What could possibly go wrong with this plan?
Thanks to advances in DNA technology, scientists can now reconstruct new copies of old viruses. Last year United States government scientists reconstructed the virus that caused the influenza epidemic of 1918. Now a team of French scientists has rebuilt a virus that infected our apelike ancestors several million […]
Full article here: (Part I and Part II)
George Bush has just vetoed a bill, approved by both Houses of Congress, which would have allowed federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Apparently the President’s ethical philosophy places a higher value on American embryos than on Iraqi or Lebanese men, women and children. Don’t misunderstand ‘embryos’, […]
Does anyone else find this as amusing as me?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Living_people
I think even Sisyphus feels sorry for the person trying to fill that one in.
Did you know that the same inventor came up with both Freon and leaded gasoline? His name was Thomas Midgley, Jr. and he worked for General Motors in the 1920’s and 30’s. One historian remarked that Midgley “had more impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in earth history.” At […]
The last video today, I promise. Some people might remember the post I had a few weeks ago of the girl that took a picture of herself everyday for 3 years. Well, it turns out she’s not the only person who had that idea (or apparently the first). This is a guy […]
“The FDA has for the first time approved the use of bacteria-eating viruses as an additive to foods. From now on, these viruses — known as bacteriophage or phage — can be sprayed on ready-to-eat cold cuts and luncheon meats by manufacturers to prevent listeriosis. Sounds delicious!”
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12 If this doesn’t work, we’re trying in vitro! In Madagascar, families dig up the bones of dead relatives and parade them around the village in a ceremony called famadihana. The remains are then wrapped in a new shroud and reburied. The old shroud is given to a newly married, childless couple to cover the […]
The Brick Testament - An illustrated Bible presented by The Rev. Brendan Powell Smith. Selections from the Holy Bible re-enacted using only Legos. It’s hell-acious! (Yeah, that was pretty bad.)
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Update: I’ve been informed by the artist that the original Youtube version I had linked to was pirated. This links to a legal version on Atomfilms.
