Scientists at Edinburgh University have successfully created a nanomachine. Read about it now before we’re all turned into grey goo.
On the other hand, a different bunch have made a replacement for carbon fibre out of carrots. Practical and delicious!
So many things wrong with this situation. Too confused to pick one to start off with:
A charity production of The Vagina Monologues in Florida has changed its name after a woman complained it was offensive.
Atlantic Theatres in Atlantic Beach changed the title of the play to The Hoohaa Monologues, reports Metro.
It came after a complaint [...]
As Fabio put it when I showed him this video: “It’s like Goatse and Tubgirl… but worse.”
Anyway, my brain had to deal with this, so now you get to experience it too: Celine Dion and Anastacia singing AC/DC’s “You Shook Me All Night Long”
I say we take off and nuke Vegas from orbit. It’s the [...]
Are you ready for the Rapture? If you are confident of being uplifted on the day of reckoning but want to pass on a message for us miserable sinners left behind, then The Post-Rapture Post is for you.
It’s a website run by a group of commited atheists who - since they are fairly likely to [...]
The photo you see below is of a moth in Madagascar shooting a spiked, barbed proboscis through a sleeping bird’s eyelid to drink its tears.
Goodnight, children. Sweet dreams.
BBC News - 12/12/2006
Healthy new-born babies may have been killed in Ukraine to feed a flourishing international trade in stem cells, evidence obtained by the BBC suggests.
Disturbing video footage of post-mortem examinations on dismembered tiny bodies raises serious questions about what happened to them.
Ukraine has become the self-styled stem cell capital of the world.
There is [...]
If you ever find yourself evaluating your relative worth in the worldwide economy, and exactly how much you should care about your contribution, keep in mind the following fact: Hewlett Packard printer ink costs almost twice as much as human blood.
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Preparing for the day when humanity finally blacks the sky out Matrix-fashion, bacteria which can survive entirely without the sun have been found in a South African gold mine.
(The article says this is the first life form to have been discovered which can survive entirely without photosynthesis, but is that correct? Aren’t there crazy deep-sea [...]
There’s something in the water (or Tequila, or Mescal) in Albuquerque.
Take 300 microwave ovens, rip out the magnetrons, then synchronise the outputs and you (theoretically) have yourself a Giant Death Ray(tm).
U.S. Patent application found here. Just in case you fancy building one yourself.
Tired of EU-mandated over-fishing, the denizens of the oceans are rising up to overthrow their evil land-dwelling tormentors. Judging by the video on this page though, we’ve still got a few years of safety yet.
A Blood Parrot fish gets his first taste of life on land, wheeling around in this luxurious fishbowl-on-wheels. A camera mounted [...]
If anyone needs me, I’ll be barricaded in the nearest shopping mall with a rag-tag group of survivors, battling to repel the zombie hordes:
The Observer 24/09/06:
Scientists working at a British laboratory have achieved one of the most controversial breakthroughs ever made in the field of stem cell science by taking cells from dead embryos and [...]
BBC News - 15/09/2006 -
A former US Marine has become the first woman in the world to be fitted with a “bionic” arm that she can control by her thoughts alone.
Claudia Mitchell lost her left arm at the shoulder in a motorbike accident.
Her new arm works by detecting movements of a chest muscle that [...]
I was planning to use this space for wailing and gnashing teeth over the FUBAR state of the airports in London right now and the fact that I’ll be trying to get onto a plane from Gatwick on Saturday morning, then continue with some snarky predictions about how the whole situation would be handled by [...]
According to BoingBoing, these photos are of the cocoons of Swedish butterflies, each filled with writhing larvae, completely encasing trees and anything else unlucky enough to be nearby.