Science Buzz Lunch in Building 2, May 14th, 2012

Science Buzz Lunch in Building 2, May 14th, 2012

Topics discussed included:

1) Safe ways to view the upcoming solar eclipse on May 21st, including special glasses and projections though a pinhole

2) A science opinion piece stating that people usually work to protect beautiful or cute species, which is not the the criterion we should be using to protect biodiversity

3) A newspaper article published yesterday reporting that the order in which multiple roosters in a flock crow successively in the morning is correlated with their social rank in the flock

4) Experiments to study how the spacing of sponge spicules is determined

5) The repertoire of words a pet 8-year-old parakeet can say now. He used to be able to say far more words when he was younger....  

6) A recent paper about unexpected features of Drosophila circadian rhythms under natural conditions (in contrast to the features under laboratory conditions)

7) Good websites for listening to the voices and other sounds (wing beats, etc.) of birds

Please join us next Monday if you can!