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Mosquitos: What’s not to hate?

by 1389AD ( 26 Comments › )
Filed under Medicine at June 10th, 2014 - 8:00 am

3 Reasons Mosquitoes Suck

Published on Jun 3, 2014 by SciShow
Hank gives you at least three reasons to like mosquitoes even less than you do already, and tells you how you can literally decrease world suck by fighting mosquito-borne disease.
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Sources:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/why-some-people-are-more-prone-to-mosquito-bites-than-others/2013/07/22/0d46035c-ee34-11e2-a1f9-ea873b7e0424_story.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/14-not-so-fun-facts-about-mosquitoes-36242998/?no-ist
http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/10-things-you-didnt-know-about-mosquitoes
http://www.mosquito.org/mosquito-borne-diseases
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html

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If only…

by 1389AD ( 249 Comments › )
Filed under Humor, Open thread at September 3rd, 2010 - 9:30 pm

Sign says 'MISQUITO SPAYING'

Steady hand required

Location: Wild Dunes Resort, Charleston
Spotted by: Charlie Aikman

The idea of spaying an entire population of female mosquitos to keep them from breeding is funny. One would have to trap them, put each one under a microscope… Alternatively, one could come up with a science fiction scenario involving a very sophisticated, robust, and carefully targeted implementation of self-replicating nanotechnology in the form of tiny flying robots that would somehow target female mosquitos. But that would cause all sorts of worries about the flying anti-mosquito nanobots going rogue.

We can only wish that there were a more effective way to get rid of those pesky biting mosquitos once and for all. They carry an enormous variety of diseases and the human race would arguably be much better off without them.

On the other hand, if we were frogs, we could just eat what bugs us!