Mosquito biting activity increases 500 times during a full moon phase, and they prefer blondes with smelly feet

Mosquitoes appear to prefer blonde people with smelly feet. Did you see the moon last night? Got mosquito spray? Mosquito biting activity increases 500 times during a full moon phase! There are more striking facts in this video excerpt from National Geographic.

The video is part of the Amazing Animals YouTube playlist by National Geographic:



Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

The tweets below are part of the series Medical Geek Humor on Twitter - they recall a TED moment from 2009:

@loic Bill Gates released mosquitoes at #TED we're all leaving the room and getting sick about 4 hours ago from web


@stevewhitaker Don't worry about the buggy mosquitos Gates released at #ted. Microsoft's working on a patch that's due out next year. about 14 hours ago from twitterrific
AllergyNotes Releasing mosquitoes by Bill Gates into a startled crowd at TED described as "an amazing TED moment" http://is.gd/iu0o about 12 hours ago from web

AllergyNotes Gates spreads malaria message with mosquitoes http://tinyurl.com/cxwo2e 12 minutes ago from TweetDeck

pyknosis Nice to hear Bill Gates picked up a hobby during his retirement: entomology. http://is.gd/izJn (Not surprised he likes the blood-suckers.) 14 minutes ago from web

pyknosis Don't get me wrong. Not saying B Gates is a bad person. He's not. He just created and championed software that can suck the life out of you. 12 minutes ago from web
pyknosis BTW, now that I understand the context, I think this is a winner of a tweet: http://is.gd/izK5 11 minutes ago from web: "If Steve Jobs had released mosquitoes, everyone would be wanting one."

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Comments from Twitter:

Vijay @scanman: Mosquitoes are mini-vampires

Tariq @ucisee: Mosquito biting activity increases 500 times during a full moon phase - "appear to pref blonde with smelly feet."

Kathy Mackey @mkmackey: Ha! No one likes full moon!

Times have changed

@ConanOBrien:

http://twitpic.com/17lx53 - I no longer have health care. Could someone show this to a dermatologist and get back to me?

@pyknosis:

I'm a hematologist, not a dermatologist, but looking at that, I give you 7 months. Don't worry. That's a really long time.

That's just good humor, as Happy Hospitalist likes to say.

Can you describe coefficient of variance in 140 characters?

"Can you describe coefficient of variance in 140 characters?", asked a medical librarian on Twitter:

laikas RT @shamsha: need help: can someone plz describe coefficient of variance in English? thnx! 34 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Some people obviously can:

@HCIR_GeneG: It's a measure of variability of a data sample, without paying attention to absolute values. Can be used to compare diff. distributions.

@flutesUD: CV = Std Dev / Mean. Tells u how variable the data are regardless of their units. Lets u compare across different types of studies.

My suggestion:

DrVes@laikas @shamsha Check the Wikipedia definition, click on the links in the description and you'll get there... :) http://bit.ly/18NnEH29 minutes ago from web in reply to laikas

In probability theory and statistics, the coefficient of variation (CV) is a normalized measure of dispersion of a probability distribution. It is defined as the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean .

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Rule of Twitter: When one million followers is actually... zero

From Twitter account of David Pogue of NYTimes:

Pogue 1 million followers today. A little scary: that's more than read the Times, more than watch CNBC, more than read my books... NO PRESSURE! 21 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Pogue via @ridgeley: 1M followers for @pogue, but most are spam. [DP sez: Probably true. Rule of Twitter: # of followers, divided by 10?] 8 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Pogue OK, you guys are telling me: 1/2 of my 1M followers have moved on. 25% are spam. 25% are auto-follow. So that comes to... NO FOLLOWERS! :) 6 minutes ago from TweetDeck

Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

The tweets below are part of the series Medical Geek Humor on Twitter:

laikas Hi folks, I'm in Quebec, Canada watching beavers, bears, moose & wales. Gr8! 13 minutes ago from web

BiteTheDust are they all romping around together? 8 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to laikas

laikas almost, except the wales. Moose and beavers together, as well as bears and deer. (luckily all predators fed well) 2 minutes ago from web in reply to BiteTheDust

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Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

The tweets below are part of the series Medical Geek Humor on Twitter:


progressnotes I met an 88 year old patient who has a great sense of humor and takes no medications. Not one. about 1 hour ago from web

progressnotes A little girl proudly announced, "I'm 8!" and he replied, "I'm double 8!"
about 1 hour ago from web

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Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages (called "tweets") that you find interesting, useful, amusing, or disagreeable. The tweets below are part of the series Medical Geek Humor on Twitter:


dreamingspires @allergynotes honestly what is the point of following 22,429 people. how unmeaningful is that. about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

AllergyNotes Is "unmeaningful" a real word? I always thought it was supposed to be "meaningless"... :) about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

AllergyNotes @dreamingspires "what is the point of following 22,429 people" - Data mining plus the more you follow, the more you get followed. about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

