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Noses in the News
White Nose Syndrome Might Affect AgriculturePosted: 9:17 PM Apr 20, 2012
Reporter: Dave Byknish
Email Address: dbyknish@whsv.com
WAYNESBORO, Va.
A deadly fungus, Geomyces destructans, discovered in 2006 thrives in the same temperature the bats hibernate in.
“What ends up happening is these guys get a white fungus growing on their noses and their bodies and it wakes them up just enough out of hibernation that they try to groom it off,” said Veterinary Fellow at the Virginia Wildlife Center Miranda Sadar.
This causes them to use all of the energy they stored for their hibernation cycle and many of them die as a result ...
Nearly 80-percent of bats on the East Coast are affected by white nose syndrome. Recent studies show the disease is moving over to the west ...
A deadly fungus, Geomyces destructans, discovered in 2006 thrives in the same temperature the bats hibernate in.
“What ends up happening is these guys get a white fungus growing on their noses and their bodies and it wakes them up just enough out of hibernation that they try to groom it off,” said Veterinary Fellow at the Virginia Wildlife Center Miranda Sadar.
This causes them to use all of the energy they stored for their hibernation cycle and many of them die as a result ...
Nearly 80-percent of bats on the East Coast are affected by white nose syndrome. Recent studies show the disease is moving over to the west ...
www.whsv.com/news/headlines/White_Nose_Syndrome_Might_Affect_Agriculture_148344675.html?ref=675
The K-E Diet: Brides-to-Be Using Feeding Tubes to Rapidly Shed Pounds
By YUNJI DE NIES (@yunjid) , AMANDA KEEGAN and KEVIN DOLAK (@kdolak)
April 16, 2012
Brides-to-be looking to shed that final 10, 15 or 20 pounds in order to fit into their dream wedding gown have taken a controversial approach to crash dieting that involves inserting a feeding tube into their noses for up to 10 days for a quick fix to rapid weight loss ...
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/diet-brides-feeding-tubes-rapidly-shed-pounds/story?id=16146271
A Tour Of The Seven Noses Of Soho
By Londonist · April 20, 2012 at 12:30 pm
We all know Soho. At least, we all think that we know Soho. But have you ever taken time to look at it close-up? And have you heard the legend that if you spot all seven noses in Soho, you’ll attain infinite wealth? ... In 1996, artist Rick Buckley appended a set of sculpted noses to a number of buildings round central London. They remain to this day, confounding anyone who stumbles across one. Some of the noses are easy to spot, others are so well camouflaged that few people ever see them, even though they pass by every day ...
http://londonist.com/2012/04/a-tour-of-the-seven-noses-of-soho.php
Former fisherman turned shark whisperer puts great white into trance
Apr 20 2012
...Hartman attracts the maneaters to the surface using bait then hypnotises them by stroking their super-sensitive snouts.
Sharks’ noses are loaded with nerve endings – using their highly developed sensory system, they can home in on the scent of a seal colony from TWO MILES away.
Rubbing their snouts like Andre is doing is said to overload that sensory system.
Snapper Doug said: “The shark seemed to enter a pleasant but confused state ...
Sharks’ noses are loaded with nerve endings – using their highly developed sensory system, they can home in on the scent of a seal colony from TWO MILES away.
Rubbing their snouts like Andre is doing is said to overload that sensory system.
Snapper Doug said: “The shark seemed to enter a pleasant but confused state ...
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/weird-news/2012/04/20/former-fisherman-turned-shark-whisperer-puts-great-white-into-trance-86908-23830916/
Peter Ross: ‘The Nose’ is not to be sniffed at
Published on Tuesday 17 April 2012 00:00
Whyte & Mackay’s master blender Richard Paterson has insured his snout for £1.5m but his passion for whisky is priceless
‘I CALL this my treasure chest,” says Richard Paterson. “It is a sanctuary for me.” Better known as The Nose, Paterson is in his sample room on the top floor of the skyscraping Whyte & Mackay building in Glasgow. The view, if one could only see it, would show the city spread out far below and long views north to the Campsies. But the blinds are kept resolutely drawn on all that. This room, which reeks strongly of whisky, acknowledges no particular time or space. Here Paterson, master blender since 1975, conducts his compositional experiments and alchemic rituals, sampling drams from different eras and areas of Scotland, some dating to the 19th century, and mixing them together in the hope of creating a harmonious, quaffable, sellable whole.
