Money for old mice: Competition seeks world's longest-lasting mouse.: "A contest to produce the oldest laboratory mouse, and so help to unravel the mysteries of human ageing, is launched in Britain today."
Tuesday, September 23
Money for old mice: Competition seeks world's longest-lasting mouse.
Got an old mouse sitting around doing nothing? Now's your chance to trade it in for cold hard cash: From Nature...
Monday, September 22
52 projects
Bored this weekend? This will keep you busy all year.
52 projects
Find your old letters. Gather up all of the letters that one of your oldest friends has sent to you over the years. Photocopy the letters. Put the photocopies in an envelope, and then mail off the envelope to your friend.
Monday, September 8
Low Freq. Sound Haunts a House
So the question is, how do we generate "infrasound" for our halloween party this year?
Reuters | Latest Financial News / Full News Coverage: "Soundless Music Shown to Produce Weird Sensations
Sun September 7, 2003 07:09 PM ET
By Patricia Reaney
MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - Mysteriously snuffed out candles, weird sensations and shivers down the spine may not be due to the presence of ghosts in haunted houses but to very low frequency sound that is inaudible to humans.
British scientists have shown in a controlled experiment that the extreme bass sound known as infrasound produces a range of bizarre effects in people including anxiety, extreme sorrow and chills -- supporting popular suggestions of a link between infrasound and strange sensations."
Thursday, September 4
Keepers of the Magic Kingdom
When you're weary,
Feeling small,
When tears are in your eyes...
Read this article and know just how great your life is. How very, very great. Amazing. Wonderful.
LA Weekly: Features: Keepers of the Magic Kingdom: "Benji Breitbart doesn’t go to Disneyland every day.
“I wasn’t here last Thursday,” he says as we walk down Main Street. “I usually come six days a week.”
We’re moving quickly. “I have things I need to do,” Benji says. He’s canvassing the park, looking for anything new or out of place."
Tuesday, September 2
Condi's Phony History - Sorry, Dr. Rice, postwar Germany was nothing like Iraq. By Daniel Benjamin
Our administration caught in more lies that I'm sure will never see th e light of day in the mainstream "liberal" media.
sigh.from Slate
Condi's Phony History - Sorry, Dr. Rice, postwar Germany was nothing like Iraq. By Daniel Benjamin: "So, how did this fanciful version of the American experience in postwar Germany get into the remarks of a Princeton graduate and former trustee of Stanford's Hoover Institute (Rumsfeld) and the former provost of Stanford and co-author of an acclaimed book on German unification (Rice)? Perhaps the British have some intelligence on the matter that still has not been made public. Of course, as the president himself has noted, there is a lot of revisionist history going around."
sigh.from Slate
Condi's Phony History - Sorry, Dr. Rice, postwar Germany was nothing like Iraq. By Daniel Benjamin: "So, how did this fanciful version of the American experience in postwar Germany get into the remarks of a Princeton graduate and former trustee of Stanford's Hoover Institute (Rumsfeld) and the former provost of Stanford and co-author of an acclaimed book on German unification (Rice)? Perhaps the British have some intelligence on the matter that still has not been made public. Of course, as the president himself has noted, there is a lot of revisionist history going around."
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