Those bastards! Now it’s not safe to fly with cheese!
“The seizures at airports in San Diego, Milwaukee, Houston and Baltimore included “wires, switches, pipes or tubes, cell phone components and dense clay-like substances,” including block cheese….The bulletin said block cheese has a consistency similar to some explosives.”
Now, as someone who frequently is a messy packer, [...]
This pushed me over the edge; I did in fact create a ‘WTF’ tag category just for this post. It’s the sort of thing that reduces me to spluttering, grunting, gaping at my computer screen:
The Arizona Republic Jul. 17, 2007 05:47 PM
“A homeopathic doctor was suspended Tuesday for his role in a botched [...]
Don’t Mix DEET and sunscreen
Evidence that sunscreen increases absorption across the skin for both products. You should be wearing sun-protective clothing anyway! Seriously!
Mormon Cricket Genome published
Great example of undergraduate research! No word on whether copies of the genome will now be placed in hotel rooms nationwide.
Butterfly recovers from possible extinction
“Once relegated to a few small [...]
It has rained one day in the last six weeks here, so I figured it was a good time to scrub, clean, and reseal our deck.
I’m going to be recuperating today, so I direct you to CuteOverload for the cutest otter picture EVER!!!!
Also, there is an I Can Has Cheezburger? pool on Flickr:
PZ has a great post, with photos, of mosquito love songs at Pharyngula. (A new paper just came out on how mosquito males and females harmonize to see if they can make sweet music together.)
This awesome sculpture is apparently somewhere called Suwon City–in Korea. Remember the Gary Larson cartoon?
I sooooo want one of these in [...]
–UPDATED 7/22 to add new info–
Personally, I would find this profoundly creepy and intrusive:
STAUNTON, Va. — A growing workplace ministry is providing spiritual support to workers at factories, hospitals, and police and fire stations. Industrial and Commercial Ministries trains hundreds of lay and professional [...]
A new study in Canada suggests negative interactions between prescription drugs and herbal products are more common than reported. Almost half of pharmacists surveyed reported discussing problems with patients, although only 1% of them reported this to a monitoring agency (Canadian equivalent of FDA.) In contrast, they reported 19% of normal prescription drug side [...]
There is an interesting article in this week’s Science (Science 20 July 2007: Vol. 317. no. 5836, pp. 310 - 313) about a program to use sterile males to try to short-circuit breeding in the tse-tse fly:
“The scheme sounds simple. Produce as many as a million male flies a week, make them sterile by blasting [...]
Dang it! Pharyngula keeps beating me to the news:
7/20/07: An anti-evolutionary Christian extremist suspected of sending threatening letters to biology professors at the University of Colorado has gone on the lam, according to a staff member familiar with a police investigation into the matter….
“Staff at the biology department have been issued a [...]
A story in the news today: Man surprised by bot flies on his head! I was looking at some of the comments on that article and others, and thought some general info about bot flies might be useful.
How do you get a bot fly in your head? (Or, Just how freaked out about this should [...]
