In the Jungles of Brooklyn, Nothing Can Stop Them (New York Times) I spent four years in Africa, but I didn?t really understand the law of the jungle until I moved to Brooklyn. [News Source]

Q: Human Meat Isn’t Appetizing, but Is It Healthy? (Blogcritics.org) A: You are what you eat, right? So it stands to reason that if you're a cannibal, and you eat a diseased, dead guy, you're going to be a diseased, dead guy. But the cannibalistic Fore people of New Guinea found that out the hard way. For most of the 20th century, the Fore were plagued by a disease called Kuru, also known as the laughing death. Kuru, a relative of mad cow disease, paralyzes its [News Source]

PlayStation’s serious side: Fighting disease (Financial Express) Kids aiming to persuade their parents to buy the PlayStation 3 have some new ammunition -- donating their PS3's down time to researchers could help cure Alzheimer's, Parkinson's or mad cow disease. [News Source]

Study pinpoints saliva (Casper Star-Tribune) WASHINGTON -- Deer probably spread a brain-destroying illness called chronic wasting disease through their saliva, concludes a study that finally pins down a long-suspected culprit. [News Source]

Today’s Special: Buffalo Meat (San Francisco Chronicle) Dining on buffalo is a hard concept to swallow -- and not only because the first image that springs to mind is one of pioneers with Winchester rifles rolling through the Great Plains in covered wagons, picking off every last one of them so they can use their... [News Source]