Human-sheep hybrid
By injecting human cells into the fetus of a sheep, scientists have created a sheep that’s 15% human. To the chagrin of human-animal hybrid fans, the sheep does not have human features.
Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera – which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.
The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells – and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.
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Animal rights activists fear that if the cells get mixed together, they could end up with cellular fusion, creating a hybrid which would have the features and characteristics of both man and sheep. But Prof Zanjani said: “Transplanting the cells into foetal sheep at this early stage does not result in fusion at all.”
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Super Mario, the stop-motion Legos edition
This little stop-motion animation recreates Super Mario Brothers in legos, which is charming enough, but what’s even better is the theme, performed on guitar and recorder, and the sound effects, which appear to be some guy going “week! week!” and so on.
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He Was Only Five-Foot-Three; Girls Could Not Resist His Stare
A Hidden Picasso: Will Shank always suspected something was buried beneath Picasso’s Scène de Rue, a somber street scene painted by Picasso in the fall of 1900 during his first stay in Paris. X-rays revealed a second painting: a nightclub scene which appeared to be the prototype for Picasso’s Le Moulin de la Galette, a 1900 painting thought to be the first Picasso made in Paris. Technicians extracted the colors visible through the cracks in the surface of Scène de Rue and transferred them onto a black-and-white radiograph.
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The Economics of Fat
Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: the Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for the period 1982-1996, we find that individual BMI measures, as well as the likelihood of being overweight or obese, exhibit a statistically significant positive correlation with the prices of healthful relative to unhealthful foods.
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What took you so long?
The Evolution of Homer Simpson Best. (and Longest.) Couch gag. Evar.
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Poison Dart Machine Hidden at Hong Kong Race Track No good explanation for why and how someone dug up the turf at a Hong Kong racetrack and installed a machine capable of blowing poison darts at the horses. The Triads? (First link NYT)
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‘The new Doctor… He’s so young!’
Doctor Who fun and games. While you wait for Series 3 to start – and toss and turn wondering who the next Doctor will be – blow a little bit of time with K-9, the Daleks and the Slitheen.
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The eye of Sauron… er, Saturn
Riddle: What has an eye on the bottom, and a hexagon on the top?
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No more stargate :(
Sadly, I watched the last episode of Stargate SG-1 last week, I’m a stereotypical geek, so I loved it. It’s been on since I was 18, heh, thats a long ass time.
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Perinatal Hospice Programs
Living With a Dying Baby. "Families can choreograph their child�s very brief life with their family . . . Sometimes they may have a matter of minutes, so they decide beforehand who can hold the baby, who will cut the umbilical cord, who will hold the baby when you know he is going to die."
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400 digitized rare books
The Rare Book Room presents about 400 of the world’s greatest books from a variety of libraries in high resolution format. For some samples, check out: Apianus (Astronomicum Caesareum); Blake (Songs of Innocence and Experience); Braccelli (Bizzarie di Varie Figure); Catesby (The Natural History of Carolina…); Dürer (De Symmetria…); Colonna (Hypnerotomachia Poliphili). And on and on. The interface is great (use arrow far left at top for larger page image) but there’s a slight browser resize in FFox. A couple of author names are placeholders for future uploads it seems.
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Crazy Eyes Dolphin vs. The Mad Cows
Crazy Eyes Dolphin vs. The Mad Cows, an animated short by Ian Stewart. Bum bum bum.
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More than a feeling
Brad Delp 1951-2007 Lead singer for the band Boston , dead at 55. "We’ve just lost the nicest guy in rock and roll." is all you will find at the band Boston’s website
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Together We Are the Best
DEVPLL offers you tons of flash games to while away the hours. Try your hand at the logical games they offer like Hidden where your cursor disappears as you make your way through a simple maze or Paths 2 where a steady hand is your best asset.
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Vicious…you hit me with a flower
Three chords and four noble truths: on Philadelphia‘s legendary Buddhist hardcore band of the 1980s, Ruin.
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Feline Reactions to Bearded Men
Feline Reactions to Bearded Men: Cats do not like men with long beards, especially long dark beards. Cats are indifferent to men with shorter beards. Cats are confused and/or disturbed by men with beards that are incomplete and to a lesser degree by men whose beards have missing parts.
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R2D2 mailboxes from the US Postal Service
The USPS is rolling out a line of R2D2 mailboxes in honor of the 30th anniversary of Star Wars — these are really amazingly cool, they just work really well. It’s the Anthony Trollope/George Lucas mashup I’ve been waiting for all my life!
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Let us whisk you 5000 miles away to a land of romance and splendor
Arkiva Tropika is a huge archive of tropical-themed ephemera. Browse restaurant and drink menus, postcards, photos, brochures and matchbooks. Hours and hours worth of retro tiki goodness.
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Lovers of Wisdom – And ACTION!
From the award-winning comic series ACTION PHILOSOPHERS! comes these biographies of the titans of thought!
Thrill to the killer koans of Bam-Bam Bodhidharma! Shudder before the noble savagery of Terrible Thomas Jefferson! And enjoy (Or pick apart) tales of Crusher Carl Jung, Nasty Niccolo Machiavelli, Rowdy Rene Descartes, uh, Terribler Thomas Aquinas, The Pre-Socratics, and Gentleman John Stewart Mill!(Scroll down)
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A little rorschach with your breakfast
Art on a napkin:
Before ketchup art, before Esquire Napkin Fiction, there was the Mama’s Royal Café (checks and credit cards are cheerfully not accepted) napkin decorating contest. Enter now, (or, maybe don’t. I don’t want anyone to hurt my chances here!)
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Web 2.0
What is Web 2.0? [PDF] The best description of Web 2.0 that I have read.
The six big ideas…
1 Individual production and User Generated Content
2 Harness the power of the crowd
3 Data on an epic scale
4 Architecture of Participation
5 Network Effects
6 Openness
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