Opportunity's Microscopic Imager found this intriguing object, looking more like Rotini pasta. Its odd shape has stirred up Mars researchers, both inside and outside of the NASA Mars Rover Exploration team. Whether or not this object is related to biology has prompted a variety of views.

Main Story:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/opportunity_news_040302.html

[Looks like it could be some form of bacteria currently dubbed spirochete - http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/spirochetes.html. But I don't know what magnification that pic was taken at....probably too big to be a bacteria:) - Nano]

Martian Pasta

] It's official: Stewie Griffin's plans for world domination
] shall continue!
]

Sweet!

Eh, or rather...

Alllll Riiiight....

[Yes! I freakin love this show. The funny thing is, I really didn't pay attention to it when it was on the air, but now that it has been brought to my attention, I own the DVDs from seasons 1-3 because I love this show so much. Can't wait! - Nano]

Yahoo! News - Family Guy coming back to the air

Overpriced, yes.
For a good cause, yes.
You can't beat 100% of the profit going towards the research.

~ { : DNAstuff : } ~ what stuff life is made of...

] The team%u2019s discovery lays the foundation for many
] creative approaches to developing new therapies for HIV
] infection and AIDS, Sodroski says. One possibility is
] that monkey TRIM5-alpha could be delivered to HIV
] patients via gene therapy to rescue as-yet-uninfected
] cells. Alternatively, Sodroski offers, because humans
] make a protein that is 87 percent identical,
] investigators might also focus on rendering the human
] version of TRIM5-alpha more potent.

[ The sooner the better. -k]

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Monkey Protein Blocks HIV

Sex in the City - the movie!!!!!!!!! I already can't wait!! I hope that pans out

CNN.com - The end of 'Sex' - Feb. 20, 2004

] An experimental vaccine wiped out lung cancer in some
] patients and slowed its spread in others in a small but
] promising study, researchers say.

[wow...thats awesome. -nano]

CNN.com - Vaccine halts lung cancer in small study - Feb. 19, 2004

] A federal appeals court has agreed to hear a request from
] the woman formerly known as "Jane Roe" to reconsider the
] 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade that
] legalized abortion.

CNN.com - Effort to reopen Roe v. Wade - Feb. 19, 2004 (aKa, @$#%ing nuts!)

] CONSERVATIVE LYSENKOISM, CONTINUED. Tapped alum Chris
] Mooney reports here on a startling development: 20 Nobel
] Laureates have signed a statement calling on the Bush
] administration restore scientific integrity to the
] policymaking process. It's quite unprecedented, and very
] interesting. I've been following this topic -- often
] through Chris's valuable blog -- for the last two years,
] and I think this is emerging as one of the key political
] issues for 2004. For more reading, I'd check out the
] following three articles. First, Chris's profile of White
] House science advisor John Marburger in the Prospect.
] Second, this article by Nick Thompson documenting the
] growing divide between the GOP and the scientific
] community on a variety of issues where conservative
] theology conflicts with available evidence or scientific
] consensus. Finally, this piece by Richard Florida in the
] Washington Monthly, which explains how the Bush
] administration's anti-scientism (among other things)
] threatens our economic health.

TAPPED: Conservative Lysenkoism, Continued.

]
] VeriSign plans to unveil on Wednesday a digital identity
] program for school-age children, which it says will
] bolster online safety for the growing number of young Web
] surfers.

Whoa...

[Bleah....this seems shady as all hell - Nano]

VeriSign works to ID kid surfers

] Shit Bitch Bears are the most authentic and effective way
] to express deep feelings of lust, love and like to that
] special someone.

Awww...isn't Mike great.....this is what Mike is getting me for Valentines day.:)

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