Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Bug Zapper

Dr. Bart Knols of Africa is one of my new favorite scientists. He studies mosquitoes in order to learn more about them. And he wants to learn more about them in order to kill them, which makes his field of work a boon to picnics and 4th of July celebrations everywhere.

At a conference last month, he demonstrated a new weapon in the fight against the little bloodsuckers -- a pill that he swallowed before letting mosquitoes bite his arm. Three hours later, the skeeters became the only good kind of skeeter: Dead.

We itch. They die. Sounds like a good trade to me.

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