Solution for NYC Bodega rodent problem

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)

The problem: The bodega owners will be fined for keeping cats in the stores, but a live cat is a thousand time more effective against rodents than traps and exterminators are.

Remember all those articles about pheromones? (http://www.discover8.com/article/Parasites_ingenious_tricks_are_protozoans_making_you_more_daring__0)

The solution: MAKE AN ANTI-RAT SPRAY THAT SMELLS LIKE CAT PEE.

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Pheromone for mouse aggression found

Study on strippers reveals evidence of human estrus.

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.ehbonline.org)

Unlike most mammals, which have an estrus cycle -- they go into heat, during which they give off detectable visual and chemical signs of fertility -- humans have a menstrual cycle. For many years, scientists had assumed that our little sniffers had lost the ability to pick up on anything more subtle than an overdose of Axe. However, a study performed on eighteen eager ecdysiasts found that they get about half again as much in tips while ovulating than they do during the leuteal phase, and twice as much as they do during menstruation

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