Archive for January, 2009

Talk about herd mentality. When it comes to doing everything together, cows have just about everyone beat. From sleeping and eating to huddling together when it rains, cattle cope through their day-to-day activities as, well, a herd. But now it seems they do all of these things facing in the same direction. Images from Google Earth have confirmed that cattle tend to align their bodies in the magnetic north-south direction, leading researchers to believe that they have an internal magnetic compas…

When disaster strikes, the effects from the aftermath can be just as devastating — if not more so — as the initial event itself. Just think of the thousands of people who needed help for weeks after Hurricane Katrina hit a few years ago. A new study in the most recent edition of the journal Biosecurity and Bioterrorism reports that truckers and utility workers would be crucial in the aftermath of a flu pandemic and simply cannot be overlooked for top priority treatment. “It ta…

When Cynthia Morgan moved from the back of the bike to handling her own hog in the summer of 2007, she was embracing a dream and immediately knew she had found a true passion. But when she decided to go to the annual Sturgis, S.D., motorcycle rally, she knew she had to be smart about it. In 2004, Morgan was living and working in Kuwait and Iraq and was woken up from her sleep by an attacker. Though it was an incident that would force many women to retreat from life, Morgan was not going to let …