Do the bubbles in champagne get you drunk faster?(science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

Champagne has been proven that people get drunk faster then non-carbonated wines with similar Alcoholic content. This was proven by Physicians at the University of Surry in England who did in experiment with 12 people who were told to drink and results were that the ones who drank carbonated champagne blood-alcohol rose a lot faster then those who drank the flat champagne. Why this is is still unknown but the guess is that the carbonation makes the stomach empty into the small intestine quicker, which would speed up intoxication.

Do ostrichs really stick there heads in the ground?(Science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

This article didn't surprise me at all. Ostriches DO NOT stick they're head in the ground when they are startled. But this myth came from what they do when they won't flee which is lie down on the ground with there head on the dirt, the reason behind this is there head is the same color as the dirt so predators won't see them.

Are jellyfish drinkable? (science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

This article was about if jellyfish could quench your thirst.In the article it said that it would not quench your thirst for a handful of reasons which are that the jellyfish have the tentacles that will sting you which if I'm correct is actually poison would be incredibly hard to remove and if you did do that the water in the jelly that makes ups 96% of it is just as salty as the water its in for buoyancy. But, according to research from the University of Washington if u took a jellyfish from water with a certain salinity into other water with a different amount of salinity after a while its body salinity will change so if you could remove the tentacles you may be able to slightly quench your thirst.

Is it possible to make artificial spider silk (science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

For this article I learned how difficult it is to make spider silk which I never thought of because well you know who does enough to research it. This article was about the production of artificial spider silk which is apparently incredibly hard to recreate. The reason the silk is so hard to recreate is because of the second step that is involved.The two steps that are put in to it are:1. manufacture the proteins spider silk glands use to make the silk and 2. and find a way to form the proteins into superfine threads. But despite how hard this is to do the Technical University of Munich in Germany tried to solve that by mixed the proteins with potassium phosphate like spiders then lowering the PH level of the proteins then finally applying pressure through tiny holes but that's only close to a spiders silk, they are able to make silk a fraction of in inch.

Computer models explain lizards killer strength (science illustrated jan/feb 2009)

This article was about the strength of a Komodo dragon bite. Despite what you might think a Komodo Dragon's bite would be very strong but it really isn't. Komodo dragons have pretty weak jaws and they're only able to hold on is the pressure is in the back of the jaw. Another part to this is the muscles are getting most of the pressure. My thoughts on this is the reason Komodo Dragons are so deadly is because of its deadly venom.

380 million year old gives birth (discover magazine Jan 2009)

This article was about a fossil of a fish giving birth. This fish is the worlds oldest evidence of copulation. Unlike most fish today though this little fishy (pook pook)
had an embryo which gives us evidence of fertilization inside the mother. The fish is part of a group called Ptyctodonts. The fish was found in Australia and if I'm correct is part of the Museum Victoria in Melbourne.

Legal rights for great apes (discover magazines Jan 2009)

For my first article of 15 I'm gonna put up the one about great apes. The Great Ape Project was trying to give great apes (Chimpanzees, Gorillas, Orangutans, Bonobos)Legal rights. But the Spanish Parliament's environmental committee approved the resolution of granting great apes legal rights. The rights of great apes are same as humans life,liberty,protection from torture. Also Netherlands,Britain,and Scandinavia are already phasing out all projects and stuff that are harmful to great apes. Now to conclude I think its good that steps are being taken to protect great apes due to intelligence but also personally think that this should be the case with all smart animals.