Category Archives: Science and Environment

Food, Health & Medicine, Human Interest, Science and Environment

VEGETARIANS AND CATHOLICS STUNNED BY NEW RESEARCH CONFIRMING THAT PLANTS HAVE FEELINGS

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IMG_6326ST. LOUIS, Missouri (The Adobo Chronicles) – A new study from the University of Missouri confirms what botanists have long suspected: plants and vegetables have feelings just like humans and animals.

The research shows that plants can sense when they are being eaten and send out defense mechanisms to try to stop it from happening.

The study was carried out on thale cress, which is closely related to broccoli, kale, mustard greens, and other siblings of the brassica family and is popular for science experiments.

According to the research study, the thale cress produces mustard oils that are mildly toxic when eaten and sends them throughout its leaves to try to keep the predators away. The research also revealed that when the plants feel or hear “munching vibrations” from caterpillar and other plant-eating organisms, they send out extra mustard oils.

This new finding is greatly disturbing to vegans and vegetarians, most of whom practice this lifestyle because they cannot fathom the thought of animals being killed or butchered for food. “Now what alternative do we have if we can’t eat meat or vegetables,” said one practicing vegan living in San Francisco’s Haight District.

Meanwhile, Catholics around the globe are anxiously awaiting a pronouncement from Pope Francis, who, in just the last several weeks, said that all animals go to heaven.  The question they want answered by The Vatican is: do plants and vegetables go to heaven too?

 

 

Human Interest, Science and Environment

NEW SCIENTIFIC STUDY DEBUNKS ‘DUMB BLOND’ STEREOTYPE

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The new and improved blond Justin Bieber
The new and improved blond Justin Bieber

Palo Alto, California (The Adobo Chronicles) – A new study by a research team at Stanford University has identified the genetic triggers to hair color, specifically blond hair.

The new study published in Nature Genetics finds that a switch of a single letter of the genetic code is responsible for lighter hair: An A (adenine) is changed to a G (guanine) on a region of human chromosome 12. The team says that because this specific genetic change only affects the hair follicle, other cell types — especially, say, brain cells — are not affected. This means that blond hair really is “only skin deep.”

“It’s clear that this hair color change is occurring through a regulatory mechanism that operates only in the hair. This isn’t something that also affects other traits, like intelligence or personality, ” the study concluded.

The stereotype of blonds being dumb is therefore just that, a stereotype.

Except when your name is Justin Bieber — the new and improved blond Justin Bieber!

International, Politics, Science and Environment

MICHELE BACHMANN TO ENVIRONMENTALISTS: ‘WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?’

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Michele Bachmann
Michele Bachmann

Minneapolis, Minnesota (The Adobo Chronicles) – Republican Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann staged her strongest attack yet against environmentalists who claim that global warming is responsible for the recent weird changes in the world’s weather pattern.

“Global warming is a myth and has no basis in science,” Bachmann said. She used this week’s weather forecast in her home state to debunk claims that the world is getting warmer and warmer.

Acccording to weather forecasts, Minnesota wll experience an entire week beginning Tuesday of below freezing temperatures from below to mid 20’s (freezing temperatures begin at 32 degrees F).image

“How can environmentalists claim global warming when right here in my state, we are freezing,” Bachamann said.

Bachmann made the comments as international negotiators gathering in Lima, Peru for climate change talks have agreed on a plan to fight global warming that would for the first time commit all countries to cutting their greenhouse gas emissions.