Did you hear that Wal-Mart decided it was in their bottom line’s best interest to go back to saying Merry Christmas instead of Happy Holidays? Personally, I couldn’t care less what they say to me on the way out of the door. If Wal-Mart is where you get your spiritual fulfillment you might […]
A stop motion battle between two friends turned enemies.
New Scientist has an article about a new painkiller being developed from a substance in human saliva that is non-addictive and more powerful than morphine.
Saliva from humans has yielded a natural painkiller up to six times more powerful than morphine, researchers say.
The substance, dubbed opiorphin, may spawn a new generation of natural painkillers that relieve […]
What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland “You have a Midland accent” is just another way of saying “you don’t have an accent.” You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston […]
From the asshole-in-chief’s press conference today:
In my first act of bipartisan outreach since the election, I shared with her the names of some Republican interior decorators who can help her pick out the the new drapes for her new offices.
What a chauvinist prick.
The original, uncompressed video is on archive.org
Wired.com has 92 six word sci-fi short stories inspired by a story Hemingway wrote (”For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”). Pretty big names, too. I thought I’d post my favorite ten and a few I did..
Gown removed carelessly. Head, less so.
- Joss Whedon
With bloody hands, I say good-bye.
- Frank Miller
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never […]
This is very cool:
The first known organisms that live totally independently of the sun have been discovered deep in a South African gold mine.
The bacteria exist without the benefit of photosynthesis by harvesting the energy of natural radioactivity to create food for themselves. Similar life forms may exist on other planets, experts speculate.
The bacteria live […]
More good news! Yes, it still only happens in Canada.
More from last month
There are some awesome time-lapsed videos of zebrafish embryo development posted by PZ Myers at Pharyngula.
This one is an annotated video of 18 hours of development time-lapsed to 48 seconds. It shows the embryo grow from about 8-16 cells upto the beginning of a head and tail. Follow the link to Pharyngula for […]
