Who would have thought that Paris Hilton can actually reduce pain?
Male mice, at any rate, as Canadian scientists have found out, apparently react to the presence of people – or even just photos of people, including one of Paris Hilton in the tests – with stress, because they seem to see them as a threat (similar to cats), which reduces pain.
Female mice, however, do not react that way. (What might my female readers think of that…?
Source: ScienceNOW (via Wissenschaft.de)
To be marveled at in this Flash animation of the WDCS = Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society.
Luckily, you don’t get all 44032×14848 pixels at once, but only a small detail at a time, whose tiles are loaded dynamically. In total, for a typical monitor resolution of 96 dpi, this results in a picture with a total length of 11,65 meters – a little small for a Blue Whale who has, according to Wikipedia, an average length of 26m, but still remarkable and – if it’s a smaller, younger animal – quite life-sized…
(via admartinator.de)
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