Title: Dangerous liaisons
Origin: New Scientist vol 179 issue 2408 - 16 August 2003, page 32

Author: Michael Brooks

Did the Inquisition fight heretics using the same science that we now use to
control disease?

( Are you a heretical hub? )

that the words "pre-emptive strike" translate to "unprovoked attack"?

it's the last day of my holidays, and they've been fantastic!

I went to Canberra (with lukel) to see my family, and I had a great time ( Read more... )

again, we went to see the Bourne Identity (last time, at another cinema, the projectors were faulty)... we were hoping for more success on this occasion, but no such luck... I think we are cursed, never to see this movie ( Read more... )

( not American? nothing to see here )

Media Puzzle wins the Melbourne Cup!

It's Cup Day today... which means I get the day off work *yay* a public holiday for a horse race is all good...

My horsies are:

Sandmason
Beekeeper
Victory Smile
Prized Gem
Miss Meliss

Run DMC rapper slain in recording studio

( funniest job ad you will *ever* see, and it's real! )

also posted to wildwomen

U.S. patent stops breast cancer testing

From the article:A key breast cancer test can no longer be done in B.C. [British Columbia] because an American company has the gene patent ( Read more... )