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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Mangy Bear
Sasquatch? Chucabrawhatchamacallit? No, it’s just a Bear with Mange.
Never underestimate the power of the zombie dittohead lobby as Free Republic, NewsBusters, Steve Milloy, Small Dead Animals, and countless wingnut blogs once again proved they can blitz any online poll as they voted a climate change denialist blog first place for the 2007 Weblog Award for “Best Science.” Actual winner has yet to be announced.
Dandruff’s genes have been sequenced, which will hopefully provide insights to the interactions between fungi and humans, and has opened the possiblity that Dandruff might be having sex on your head right now.
I’m struggling to come up with a “pee in the pool” joke here, but I’m too baffled by the recklessness of Dumping Urea in the Ocean to Sink Carbon.
Cool bit of ecodesign, a 1,000 Year Clock Using Trees with animated demonstration.
People born in the autumn live longer than those born in the spring, according to this paper (PDF). Environmental factors are thought to be the culprit.
Here they come to save the daaaaaaaaaay!!!! Scientists Create Fearless Mouse, by knocking out genes related to smell in the brain.
The camera adds ten pounds? Now it’s taking them off with this HP Camera’s “Slimming” Effect, a feature anyone DIY with a little image resizing.
Going… Going… Gone!
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Going… Going… Gone! |
