You just don’t get the same class of pioneer scientist these days. (Which is maybe for the best…)
Scienceblogs.com - 05/06/2007
Voronoff’s hypothesis was this: hormones, like testosterone produced by the testes, would reverse aging by a process he called “rejuvenation.” One of his first experiments used himself as a test subject. He injected ground up dog [...]
The world clock shows the time according to the number of births, deaths by various causes, population growth, prison growth, divorces, abortions, temperature of the Earth, species extinct, forest lost, and barrels of oil produced.
If I have to go back to work tomorrow morning, then no one else is allowed to think happy thoughts either…
A survey by Carphone Warehouse shows that 1 in 3 people in Britain wouldn’t give up their mobile phone for £1 million. And people wonder why I want to go and live on top of a mountain with a team of attack-haggis to keep ramblers away?
Some more fun facts from the survey:
On average people send [...]
A fantastic story about a U.S. firm using a glorified microwave oven to turn plastics back into diesel-grade oil. (With an accompanying video.)
New Scientist - 26/06/2007
A US company is taking plastics recycling to another level – turning them back into the oil they were made from, and gas.
All that is needed, claims Global Resource Corporation [...]
Has this story actually been on the TV news? I haven’t seen it anywhere other than on the BBC news site. Was it only on in Scotland? Am I just not watching enough TV? I thought they’d be all over the story, what with the bombing attempts in London and all that. (Though it still [...]
Ah, so much with the bizzy-bizzy-programmir-ing and the buggering-off-on-holiday-ing. Not so much with the blog posting.
The good news is that the replacement headphones mentioned here sound great and arrived in time to stop me trying to fit neon-underlighting and a sports-exhaust kit to my bicycle in order to blend in with the Guildford streetlife.
While I’m [...]
Clearly, someone thinks that us Scots aren’t killing ourselves through bad health quickly enough, and is pitching in to speed up the process.
BBC News - 30/05/2007
An award-winning butcher has come up with two special Scottish sausages which are being tipped as the perfect hangover cure - Iron Brew bangers.
The soft drink, Irn Bru, is often [...]
A group of American dictionary editors have released a list of 100 words that they think every high school graduate (and their parents) should know. I admit this sounds boring, but only until you actually look through the list. Among other things, the editors fear that the average American doesn’t know the following words and [...]
I saw the following picture - with no context - a few days ago, chuckled and then clicked onwards. It turns out, though, that it was actually illustrating the continued march of bureaucracy and the coddling of society:
Yahoo! News - 18/05/2007
DESTIN, Fla. - Confusing signs on the bathroom doors at McGuire’s Irish Pub have played [...]
Yahoo! Finance - 20/04/2007
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–According to a nationwide online survey released today, 72 percent of the American public does not know that conventional plastic is made from petroleum products, primarily oil. The survey was conducted by national online market research firm InsightExpress for Telles(TM), a joint venture of Metabolix, Inc. (NASDAQ: MBLX - News), [...]
Here’s to humanity’s non-stop efforts to get smashed on whatever is available at the time: Intentionally being bitten on the tongue by cobras and injecting spider venom.
Journal of Postgraduate Medicine - 1990
Case No. 1: 35-year-old, male married, front lower socio-economic class, working in a gambling den for last 10 years was admitted for treatment of [...]
Let me be the 800th person to point this out to you this week: The AP has an article about Korean tightrope walkers with the best headline ever created - Skywalkers in Korea cross Han solo.
Transport for London weighs in on the modern art debate:
London transport workers have painted over an iconic mural by “guerrilla artist” Banksy estimated to be worth more than £300,000.
The image depicted a scene from Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, with Samuel L Jackson and John Travolta clutching bananas instead of guns.
It had become one of the [...]
Ok, I had to read this, so that means you get to experience the joy too. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to scrub out my brain with a Brillo Pad. Today’s phrase is “rectovaginal fistula”.
Southeast Texas Record - 16/04/2007
Before the medical malpractice trial of a Jefferson County doctor began on Monday, April 16, [...]
CNN.com - 12/04/2007
Take a nation of do-it-yourselfers, add a ready supply of cheap nailguns and what do you get? About 37,000 nailgun injuries a year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Since 1991, nailgun injuries have risen about 200 percent, the CDC said in its weekly report on death and disease.
“This increase [...]