THAT'S not Lester! Lester's an old woman in a teal dress who kicks babies for fu.... oh. Now THAT looks like Lester.

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Originally posted by Trogdor:
"Wanna brawt, Jesus! We got brawts ova hea!"

*sigh* Remember when stonings were big sports events?

(cue the organ) BOM bumbumbum BOM bumbumbum BOM bumbumbum BOM bumbumbum...

Scientists create transparent frog ... but do they taste different?

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Research funded by the US Air Force Research Laboratory has come up with a breakthrough battery: a betavoltaic power cell that lasts for 30 years without a recharge.

Air Force Research Laboratory
Betavoltaic Battery Could Power Your Laptop for Thirty Years
Batterie versorgt Notebook 30 Jahre lang mit Energie.

Ig Nobel Prizes Stranger Than Fiction
Ceremony honors dubious uses of Viagra, a gay bomb, and other duds from the world of research
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/1005/1?etoc

Surveillance moths

Earth 2.0 found.

God: "Now, don't fuck this one up you twits."

Quick, hand me the bug spray.

Also...

Take that anthropocentrism!

Oh yuck, it looks like icky bacteria are dripping on us animals. Ick, ick, ick.

Source: From Science Daily Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. "Nano-assembly Mimics Origin Of Life? Molecules Organize Themselves Into Patterns." ScienceDaily 1 November 2007. 1 November 2007

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The automatic molecular assembly and selection steps exhibited by the molecules, which start as random mixtures, demonstrates a fundamental step in the evolution of life. The organization is activated by instructions which are built-in to the molecules. During assembly, molecules exhibit active selection: those in incorrect positions move to make room for others which fit properly.

The molecular-level observation of such self-selection gives, for the first time, direct insight into fundamental steps of the biological evolution from inanimate molecules to living entities. The resulting nanostructures also hold great promise as an efficient avenue to new catalysts, nanotechnologies, and surface applications.

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...after all you can chuck bones in an envelope -- remotepush

"Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor not an animator!" -- Thal

...if it's that small a world, it starts to smell funny -- CayceP

Y'all are crazy, Science News isn't interesting, Sports is Interesting! Sports is Awesome! My linebacker can kick the crap out of your nano-whats-a-ma-call-it!

Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything

An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists.
In winter, he heads to the mountains near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where he snowboards. "Being poor sucks," Lisi says. "It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month."

Despite this unusual career path, his proposal is remarkable because, by the arcane standards of particle physics, it does not require highly complex mathematics.

Even better, it does not require more than one dimension of time and three of space, when some rival theories need ten or even more spatial dimensions and other bizarre concepts. And it may even be possible to test his theory, which predicts a host of new particles, perhaps even using the new Large Hadron Collider atom smasher that will go into action near Geneva next year.

Although the work of 39 year old Garrett Lisi still has a way to go to convince the establishment, let alone match the achievements of Albert Einstein, the two do have one thing in common: Einstein also began his great adventure in theoretical physics while outside the mainstream scientific establishment, working as a patent officer, though failed to achieve the Holy Grail, an overarching explanation to unite all the particles and forces of the cosmos.

At first, I thought this was an article from The Onion.

I bet those Super String dudes can't wax a board for shit.

PDF of E8 article

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I bet those Super String dudes can't wax a board for shit.

hee hee

or ride a half pipe.