His chief tool in this endeavour is his nose which, like the rest of him, is 63 years old, though it has been actively sniffing whisky for a mere 55 of those. Paterson’s father Gus and grandfather William were both blenders, and Richard was first inducted into the art of nosing at the age of eight, during a revelatory visit to his father’s bond in Stockwell Lane. The building has since been demolished to make way for the St Enoch Centre, but the sense memory lives on in Paterson’s brain and nostrils – an overpowering smell of maturing spirit, stagnant water, damp walls and gas lighting ...
‘I CALL this my treasure chest,” says Richard Paterson. “It is a sanctuary for me.” Better known as The Nose, Paterson is in his sample room on the top floor of the skyscraping Whyte & Mackay building in Glasgow. The view, if one could only see it, would show the city spread out far below and long views north to the Campsies. But the blinds are kept resolutely drawn on all that. This room, which reeks strongly of whisky, acknowledges no particular time or space. Here Paterson, master blender since 1975, conducts his compositional experiments and alchemic rituals, sampling drams from different eras and areas of Scotland, some dating to the 19th century, and mixing them together in the hope of creating a harmonious, quaffable, sellable whole.
His chief tool in this endeavour is his nose which, like the rest of him, is 63 years old, though it has been actively sniffing whisky for a mere 55 of those. Paterson’s father Gus and grandfather William were both blenders, and Richard was first inducted into the art of nosing at the age of eight, during a revelatory visit to his father’s bond in Stockwell Lane. The building has since been demolished to make way for the St Enoch Centre, but the sense memory lives on in Paterson’s brain and nostrils – an overpowering smell of maturing spirit, stagnant water, damp walls and gas lighting ...
http://www.scotsman.com/scotland-on-sunday/scotland/peter-ross-the-nose-is-not-to-be-sniffed-at-1-2234977
‘Dr. Schnoz’ drops plans for another video poking fun at Jewish noses
By Lauren Markoe| Religion News Service, Published: April 9
The Jewish doctor from Miami who was scolded by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons for producing a music video that mocked Jewish noses has canceled a contest for another music video based on the same theme.
Dr. Michael Salzhauer said he is trying to come up with an alternative contest that would not offend the plastic surgery society or incur possible ethics violations ...
Dr. Michael Salzhauer said he is trying to come up with an alternative contest that would not offend the plastic surgery society or incur possible ethics violations ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/dr-schnoz-drops-plans-for-another-video-poking-fun-at-jewish-noses/2012/04/09/gIQAw78a6S_story.html
Don Cheadle rubs noses with a Maori man in New Zealand
Don Cheadle seemed well acquainted with an important custom when he rubbed noses with a member of a Maori tribe as a way of saying hello to that person in New Zealand today.
The Oceans actor was participating in the NZ PGA Pro-Am, a non-competition seeding tournament held at Jacks Point Golf Club near Queenstown, and he made the effort with this official ritual during the event.
Although a hardy handshake is customary when greeting another person in the United States, when executing the proper etiquette for the Maori, you need to put your noses together ...
The Oceans actor was participating in the NZ PGA Pro-Am, a non-competition seeding tournament held at Jacks Point Golf Club near Queenstown, and he made the effort with this official ritual during the event.
Although a hardy handshake is customary when greeting another person in the United States, when executing the proper etiquette for the Maori, you need to put your noses together ...
http://www.examiner.com/article/don-cheadle-rubs-noses-with-a-maori-man-new-zealand
Spanish Researchers Develop Portable ‘Electronic Nose’
http://www.oliveoiltimes.com/olive-oil-basics/world/electronic-nose/25652