British doctors are debating whether it is ethical to start clinical trials to allow voice box transplantation.
It is only a matter of time before other ethical questions will arise, such as how to decide who gets to have James Earl Jone’s voice box.
A brightly-coloured fish which bounces along the seabed has been hailed as a new species of frog fish by scientists - who have dubbed it "psychedelica".
Sadly, this discovery comes far too late for a late 60’s band to be named the New Psychedelica Frogfish.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Jokes: word fossils, real fossils
A linguistics team says it can predict which English words are likely to become extinct - citing "squeeze", "guts", "stick" and "bad" as probable first casualties.
That’s right, soon these words will be extinct, and no one will be able to understand any of the dialogue in today’s porn.
LOS ANGELES - Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near Los Angeles' famous La Brea Tar Pits.
Incredible. They found fossils. Right beside a famous deposit of fossils.
That’s right, soon these words will be extinct, and no one will be able to understand any of the dialogue in today’s porn.
LOS ANGELES - Scientists are studying a huge cache of Ice Age fossil deposits recovered near Los Angeles' famous La Brea Tar Pits.
Incredible. They found fossils. Right beside a famous deposit of fossils.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Jokes: space shuttles and mad scientists
TRENTON, N.J. – Drug company Pfizer Inc., is laying off up to 800 scientists in its latest effort to refocus and cut overhead
Pfizer is helping to locate jobs for the displaced, and also spearheading experiments to create superheroes to save us from the ranks of mad scientist supervillains these layoffs will no doubt create.
WASHINGTON - The head of NASA says the cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year's planned retirement is $3 billion a year plus extending the risk of a deadly accident.
But buying out the lease at this point would be a real mess.
Pfizer is helping to locate jobs for the displaced, and also spearheading experiments to create superheroes to save us from the ranks of mad scientist supervillains these layoffs will no doubt create.
WASHINGTON - The head of NASA says the cost of continuing the life of the space shuttle past next year's planned retirement is $3 billion a year plus extending the risk of a deadly accident.
But buying out the lease at this point would be a real mess.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
sick squirrels and Ritalin
Endangered red squirrels in the UK may finally be developing immunity to a disease carried by invasive non-native grey squirrels.
Wait, a British species is nearly annihilated because a foreign species came and spread diseases? Oh, the irony.
Increasing numbers of people are using prescription drugs like Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power. A UK bioethics professor says people should be allowed to make their own minds up about using drugs like Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power.
Yes, people should be allowed to make up their own minds, their own deeply drug-addicted minds.
Wait, a British species is nearly annihilated because a foreign species came and spread diseases? Oh, the irony.
Increasing numbers of people are using prescription drugs like Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power. A UK bioethics professor says people should be allowed to make their own minds up about using drugs like Ritalin to boost alertness and brain power.
Yes, people should be allowed to make up their own minds, their own deeply drug-addicted minds.
Monday, November 3, 2008
jokes: hybrid stem cells, teasing the space geeks, and dancing dinosaurs
Geologists say they have discovered prehistoric animal tracks so densely packed on a 3/4-acre site that they’re calling it a “dinosaur dance floor.”
And now we know what next summer’s crappy computer-animated Disney film is going to be about.
LONDON – British government overhauled sensitive science laws to allow scientists to use hybrid animal-human embryos. Also under the new laws: in-vitro fertilization clinics will no longer have to consider the need for a child to have a father when deciding whether to offer treatment to lesbian couples.
Yes, it’s good that they’re finally through debating the role of a father in a child’s life, now that they have to start debating the role of a cow.
NASA administrator Michael Griffin said critics in the media and on anonymous Internet blogs can "chip away" at morale by questioning the motives and ethics of engineers designing a next-generation rocket system.
Okay, I’m no rocket scientist, but even I know that telling anonymous internet bloggers that they have destructive power will not make them stop.
And now we know what next summer’s crappy computer-animated Disney film is going to be about.
LONDON – British government overhauled sensitive science laws to allow scientists to use hybrid animal-human embryos. Also under the new laws: in-vitro fertilization clinics will no longer have to consider the need for a child to have a father when deciding whether to offer treatment to lesbian couples.
Yes, it’s good that they’re finally through debating the role of a father in a child’s life, now that they have to start debating the role of a cow.
NASA administrator Michael Griffin said critics in the media and on anonymous Internet blogs can "chip away" at morale by questioning the motives and ethics of engineers designing a next-generation rocket system.
Okay, I’m no rocket scientist, but even I know that telling anonymous internet bloggers that they have destructive power will not make them stop.
Monday, October 13, 2008
British astronauts! and taste buds in your belly
Britain's new science minister has made it clear that he thinks the country ought to have an astronaut to inspire young people to pursue careers in science.
He’s right. Youngsters in the UK and elsewhere should aspire to "orbit it like Beckham”.
A US-based team of scientists studying digestion say that taste receptors in the gut may slow absorption of bad-tasting foods, suggesting that some medication might be absorbed more quickly if it was not so bitter tasting.
So, now we know that the advertisements are in fact wrong: Buckley’s tastes awful, and hence does NOT work.
He’s right. Youngsters in the UK and elsewhere should aspire to "orbit it like Beckham”.
A US-based team of scientists studying digestion say that taste receptors in the gut may slow absorption of bad-tasting foods, suggesting that some medication might be absorbed more quickly if it was not so bitter tasting.
So, now we know that the advertisements are in fact wrong: Buckley’s tastes awful, and hence does NOT work.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Lights out, and no corn for you!
TORONTO - Millions of people across Canada and around the globe are expected to turn out their lights Saturday evening to raise awareness about pollution and global warming in an initiative known as Earth Hour.
It will be hard to get by without electricity for an hour, but I intend to tough it out by the warmth of a pile of burning tires.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The price of corn could either stabilize or continue to soar depending on how much corn American farmers choose to plant this season.
Yeah, you all laughed when I started hording Doritos, but who’s laughing now?
No one wants to say it, but the next time you go for a corn cob pipe, it might not be there.
It will be hard to get by without electricity for an hour, but I intend to tough it out by the warmth of a pile of burning tires.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The price of corn could either stabilize or continue to soar depending on how much corn American farmers choose to plant this season.
Yeah, you all laughed when I started hording Doritos, but who’s laughing now?
No one wants to say it, but the next time you go for a corn cob pipe, it might not be there.
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