To help you ease into the weekend, here are links to a few lighter stories that caught my attention this week. A two-headed lizard with sibling rivalry issues, applying deodorant to landfills, a water aerobics class disrupted by a crocodile, and more.
--Each year, asks a different person to create a cover image based on a capital A for the annual May. This years letter was grown in an immunology lab, using pollen cells. The folks over at Natures suggest a name for the new font: Cell-vetica.
-- Biologists have found a 安ith sibling rivalry issues: It eats from both heads, but apparently the head thats bigger has tried to attack the smaller one.
--Deodorant covers up body odor, so why not apply it to smelly landfills? Thats what Beijing is doing. After a dousing from the spraywhich is made from plant extractsthe rubbish is then covered with odour-eating sheets, the .
--Many people will use the flimsiest excuses to avoid exercising, but the women in an Australian water aerobics class merely waited for a ranger to collect the l before getting on with their training. [Photo: Benchill, Wikimedia Commons]
--Heres the description from a popular YouTube video posted on Monday, April 19: One squirrel lies dead in the road but his friend fights off the crows who come to eat him. Thats right, a squirrel drives off a murder of crows. Aw, sweet. Or is it? Given that squirrels are omnivores (check out this ), this critter might be protecting its meal, not its buddys body.
