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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 918681" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><strong>Re: Obamanomics</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080">WTH !! Is anyone paying attention ???</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080">December 27, 2011 @ 10:31 pm <strong>|</strong> Good News: Another $180K In Taxpayer Funds Have Been Spent on The “Shrimp Running on a Treadmill” Study…</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080">Good grief.</span></span></p><p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'arial black'">(CNSNews.com) – Reports of $500,000 of taxpayer funds to study a project that has shrimp running on a treadmill hit the headlines early in 2011. A recent report now shows that $682,570 in grants has been awarded to the research effort.</span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080">According to the National Science Foundation (NSF) website, the money has been granted to the “Taking the Pulse of Marine Life in Stressed Seas” research conducted by biology professors Louis and Karen Burnett at the College of Charleston. The research page describes the professor’s “big question” as “How are human-made marine stresses affecting the marine life that we need?”</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080">The website describes the process of the Burnett’s experiments, “First, a crustacean is infected, by injection, with the same types of disease-causing bacteria that are commonly encountered in the wild. Next, the animal is placed on a specially built, mini underwater treadmill. Then, the organism’s vital signs, such as its heart rate and blood pressure, are measured (as a proxy for fitness) while it walks on the treadmill–similar to the way that a person’s vital signs are measured while he or she& walks on a treadmill during a stress test.</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080">Finally, the treadmill performances of infected crustaceans are compared to those of their uninfected counterparts.”</span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080"></span></span></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><span style="font-family: 'arial black'"><span style="color: #008080">The NSF has even produced a video on the project titled: “The Importance of Studying Shrimp On A Treadmill”.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 918681, member: 1246"] [B]Re: Obamanomics[/B] [FONT=arial black][COLOR=#008080]WTH !! Is anyone paying attention ??? December 27, 2011 @ 10:31 pm [B]|[/B] Good News: Another $180K In Taxpayer Funds Have Been Spent on The “Shrimp Running on a Treadmill” Study… Good grief.[/COLOR][/FONT] [INDENT][FONT=arial black](CNSNews.com) – Reports of $500,000 of taxpayer funds to study a project that has shrimp running on a treadmill hit the headlines early in 2011. A recent report now shows that $682,570 in grants has been awarded to the research effort. [COLOR=#008080] According to the National Science Foundation (NSF) website, the money has been granted to the “Taking the Pulse of Marine Life in Stressed Seas” research conducted by biology professors Louis and Karen Burnett at the College of Charleston. The research page describes the professor’s “big question” as “How are human-made marine stresses affecting the marine life that we need?” The website describes the process of the Burnett’s experiments, “First, a crustacean is infected, by injection, with the same types of disease-causing bacteria that are commonly encountered in the wild. Next, the animal is placed on a specially built, mini underwater treadmill. Then, the organism’s vital signs, such as its heart rate and blood pressure, are measured (as a proxy for fitness) while it walks on the treadmill–similar to the way that a person’s vital signs are measured while he or she& walks on a treadmill during a stress test. Finally, the treadmill performances of infected crustaceans are compared to those of their uninfected counterparts.” The NSF has even produced a video on the project titled: “The Importance of Studying Shrimp On A Treadmill”.[/COLOR][/FONT][/INDENT] [FONT=arial black][COLOR=#008080][/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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