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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
- Meant to serve as a breeding male, Sibu the Orang-utan prefers human blondes with tattoos to female orang-utans.
OTA Seal
- Hillary Clinton says she will shield science from politics. Nice, but Obama could easily top this by vowing to restore the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which the Republicans dismantled in retaliation for the OTA calling B.S. on Reagan’s Star Wars.
- Scientists believe they have found a purpose for the appendix. It serves has a shelter for bacteria, which reboot the digestive track in the event that some event wipes out our gut flora.
- Cerasinops is a “Missing Link” dinosaur connecting two geographically separated dinosaur groups that lived 80 Million years ago. Tell a Creationist about this and they’ll respond, “Yeah, but where’s the links between the links???” ad infinitum.
Cerasinops
- I’d never heard of it before, but an ancient stone tool called an adze is revealing our ancient monumental migrations from 4,000 years ago.
- Chimpanzees are more patient than humans (Bite me homo sapiens!), but humans are more fair (Bite me Chimps!). Ain’t game theory wonderful?
The Ig Nobels
- Research into the health effects of sword-swallowing… The “Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling…” extracting vanilla flavoring from cow dung… it can only mean the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners have been announced.
- The hole in the Ozone Layer has shrunk 30%! Hooray! Ozone pollution is shutting down our immune systems! Boo!
- UC Berkley has posted its lectures on youtube, yet another victory for open-source education.
- Meant to serve as a breeding male, Sibu the Orang-utan prefers human blondes with tattoos to female orang-utans.
- Hillary Clinton says she will shield science from politics. Nice, but Obama could easily top this by vowing to restore the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), which the Republicans dismantled in retaliation for the OTA calling B.S. on Reagan’s Star Wars.
- Scientists believe they have found a purpose for the appendix. It serves has a shelter for bacteria, which reboot the digestive track in the event that some event wipes out our gut flora.
- Cerasinops is a “Missing Link” dinosaur connecting two geographically separated dinosaur groups that lived 80 Million years ago. Tell a Creationist about this and they’ll respond, “Yeah, but where’s the links between the links???” ad infinitum.
- I’d never heard of it before, but an ancient stone tool called an adze is revealing our ancient monumental migrations from 4,000 years ago.
- Chimpanzees are more patient than humans (Bite me homo sapiens!), but humans are more fair (Bite me Chimps!). Ain’t game theory wonderful?
- Research into the health effects of sword-swallowing… The “Geometry and Physics of Wrinkling…” extracting vanilla flavoring from cow dung… it can only mean the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners have been announced.
- The hole in the Ozone Layer has shrunk 30%! Hooray! Ozone pollution is shutting down our immune systems! Boo!
- UC Berkley has posted its lectures on youtube, yet another victory for open-source education.
OTA Seal |
Cerasinops |
The Ig Nobels |
