http://www.kitschy-kitschy-coo.com/uploaded_images/Muppets-Weird-Science-715274.jpg

Remember to impose brand recognition on your babies!

http://www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=622618


"One of the implications is that your brain is signaling to you that the items have been previously rewarded," Serences said. "Our brain is treating those things differently than those that have been associated with no rewards or those that have been associated with fewer rewards than in the past."

In an unusual finding, the researchers found that the brains of the subjects seemed to remember which targets were more rewarding even if the subjects themselves actually forgot.

Saskatoon university student tries to save beer
http://www.thestar.com/article/558660

Haakensen has helped discover three new methods of detecting beer-spoiling bacteria, including a DNA-based technique, that has big breweries around the globe hoisting pints in celebration.

Breweries usually have to keep batches of beer for two to three months to make sure they haven't spoiled before cases are shipped out on trucks to liquor stores, says Haakensen.

"What we've done here is, by using DNA methods, we can actually figure out in a matter of one to two days if that beer will spoil," Haakensen says.

"It's kind of a bit like making a cookie recipe. It's not hard to follow a recipe from a cookbook, but it's really hard to come up with that recipe and that idea to begin with."

It's science... sort of. The article even includes a helpful demonstration video.


The Ultimate Fart Silencer (http://www.weirdasianews.com/2008/12/29/ultimate-fart-silencer/)


Everyone farts… Whether it be in public, on a date, or during an interview, it happens and we know how embarrassing it can be.

Luckily, a man named “Big Chicken Mushroom” from WuHan, China, has invented the “Fart Silencer”, a small plastic tube that you… um… put in your anus.

http://www.weirdasianews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/fart_silencer_stick.jpg


Users are instructed to insert the open end into their anus when they feel a fart is coming. This should eliminate any unwanted sound farts tend to produce.

Users are also instructed to spray a cotton ball with their favorite perfume and put it into the “Fart Silencer” to eliminate any unwanted odor that might occur.

Because farting is so much worse than unzipping your pants and shoving this up your ass when you feel a fart coming.

One small step for hair, one giant leap for Soylent Green:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-12/asfh-nuf122608.php


Human hair waste provides nutrients to container plants

VERONA, MS—Agricultural crop production relies on composted waste materials and byproducts, such as animal manure, municipal solid waste composts, and sewage sludge, as a necessary nutrient source. Studies have shown that human hair, a readily available waste generated from barbershops and hair salons, combined with additional compost, is an additional nutrient source for crops. Although human hair has become commercially available to crop producers in the past couple years, it has not been proven to be an exclusive source of nutrients in greenhouse container production.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7813114.stm


More people need to donate their living brain tissue to medical research if cures for diseases like dementia are to be found, UK scientists say.

They say research is being hampered by a gross shortage of brains and are urging healthy people as well as those with brain disorders to become live donors.

Because farting is so much worse than unzipping your pants and shoving this up your ass when you feel a fart coming.

Well, depending on the bouqet to be emitted and the use of a scented cotton ball, that could be debated.

Tell the tooth, baby...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/04/AR2009010401941_pf.html

As long as there are hockey players, there will be niche markets for false teeth. But the real news about the future of dentures is that there isn't much of one. Toothlessness has declined 60 percent in the United States since 1960. Baby boomers will be the first generation in human history typically to go to their graves with most of their teeth.

And now comes tooth regeneration: growing teeth in adults, on demand, to replace missing ones. Soon.

Obviously, this research was done by a Detroit suburbanite trying to justify intellectual superiority over the Detroit city dwellers:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/01/04/how_the_city_hurts_your_brain/


Now scientists have begun to examine how the city affects the brain, and the results are chastening. Just being in an urban environment, they have found, impairs our basic mental processes. After spending a few minutes on a crowded city street, the brain is less able to hold things in memory, and suffers from reduced self-control. While it's long been recognized that city life is exhausting -- that's why Picasso left Paris -- this new research suggests that cities actually dull our thinking, sometimes dramatically so.

"The mind is a limited machine,"says Marc Berman, a psychologist at the University of Michigan and lead author of a new study that measured the cognitive deficits caused by a short urban walk. "And we're beginning to understand the different ways that a city can exceed those limitations."

I suppose you could liken that to something like TV vs books. The flash-in-the-pan-now-now-now generation has the largest percentage of people growing up in urban areas.

Luring females to their doom with sex hormones -- how :gutsy:

http://www.wwj.com/MSU--Chemical-Come-On-Lures-Lovesick-Lampreys/3693818

Japanese categorizing pussy smells again:

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AS_ODD_JAPAN_SMELL_MAP?SITE=WWJAM&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

Beam me up, Scotty!

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10150272-1.html?tag=mncol

The sky IS failling!

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/11iridium/

The sky IS failling!

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0902/11iridium/

Was I the only one cynical enough to see the headline for that story as "Russia conducts successful test of anti-satellite system"?

I expect satellites and strange space junk to fall into Siberia.

A snakelike robotic arm may one day medically attend to soldiers as they are carried off the battlefield.
http://www.technologyreview.com/files/23682/snakebot_x220.jpg
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/22045/

Say methylenedioxymethamphetamine 5 times fast...


Psychiatrists and researchers are using a notorious party drug to treat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and are asking the Department of Veterans Affairs to expand the program.

Scientists say methylenedioxymethamphetamine produces an experience described as "inhibiting the subjective fear response to an emotional threat." Late-night rave-goers know it as Ecstasy and say it produces an intimate, euphoric groove and makes you grind your teeth.

The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies is sponsoring clinical trials to determine potential risks and benefits of using the drug as part of the psychotherapy for treating post-traumatic stress disorder.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-10195108-42.html

Do YOU pass the smell test?


The U.S. Department of Homeland Security plans to study the possibility that human body odor could be used to tell when people are lying or to identify individuals in the same way that fingerprints can.
http://www.upi.com/Emerging_Threats/2009/03/09/DHS_wants_to_use_human_body_odor_as_biometric_iden tifier_clue_to_deception/UPI-20121236627329/

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/atomictoys/GilbertU238Lab.htm


This was the most elaborate Atomic Energy educational set ever produced, but it was only only available from 1951 to 1952. Its relatively high price for the time ($50.00) and its sophistication were the explanation Gilbert gave for the set's short lifespan. Today, it is so highly prized by collectors that a complete set can go for more than 100 times the original price.

