January 20, 2008

Science Made Stupid Monday

Hey, kids! What time is it? It's Time to wake up to the sewage crisis

"The 'sewage crisis' is inextricably intertwined with the world's freshwater crisis.... So what's happening to rectify [sic] the situation? The answer, sadly, is not nearly enough."
Yes, indeed. Sometimes it is right to stand and fight. Sometimes it is far too late and the only answer is... FLEE!


[Sewer explosion video via House of Eratosthenes]

Meanwhile, in other news....

  • Mechanism That Controls Activation Of Stem Cells During Hair Regeneration Identified Mechanism announces it is running for President of the Hair Club for Men.
  • Could The Universe Be Tied Up With Cosmic String? If so, well, pluck it.
  • The Bataan Death March Diet: For Weight Control You Will Need To Walk More Than 10,000 Steps A Day
  • "Short people got.... Short people got... Short people got...." Short birth length more than doubles risk of violent suicide attempts
  • First waterboarding and now THIS! Shock therapy making a comeback
  • File Under "Environmentalists Screw the 3rd World Yet Again:" FuturePundit: Biofuels Use Pushes Up Vegetable Oil Costs
  • Gaydar. It's Everywhere. And fast too. An Eye for Sexual Orientation -- ScienceNOW
  • If you were injecting cannibis directly into my brain, I'd be anxious too. Chem Lab: Scientists Are Learning How Weed Causes Paranoia "By injecting small amounts of the marijuana-derived drug into different parts of a rat's brain and then watching for behavioral cues, they learned that THC works wonders in the prefrontal cortex and ventral hippocampus, but causes anxious behavior when dribbled into the basolateral amygdala."
  • Rocket scientists are no rocket scientists: NASA moon rocket may shake too much
  • Today's "No Shit Sherlock Award" goes to.... the envelope please.... The Great Beyond: Black sheep really are bad
  • Your daily "Dose-O-Doom!"® First the global freezing, then the ozone hole, then the alar scare, then the warming, then the comet strike, then the supernova explosions, then Rogue Black Holes Roam Milky Way, then the Massive Gas Cloud Speeding Toward Collision With Milky Way, then Troublemaking Solar Cycle Kicks Offand now, now this, the FINAL INSULT! → Only science can save us from climate catastrophe Translation: "Worship us like gods or we will let you all die!" I tell you if this keeps up, sooner or later every single person alive on the Earth today is going to be dead, dead, dead!

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    Posted by Vanderleun at January 20, 2008 9:02 PM | TrackBack
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    "It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood." -- Karl Popper N.B.: Comments are moderated and may not appear immediately. Comments that exceed the obscenity or stupidity limits will be either edited or expunged.

    The weed story is interesting. I'd like to have seen a complete transcript of the interview...

    Brody, scientist : Well, we knew we were on to something unprecedented. As we exposed different areas of the rat's brain to THC, the responses were nothing short of amazing.

    Surfer Joe, lab assistant: Uh...Brody, if somebody in a white coat straps you to a little steel table and hits you in the head with a needle the size of a stop sign post, you might respond in amazing ways, too.

    Brody: We talked about this already. What happened to my doritos?

    Joe: Don't know, dude. Might be the same place as that sample of Humboldt you asked about last night.

    Just sayin'.

    Posted by: TmjUtah at January 21, 2008 6:23 AM
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