Circus of the Spineless #9 at Burning Silo

Circus of the Spineless is a collection of online articles about invertebrates. This is the mystery version…

Nicotine hooks children with first puff

There’s a reason that cigarette companies advertise around schools in spite of their guidelines not to. Get ‘em young and you’ve got ‘em for life. Recent research shows that children who try a single cigarette at age 11 are twice as likely to be smoking by the time they are 14, regardless of other factors.
—from the U.S. Discovery Channel Web site

Fermilab

Take a look at what a major laboratory is up to.

Vertebrate Evolution Conference 2006

The vertebrate evolution conference is a presentation of research findings, methodologies, new species, and nifty fossils: be there or be a tetrapod! Oh, wait—we are tetrapods.

World Health Director-General, Lee Jong-wook, dies

The highly respected Director-General of the World Health Organization died on Monday after a stroke on Saturday. He was active in his job until the previous Friday. More than one thousand people attended his funeral.

The head of Dr. Lee’s office, Bill Kean, told the mourners at yesterday’s ceremony,“One of the last things he did was, on Friday night, to rush out and buy a take-away Chinese meal for two staff who were working late.”