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.

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.