Archive for March, 2008
Stamping out the Apple Moth
A tiny moth, new to California, is at the center of a controversy pitting state officials against Bay Area residents and politicians. The Light Brown Apple Moth is seen as a threat to California crops. Now the State Department of Food and Agriculture is planning to spray a synthetic hormone over Bay Area neighborhoods this [...]
Post on Mar 06, 2008 by Andrea Kissack
SF's Hometown Bacteria
If Chicago has deep dish pizza and Boston has cream pie, San Francisco has sourdough bread. And just like the pizza and pie, San Francisco sourdough just isn't the same outside its hometown. But that's because only San Francisco is home to a certain bacterium that bears its name– Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis. Of course bread uses [...]
Post on Mar 06, 2008 by Amber Dance
DNA and Love
Last night, I watched a reality dating show with a seemingly wacky way of finding true love. The male searching for love sniffed the armpits of potential females. He either turned away in disgust or became quite aroused by the wafts of underarm aroma. What is so comical is that a new dating service relies [...]
Post on Mar 05, 2008 by Cat
Your Photos on QUEST: and the winner is…
Congratulations to Flickr community member Erin Malone (erin_designr) of San Francisco, CA! Windy Grass – by Erin MaloneErin will be collaborating with KQED staff on our 2 minute Your Photos on QUEST segment for broadcast and web distribution. Her stunning set of Alviso Slough pinhole images wowed our KQED QUEST editorial staff. Her winning submission [...]
Post on Mar 04, 2008 by Craig Rosa
Quest Picks: Bay Area connections to the South Pole
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station As the sun shines and the air warms in the Bay Area, take a moment to consider a place where it's always cold–the South Pole. Thanks to some local folk, we can get a taste of the science at the bottom of the earth without leaving balmy San Francisco. Berkeley graduate [...]
Post on Mar 03, 2008 by Amber Dance
Tracing the Travels of the Human Race
We are all Africans in our DNA. We all originally came from Africa. At least that is what a couple of new studies have claimed. Now this isn't breaking news. Other studies have looked at people's DNA and proposed the "Out of Africa" hypothesis. What is different with these studies is how many people they [...]
Post on Mar 03, 2008 by Dr. Barry Starr
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