AllergyNotes @dreamingspires "what is the point of following 22,429 people?" - Unless you are @Berci who follows 1,000 while whistling "Ode to Joy"... :) about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

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Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

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dreamingspires Urban word of day: Social notworking: The practice of spending time unproductively on social-networking sites when one should be working about 6 hours ago from web

dreamingspires @BiteTheDust I can't answer you because otherwise you'll think i'm social notworking about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to BiteTheDust

dreamingspires @BiteTheDust I'm too busy chatting on skype to tweet you about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to BiteTheDust

BiteTheDust @dreamingspires ooh ooh I have skype. I must remember to turn it on once and a while about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to dreamingspires

dreamingspires @BiteTheDust really, there's no need to rush to turn on skype. you're dangerous enough on twitter. about 2 hours ago from TweetDeck in reply to BiteTheDust


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Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

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chrisseper Consuming my 27th CokeZero while at #WeMedia 37 minutes ago from txt

AllergyNotes @chrisseper "Consuming my 27th CokeZero" - Go easy on those. So many carbonated drinks could cause osteoporosis... :) I would switch to H20 32 minutes ago from web

scanman @AllergyNotes @chrisseper "Consuming my 27th CokeZero" - I'd switch to beer ;) 31 minutes ago from iTweet in reply to AllergyNotes

AllergyNotes @scanman "Consuming my 27th CokeZero" - "I'd switch to beer ;)" -- 27 in a row may be a bit too much even for a well-trained guy like you :) 21 minutes ago from web in reply to scanman

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Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

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1. scanman really boring meeting. can't stand slides laden with bullet points of stuff straight from textbooks. about 1 hour ago from Mobile Tweete
   
   
2. pharmamotion @scanman let me guess, with no images at all and the presenter reading them in a monotone way about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to scanman
   
   
3. scanman @pharmamotion the speaker was okay, quite knowledgeable, but his talk lacked focus & his slides were atrocious 34 minutes ago from Mobile Tweete
   
   
4. AllergyNotes @scanman "the speaker was okay, quite knowledgeable, but his talk lacked focus & his slides were atrocious" - That makes a bad talk, no? 7 minutes ago from web in reply to scanman
   
   
5. scanman @AllergyNotes Bad talk in toto. Quite lucid in some bits which he emphasized. Sadly he didn't summarize any take home points less than a minute ago from Mobile Tweete

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Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

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AllergyNotes A scanner that will convert a book to speech: http://is.gd/jMyo 29 minutes ago from TweetDeck

coachkiki I need one that converts a speech to a book. Got anything? 27 minutes ago from web in reply to AllergyNotes

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Medical Geek Humor During a Twitter "Meltdown"

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ev if you're missing your icon/avatar, please excuse -- will be back shortly! about 1 hour ago from web

EdBennett Twitter is melting down - my DM's are missing, and so is my avatar. about 1 hour ago from Power Twitter

EdBennett I'm seeing lot's of missing avatars - is amazon down? about 1 hour ago from Power Twitter

Doctor_V Your avatar has disappeared and your feed is melting. But remain seated and stay calm, I repeat: remain seated about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

EdBennett Twitter is melting before our eyes! Everybody run around and scream! about 1 hour ago from web

EdBennett as if 140 characters isn't slim enough data - now we lose our visual cues. This is a test folks - stay strong. about 1 hour ago from Power Twitter

Doctor_V @EdBennett And how do I know you're really Ed Bennett?? about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to EdBennett

EdBennett @Doctor_V you don't! - braa ha ha ha! about 1 hour ago from web in reply to Doctor_V

Doctor_V Perhaps if we jack up our tweet volume that'll 'work out the kinks' about 1 hour ago from web

EdBennett @Doctor_V Re: more volume - yes, I'm sure that will help about 1 hour ago from web in reply to Doctor_V

EdBennett just lost my background. I've enjoyed our time together folks. 19 minutes ago from web

EdBennett my background and avatar are back! life is good. 2 minutes ago from Power Twitter

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Medical Geek Humor on Twitter

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dreamingspires No longer sitting on balcony. Spider the size of small pony just sat on my foot. 25 minutes ago from TweetDeck

BiteTheDust @dreamingspires Huntsmen are ok. we have redbacks with redbacks the size of my knuckle. Good news though. No snakes inside house this year 4 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to dreamingspires

dreamingspires @BiteTheDust No. huntsmen are not ok. they are big. they have 8 legs. Redbacks -- can't go there. too hard. Am still an aussie newbie. 3 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to BiteTheDust

dreamingspires @scanman oh -- come on over to Sydney! bring family. It's a beautiful city (even with the huntsmen) 1 minute ago from TweetDeck in reply to scanman

Adult Huntsman spider on the underside of a log in Victoria, Australia. Image source: Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License.

Female Redback spider. Image source: Wikipedia, GNU Free Documentation License.

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References:
Huntsman spider, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Redback spider, from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.