Interesting Links for 12-03-2016

[andrewducker]

Mindfulness in the workplace improves employee focus, attention, behavior (tags: mindfulness work psychology ) Plan for £1.8m new theatre in heart of Edinburgh gets green light (tags: theatre edinburgh ) Church decides to cancel Easter for whole city rather than pray with gays (tags: lgbt usa police religion easter ) Does Splenda Cause Cancer?

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[bart_calendar]

On the mosquito thing it occurs to me that introducing more bugs (particularly bugs like mosquitos which evolve very, very quickly) introducing a ton more bats into the area would probably be more effective and have less of a potential for long term environmental problems. There are already bats there, so simply having more is not an issue. Putting new bugs in is a different thing entirely.

[nojay]

Where would one source spare bats from? What sort of unoccupied roosting facilities are available for the extra bat population to use? What happens to the local population of pollinating insects? Moths and butterflies?

[threegoldfish]

And what about White Nose Syndrome? Even if you've got a magnificent environment for them, WNS is still a big problem.

[nojay]

I first read that as "White Noise Syndrome" and I sympathised with the bats having trouble echolocating prey because of ambient HF noise in the modern world. Then I read it properly.

[drdoug]

introducing a ton more bats into the area would probably be more effective and have less of a potential for long term environmental problems.I don't think we know that without a lot more information about the ecosystem involved