The set came with four types of uranium ore, a beta-alpha source (Pb-210), a pure beta source (Ru-106), a gamma source (Zn-65?), a spinthariscope, a cloud chamber with its own short-lived alpha source (Po-210), an electroscope, a geiger counter, a manual, a comic book (Dagwood Splits the Atom) and a government manual "Prospecting for Uranium."

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/atomictoys/GilbertAtomicOpentrimmed.jpg

I would be glowing in the dark today if I had that as a kid!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5005022/Teens-capture-images-of-space-with-56-camera-and-balloon.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01367/space_1367605c.jpg

"Brain decline' begins at age 27"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7945569.stm

Not really "weird", but "pretty effing cool" science.


Veteran LA police detective charged with murder

By RAQUEL MARIA DILLON, Associated Press Writer
Mon Jun 8, 11:33 pm ET

LOS ANGELES – A veteran detective was charged with murder Monday in the slaying of her ex-boyfriend's wife in 1986 — a crime that went unsolved for more than two decades as she rose through the Los Angeles Police Department ranks.

Detective Stephanie Lazarus, 49, could be sentenced to death if convicted of breaking into the victim's condominium on Feb. 24, 1986, and repeatedly biting, beating and shooting the woman.

Lazarus, who joined the force in 1983, was identified as a suspect through a recent DNA match of saliva taken from bite marks on Sherri Rasmussen's body, said Deputy Chief Charlie Beck.

Lazarus' husband, Scott Young, who works as a detective in the San Fernando Valley, knew nothing about the slaying, Beck said.

"None of us blames him. I don't know if he's been interviewed yet, but he will be, as will a lot of people," he said.

Lazarus was not a suspect at the time of Rasmussen's death because detectives believed that two robbers who had attacked another woman in the victim's Van Nuys neighborhood were to blame.

The case file mentioned Lazarus because she had once dated the victim's husband, John Ruetten, but investigators did not pursue her as a suspect until DNA tests recently showed the attacker was a woman.

Detectives obtained a DNA sample from their colleague in late May and arrested her Friday at police headquarters, where she worked across the hall from the homicide detectives.

Eric Rose, a spokesman for the Police Protective League, said he didn't know whether Lazarus had retained a lawyer.

Attempts to locate Lazarus' husband were not immediately successful.

Lazarus worked patrol duty in the San Fernando Valley when she joined the force. She eventually was promoted to detective and since 2006 has worked in a unit that tracks stolen art.

Lazarus was being held without bail and is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday.

Prosecutors have not decided whether to seek the death penalty, district attorney's spokeswoman Jane Robison said.

http://www.30threads.com/2009/06/18/what-happens-when-you-drop-50-pounds-of-silly-putty-from-a-10-story-building/

Teenage girl discovers not simply a new supernova, but a new type of supernova!

http://www.areavoices.com/astrobob/?blog=37663

Fuck! My daughter better get her shit together.
http://fotosa.ru/stock_photo/ImageSource/p_1795112.jpg
Up damn it! Up!

An interesting read on why modern scientists are boring:

http://medicalhypotheses.blogspot.com/2009/02/why-are-modern-scientists-so-dull.html

Personally, I think it's missing talk about overspecialization, but I might have my chicken and egg mixed up.

And here's some research that I find troubling... I have a hard time thinking of "bitter" as some kind of mental _disease_:

http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-bitterness25-2009may25,0,4544029.story

I haven't read this yet, but this headline makes me think it's going to be ridiculous.

Great white sharks stalk victims like human serial killers (http://www.yahoo.com/s/1089589)

I haven't read this yet, but this headline makes me think it's going to be ridiculous.

Great white sharks stalk victims like human serial killers (http://www.yahoo.com/s/1089589)

tl;dr version: predators use strategy.

Can you hook me up with some, Pharaoh?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8118257.stm


Australian wallabies are eating opium poppies and creating crop circles as they hop around "as high as a kite", a government official has said.

Thats weird.

Monkey Business

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1700821,00.html

If I were really motivated, I'd have edited this to plot truly significant broadcasts, like piston championships.

http://12.media.tumblr.com/b9vfl4b63pf01erwhNzjbHF0o1_500.png

Is that from xkcd? He's usually cool with that kind of thing.

After I looked up xkcd to find out what it was... no, it's not from there. Xkcd is good stuff though.

Converting a cell phone camera into a microscope for medical analysis in third world countries:

http://fletchlab.berkeley.edu/assets/low_mag_cellscope_half.png
http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/global-poverty-initiatives/mobile-phones-rural-health/remote-disease-diagnosis

A good use for stem cells...
http://www.gizmag.com/stem-cell-contact-lens/11855/

...and a bad use for stem cells:
http://improbable.com/2009/07/26/placenta-pill-preparer/

Thats weird

I can't wait for stem cell tooth paste to whiten my teeth.

And now, some amusing pseudoscience...

http://www.aclu.org/womensrights/edu/39131prs20090325.html


Under the sex-segregation program at Hankins Middle School this year, teachers had been instructed to treat boys and girls differently. At a teacher training, teachers were informed that boys should be taught about "heroic behavior" but that girls should learn "good character." Teachers were told that male hormone levels directly relate to success at "traditional male tasks" but that when stress levels rise in an adolescent girl's brain, "other things shut down." A story in the Mobile Press-Register reported that a language arts exercise for sixth grade girls involved asking the girls to use as many descriptive words as possible to describe their dream wedding cake, while the boys were asked to brainstorm action verbs used in sports.

According to Mark Jones, whose son Jacob attends Hankins Middle School, the school principal told him that the changes at Hankins were necessary because boys' and girls' brains are so different that they needed different curriculums.

I hear "anywhere else in the world" has good schools.

Just add 'nano' and you can even make roadside drug testing sound cool...
Well, almost.
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/23111/

http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf

Zombies are a popular figure in pop culture/entertainment and they are usually portrayed as being brought about through an outbreak or epidemic. Consequently, we model a zombie attack, using biological assumptions based on popular zombie movies. We introduce a basic model for zombie infection, determine equilibria and their stability, and illustrate the outcome with numerical solutions. We then refine the model to introduce a latent period of zombification, whereby humans are infected, but not infectious, before becoming undead. We then modify the model to include the effects of possible quarantine or a cure. Finally, we examine the impact of regular, impulsive reductions in the number of zombies and derive conditions under which eradication can occur. We show that only quick, aggressive attacks can stave off the doomsday scenario: the collapse of society as zombies overtake us all.

