The culture wars rage around embryonic stem cells vs. adult stem cells, there are pluripotent and totipotent cells, there are even cancer stem cells. But here’s a new stem cell technology we can all agree on: steak and burger stems cells! No, it’s not a joke, it’s real. At least that’s what a Dutch researcher says: [Read more…]
Enhanced-color view of Phobos obtained by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on March 23, 2008. Stickney crater, the largest, is on the right side.
The mysterious hurtling moons of Barsoom may soon be a little less mysterious thanks to an ambitious Russian mission set to lift off today, and return in three years with a piece of one of them: [Read more…]
Update: check out this creepy and very unclassy detail now being reported:
She said she didn’t witness any “inappropriate sexual behavior” at the group dinner. But she claimed he asked the waiter for two $400 bottles of wine, and then stiffed the rest of the group when it came time to pay.
Reeling under allegations of sexual misconduct, and with calls to respond more credibly now popping up on the conservative side of the aisle, Herman Cain vowed to set the record straight, scheduling a presser for this afternoon and it’s sure to be entertaining: [Read more…]
Path for 2005 YU55, times shown are Greenwich Mean Time. Subtract 6 hours to get Central Time in the US
When YU55 rolls past closest approach to earth this evening, a comfortable 200,000 miles away thank goodness, you won’t be able to see it with your unaided eye or even a small telescope. It would take a decent sized amateur scope just to see the little starlike point moving from west to east toward the constellation Pegasus in the hours before and after 6:28 PM EDT. But NASA has set up two websites that will have excellent viewing! [Read more…]
Two important votes in two very different states will test culture warriors and common sense today. Ohio voters go to the polls to vote on a recall of a recent bill pushed through by GOP Governor John Kasich restricting public employee unions — because nothing says constitutional liberty and small government like making it illegal for citizens to assemble and petition the government. Thankfully, polling is trending against this measure, but it’s not over til its over. The other vote in Mississippi will determine if blastocysts are people, polling there shows it coming down to the wire: [Read more…]
This time there are some juicy details about he supposedly did to a women seeking his help in finding a new job after she had been laid off from the organization headed by Herman Cain: [Read more…]
Foolish humans! Responding a petition from UFO nuts, the White House as issued a statement that there are no aliens, as far as they know, in Area 51 or anywhere else:
In addition, there is no credible information to suggest that any evidence is being hidden from the public’s eye. However, that doesn’t mean the subject of life outside our planet isn’t being discussed or explored.”
Not that that will end the claims of hidden aliens meddling in our race or governmental affairs. … I mean what else would a government compromised by Grays say?
In search of jobs, residents of the Great State of Mississippi will go to the polls tomorrow and vote on … personhood! Unfortunately, the writers of the amendment decided to unilaterally redefine the medical definition of conception in a way which will turn thousands of women, doctors, nurses, and pharmacists into child killers. But maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong — by we I mean me and by all wrong I mean trying to argue science and reason with knuckle-dragging Bible thumpers who think Genesis is a science text. [Read more…]
A new procedure being developed by a doctor in California may turn your brown eyes blue, literally, for $5,000:
Dr. Homer tells KTLA that all brown-eyed people have blue pigment in their irises too — and a quick session under a specially-tuned laser can destroy the melanin in the eye, with the change occurring gradually over two weeks. The procedure can not change blue eyes to brown.
It’s still being tested. And other doctors are skeptical, pointing out the procedure could have unintended consequences and pose risk to vision. Whatareyakiddingme? If this thing works half as well as Doc Homer hopes, he’s gonna become a multimillionaire.