Some great pics of stuff you simply (and literally) can’t see every day are right over here. The title/joke should be apparent when you scroll down a couple pics… I’m very much looking forward to the day when we have scanning electron video-cameras.
The Latest Bit of Evidence To Be Dismissed by 40% of the American populace….
…. Scientists from the Beijing Genomics Institute last month discovered another striking instance of human genetic change. Among Tibetans, they found, a set of genes evolved to cope with low oxygen levels as recently as 3,000 years ago. This, if confirmed, would be the most recent known instance of human evolution. [full story] The difficulty [...]
I’ve been using one of these for years
I hadn’t realized this technology had come so far. This makes a few scenes in Mission Impossible seem pretty dang probable.
Bringing an Asteroid back to Earth
Here’s the sciency goodness… Just in case you thought the re-entry of the Japanese Hayabusa spacecraft couldn’t get any better, NASA has just released an aerial video of the speeding sample return capsule followed by the break-up of the rest of the probe as the whole lot tumbled through the Earth’s atmosphere. And, of course, [...]
Impact and size of Gulf oil spill still in question
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIXWYBTpLtSayJtg41LKXpxSxVPAD9FO17L00 Oil has been spewing since the rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 people and sinking two days later. The government shortly afterward estimated the spill at 210,000 gallons — or 5,000 barrels — a day, a figure that has since been questioned by some scientists who fear it could be far more. [...]
Jokes About Miami Airport Worker’s Body Scan Lead To Beating, Arrest
Jokes about wee wee-wee lead to beating Rolando Negrin, 44, was charged with aggravated battery after he used a police baton to beat Hugh Osorno on Tuesday. According to a police complaint, Negrin was upset following a training with whole body scanners with other co-workers. “The x-ray revealed [he] has a small penis and co-workers [...]
Clearing off the desktop…
…sometimes I fall behind. So to catch up, I just dump a lot of stuff with short commentary and reboot the browsers so my computer can think again. Here goes… First up is an acknowledgement of the change to Arizona law. This took away the worst of it, but I’d expect the rest to be [...]
A high-fructose corn syrup researcher answers his critics
http://www.grist.org/article/interview-with-princeton-hfcs-researcher-dr.-bart-hoebel “Dr. Hoebel points out that previous research has firmly established that if you give rats access to a 10% table sugar “drink” in addition to their normal feed, they do not gain additional fat. In other words, their bodies are able to metabolize the extra calories without creating more weight. This previous research is [...]
The Audacity of a New Hope
The Audacity of a New Hope — The Audacity of a New Hope This post is more just a general clearinghouse of some of the more interesting articles I’ve come across lately, and a bit of a call for a ray of hope, somewhere along down the line. First up is this diatribe by Camille [...]
Charles Darwin biopic having trouble finding American distributor
Charles Darwin biopic having trouble finding American distributor – Paul Bettany plays Charles Darwin in Creation The next round of the war on culture is coming soon (or not) to a theatre near you. From the Telegraph: Creation, starring Paul Bettany, details Darwin’s “struggle between faith and reason” as he wrote On The Origin of [...]
Morality and the Health Care Debate
Last week, after it became apparent that the GOP campaign of disinformation regarding the health care legislation was working wonderfully [1] President Obama shifted gears a bit to talk about *why* this change is necessary. WASHINGTON — President Obama sought Wednesday to reframe the health care debate as “a core ethical and moral obligation,” imploring [...]
Holy Shit, I Still Have a Website.
My lord, I’ve been spending too much time on Facebook. I’ve neglected my role here, as RPN. My deepest apologies. To catch you up to the story quickly (this would be Chapter 12 for those reading at home), our hero in the story has taken to walking the Earth in order to save it. Which [...]
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