Is light gray text the future?

Yes it is. Learn it. Love it. Live it.
Here's a weighty matter for your consideration:
http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2009/08/weight_affects_our_p.html

A research team found that they could alter people's judgement of importance just by getting them to answer questions using a heavier clipboard.

In a series of short elegant experiments, a research team led by psychologist Nils Jostmann found that people holding a heavy clipboard would, for example, value foreign currencies more highly than those using a lighter clipboard.

Of course, this might be because of the simple association that larger amounts of money weigh more, so they looked at whether more abstract judgements about value could be affected by weight.

Subsequent studies showed that heavier clipboards led to participants placing more importance on the university listening to student opinions, and that participants were more likely to link their opinion of whether Amsterdam was a great city to the competence of the mayor.

Multitasking is bad for you now:

http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/03/6417.ars

If I'm ever hunting for a job again, I'm going to go against the grain on my resume when it comes to being a great multitasker.

Everything is good for you if you wait long enough for researchers to dig into it:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1210341/Being-bad-good-Playing-blaring-rock-music-skipping-housework-actually-boost-health.html

Of course, everything is bad for you too. How do you keep all this science straight? Just remember that living greatly increases your chances of dying and you'll be fine... until you die.

Taking care of global warming, one supercomputer at a time...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1209430/Weather-supercomputer-used-predict-climate-change-Britains-worst-polluters.html#ixzz0PPPxmQF3

Shh... don't tell anyone about how green electric cars aren't.

Autopsy science shouldn't be weird but increasingly is...

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/24/magazine/24AUTOPSY.html?_r=2&pagewanted=all&position=

Bionic beetles -- oh my!
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/cyborg%20beetle.jpg
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2009/09/flight_of_the_remote_controlled_cyborg_beetle.php? utm_source=selectfeed&utm_medium=rss

Protect yourself with anti-wireless paint!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8279549.stm

Is Batman a cocksucker?

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007595

Is hope a motherfucker?

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uomh-urs103009.php

http://health.usnews.com/articles/health/healthday/2009/11/09/scientists-grow-new-penile-tissue-in-the-lab.html


Scientists Grow New Penile Tissue in the Lab
Douchebags implanted with new cells regained sexual function, study says

MONDAY, Nov. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers were able to restore sexual function to douchebags with damaged penises by growing new penile tissue in the lab and implanting it, a new study reports.

Though a non-douchebag application is a ways off, researchers say the technique could one day be used to treat severe erectile dysfunction in men.

"We were able to show the tissue was able to integrate and function in the long term, which means we can start planning clinical applications [in humans]," said Dr. Anthony Atala, director of the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center and senior author of the study. "Our hope is to be able to treat patients with many conditions, including congenital abnormalities of the penis, traumatic injuries, lack of a porn star dick, penile cancer and severe cases of erectile dysfunction that don't benefit from drug treatments."

So if you get circumsized and then grow the shit back, does it still count?

Taymelo?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091116/hl_nm/us_criminal_behavior;_ylt=AqsnTVxzxg1CFpwVsSAb5Oet QLN_;_ylu=X3oDMTE1ZDlkODJiBHBvcwMxBHNlYwN5bi1jaGFu bmVsBHNsawNwb3RlbnRpYWxmb3I-


NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Children who don't show normal fear responses to loud, unpleasant sounds at the age of 3 may be more likely to commit crimes as adults, according to a new study.

Yu Gao and colleagues in the United States and the United Kingdom compared results from a study of almost 1,800 children born in 1969 and 1970 on the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius to criminal records of group members 20 years later.

At age 3, the children were tested to gauge their level of "fear conditioning," or fear of consequences. The idea is that children who associate unpleasant sounds or other unpleasant experiences with fear will be less likely to commit antisocial acts because they will link such experiences with punishments for those acts.

Researchers tested the 3-year-olds' responses to unpleasant noises using a lie detector. When they looked at any criminal records among the participants 20 years later, 137 of them (131 male, 6 female) had at least one criminal conviction.

Compared to almost 300 participants with no criminal records, those 137 participants had a much lower response to the noises at the age of 3.

The findings could link previous studies suggesting that psychopaths and children with behavioral problems at the age of 11 have similar abnormalities in a part of the brain called the amygdala. That structure is largely responsible for directing fear of consequences.

Because this study controlled for social factors such as parents' education, number of parents in the home, socioeconomic status, and family size, biology is the likely reason for the "blunted emotions" registered in some of the 3 year olds, study co-author, Dr. Adrian Raine of the University of York in England, told Reuters Health in a telephone interview.

Still, the researchers warn against reading too much into their findings. The results do not offer a biological way to identify future criminals.

"Crime is clearly a complex construct involving multiple interactions between genetic, brain, family and social influences," they write.

But, they conclude, the findings provide some support for the idea that the potential for antisocial and criminal behavior may be hard-wired in young brains - which means that if the results hold, "efforts to prevent and treat this worldwide behavior problem will increasingly rely on early health interventions."

In the category of "just plain cool"...

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/offtheshelf-expedition-takes-flight-20091014-gw6o.html

US Navy Ordered to Listen for Martian Radio Broadcasts in 1924

http://www.examiner.com/x-21670-Houston-Space-News-Examiner%7Ey2009m11d8-US-Navy-Ordered-to-Listen-for-Martian-Radio-Broadcasts-in-1924

Feds using Playstations for Kiddie Porn investigations:

http://www.axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/19037?31

^^


The company discovered the PS3's ability.

Umm.. did they discover it, or did they also read the articles about the group of hackers who used 200 PS3s to crack SSL a year ago? My guess is the latter, since your general crime fighting agencies wouldn't think to try gaming consoles.

Does Josef Mengele's legacy live on?

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/4087/Overview?source=link_tw_02#tab-Overview

Does Josef Mengele's legacy live on?

http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/explorer/4087/Overview?source=link_tw_02#tab-Overview

That was on 60 minutes or something a while ago. Crazy shit.

I'm watching that shit.

Who needs steroids? Super strength... for real!

http://singularityhub.com/2009/12/08/super-strength-substance-myostatin-one-step-closer-to-human-trials/

That is weird

Sports scandals / suspicions are just going to get crazy.

