Brains, Berries, Camouflage and taking out the Biochemical Rubbish

"Wild" strawberries

Hi. Welcome to Weirbeautiful. First link-of-the-day today is this brief news article reporting recent research that claims eating berries including strawberries and acai berries, wards off brain diseases, such as dementia. There seem to be endless health claims made about various foods, but in this case, at least, a biochemical mechanism has been proposed (supposedly the berries help the brain clear biochemical detritus that would otherwise accumulate and cause problems) -
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20100823/thl-berries-help-to-clean-up-brain-d831572.html

Second link is to this impressive gallery of camouflaged animals, from shale grasshoppers, to pigmy seahorses, from The Sun newspaper-
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/3108508/Amazing-photographs-of-creatures-camouflaged-for-survival.html

Thought for the day- Brains...

One of the great wonders of the natural world is the [human/dolphin/whale/dog/chimpanzee/etc] brain. Perhaps the greatest puzzle of all is the mystery of consciousness. One article with an unusual (and philosophical as much as neuroscientific)slant on this problem is this piece, recently published on New Scientist's website-

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527427.100-you-wont-find-consciousness-in-the-brain.html