{"id":26848,"date":"2010-08-01T08:10:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-01T08:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/weekly-weird-news-roundup-feeding-coyote-skulls-cow-dung-toothpaste-and-more-discoblog\/"},"modified":"2010-08-01T08:10:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-01T08:10:32","slug":"weekly-weird-news-roundup-feeding-coyote-skulls-cow-dung-toothpaste-and-more-discoblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/weekly-weird-news-roundup-feeding-coyote-skulls-cow-dung-toothpaste-and-more-discoblog.php","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Weird News Roundup: Feeding Coyote Skulls, Cow-Dung Toothpaste, and More | Discoblog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6b5b4_roundup-pic-web1.gif\" alt=\"roundup-pic-web\" width=\"220\" height=\"147\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\">&bull; Coyotes are what they eat: Feeding pups soft food <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2010\/07\/tough-food-makes-coyotes-better-.html\">changes their bones and muscle structures<\/a>, making it more difficult for them to chomp on harder stuff later in life. That bites.<\/p><p>&bull; About&nbsp;one-quarter of&nbsp;the food in the U.S. is wasted each year&ndash;and 16 percent of our energy goes toward food production. The result? We waste&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg20727712.700-us-food-waste-worth-more-than-offshore-drilling.html\">more energy in the food we throw out<\/a> than is available via offshore drilling.<\/p><p>&bull; If you get bored this weekend (and have $8,000 to spare), fret not. You&nbsp;can always <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/space\/personal-satellite-kit.html\">build and launch your very own satellite<\/a>.<\/p><p>&bull; Run DMC: Listening to music in which the tempo matches a runner&rsquo;s stride increases <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/health-10767128\">athletes&rsquo; endurance<\/a> by about 15 percent.<\/p><p>&bull; Cow-dung toothpaste, a deer penis, and guinea pigs: just a few of the bizarre items travelers have been caught <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2010\/07\/30\/magazine\/20100801-taryn-simon-contraband.html\">attempting to smuggle<\/a> through JFK International Airport. No wonder it takes so long to go through customs.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Gl0Lvsaa16qG_dmqN4s5UwR8Avg\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6b5b4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/Gl0Lvsaa16qG_dmqN4s5UwR8Avg\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6b5b4_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/6b5b4_jmzgAFL_Gkw\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&bull; Coyotes are what they eat: Feeding pups soft food changes their bones and muscle structures, making it more difficult for them to chomp on harder stuff later in life. That bites.&bull; About&nbsp;one-quarter of&nbsp;the food in the U.S. is wasted &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/weekly-weird-news-roundup-feeding-coyote-skulls-cow-dung-toothpaste-and-more-discoblog.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}