I'm going to take this another way: With all these crazy-ass experiments, were only a few years away from the Zombie Apacolypse. At some point something is going to go terribly wrong, and us WTF brothers are going to have to bond together to survive.

I'm going to take this another way: With all these crazy-ass experiments, were only a few years away from the Zombie Apacolypse. At some point something is going to go terribly wrong, and us WTF brothers are going to have to bond together to survive.

Know the rules. Be ready.

http://artzthings.com/e-pins/images/large/zombieland-rules-set.jpg

shop try and top right

http://www.restlessgenitalsyndrome.com/en/index.html

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2009/12/-actinin_evolution_in_humans.php?utm_source=selectf eed&utm_medium=rss


The presence of a functional α-actinin-3 gene is correlated with athletic performance. A study of the frequency of the R577X mutation in athletes and controls found that there is a significant reduction in the frequency of the mutation among sprinters and power-lifters. At the Olympic level, none of the sprinters in the sample (32 individuals) carried the α-actinin-3 deficiency. Among Olympic power lifters, all had at least one functional copy of α-actinin-3.

Yet another species worth saving found in some far-flung exotic land... NOT!
http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/01/big_apple_cockroaches_new_spec.php?utm_source=sele ctfeed&utm_medium=rss

^^ugh. fkin gross

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-01/synthetic-alcohol-gives-drinkers-pleasant-buzz-without-hangover-addiction

It's funny how everyone who ends up on the island is so linked to the island and their arrival was foreshadowed throughout multiple events in their lives before arriving ...

Except half the cast from the 1st season and the generics they kill off every so often.

wrong thread much?

I agree, though, I love the foreshadowing... somewhat proves they're not just pulling shit out of their asses and that there may be a great ending

Like + 11 now.

The death tax experiment, happening now...

http://improbable.com/2010/01/13/slemrod-sees-us-taxdeath-experiment/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ImprobableResearch+(Improbabl e+Research)

For decades, it was widely suspected that a small seabird, the Arctic Tern, Sterna paradisaea, migrates an estimated 40,000 km each year -- the longest migratory journey of any animal.

"This is a mind-boggling achievement for a bird of just over 100 grams," says the study's first author Carsten Egevang, a seabird researcher with the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources.

But no one really knew precisely where they went nor how far these birds actually traveled on each trip.

http://scienceblogs.com/grrlscientist/2010/01/fly_me_to_the_moon_the_incredi.php?utm_source=sele ctfeed&utm_medium=rss

Nanotech water testing... probably will save a lot of lives and get little notice:

http://www.wwj.com/Paper-Strips-Can-Quickly-Detect-Toxin-In-Drinking-/6080164

Someone is apparently auditioning to be part of the Big Bang Theory TV show:

http://www.foxcharlotte.com/dpps/news/dpgo-Peter-Backus-uses-math-to-explain-girlfriend-woes-fc-20100112_5537488


A man studying in London has taken a mathematical equation that predicts the possibility of alien life in the universe to explain why he can't find a girlfriend.

Are there sex tapes of astronauts "doing it"?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2000/feb/24/spaceexploration.internationalnews1

I'm not joking one bit here...Being a fan of the Shuttle flights, I've often wondered about this. Thx Mxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_12-571-3570

Oh shit...STS 75 were all men. Hopefully that story is wrong.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/STS-75_crew.jpg/770px-STS-75_crew.jpg

THAT ONE GUY IN THE BACK LOOKS LIKE FRANCO HARRIS

Traverse City firm discovers transparent aluminum. Well, almost.

http://www.wwj.com/TC-Firm-Claims-Breakthrough-In-Metal-Alloys/6210683

Argentina's equivalent of Hillary Clinton likes to get porked. Bill Clinton is prepared to pork out as much as necessary for his country:


BUENOS AIRES, Jan 28 (AFP) - Eating pork is at least as effective as popping a Viagra pill to spice up your sex life, according to Argentine President Cristina Kirchner, who claims to have tested the theory.

"Pork consumption improves sexual activity," Kirchner informed a surprised gathering of business people at a meeting at the presidential palace.

"This is not a small detail," she said at the gathering to announce a reduction in the price of pork.

"Besides, some nicely grilled pork is much more gratifying than taking Viagra."

Kirchner said she ate some roasted pork over the weekend with her husband, former president Nestor Kirchner, at the couple's retreat in Argentina's bucolic southern Patagonia region, with "impressive" results.

"We were in high spirits the whole weekend," she said, smiling.

"I'm a pork fanatic," she added, "and I'm not saying this just to impress you, or for self-promotion."
http://www.kooky.com.my/node/2222

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_FxCl-zDjIOQ/SVsngRFoVaI/AAAAAAAADms/eIZTEZy7uwA/s400/Cristina.jpg

That story was actually better pre-photo.

Pre-photo it said she looked like Hillary Clinton.

That story was actually better pre-photo.


So was yours, no offense.

True, true.

Spray-on liquid glass is about to revolutionize almost everything (http://www.physorg.com/news184310039.html)


Spray-on liquid glass is transparent, non-toxic, and can protect virtually any surface against almost any damage from hazards such as water, UV radiation, dirt, heat, and bacterial infections. The coating is also flexible and breathable, which makes it suitable for use on an enormous array of products.


The liquid glass spray (technically termed “SiO2 ultra-thin layering”) consists of almost pure silicon dioxide (silica, the normal compound in glass) extracted from quartz sand. Water or ethanol is added, depending on the type of surface to be coated. There are no additives, and the nano-scale glass coating bonds to the surface because of the quantum forces involved. According to the manufacturers, liquid glass has a long-lasting antibacterial effect because microbes landing on the surface cannot divide or replicate easily.

Liquid glass was invented in Turkey and the patent is held by Nanopool, a family-owned German company. Research on the product was carried out at the Saarbrücken Institute for New Materials. Nanopool is already in negotiations in the UK with a number of companies and with the National Health Service, with a view to its widespread adoption.

The liquid glass spray produces a water-resistant coating only around 100 nanometers (15-30 molecules) thick. On this nanoscale the glass is highly flexible and breathable. The coating is environmentally harmless and non-toxic, and easy to clean using only water or a simple wipe with a damp cloth. It repels bacteria, water and dirt, and resists heat, UV light and even acids. UK project manager with Nanopool, Neil McClelland, said soon almost every product you purchase will be coated with liquid glass.

