This probably isn’t news to bats, but it is news to the people who study them: In response to sonar-guided attacking bats, some tiger moths make ultrasonic clicks of their own … Using ultrasonic recording and high-speed infrared videography of bat-moth interactions, we show that the palatable tiger moth Bertholdia trigona [shown, image source ] defends against attacking big brown bats (Eptesicus fuscus) using ultrasonic clicks that jam bat sonar. Sonar jamming extends the defensive repertoire available to prey in the long-standing evolutionary arms race between bats and insects
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Bat News: Not So Good
http://www.newsuc.com Debate Intensifies over Venezuela’s Proposed Same Sex Civil Union Law July 15th 2009, by James Suggett The public debate over a law proposal in the Venezuelan National Assembly (AN) that would legalize same-sex civil unions intensified this week, as Venezuela’s Episcopal Church publicly condemned the proposal, and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) activists responded. Gay Pride March in Caracas, Venezuela June 30th 2009 The proposed Law f
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Same Sex Civil Union Law debate intensified in socialist Venezuela
By RINKER BUCK, The Hartford CourantBaltimore Sun July 19, 2009Frank McCourt, the Irish-American storyteller who parlayed the miseries of a Limerick upbringing into an extraordinary late-life literary blooming, died of cancer Sunday in New York City.McCourt, 78, had spent the past 13 years buoyantly touring the globe on reading tours and writing two sequels to his 1996 best-seller, “Angela’s Ashes,” which sold more than 5 million copies and was translated into more than 20 languages.He had been
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‘Angela’s Ashes’ author Frank McCourt dies in New York
By RINKER BUCK, The Hartford Courant Baltimore Sun July 19, 2009 Frank McCourt, the Irish-American storyteller who parlayed the miseries of a Limerick upbringing into an extraordinary late-life literary blooming, died of cancer Sunday in New York City . McCourt, 78, had spent the past 13 years buoyantly touring the globe on reading tours and writing two sequels to his 1996 best-seller, “Angela’s Ashes,” which sold more than 5 million copies and was translated into more than 20 languages.
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‘Angela’s Ashes’ author Frank McCourt dies in New York
Last time we talked about the proponents of fruitfulness: Supplementing and Exercising your faith. Now we will deal with the traps of unfruitfulness.2 Pet 1:8-15 – The big idea is fruitfulness. God wants our lives to be fruitful and for us to enjoy our salvation.1:8 For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.2 enemies of fruitfulness: Laziness & Busyness.Lazy people don’t do enough, Busy p
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Fruitfulness, not Legalism Pt.3
So…my wife and I spent last week at church camp in Lancaster, Pa and returned home to southern New Jersey late Friday evening. 36 hours later we were up bright and early, starting the 10 hour trip down to Salyersville, Kentucky. After ministering to our youth group and about 150 other youth for a week, we are down here by ourselves cooking for 120 youth serving at a work camp put on by Christian Endeavor Mid-Atlantic’s subsidary group, Life Builders (CE is the same group who put on last week’s
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Roadtripping to Kentucky…
Yes, of course, they should allow atheists on Thought for the Day. But isn’t it curious that those who affect to despise religion seem so desperate to copy what the religious do? Why stop, however, with allowing atheists to occupy the few minutes in any day when the dull calculus of utilitarianism is set aside and we’re invited to think of eternal things
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Here’s a thought: let’s play devil’s advocate
Tamil nationalism needs to realise its potentialities and weaknesses in making it progressive, benevolent and an internationally recognised culture in the future world, writes Opinion Columnist Ampalam. The secular linguistic identity of Tamil nationalism, based on a classical language in which more than two millennia of human experience and discourses both spiritual and temporal are recorded, …
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Sri Lanka: Castes, religions and Eezham Tamil nationalism (TamilNet)
One of the hardest things that journalists have to do, from time to time, is cover controversial stories when they can only get voices on one side of the fight to talk on the record. Normally, one camp is seeking coverage and the other is trying to avoid it. Now, the only thing harder than that is to cover a hot story when no one will speak on the record — on either side
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What’s going on in Antioch?
From 1964 to 1968, the British Walkers were one of DC’s top rock bands. They played many nights a week at the Roundtable in Georgetown, released a number of singles, and did some shows in England. Now, due to the efforts of longtime local rockabilly/roots rocker Billy Hancock , they have reunited decades later for some gigs and will be at tiny JV’s in Falls Church for two sold-out shows Sunday and Monday. Led by singer Bobby (also spelled Bobbie) Howard, the group played Motown and
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Reunited DC Moptop Rockers, the British Walkers