Weird Science Roundup: Toxic Sofas, Ghost Twitterers, and Death Balls from Space!

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Yee-haw! It’s the blog roundup.Plants can twitter, but it seems celebrities can’t—not on their own, anyway.

Toxic sofas, after being shipped from China with packets of a harmful mold-inhibitor, caused extreme skin rashes and burns on at least 1,600—and possibly tens of thousands not yet identified—people in England.

• Science education is under assault in Texas.

• In another move of, weirdly, putting animals on birth control, China is putting gerbils on the pill.

Daddy long-legs are threatened by climate change, a gorilla suffered a seizure and was given an MRI, and a campaign helps endangered species by enlisting clothing brands to save their namesakes: Lacoste to the crocodiles’ rescue!

• Also, we’re doomed.

March 27th, 2009 5:06 PM Tags: , , ,
by Rachel Cernansky in Blog Roundup, Contraceptives for Everyone/thing | 0 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

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