/sci/ - Science & Math

"Things inch further towards real science with Mould's concise explanation of the curious, microscopic parasite Toxoplasma gondii. This organism can infect any mammal but only sexually reproduce inside cats. So it has evolved to infect the brains of rats and mice, where it makes them reckless. Why? That makes the rodents more likely to be eaten by cats, allowing the virus to reproduce. Mould knows his stuff: When an audience member raises a latex glove to ask whether the parasite has ever been tested on people, Mould answers that while that would be unethical, some scientists believe that human infection could contribute to schizophrenia. "

>That makes the rodents more likely to be eaten by cats, allowing the virus to reproduce.

>toxoplasma gondii virus
>allowing a virus to reproduce.
trolololol

newscientists epic fail

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/06/festival-of-the-spoken-nerd-entrances-geeks-of-
london.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

WTF /sci/

they just fucking discovered a new force at fermilabs that revolutionises the field of physics and overturns the standard model and no thread discussing it on the first page!

So implications, how many man hours were wasted on the standard model?

anybody believe that 99.9000% is just a fluke and dismiss it (i.e. first stage of grief of the standard model)

Any physcisit able to tell us more abouth this technicolour force and its implications.

DIscuss! also I got an instaboner from all the sceintific revelations.