OK there is a video now of the robot I mentioned in an earlier post:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJjF2fLSl8
Embedding not allowed, so click the link if you wanna be disturbed. It makes freakish noises, too. These are dark times.
Good wood from black widow venom??
The spider’s bite can kill children and the elderly, but among strong young farmers it leads to erections that can last for days and involve involuntary ejaculations.
At the end of the ordeal, the man is left sexually energized and feels physically stronger, the saying goes.[MS-NBC]
I think I’ll wait for the [...]
In the TB division:
…one curious aspect of Speaker’s case is that his father-in-law is a researcher at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, and he works on tuberculosis bacteria in his laboratory.[NPR]
Coincidence? If so, it would be a pretty surprising one, IMO.
“If you plant some trees, is it OK to drive an Escalade? The question isn’t as silly as it sounds. People worried about global warming increasingly are trying to “offset” the carbon dioxide–the leading greenhouse gas–they spew into the atmosphere when they drive, fly or flick on a light. One idea popular with the eco-conscious [...]
[reDiscovery] via [Dawkins]
Lots of hilarious stuff at the reDiscovery Institute, worth a look around. I particularly like “The Trouble with Guanine.”
Laurie sent this in this morning.
Scientists say that relative finger lengths can predict our performance on standardized tests, and, by extension, what kind of thinking we are best at.
“Kids with longer ring fingers compared to index fingers are likely to have higher math scores than literacy or verbal scores on the college entrance exam, while [...]
