May 2010
Breakthrough as artificial life is created →
Scientists have created artifical life for the first time.
Does that make us God?
“Atlantic triangular trade”
– This is what the Texas Board of Re-Education is now calling the slave trade.
They will also be dropping Sir Isaac Newton in favor of examining scientific advances through military technology; “For every reaction there is an equal and opposite reaction, plus some collateral damage”.
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“There seems to have been a move away from a patriotic ideology. There seems to...”
– Texas Board of Education member Ms Dunbar outlines the views and goals of the Christian evangelicals and social conservatives that now control the board. Basically re-write history and put God into everything and to hell with Science.
Remember the Alamo!
Peptides may hold 'missing link' to life →
Scientists have found that simple peptides can organize into bi-layer membranes. Suggesting that peptides could be the “missing link” between the Earth’s pre-biotic chemical inventory and the organizational scaffolding essential to life.
“We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would...”
– Marie Curie (via scienceisbeauty) (via cerebrus) (via agirlsaidtotheuniverse)
I need to work on my interview technique
Interviewer: Tell me where would you like to see your self in three years?
Me: In paid employment.
Interviewer: What are looking for in a company?
Me: Money.
Interviewer: What do you see as your best asset?
Me: My house.
Interviewer: What do you see as your biggest weakness?
Me: I'm unemployed, again.
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Jon Stewart Slams Apple Over Its Handling of Gizmodo Case
Dick Cheney responsible for oil spill. →
OK follow me on this one.
The US Minerals Management Service has serious misgivings about the practice of “cementing” (seals gaps between well pipe and drill hole to prevent oil leaks), which has been implicated in major oil leaks and fires at a number of offshore rigs.
The MMS recommended the mandatory use of acoustic shut-off devices as used on Norwegian and Brazilian rigs. The US...
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Scripture classes lose half of students to ethics,... →
Anglican Churches are up in arms in New South Wales (Australia) over the trial of an ethics course in 10 NSW primary schools. The course is optional and is intended as an alternative to the optional scripture classes now been given by untrained volunteers. The problem the churches have is that in the trial schools enrollment in scripture has dropped by 47% as students pick the more rational...