Being neither a scientist nor a tattooed lady myself, none of these tempt me, but some of y'all might be interested.

I know I haven't been on much, and I'll try to do a catch-up post later.

Meanwhile, here:

So I pretty much love Daniel Burd right now. The 16-year-old from Waterloo, Ontario, as part of a science fair project, figured out a way to break down the polymers in plastic bags-compounds that can last for over 1,000 years-in about three months. Essentially ( Read more... )

So I'm reading this article about kissing and the scandals thereof,
and it includes this paragraph

Monkeys do not kiss. Apes do, but usually only on the arm or the chest, to show respect. “Except among the bonobos, there is nothing like sexual kissing among the apes,” said Frans B. M. de Waal, a professor of primate behavior at Emory University. “ ( Read more... )

UConn Physics Professor Building Time Machine

He would like to see his father again.

Do you remember Stephen King's Pet Semetery? The book, not the movie. My cousin told me it frightened her more than any book she'd ever read. Me, I sobbed all the way through it and thought it was the saddest ( Read more... )