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Science Etcetera, Marsday 20081007

October 7th, 2008
  • TB bacteria coats itself in sugar to sucker lung cells into giving it a home.

    • Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria

    Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria
    Credit: CDC
  • Our solar system takes a sometimes dangerous orbit through the Milky Way.
  • The Government Accountability Office slams Carbon Offsets as being crafted by the Oil Industries they are meant to restrict.
  • “Scrumpox” is a form of herpes that spreads through rugby players, now sumo wrestlers are getting it too.

    • Sumo in Osaka

    Sumo in Osaka
    Credit: MLHS
  • When stealing first base always go head first.
  • Giant Chimpanzee:



    • 2 comments to “Science Etcetera, Marsday 20081007”

    1. I’ve always wondered what “scrumpox” was. It is featured in Monty Python’s “Medical Love Song”:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnvZpi3nbsc

      “Your dobie’s itch, my scrumpox,
      our lovely gonorrhea;
      At least we both were lying,
      when we said that we were clear.”

           by Dave October 7th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    2. I wasn’t familiar with that Python song. Hilarious!

           by ideonexus October 7th, 2008 at 7:09 pm

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