Kangaroo sequences, cocaininated bees and stupid robots

Here’s a rapid fire dump of some stories that remain in my “to post” box.

Yes, one’s that are trying to get away.

• The first kangaroo genome has been sequenced (it’s actually a wallaby, but technically there is no distinction). I wonder if they will try and outdo the Opossum paper with number of authors.
• FAIL: Australian scientists managed a breakthrough with DFTD. They took the one devil they had that was immune to the allograft cancer, and gave it cancer. “Professor Woods said the development was a setback“.
• Bees on cocaine have a good sense of direction, but no sense of proportion.
• RNA Biology will be making scientists contribute to wikipedia or they won’t publish their work. Blackmail, it works.
• Watch an evolution algorithm paint the mona lisa.
• Japan held a exhibition competition for the world’s stupidest robots. Again.
• Arakawa in Tokyo has banned feeding of stray animals.
• Cracked.com has a list of 7 people who tried and failed to sue science for the most stupid of reasons