Links:
0. http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/05/australian_aboriginal_rock_art.php
1. http://www.amazon.com/Leonardos-Mountain-Clams-Diet-Worms/dp/B00013AX7G/ref=sr_1_1
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues |
| from the america-amazes-me-sometimes dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday May 31, @15:15 (Google) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/1742203/Pedestrian-Follows-Google-Map-Gets-Run-Ove|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
[0]Hugh Pickens writes "The Toronto Star reports that a Utah woman is
suing Google for more than $100,000 in damages, claiming its maps
function [1]gave her walking directions that led her onto a major highway,
where she was struck by a car. Lauren Rosenberg sought directions between
two addresses in Utah about 3 kilometers apart and the top result
suggested that she follow a busy rural highway for several hundred
meters. The highway did not have sidewalks or any other
pedestrian-friendly amenities, and Rosenberg was struck by a car.
Rosenberg filed suit against both the driver of the car that struck her
and Google, claiming both carried responsibility in her injury. Her
lawyers claim Google is liable because it did not warn her that the route
would not offer a safe place for a pedestrian to walk. Google has pointed
out that the directions Rosenberg sought [2]come with a warning of
caution for pedestrians, but Rosenberg claims that she accessed the Maps
function on her Blackberry mobile device, where it did not include the
warning."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/1742203
Links:
0. http://hughpickens.com/
1. http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/816724--woman-who-walked-onto-highway-sues-google-maps
2. http://searchengineland.com/woman-follows-google-maps-walking-directions-gets-hit-sues-43212
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Foxconn Workers Getting Raise With Apple Subsidies |
| from the damage-control dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday May 31, @16:08 (Businesses) |
| https://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/1939257/Foxconn-Workers-Getting-Raise-With-Apple-|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
hackingbear writes "Workers at Taiwanese electronic outsourcing
manufacturer Foxconn are [0]getting a pay raise after a series of 13
suicides, including three in three consecutive days. According to an
article by state-run newspaper China Daily, Apple concluded that the main
cause of the suicides is low wages. (The media has also [1]attributed the
suicides to [2]a variety of other factors ��� everything from the
semi-military style of management, to long overtime, to China's one-child
policy, and Foxconn paying too much compensation to the family of suicide
workers, thereby encouraging copycat suicides.) Apple plans to
[3]subsidize raises using its own products (Google translation;
[4]Chinese original here) ��� the first one being the iPad. This would
raise the outsourcing cost from 2.3% to 3% of the iPad's sales price. The
article does not say the amount of the raise per worker, but it is
rumored to be about 20%, according to other Chinese news sources."
Discuss this story at:
http://apple.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/1939257
Links:
0. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/foxconn-reportedly-boosting-wages-in-china-by-20-2010-05-28?reflink=MW_news_stmp
1. http://taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2010/05/31/2003474306
2. http://www.osnews.com/story/23359/The_Foxconn_Suicides
3. http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fdailynews.sina.com%2Fbg%2Fchn%2Fchnoverseamedia%2Fchinesedaily%2F20100531%2F00011486944.html&sl=zh-CN&tl=en
4. http://dailynews.sina.com/bg/chn/chnoverseamedia/chinesedaily/20100531/00011486944.html
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Publishers Campaign For Universal E-Book Format |
| from the they-also-want-a-pony dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday May 31, @16:59 (Books) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/2031202/Publishers-Campaign-For-Universal-E-Book-F|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
As the battle rages for control of the e-book market, publishers are
[0]starting to unite behind a common desire: a universal e-book format.
David Shanks, chief executive at Penguin Group USA, said, "Our fondest
wish is that all the devices become agnostic so that there isn���t
proprietary formats and you can read wherever you want to read. First we
have to get a standard that everybody embraces." The company's president,
Susan Petersen Kennedy, explained that book publishers did not want to
"make the same mistakes as the music industry, which had an epic struggle
over electronic distribution and piracy and lost huge market share."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/2031202
Links:
0. http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/universal-e-books-format/all/1
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Chameleon-Like Behavior of Neutrino Confirmed |
| from the yes,-neutrinos-eat-bugs dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday May 31, @17:46 (Science) |
| https://science.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/2053220/Chameleon-Like-Behavior-of-Neutrino-Con|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Anonymous Apcoheur writes "Scientists from CERN and INFN of the [0]OPERA
Collaboration have announced [1]the first direct observation of a muon
neutrino turning into a tau neutrino. 'The OPERA result follows seven
years of preparation and over three years of beam provided by CERN.
