“Bradypus tridactylus is characterized by its excessively slow locomotion. It would take nearly a month for this animal to travel a single mile. The three-toed sloth sleeps 19 hours a day, hanging upside down from the branches. It also eats, mates, and gives birth in the canopy; all of these activities it performs quietly.During the rare times it drops to the ground, it moves by dragging itself by its hands. The sloth can stand on its feet, but cannot walk on them. Surprisingly though, the three-toed sloth is an excellent swimmer.”

Bradypus Tridactylus@Animal Diversity
Fotos@Animal Diversity
Pale-Throated Three-Toed Sloth@Mammal Scoop

The mountain pygmy-possum was thought to be extinct, but was discovered as a living animal in 1966. Restricted to the high country of Victoria and New South Wales, it is the only alpine dependent mammal in Australia and the only marsupial that hibernates.

Lirón@AnimalInfo.org

“IT IS beginning to dawn on biologists that they may have got it wrong. Not completely wrong, but wrong enough to be embarrassing. For half a century their subject had been built around the relation between two sorts of chemical. Proteins, in the form of enzymes, hormones and so on, made things happen. DNA, in the form of genes, contained the instructions for making proteins. Other molecules were involved, of course. Sugars and fats were abundant (too abundant, in some people). And various vitamins and minerals made an appearance, as well. Oh, and there was also a curious chemical called RNA, which looked a bit like DNA but wasn’t.It obediently carried genetic information from DNA in the nucleus to the places in the cell where proteins are made, rounded up the amino-acid units out of which those proteins are constructed, and was found in the protein factories themselves.” Link@economist.com

“Felt is one of those groups who, despite their musical talent,never managed to obtain the success they deserved and remain today unfairly underestimated. Yet they can claim to have influenced indie pop and to have invented a specific sound.Contrary to a lot of groups, the guitars don’t just make a noise in the background but have a leading melodic role . . .” Aurore Bacmann

Felt – The Day The Rain Came Down(mp3)
Ignite The Seven Cannons
Cherry Red Records – 1985
Cómprenlo@waterloorecords

With the Space Shuttle Atlantis scheduled to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday, skywatchers across much of the United States and southern Canada are in for a real treat on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.

Should weather conditions permit to offer clear skies, there will be a few opportunities to see both the Atlantis orbiter and the ISS flying across the sky from many locations. The sight should easily be visible to anyone, even from brightly-lit cities.

ISS passes in Monterrey

“Tofu , also called “bean curd,” is a fresh, cheese-like product made by curdling soymilk; it is sold in ready-to-eat cakes. Yet in a broader sense, tofu refers to an entire family of foods including silken tofu, deep-fried tofu burgers, cutlets and pouches, firm and pressed tofu, grilled and smoked tofu, and frozen and dried-frozen tofu.Tofu has long been the most widely used soyfood in the world. In East Asia it has much the same importance that meat, milk, and cheese have for people in Western countries.” Historia del Tofu@soyinfocenter.com

“In 1988, I sailed away from the West coast of the United States in a 31-foot sailboat. This is my story — my account of a 3 1/2-year around the world solo sail. Please don’t picture a world explorer, born to adventure, native to sun and wind — no way. I sunburn so easily that if I lose my hat I begin to cower like Dracula.” P. Lutus

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BERLIN (Reuters) – A rare and aggressive ninja squirrel attacked and injured three people in a German town before a 72-year-old pensioner dispatched the rampaging animal with his crutch.

The squirrel first ran into a house in the southern town of Passau, leapt from behind on a 70-year-old woman, and sank its teeth into her hand, a local police spokesman said Thursday.

With the squirrel still hanging from her hand, the woman ran onto the street in panic, where she managed to shake it off.

The animal then entered a building site and jumped on a construction worker, injuring him on the hand and arm, before he managed to fight it off with a measuring pole. “After that, the squirrel went into the 72-year-old man’s garden and massively attacked him on the arms, hand and thigh,” the spokesman said. “Then he killed it with his crutch.”

The spokesman said experts thought the attack may have been linked to the mating season or because the squirrel was ill.