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Petsorfood.com - Thanks to Fox who discovered this website that sells such exotic meats as Komodo dragons, at not unreasonable prices. Anyone game for baby seal?Awesome stones - Interestin …
Every bit as hot and humid as I had remembered, although there wasn’t the horrible feeling of walking into a steaming cloud of water vapor when I walked onto the airbridge.I swear, the guy at immigration seemed to recognize me. “Are you the - ?” he started. I just smiled at him, and he broke ...
I suppose it was just waiting to happen. A student at University of Massachusetts at Amherst majoring in legal studies and sociology, 51-year-old Brian Marquis, expected an A- for one of his courses but instead got a C. Marquis claims his grade was wrecked by curving1Marquis sued UMass for ‘violating his civil rights and contractual ...
I just learnt about geosmin, the chemical compound responsible for the smell of fresh earth.
He signed on the dotted line because his parents told him it was a prestigious scholarship. He majored in engineering because no one else told him that there were other options. He came back to serve his bond thinking that he was going to make a difference for the scholarship recruitment talk told him that ...
This week’s Youtube Monday isn’t hosted on Youtube, but it’s cool nonetheless. Seed Magazine has produced a nice video clip entitled Science In Silico, which is a nice survey of pretty pictures from the burgeoning labs engaged in computational science.Click To Play
The blurb from the video: “When a boy and girl find an idol in the stomach of a rabbit, great riches follow, but for how long?”Warning: involves violence to cute animals.« Evid …
For once, I’ve read some positive news regarding Temasek’s investment in Merrill Lynch. The Financial Times of London has just announced a new wrinkle in the Temasek-Merrill de …
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Elia Diodati posted a photo:The fire alarm went off yesterday at the local chemistry lab. Turned out the sprinkler mains water pipe had exploded due to a failure in the water heater.
In 2007, I published a paper and wrote two drafts. My adviser told me I can graduate in 2008. Yet I have discovered serious doubts about continuing my pursuit of joining academia, having now seriously researched viable alternative careers.In 2007, I was forcefully reminded of the general rude atmosphere in Singapore, from numerous mediocre (and ...
First Leopard breaks X11 functionality horribly (even as of right now, with the Xquartz 1.2.9a update, X11+ssh tunnelling still occasionally fails on some remote servers) in its transitioning from XFree86 to Xorg. Then the 10.5.1 update of today breaks my Keychain functionality.Thank you, Cupertino, for making me relive my days as a Windows user.
Title says it all. 12 wounded tourists in a country whose economy revolves around the tourism industry.Not even living in the middle of the ocean is safe anymore.ReferenceBBC News, Tourists hurt in Maldives blast, 2007-09-29.
This is just fucking weird. Irradiate a test tube of salt water with radio-frequency energy, and this releases hydrogen from the water that is energetic enough to produce a real flame. How is this possible?John Kanzius is the discoverer of this strange phenomenon.Important note: Despite all the excited claims from breathless (and ignorant) newscasters and ...
Thanks to Fox who wrote in with a very odd tidbit about the “urine-powered battery” that made waves about two years ago in the international press.You can see what the device looks like on the UK Science Museum’s website:Image from IBN Singapore, via Science Museum websiteBack in the day, I was somewhat annoyed at descriptions ...
If you are a scholar or other person who has signed a monetary bond contract in exchange for labor, there is now a Facebook application for you to help you watch the value of that immense sum dwindle as you slowly work it off toward an asymptotic value of zero.
When LOLcats meets philosophers, you get all sorts of lovable hysteria in a Flickr group called philolsophers.My favorite is Vololtaire:
One of my labmates’ father’s colleagues won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine this morning. Apparently they had shared offices or something like that.Anyway this year’s prize is for way cool research on knockout mice. Capecchi, Evans and Smithies invented the procedure to carefully prepare genetic mutations in mouse embryonic stem cells. When …
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