Chernobyl birds are small brained

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Chernobyl birds are small brained
By Matt Walker

Birds living around the site of the Chernobyl nuclear accident have 5% smaller brains, an effect directly linked to lingering background radiation.

The finding comes from a study of 550 birds belonging to 48 different species living in the region, published in the journal PLoS One.

Brain size was significantly smaller in yearlings compared to older birds...

The discovery was made by a team of researchers from Norway, France and the US led by Professor Timothy Mousseau from the University of South Carolina, US, and Dr Anders Moller from the University of Paris-Sud, France.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9387000/9387395.stm

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. So, Sarah Palin & Michelle Bachmann lived in chernobyl?

[Vinca]

2. LOL - you beat me to it.

There must be a Republican birthing center there.

[icnorth]

3. There must be some other explanation...

the bird brain decrease in Chernobyl is only 5%

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. excessive radiation and I know how it feels

[icnorth]

5. Sorry J.G. I was alluding to a perception

I have that the decreased reasoning capacity of Palin and Bachmann is significantly greater than 5% ;-)

[WhiteTara]

14. just by seeing it from her back door. n/t

[MineralMan]

6. Ah, Republican birds...

[Jeffersons Ghost]

7. No Republican birds are black vultures

[jpak]

8. Kicking for the Chernobyl denialists

yup

[Blue-Jay]

10. There are "Chernobyl denialists"?

Even the Russian government has acknowledged the Chernobyl disaster. I've never seen anybody deny it.

*scratches head*

[jpak]

11. Absolutely - "only a few people died, people still live there, it's a wildlife paradise today", etc.

among other things

they post that shit in the E/E forum all the time

yup

[Blue-Jay]

12. Dayum. Ain't that somethin'?

[Ezlivin]

9. Yeah, if you trust science

This is part of nature's cycle and can't be caused by the action of humans.

Just like the fake global warming and evolution.

Scientists just want to make money and date beautiful people.

[Blue-Jay]

13. So you're saying that massive doses of radiation are....BAD for you?!?

Why didn't anyone tell me about this?

[ensho]

15. the study of mice there, a number of yrs. ago, found that:

the mice looked the same but every bit and piece of them had changed. they couldn't stay long enough to examine the mice longer.