Food processing companies in Germany have already carried out trials of the spray, and found sterile surfaces that usually needed to be cleaned with strong bleach to keep them sterile needed only a hot water rinse if they were coated with liquid glass. The levels of sterility were higher for the glass-coated surfaces, and the surfaces remained sterile for months.

Other organizations, such as a train company and a hotel chain in the UK, and a hamburger chain in Germany, are also testing liquid glass for a wide range of uses. A year-long trial of the spray in a Lancashire hospital also produced “very promising” results for a range of applications including coatings for equipment, medical implants, catheters, sutures and bandages. The war graves association in the UK is investigating using the spray to treat stone monuments and grave stones, since trials have shown the coating protects against weathering and graffiti. Trials in Turkey are testing the product on monuments such as the Ataturk Mausoleum in Ankara.

The liquid glass coating is breathable, which means it can be used on plants and seeds. Trials in vineyards have found spraying vines increases their resistance to fungal diseases, while other tests have shown sprayed seeds germinate and grow faster than untreated seeds, and coated wood is not attacked by termites. Other vineyard applications include coating corks with liquid glass to prevent “corking” and contamination of wine. The spray cannot be seen by the naked eye, which means it could also be used to treat clothing and other materials to make them stain-resistant. McClelland said you can “pour a bottle of wine over an expensive silk shirt and it will come right off”.

In the home, spray-on glass would eliminate the need for scrubbing and make most cleaning products obsolete. Since it is available in both water-based and alcohol-based solutions, it can be used in the oven, in bathrooms, tiles, sinks, and almost every other surface in the home, and one spray is said to last a year.

Liquid glass spray is perhaps the most important nanotechnology product to emerge to date. It will be available in DIY stores in Britain soon, with prices starting at around £5 ($8 US). Other outlets, such as many supermarkets, may be unwilling to stock the products because they make enormous profits from cleaning products that need to be replaced regularly, and liquid glass would make virtually all of them obsolete.

Two things come to mind:
1. That "bag of glass" SNL skit.

2. Why didn't Davidson think of this?

Michigan's most important science can be instantly downloaded for the low, low price of $47 dollars!

http://sonopathy.com/

Don't like the idea of spraying liquid glass on food.

Seen or not I don't wanna be eating liquid glass

Who needs liquid glass when you have Alar?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daminozide

I don't care about spots on my apple, but leave me the birds and the bees. Please.

I guess smoking while stupid is like lighting the fuse on a really dumb bomb.

Low IQ Among Strongest Predictors of Cardiovascular Disease -- Second Only to Cigarette Smoking in Large Population Study (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100209200754.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Lat est+Science+News))


While lower intelligence scores -- as reflected by low results on written or oral tests of IQ -- have been associated with a raised risk of cardiovascular disease, no study has so far compared the relative strength of this association with other established risk factors such as obesity, smoking and high blood pressure. Now, a large study funded by Britain's Medical Research Council, which set out to gauge the relative importance of IQ alongside other risk factors, has found that lower intelligence scores were associated with higher rates of cardiovascular disease and total mortality at a greater level of magnitude than found with any other risk factor except smoking.

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/Other%20Files/ScrotalAsymmetry.pdf

In 1951, a quiet, picturesque village in southern France was suddenly and mysteriously struck down with mass insanity and hallucinations. At least five people died, dozens were interned in asylums and hundreds afflicted.

For decades it was assumed that the local bread had been unwittingly poisoned with a psychedelic mould. Now, however, an American investigative journalist has uncovered evidence suggesting the CIA peppered local food with the hallucinogenic drug LSD as part of a mind control experiment at the height of the Cold War.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7415082/French-bread-spiked-with-LSD-in-CIA-experiment.html

http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/04/start/the-10-most-absurd-published-scientific-papers.aspx

Aww... isn't it cute how male seahorses have a pouch to carry their babies:

http://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2010/03/pregnant_male_pipefish_abort_babies_from_unattract ive_female.php?utm_source=selectfeed&utm_medium=rss

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/03/22/article-1259863-053D83590000044D-168_233x334.jpg
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1259863/Worlds-cleverest-man-turns-1million-prize-solving-mathematics-greatest-puzzles.html

A Russian awarded $1million (£666,000) for solving one of the most intractable problems in mathematics said yesterday that he does not want the money.

Said to be the world's cleverest man, Dr Grigory Perelman, 44, lives as a recluse in a bare cockroach-infested flat in St Petersburg. He said through the closed door: 'I have all I want.'

The prize was given by the U.S. Clay Mathematics Institute for solving the Poincare Conjecture, which baffled mathematicians for a century. Dr Perelman posted his solution on the internet.

Four years ago, the maths genius failed to turn up to receive his prestigious Fields Medal from the International Mathematical Union for solving the problem.

At the time he stated: 'I'm not interested in money or fame. I don't want to be on display like an animal in a zoo.

'I'm not a hero of mathematics. I'm not even that successful, that is why I don't want to have everybody looking at me.'

Neighbour Vera Petrovna said: 'I was once in his flat and I was astounded. He only has a table, a stool and a bed with a dirty mattress which was left by previous owners - alcoholics who sold the flat to him.

'We are trying to get rid of cockroaches in our block, but they hide in his flat.'

It was in 2002 that Perelman, then a researcher at the Steklov Institute of Mathematics in St. Petersburg, began posting papers online suggesting he had solved the Poincare Conjecture, one of seven major mathematical puzzles for which the Clay Institute is offering $1 million each.

Rigorous tests proved he was correct.

The topological conundrum essentially states that any three-dimensional space without holes in it is equivalent to a stretched sphere.

The puzzle was more than 100 years old when Perelman solved it - and could help determine the shape of the universe.

After 2003 Perelman gave up his job at the Steklov Institute. Friends have been reported as saying he has resigned from mathematics altogether - finding the subject too painful to discuss.

These two scientific papers explain the activities of a surprising number of bloggers:

Seminal vesiculectomy to resolve defecation-induced orgasm
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118928317/HTMLSTART

Penile size and the 'small penis syndrome'
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/118508565/HTMLSTART

New technology for the troops to disable morality -- really!

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/03/30/magnetic-zaps-to-the-brain-can-alter-peoples-moral-judgments/

Don't know where else to put this...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/opinion/a-brave-new-world-of-fossil-fuels-on-demand/article1871149/

I think 'Green jobs" fits in this thread.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/01/27/does-agency-pricey-green-job/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXO_ApjKPaI

That's awesome.

