SHAPE Magazine 1 / 2013 - SCA

GETTY IMAGES
A perfect pot
ARE YOU BUYING new pots for
your seedlings every year? Making
pots for seedlings is a great
way to recycle newspaper and
save money gardening. At the
Internet site ehow.com you can
fi nd detailed instructions on how
to fold newspaper into a sturdy
pot. To transplant the seedlings
into the garden, simply cut the
bottom of the pot and put the
whole thing in the ground. Keeping
the seedling in the pot helps
protect the roots during transplanting,
and the newspaper
will decompose in the garden.
THE “MAN FLU” FOR REAL
WHAT WE ALL THOUGHT was a myth has
now been proven true: men feel more
ill than women. According to scientists
at the University of Cambridge, this is
because the amount of hormones in
humans decides how we perceive pain
and the fl u.
For men, testosterone production
starts fading when the body temperature
rises to 37.7 Celsius (100 F),
which makes men feel ill. The
levels of the female hormone
estrogen don’t start getting
low until 39.6 C (103 F).
Fewer pests mean more food for local
farmers and their families in Kenya.
SCENTS SCARE
OFF PESTS
A SPECIAL TECHNIQUE that discourages
harmful insects and
weeds has been developed
by researchers in Kenya. It
involves using scents to direct
insects and weeds to assigned
locations. The point is to use
plants whose scents scare
off harmful insects instead of
using insecticides. The method
has been developed at the
International Centre for Insect
Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE)
in Mbita, Kenya.
meters
...is the height of world’s fi rst
modern wind turbine made of
wood, in Hanover, Germany.
www.timbertower.de
SCA SHAPE 1 2013 31