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Most mammals have a cervical spine reflex that allows mothers to move their cubs around in their mouths by gently grasping the back of their necks. The reflex causes a state of relaxation in the cubs and seems common to all mammals, including humans- although I'm not sure about dolphins. Does this reflex have a name and who discovered it?

Most mammals have a cervical spine reflex that allows mothers to move their cubs around in their mouths by gently grasping the back of their necks. The reflex causes a state of relaxation in the cubs and seems common to all mammals, including humans- although I'm not sure about dolphins. Does this reflex have a name and who discovered it?

Recent ice core data would suggest that at times, the Eemian Stage (or Ipswichian Interglacial, in old money) was around 1-2 degrees warmer in Europe than today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipswichian_interglaci...

This confirms the suspicion that global warming was a frequent occurrence as suggested by fossil evidence from the Thames and Rhine sediments of hippopotamus bones and hyenas in Yorkshire.

However, were these bones from the same African species as we see today? or were they a derived Northern species, like the woolly Rhinoceros or Mammoth?

So far nuclear reactors have been like very complicated kettles, they just boil water. Is there a way of using the neutrons from fission or fusion reactions to generate electricity directly, perhaps by means of beta decay? Is it possible to capture (Presumably, slow) neutrons in a suitable material, and then induce some form of nuclear reaction to create nuclei that decay readily to liberate electrons, or some sort of secondary fission as a cascade reaction that uses the energy of the reaction to kick out electrons. Is any of this theoretically possible? What elements/radionuclides might make this work? or are there too many problems?