January 2010
157 posts
10 Of The Strangest Unclaimed Airline Baggage... →
1. Hoggle from the movie “Labyrinth.” Yes. Someone checked the orignal puppet.
2. A Gucci suitcase filled with ancient Egyptian artifacts.
3. A rattlesnake. Yes. A snake on a plane.
4. A $250,000 guidance system belonging to the U.S. Navy.
5. A Barbie doll stuffed with $500 in cash. Best. Birthday. Ever.
6. A suit of armor. Stupid TSA probably wouldn’t let the owner wear...
this recipe for dulce de leche will be the end of... →
this sounds way too easy and way too awesome to not make.
FFFFFFF- Mouse Skin cells induced to... →
rzinz:
another victory for one of my favorite ‘new things’ in genetics; epigenetics!
(ps epigenetics is on the longggg list of evolutionary phenomena i want to study)
(p.p.s- this is related to epigenetics because they were able to remove and bypass the epigenetic changes in a cell’s dna that kept it differentiated.)
whoah. awesome.
so now my question is.. how do we actually start applying...
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who...”
– JD Salinger
so I started browsing grad cafe to see if there's... →
nope. it’s pretty likely I’ve been implicitly rejected by everywhere I applied, except Ohio State, who should be getting back to me in the next couple of weeks.
fantastic. well, here’s to a career doing menial research!
I'm doing the MIT getfit challenge →
I’m on team “Pillowy Mounds of Mashed Potatoes.” (CLICK IT!) our goal as a team this week is 150 minutes and I’ve personally done 115 already! my legs feel jellowy from spinning.
some awesome team names I found:
Pavlov’s Dawgs: “Toned” Conditioning (you know, Psych 101?)
If Lifting were Easy it would be Called Your Mom
Does my mass look big?
Butt,...
the subplot of The Pregnancy Pact involves the female blogger and the male vice principal, who apparently (in this story) dated in high school. so the blogger got pregnant at 16, and the dude begged her to stay.
there was just a scene where he was yelling at her to apologize for not staying in bumblefuck and marry him and keep the baby. I’m sorry dude, it’s not your body and your...
watching pregnancy pact on lifetime
yessssssssss
Beauty Fades, Loneliness is Forever by Elizabeth... →
jesuismilena:
I love Elizabeth Wurtzel’s writing.
one of my favorite authors, doing what she does best: writing dark truths about life.
A Double Blind Trial of Placebos, Extra Strength... →
Three subjects were then recruited to evaluate the effectiveness of each pill. Since none of the test subjects were suffering from any symptoms of illness, they were asked to evaluate the pills on the basis of general effectiveness. In lieu of payment for being guinea pigs the subjects were supplied with the pills at no cost, but were told that they were to imagine that they were paying one...
“Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky....”
– Rebecca Solnit
my mom sent me a text message, half normal...
wait, what?
Watcheveryone’s been talking that the shiba inu puppycam is back online with new pups, but I think the beaglecam takes the cake.
lickystickypickyme:
There is a highly disturbing tendency in some commercials in the US. Where moms try to disguise that in certain foods there are vegetables. I just saw the Chef Boyardee one where a girl spells V-E-G-E-T-A-B-L-E-S on a can of that crap and asks her mom what it means.
That idiot of a mom doesn’t dare to tell her it spells vegetables. Like it is something evil that will scare...
Female scientists do about twice as many household... →
okay, these articles about successful women today are really pissing me off.
Alzheimer's disease, a myth? →
[translated from French with Google Translate]
Full disclosure: I work for a pharmaceutical company which in theory could make money treating Alzheimer’s Disease.
I hope that the tone of this article has been lost in translation, because if I’ve read it correctly, it seems to be indicating that Alzheimer’s Disease has been made up by the pharmaceutical industry just to make...
More Men Marrying Wealthier Wives - NYTimes.com →
Ms. Zielinski, the fashion stylist, said her best friend, a man, told her once: “ ‘You are confident, have good credit, own your own business, travel around the world and are self-sufficient. What man is going to want you?’ He laughed, but I found that pretty depressing.”
