Sodomized Ex-McDonald’s Employee Wins $6.1M
There’s a headline you don’t see every day. Gory details here.
Louise Ogborn / McDonald's / rum / social engineering / sodomy / the lash
by mike · Published 2007-10-06
There’s a headline you don’t see every day. Gory details here.
chromosome / DNA / karyotype / medicine / mutant / science
by mike · Published 2007-10-03 · Last modified 2007-10-06
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...
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...
Leigh's Syndrome / medicine / mitochondria / mitochondrial diseases / Richard Haas
by mike · Published 2007-09-24
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...
WMD (Weapon of Mime Destruction) Marcel Marceau is dead. No last words, apparently. This will have to do.
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...
archeology / Middle East / Sumer / Sumerian
by mike · Published 2007-09-20 · Last modified 2007-09-22
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,...
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...
Buddhism / China / Dalai Lama / feudalism / religion / Tenzin Gyatso / Tibet
by mike · Published 2007-09-16
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...
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