I wish this fan fic YouTube vid was true. Awesomely well done. Choosing Nathan Fillion to play GL was an inspired choice.

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ROME - Rita Levi Montalcini, a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, said Saturday that even though she is about to turn 100, her mind is sharper than it was she when she was 20. Levi Montalcini, who also serves as a senator for life in Italy, celebrates her 100th birthday on Wednesday, and she spoke at a ceremony held in her honor by the European Brain ( Read more... )

“Part of what makes this so nifty to me, is that, once you think about it, it's sort of a "duh" moment. While not so great for you and I, carbon dioxide is, basically, plant food. I'm told that rising levels of CO2 in the atmosphere affect different plants in different ways, but poison ivy is definitely one of the winners of global warming. For ( Read more... )

British scientists have developed the world’s first stem cell therapy to cure the most common cause of blindness. The treatment will tackle age-related macular degeneration (AMD), the most common cause of blindness. It affects more than 500,000 Britons and the number is forecast to increase significantly as people live longer. The disease involves ( Read more... )

Here is a cool science news story - “We have 46 chromosomes.  Chimpanzees our nearest great ape relatives have 48. On the surface, it looks like we must have lost two. That's a huge problem. Made up of organized packs of DNA and proteins, chromosomes don't just up and vanish. In fact, it's doubtful any primate could survive a mutation that simply ( Read more... )

An online news web site reports that a man was found nude and mutilated behind a building in Brooklyn, NY. The tip of his penis had been bitten off. It turned out that he did it to himself. "How he did it? Limber, I guess. Not the work of a sane mind," a police source told the New York Daily News.

Weird thing - The neighbor brought back the check I gave him for the $100 to have the tree service remove my fallen tree while they were trimming the trees in his yard. The bank had refused it because the date was stale.  In a moment of dyslexia I had flipped the 9 to a 6 and wrote 2006 instead of 2009. And here I was so proud of myself for not ( Read more... )

Boing-boing links to a (NOT safe for work) Craftastrophe post with a photo of 'The Sweatheart" black prom/formal dress with a front slit skirt with a pink satin lining designed to be turned out to show a heart shape.  For some reason the clothing site took the original photo down.  :-)

Actually  he takes the psychology of the characters in zombie movies seriously.

"In contrast, the protagonists in zombie films, the survivors, retain the brain functions that tamp down primal reactions before passing them on to the higher cortical regions. They think before they act -- at first.
And that's the crux of one of Schlozman's arguments ( Read more... )

According to Reuters.