During that time, billions of billions of muon-neutrinos have been sent
from CERN to Gran Sasso, taking just 2.4 milliseconds to make the trip.
The rarity of neutrino oscillation, coupled with the fact that neutrinos
interact very weakly with matter, makes this kind of experiment extremely
subtle to conduct. ... While closing a chapter on understanding the
nature of neutrinos, the observation of neutrino oscillations is strong
evidence for new physics. The Standard Model of fundamental particles
posits no mass for the neutrino. For them to be able to oscillate,
however, they must have mass.'"
Discuss this story at:
http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/2053220
Links:
0. http://operaweb.lngs.infn.it/
1. http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2010/PR08.10E.html
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| The Life of a South Korean Pro Gamer |
| from the zerg-or-be-zerged dept. |
| posted by Soulskill on Monday May 31, @18:47 (PC Games (Games)) |
| https://games.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/215231/The-Life-of-a-South-Korean-Pro-Gamer |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
chajath writes with this excerpt from a South Korean newspaper about
[0]the lives of professional StarCraft players: "Prospective gamers take
tests based on the skills they have picked up in PC rooms, and passing
scores allow them entry into 'clans,' or guilds. Those who aspire to
become pro gamers pay move-in fees and go to live at group dormitories,
where they practice playing games all day long. Following a 'courage
match' for semi-pro certification, the hopefuls must take a test to
become apprentices in a pro-gaming group. ... 'The standard in pro gaming
groups is for people to live together 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,
with no traveling to or from work, and for those ranked Group 2 or lower,
their entire daily routine consists of eating, cleaning, laundry, and
games,' said Kim Jeong-geun. 'Because of this structure of bringing in
young people, developing them, and then replacing them when their
lifespan is spent and they have been squeezed dry, it has earned the name
of "the chicken coop."'"
Discuss this story at:
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/215231
Links:
0. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/423150.html
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Study Claims Cellphones Implicated In Bee Loss |
| from the can-you-hear-me-now-wait-where-am-i dept. |
| posted by kdawson on Monday May 31, @19:56 (Earth) |
| https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/05/31/2228201/Study-Claims-Cellphones-Implicated-In-Bee-|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
krou passes along word from Telegraph.co.uk that researchers from
Chandigarh's Punjab University claim that they have [0]proven mobile
phones could explain Colony Collapse Disorder. "They set up a controlled
experiment in Punjab earlier this year comparing the behavior and
productivity of bees in two hives ��� one fitted with two mobile telephones
which were powered on for two 15-minute sessions per day for three
months. The other had dummy models installed. After three months the
researchers recorded a dramatic decline in the size of the hive fitted
with the mobile phone, a significant reduction in the number of eggs laid
by the queen bee. The bees also stopped producing honey. The queen bee in
the 'mobile' hive produced fewer than half of those created by her
counterpart in the normal hive. They also found a dramatic decline in the
number of worker bees returning to the hive after collecting pollen."
We've [1]talked about the [2]honeybee problem before. Today's article
quotes a British bee specialist who dismisses talk of cellphone radiation
having anything to do with the problem.
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/05/31/2228201
Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildlife/7778401/Mobile-phones-responsible-for-disappearance-of-honey-bee.html
1. http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/02/27/179237/Vanishing-Honeybees-Will-Affect-Future-Crops
2. http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/04/24/214230/Scientists-Isolate-and-Treat-Parasite-Causing-Decline-in-Honey-Bee-Population
Copyright 1997-2009 Geeknet, Inc.. All rights reserved.
======================================================================
You have received this message because you subscribed to it
on Slashdot. To stop receiving this and other
messages from Slashdot, or to add more messages
or change your preferences, please go to your user page.
http://slashdot.org/my/messages
You can log in and change your preferences from there.