Obama's weird science

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnstossel/2011/03/09/obamas_green-jobs_fantasies

The more "nouveau" the green tech, the more it costs to create that job because you have to create/subsidize the science around that job, too. If volume of jobs in the short term is the only goal, green tech is not the right starting point. That's the crux of the actual research on this. Big whoop. It costs more at the get-go to innovate. Those costs go down as the job and tech becomes less innovative. That's not weird science, but fairly typical science.

Can't afford it. Quit forcing it.

Can we afford not to? When does "peak oil" hit the big OPEC nations? What, if anything, can/should we be doing to avoid or deal with global climate change? How much pollution is "too much" from a health perspective? Some of this stuff takes a lot of lead time and experimentation.

Most of that shit Gore was whinning about has been debunked.

Solution: Start fucking drilling for oil. It'll give us some time to find some alternative...hopefully. The truth is, there is nothing out there that does replace oil right now that makes sense from a day to day perspective and economically or something.

Is "some time to find some alternative" enough time? What is time without money to pursue such research? Hopefully?

I absolutely agree with you to the extent that most "green jobs" are not optimal for today's economy, compared to jobs in less-progressive areas. That's what that study that you called "Obama's weird science" said. But at some point, you have to invest in the future or it's likely to suck. Many "green jobs" amount to energy R&D, and reasonable people can and do differ about how much energy R&D budget is appropriate. There seems to be a fair amount of energy-efficiency stuff that isn't very controversial (unless you're a business that stands to lose money from it being implemented). Monitoring, say, the power draw at a breaker level (so folks can map out what appliance clusters suck up what) should be ubiquitous. <sigh>

I don't know if its enuf time. If not, we still use oil.

But its just fucking FUCKING CRAZY all the fucking MONEY that ODumba has given to green energy and it isn't doing shit.

There's some types of green energy work that aren't nearly as pricey. Tilting at windmills is more conventional and less of a reach than tilting at solar panels or cold fusion.

As for some legitimate science, even if it isn't all that weird -- Sheed was right to call bank:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310151224.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

There's some types of green energy work that aren't nearly as pricey. Tilting at windmills is more conventional and less of a reach than tilting at solar panels or cold fusion.


How many billions did TBoone lose on wind energy?

As for some legitimate science, even if it isn't all that weird -- Sheed was right to call bank:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110310151224.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

That's news? I was taught that in grade school :P

How many billions did TBoone lose on wind energy?
The big deal there is competing with natural gas, which is somewhat cheaper and dirtier. Natural gas is the next diesel fuel... alternative energy that goes a lot further internationally than in the U.S.

This whole 'dirty' thing is the thing that peeps aren't so sure about anymore.

Pretty wow stuff: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/03/30/kinect-makes-uav-eve.html

This system is based on recent advances in visual odometry research, and combines a number of ideas from the state-of-the-art algorithms.


I was just about to summarize it this way, but they beat me to it.

Big Swami, this one's for you...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110420112328.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Weird science has consequences, especially when it involves semen and Michigan doctors:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-smerconish/semengate-stuns-scientifi_b_853164.html

Big Swami, this one's for you...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110420112328.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Yay mindfulness!

Will transparent aluminum be invented here in Detroit?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110609173718.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Straight talk from scientists (about Asian carp) -- weird:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110630112859.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Straight talk from scientists (about Asian carp) -- weird:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/06/110630112859.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29
Time to call in the big guns:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN2gMP3Q2Z4

WIN THE FUTURE!

This worked for Schwarzenegger -- not!

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/15130319/ut-study-secret-to-happy-marriage-a-skinny-wife

Here's a study that might apply more to Ahnuld:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725123411.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

I always enjoy your posts in this thread Mxy.

Researchers at RIKEN, Japan's flagship research organization, have developed a ground-breaking new aqueous reagent which literally turns biological tissue transparent.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110831081548.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Looking ahead, Miyawaki's team has set its sights on an ambitious goal. "We are currently investigating another, milder candidate reagent which would allow us to study live tissue in the same way, at somewhat lower levels of transparency.

not weird, but sounds like this anti-cancer virus may be legit. Thank "God."

MSU Spartans prove that sleeping on your books and class notes the night before an exam helps you on that big test the next day -- it's called osmosis:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110927124653.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Men are truthful when their penis is broken:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/rosenwald-md/post/cheating-men-and-broken-penises/2011/10/03/gIQAhINIIL_blog.html

One little fold separates reality from bullshit?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111004180108.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Why people like porn?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111017111612.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Thats weird.

The meaning of LeBron:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111021151611.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Shocking.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44982651/ns/health-mens_health/

Zombie cockroaches. No shit.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-zuk-insects-are-the-real-zombies-20111031,0,2252055.story

I guess I must have a great credit rating:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111102125648.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

I wonder what Crystal Gayle thinks:

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/health/medical/story/2011-11-08/Laser-treatment-may-turn-brown-eyes-blue/51126590/1

Vodka tampons. For men. WTF?

http://www.kpho.com/story/15981315/teens-using-vodka-tampons-to-get-drunk

If I were the aliens, I'd be upset too:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/24/exoplanet_habitability_rankings/

http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00987/robo_987770t.jpg

'RoboCop' guards to patrol South Korean prisons (http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/robocop-guards-to-patrol-south-korean-prisons-2945431.html)

http://www.independent.ie/multimedia/archive/00987/robo_987770t.jpg

'RoboCop' guards to patrol South Korean prisons (http://www.independent.ie/business/technology/robocop-guards-to-patrol-south-korean-prisons-2945431.html)
Apparently, here's the technology it was based on:
Pvrcx6FuwU8

They call out Kobe, but this one's for Fatoine:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111207104934.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

CNN


NASA scientists today announced the discovery of two Earth-sized planets.

The planets were discovered by the Kepler space telescope team.

The two planets are believed to be too close to their sun and thus too hot to be habitable with temperatures ranging from 800 to 1,400 degrees.

Scientists speculate that one of the planets called Kepler 20F might have had liquid water at one time in its history and could have been habitable.

The Kepler science team says this is the first time humanity has been able to detect planets of Earth size in the universe.

A previously un-named species of horse fly whose appearance is dominated by its glamorous golden lower abdomen has been named in honour of American pop diva, Beyoncé.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/images/2012/01/120113093634.jpg
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120113093634.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Great news for Antoine Walker:


NBA players may be too conservative with their shots, according to a comparison with a theoretical model describing shot selection

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120125172312.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

According to the least surprising science ever, being an idiot gives you wingnut tendencies and being a wingnut tends to make you an idiot in a self-reinforcing cycle of ignorance.

Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice (http://news.yahoo.com/low-iq-conservative-beliefs-linked-prejudice-180403506.html)

8 hours of sleep at night is unnatural:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16964783

I wonder how this works if you're having sex in an airplane:

http://www.gizmag.com/condoms-with-qr-codes-track-when-and-where-you-do-the-nasty/21649/

Scientific proof that classical music is better than new age muzak and unfortunately that opera is better than a monotone

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120323001248.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Clearly, these engineers have never seen the movie Armageddon:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120327124241.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

X-Ray Cellphones -- soon, ads for them will appear in comic books:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120418135306.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Will Baz Luhrmann have to re-do the Sunscreen Song?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120507131951.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

In a major new climate finding, researchers have calculated that dinosaur flatulence could have put enough methane into the atmosphere to warm the planet during the hot, wet Mesozoic era.
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/dinosaur-fart-may-have-warmed-earth-1.1291514

One small step for Instagram... one giant leap for Facebook:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120607190748.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Now that we have Maggette as a Piston, this seems particularly relevant:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Sex/man-plagued-porn-induced-headaches/story?id=16678155

Just for the record, there are no mermaids:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18692830

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120803082905.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Is it really the case that less teens are getting driver's licenses because the Internet is more pervasive, or is it simply a function of cost and regulatory environment? My first take is not to believe the "Internet" rationale.

Another reason why cumming into a woman can be dangerous:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/08/120820152100.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Being able to use an ink cartridge for an inkjet printer to print out medical testing strips seems like it could be really cool:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121002183028.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Felix Baumgartner: Supersonic skydiver hits mach 1.24 in terrifying plummet to Earth from 128,000ft | Mail Online

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2217412/Felix-Baumgartner-Supersonic-skydiver-hits-mach-1-24-terrifying-plummet-Earth-128-000ft.html?openGraphAuthor=%2Fhome%2Fsearch.html%3 Fs%3D%26authornamef%3DTom%2BLeonard%2BIn%2BNew%2BY ork&videoPlayerURL=http%3A%2F%2Fc.brightcove.com%2Fser vices%2Fviewer%2Ffederated_f9%3FisVid%3D1%26isUI%3 D1%26publisherID%3D1418450360%26playerID%3D7248435 9001%26domain%3Dembed%26videoId%3D&hasBCVideo=true&BCVideoID=1900999190001

Emo cell phones? Really?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121025112925.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

"There's Something About Mary" will be required viewing at med schools:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121110155815.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29


In their paper, the UCSF team noted that there are also standard procedures that emergency department doctors would do well to learn, such as "zipper detachment strategies for penile skin entrapment."

A good read...

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2012/1005/The-15-most-fascinating-accidental-inventions/Potato-chips

This guy must be a real hit at parties!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121112135516.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Humans Are Slowly but Surely Losing Intellectual and Emotional Abilities, Article Suggests

Designer vag? I thought that's what chicks got if they wore tight designer jeans. :)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121121210336.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

This is a cool article about jellyfish and a jellyfish researcher:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/magazine/can-a-jellyfish-unlock-the-secret-of-immortality.html?pagewanted=all

Worth it for the headline alone:


56% of Female University Students Get Drunk in Record Time, Spanish Study Suggests
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121228084029.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

The study found that consumers make judgments about their risk of catching an illness based on the cost of its medication. The higher the price, the less they think they're at risk

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130104143451.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Why Facebook sucks, with science!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130121083028.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

No such problem here!

No such problem here!

lol and true

I didn't read the article but still laughed at Vin's post. I knew he was bringin the funny.

Hey married folks -- don't do women's chores and you'll get laid more:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130130082258.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Fizix for the win!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57570063-71/prof-strips-shows-hitler-9-11-images-to-teach-quantum-mechanics/

Obviously today's scientists are still profiting from watching Terminator 2:

They've finally been able to reverse-engineer the T1000:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130311173907.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

And I'm sure this network will be renamed Skynet soon:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130311091123.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

My spider sense is tingling...
http://www.gizmag.com/spidersense-suit/26592/

Scientists Theorize Existence Of NBA Roster Capable Of Supporting Dwight Howard
http://www.theonion.com/articles/scientists-theorize-existence-of-nba-roster-capabl,31675/?ref=auto

Bill Gates is creating condoms with his picture on them:

http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/5769/20130325/bill-gates-offers-1-m-invent-worlds-next-generation-condom.htm

Anti-rape underwear (which probably doubles as a vibrator):

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57577796/indian-students-invent-anti-rape-underwear/

Maybe this should be more like "dumb science" but how is "aerobic exercise" an "alternative" treatment for high blood pressure??

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130422175710.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29


Apr. 22, 2013 — Alternative therapies such as aerobic exercise, resistance or strength training, and isometric hand grip exercises may help reduce your blood pressure, according to the American Heart Association.

In a new scientific statement published in its journal Hypertension, the association said alternative approaches could help people with blood pressure levels higher than 120/80 mm Hg and those who can't tolerate or don't respond well to standard medications.

However, alternative therapies shouldn't replace proven methods to lower blood pressure -- including physical activity,

So exercise is alternative, but physical activity isn't? Or is it that everything is alternative when the solution is to get you on drugs for life?

Geezus...

Maybe it's supposed to mean a specific exercise regimen advocated by alternative-health practitioners, performed to the exclusion of all other blood-pressure advice and treatment? Without seeing the actual study, I'm guessing this is more a problem of bad science writing than bad research.

http://hyper.ahajournals.org/content/early/2013/04/22/HYP.0b013e318293645f.full.pdf

Anything that isn't a pill or a dietary choice is "alternative".

