Two dolphins carrying cameras swam in the ocean as they searched for and marked mine simulators - buried, proud or moored. As the animals swam ahead of a boat they searched the ocean. Cameras on their harness recorded continuous sound and video. Once a target was detected, the dolphins received a marker to take to the simulator's location. During search and detection, dolphins made almost conti...

There has been a terrifying ‘logic’ to the protracted civil war in Sri Lanka which came to its very sad conclusion in the third week of May 2009. It is easy to understand why people living in Colombo and the south-western part of Sri Lanka felt very relieved and even enthused by the brutal crushing of the Tamil Tiger after twenty-six years of insecurity and conflict. However, any sense of victo...

The aim of this experiment was to test whether lipectomy (LIPX)-induced decreases in body fat affect appetitive (foraging effort and food hoarding) or consummatory (food intake) ingestive behaviors and whether the effects of LIPX on these behaviors is affected by changes in energy expenditure produced by varying the amount of work required to obtain food. This was accomplished by housing male S...

Geographers have a long history of contributing to basic, use-inspired, and applied research on one of the greatest challenges humanity has ever faced: global climate change. Their contributions cut across all the major traditions and subfields within geography, have aimed at a variety of scales, and have connected to the scholarship of other disciplines. Building on these past accomplishments,...

This history of anesthesia is the first of a projected series in the history of the sciences to be published by Henry Schuman and is some 338 pages in length including a limited and somewhat casually selected bibliography which is briefly annotated, and an excellent index. The author, Victor Robinson, who occupies the chair of the History of Medicine at Temple University, is well known for his ...