Sodomized Ex-McDonald’s Employee Wins $6.1M
There’s a headline you don’t see every day. Gory details here.
meehawl all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Nil Metaphase
Today I did some personal chromosomal analysis: karyotyping. Extracted some blood, cultured it in a growth medium to encourage cellular DNA synthesis and division, then killed the cells, stained them, and went looking for...
Typing Monkeys
Many people debate what is the most pointlessly long article about trivia on Wikipedia. This one about Sony PSP exploits may be a winner!
Golf Mania
I saw an email asking if people wanted to attend a conference being organised by the American College of Physicians. When I checked the location, I decided to count how many golf courses were...
Mitochondria Gone Wild
We had a clinical presentation today from Richard Hass, a mitochondrial disease expert with UCSD’s Mitochondrial and Metabolic Disease Center. It was tough. He presented case after case of doomed little children who basically...
No Last Words
WMD (Weapon of Mime Destruction) Marcel Marceau is dead. No last words, apparently. This will have to do.
Highest Bidder Wins
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of...
Infertile Crescent
That on the two parallel banks of the Tigris and of the Euphrates bad weeds should grow, that no one should set out on the road, that no one should seek out the highway,...
Never Being Kissed
Villagers don’t kiss anymore in a corner of Democratic Republic of Congo hit by the deadly and highly contagious Ebola virus.People began falling ill in April in Kampungu, Western Kasai province, centre of an...
Shangri-Lame
Few Tibetans would welcome a return of the corrupt aristocratic clans that fled with [the Dalai Lama] in 1959 and that comprise the bulk of his advisers. Many Tibetan farmers, for example, have no...