eASTiNwEST / 小黃不是狗


Sexless reproduction!!!
May 25, 2007, 7:15 pm
Filed under: News, science, shark

The female hammerhead shark can be impregnated without mating, according to the Biology Letters journal! The claim is based on the genetic tests performed by the team on a shark at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Nebraska (USA) in 2001.

Read the full report by BBC online.



Boring Librarian? Read on…
November 11, 2006, 8:47 pm
Filed under: Crime, News, Rare Books, eASTiNwEST, librarians, manchester

Norman Buckley - Librarian

Norman Buckley (aged 44), librarian at the Manchester Central Library, was given a suspended jail sentence for his crime of stealing 400 rare books and selling them on ebay. Now who said librarians are boring?! Though Mr Buckley’s case is a scandal compared to the dancing librarian of the Philippines.

URL for the news on the sentence and the breaking news.