What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin
LiveScience.com - Bizarre Human Brain Parasite Precisely Alters Fear
Topic: Science
11:04 am EDT, Apr 10, 2007
Rats usually have an innate fear of cat urine. The fear extends to rodents that have never seen a feline and those generations removed from ever meeting a cat. After they get infected with the brain parasite Toxoplasma gondii, however, rats become attracted to cat pee, increasing the chance they'll become cat food.
This much researchers knew. But a new study shows the parasite, which also infects more half the world's human population, seems to target a rat's fear of cat urine with almost surgical precision, leaving other kinds of fear alone.
This discovery could shed light "on how fear is generated in the first place" and how people can potentially better manage phobias, researcher Ajai Vyas, a Stanford University neuroscientist, told LiveScience.
Hijacking the mind
T. gondii is a parasitic germ whose primary hosts are cats. However, it can be found in most warm-blooded animals, including an estimated 50 million people in the United States. One study suggests the parasite has altered human behavior enough to shape entire cultures.
I think i understand the elections now. People like bullshit like rats like cat piss. It's a virus.
Meade intros mySKY Personal Planetarium - Engadget
Topic: Science
10:58 am EDT, Apr 10, 2007
It may not let you take deep space photographs, but Meade's new mySKY Personal Planetarium should help to give you a better sense of your cosmic environs, and also double as a suitable ray gun prop in your next no-budget sci-fi movie. To keep things simple, Meade's thankfully packed some GPS capabilities into the device, which should keep it properly aligned at all times with no input needed from you. Those GPS capabilities can also be extended to any Meade AutoStar-enabled telescope, with the mySKY doubling as a control unit for the telescope. In either configuartion, the device will let you find and identify more than 30,000 astronomical objects, displaying all the relevant information on its 480 x 234 LCD. You'll need to be fairly serious about your backyard astronomy to consider one of these though, with it set to demand a hefty $400 when it's released next month.
'In 10 years we will be able to grow a heart' | Uk News | News | Telegraph
Topic: Technology
10:54 am EDT, Apr 4, 2007
Thousands of people with heart disease could have new, healthy organs grown in laboratories within 10 years.
In 2003 almost 10,000 people needed surgery to replace heart valves with artificial ones The breakthrough was a significant step on the way to growing whole new organs, including hearts
A team of British scientists has succeeded in making stem cells develop into simple tissue structures that work like human heart valves.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father. He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared. It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
Does Richards have a son? If so, he's in for a big treat one day...
YouTube - Don't Copy That Floppy (HIGH QUALITY version!)
Topic: Computers
3:07 pm EDT, Apr 3, 2007
Its ashame piracy ended the Gaming Industry in the 80's. It makes me wonder what could have been. PS. I think public service style rap might be the worst music ever made.