The future of splints:

http://www.freep.com/article/20130522/NEWS/305220150/U-M-doctors-use-3D-printer-create-airway-implant-baby

Is this the app that Stephen Curry uses?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130528160918.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Theeqwet agents are more prone to shitty decision making than the average joe?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130709091409.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

The science of making money:

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-07-11/in-iraq-the-bomb-detecting-device-that-didnt-work-except-to-make-money?google_editors_picks=true

Is that a gorilla in your lungs or are you just happy to take my money?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130719112134.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Yo TMac...
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130801155738.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Will "brain shaking" be a new workout fad?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-14/brain-shaking-technique-offers-measure-of-consciousness.html

For that matter, why work out at all? Soon we won't have to...

http://www.gizmag.com/scripps-drug-sr9009-exercise-mimic/28651/

Am I the only one who wants to marry a sugar mama?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/08/130829092637.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

ReliaFit features a gentle, hydrocolloid seal that conforms to the skin, a flexible faceplate that fits any size anatomy (including uncircumcised and retracted anatomy), and a vent to improve drainage. It also includes Mastisol, a non-water soluble adhesive with a proven safety profile, to increase the securement of ReliaFit to the patient’s anatomy.
http://detroit.cbslocal.com/2013/09/09/ferndale-firm-introduces-male-urinary-management-device/

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/science/dna-double-take.html?pagewanted=all


Not long ago, researchers had thought it was rare for the cells in a single healthy person to differ genetically in a significant way. But scientists are finding that it’s quite common for an individual to have multiple genomes. Some people, for example, have groups of cells with mutations that are not found in the rest of the body. Some have genomes that came from other people.

A simple measurement of the sweat gland activity of a depressed person can determine if he or she is suicidal -- with 97 per cent accuracy.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130924103228.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Research that was definitely not sponsored by Coke:
Caffeine Consumption Slows Down Brain Development, Rat Study Shows

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130924091323.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

I still think peanut butter is better used as a sex toy, or to help feed meds to obstinate dogs. But this is cool:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131010092427.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

I've gravitated to watching English language movies with subtitles and now I know why:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/10/131011135355.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

This is obvious to anyone who's ever eaten an Oreo.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2462624/Oreos-addictive-cocaine-Connecticut-College-scientists.html

Michigan company teaches kids to be psychopaths -- with roaches!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24455141

Does the Internet taste like cheesecake?

http://www.fastcompany.com/3022150/fast-feed/scientists-have-developed-a-way-for-us-to-taste-the-internet?partner=rss

Does this apply for NBA players?
How are the 80s explained?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131127115357.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Does this apply for NBA players?
How are the 80s explained?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/11/131127115357.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29
The gambling sites have had this for years. Been a bunch of studies. Interesting stuff, at this point I think it's over-adjusted so there's no real advantage....

U-M people researching sexual frustration
Newsflash, EMU is in Ypsitucky and those girls put out!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/daviddisalvo/2013/11/29/could-sexual-frustration-lead-to-a-shorter-life/

Does a guy wear this on their head?

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57614234-1/stress-buster-microsoft-bra-battles-emotional-overeating/

No, you idiot! You're supposed to swallow the Viagra pill, not jam it up her pussy with your dick!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/12/131205171817.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily% 3A+Latest+Science+News%29

Did these guys get it right?
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http://www.nature.com/news/simulations-back-up-theory-that-universe-is-a-hologram-1.14328

Tax dollars probably paid for these studies of fictional characters' dietary habits:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2524668/Villains-like-Gollum-Dracula-lose-end--lack-vitamin-D.html
http://www.bmj.com/content/347/bmj.f7255

Sane opinion in the midst of biased science on multivitamins -- these days, that's weird:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/in-defence-of-multivitamins/article16386104/

I wonder what happens if the couples watch Scarface, The Last Seduction, or Fatal Attraction...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140131130514.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Women like it faster!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140205075817.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Something to stroke off to...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140224081031.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

People are stupid. Tommy Lee Jones got it right.

kkCwFkOZoOY

Hey Nigeria... here's your new target audience.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140316133840.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Vaginas for everyone!

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/11/laboratory-grown-vaginas-genetic-condition/?ncid=rss_truncated&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb

Vaginas for everyone!

http://www.engadget.com/2014/04/11/laboratory-grown-vaginas-genetic-condition/?ncid=rss_truncated&utm_campaign=socialflow&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=fb

Hey, they can take a pounding. The same can't be said for balls.

I thought only Mxy had rights to post in this thread?

Whaddayouknow, Cool Guy Glan at it again.

Don't worry about it Fool, you can post wherever you want. What's he gonna to do about it anyways?

NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT I MEANT

I ACTUALLY THOUGHT IT WAS SOME KIND OF STRANGE FORUM PERMISSIONS ISSUE OR SOMETHING

YOU KNOW?

Here is your fish.
Here is your fish on antidepressants.
Any questions?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140416090534.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

If it doesn't make bionic sounds, it's not bionic.
And in the TV movies, you need frickin' laser beams too.

http://www.freep.com/article/20140423/FEATURES08/304230072/

Being a helper is more worthwhile than actually helping:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140430083135.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Women are more negative? Bitches!

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140501132636.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Don't cover suicide in the media because teenagers might kill themselves over it:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140501192621.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Of course, it's kind of a weird study inasmuch as it involves ~20-25 year old news.
And we all know that nothing has changed about news in the past couple decades...

Isn't it great to know that going above and beyond is so valued?

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140508133157.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Speaking from experience, bad emo shit happens when your woman starts taking the pill after your relationship.
This is research that speaks to me:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140514111752.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Animal is a genius!
http://www.musiciansmash.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/music-gallery-super10-drummer-animal-600x400-2.jpg
http://www.policymic.com/articles/89363/science-shows-how-drummers-brains-are-actually-different-from-everybody-elses

Porn shrinks parts of your brain. They drew no conclusions, but clearly it's the little brain taking over from the big brain.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/28/us-porn-brain-changes-idUSKBN0E82BK20140528

Weed fucks up your swimmers:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140604202946.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Who wants to be punched?

http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20140509054304.shtml

Science of ignoring your family:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140618131957.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Antidepressant use during pregnancy may lead to scanners:

RqSH_o35IHU

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140621213019.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Facebook is conducting twisted experiments on its users... beware!

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/facebook-manipulated-users-moods-in-secret-experiment-to-show-bad-moods-spread-9571004.html

Something to jerk off to:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/06/140630124859.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

^ Good link for 'you know who', Vinny.

Ha!

Vulcan mind-meld over the Interwebz!

http://news.discovery.com/tech/biotechnology/internet-telepathy-thoughts-transmitted-online-140903.htm

Smell the curry!
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140925205819.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

Using nasal cells to get a paralysed person walking again... wow!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-29645760

Extremists are less suggestible:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141216113111.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Scienc e+News+--+ScienceDaily%29