Over on Singularity Hub, a technology blog, they reported that a company called Complete Genomics is planning to sequence 5000 genomes this year, at the price of about $10,000 each, and about 1 million genomes in the year 2014, with prices falling to about $1000. Last year they sequenced fewer than 100 genomes at about $20K each ( Read more... )

According to the media, Kate Moss came up with the saying "Nothing tastes as good as [being] skinny feels", and then pro-anorexia websites "immediately" starting quoting it, which is a sign of how much influence she has ( Read more... )

Boy, changing my diet sure has been easy. When I was working downtown, I ate out for lunch 5 days a week, and about 3 of those meals would be from fast food restaurants. But in the last six months, I've probably eaten fast food fewer than ten times. It doesn't hurt that making proper meals at home is a lot cheaper than restaurant food.

Suppose you saw an elderly man, shabbily dressed, wandering the streets in the pouring rain. He doesn't seem to have any destination or business. If you were a police officer, wouldn't you go over and say hello? Ask him if he's lost, or cold, or needs help? When he claims he's Bob Dylan, but doesn't have any ID, you might reasonably suspect ( Read more... )

So what's the deal with Smarties ( Read more... )

Riddle me this ( Read more... )

You would often hear Americans say that if people didn't like George Bush, they should at least respect the office of the president. You can hear people saying the same thing about Prince Charles - he's a bit of a goofball, but you should respect the tradition or ... something. How about this one ( Read more... )

Over the holidays, I watched the Back to the Future movies, and it's interesting to see how the predictions they made about the year 2015 are turning out:( Read more... )

There are a few words that I will never use, because everybody thinks they mean the opposite of what they actually do. Here are three ( Read more... )

Here's a list of a few things I'm looking forward to ( Read more... )