March 1, 2010
Is This True, Not, Or Just A Crock – (#19)

Eel hunting is called eeling and is a popular sport practiced by eelers – people trained in catching eels and surviving the shock.
Although an electric eel can be mistaken for a snake, its more accurately classified as a fish, an aquatic vertebrate animal with scales that has a capacity to produce an electric field using specialized cells distributed throughout its body. The larger the eel, the greater the
charge, serving as a major defense against predators and incapacitating prey up to 15 feet away.
Now, engineers from Yale University have designed a man made tool adapting the principles of the electric eel cell by not only replicating them but improving on their design. They claim that artificial versions of the eel’s electricity generating cells could be developed as a power source for medical implants and other tiny devices.
Other engineers of the new field of systems biology question if we really understand enough about how a cell produces electricity to do a better job of designing them than nature has. In an experiment at the Kakamigahara institute, Japanese scientists wondered if it were possible to harness the eel’s power for economic use. They attached a conductive copper wire from a fish tank to a Christmas tree fully ornamented with lights. Every time the eel scraped against the wire, the tree lit up. Despite all this science, a more common place to find an eel is marinated and served on a sushi plate.


























One way to increase and train brain skills in the privacy of your own home, aside from reading, is known as
No time to clean the lucky shirt a ritualistic artifact of conquest, a blight for this night until, surfing the net, a page is encountered about “Le Glove.” Ah, triumph invades my thought, for Le Glove is well known to pet owners and dandruff sufferers as “your very own lint removal system. An invention, created by some unnamed Australian company ‘is engineered from polypropylene effectively turning your grooming regime into a dream. Simply slip on Le Glove, peel off the paper surface, dab the offending foreign bodies and put it in the garbage,’” and the claim is also made that Le Glove is biodegradable!
When you purchase your pack of Le Gloves, also consider buying your very own For Real Spider Catcher. The price for each is cheap, so why worry about it?


