When I was in North Carolina last month for the meet - and - greet - and - learn - exhausto - freneti - thon of ScienceOnline 2012, I procured for myself a sampling kit for a citizen science project being conducted by the lab of Rob Dunn, Sci Am Guest Blogger and author of the
wonderful book The Wild Life of our Bodies.He's doing a new study
called «The Wild Life of Our Homes», and for the low, low price of nothing *, I got a sampling kit with two neato dual - pronged sterile Q - tips, instructions, a questionnaire about the
characteristics of my pad, and a mailing address to send it back to.
The illustrated AKC Bulldog standard, a
wonderful document that brings every detail of the breed into sharp focus,
calls the undershot jaw «the Bulldog's most unique physical
characteristic,» and affirms that it is a result of form following function, as this
characteristic allowed a «lockjaw» hold on the bull's flesh when the breed fulfilled its original use of bullbaiting.