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Posted in Food and Drink, Polls on Dec 28th, 2006
The government declared Thursday that food from cloned animals is safe to eat. After more than five years of study, the Food and Drug Administration concluded that cloned livestock is “virtually indistinguishable” from conventional livestock.
FDA believes “that meat and milk from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as the food we [...]
Posted in The Internet on Dec 27th, 2006
Ever want a quick and easy way to learn Klingon? Try THIS.
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Posted in Health on Dec 27th, 2006
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii infects about 40 percent of the world’s population, an Australian researcher has found, and it has different effects on women versus men.
It was thought to be insignificant in healthy people until recently, when researchers realized its other consequences, reported News.com.au.
Sydney University of Technology infectious disease researcher Nicky Boulter wrote about the [...]
Posted in Silly science on Dec 21st, 2006
The Bad Astronomer sums up a web page quite succinctly in his post. Just gotta read it. Now, what he is referring to, for those that DID NOT FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS, is a web page that explores the symbolism Mars has on Christianity. Now, Bad Astronomer has a good time with this thing. He mentions a [...]
Posted in Animal Kingdom, Global Warming on Dec 21st, 2006
Read this today:
Scientists have discovered at least 52 new species of animals and plants on the southeast Asian island of Borneo since 2005, including a catfish with protruding teeth and suction cups on its belly to help it stick to rocks, WWF International said Tuesday.
"The more we look the more we find," said Stuart Chapman, [...]
Posted in Travel on Dec 18th, 2006
This is very cool:
ATLANTIC, Va. - Spectators cheered as a rocket carrying two experimental satellites blasted off Saturday in the first launch from the mid-Atlantic region’s commercial spaceport, creating a blazing streak across the sky just before sunrise.
This launch had to significant angles to it:
It was launched from Virginia’s Spaceport at Wallops, not Cape [...]
Posted in Technology on Dec 15th, 2006
This is straight out of some sci-fi B-movie:
By generating the proper brainwaves—picked up by a cap with electrodes that sense the signals and reflect a person’s instructions—scientists can instruct a humanoid robot to moves to specific locations and pick us certain objects [video].
The commands are limited to moving forward, picking up one of two [...]
Posted in The Internet on Dec 10th, 2006
Got another one of those profound emails:
Say it ain’t so . . . .
This is hard to believe! Wasn’t it last Christmas that Target refused to let the Salvation Army ring their bells in front of their stores?
Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association wrote:
"Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be [...]
Posted in The Universe on Dec 10th, 2006
STS-116 finally launched tonight. It was beautiful. You can see it here.
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Posted in SETI on Dec 9th, 2006
I got a very cool email tonight:
Dear Moonage,SETI@home needs your help. The SETI@home team has accomplished much in the past 6 months. We have successfully deployed the “enhanced” version of SETI@home. The new seven beam data recorder has been installed at Arecibo (the world’s largest radio telescope) and is recording the data that will be [...]