I thought breaking a rib was bad, but terrencechan got stung by a Portuguese man o' war.

I continue to feel pretty damned lucky about all of this. Things could have been much, much worse -- I don't even want to think about if I'd broken my jaw or otherwise hit my head vs. taking the impact on my rib cage.

( Mmm, ribs... )

Harkening back to this early December item from boingboing, the winner of the "World's Best Job" contest to live on an Australian island and blog about it was stung by an Irukandji jellyfish earlier this week ( Read more... )

Various shit collected over the last week or two, mostly from boingboing, with a few slashdot/sciencedaily/etc. thrown in.

Hops Compound May Prevent Prostate Cancer. Holy fascinating connection, Batman! I would LOVE to see a followup study examining if there is a relationship between the taster/supertaster thing about how sensitive people are to ( Read more... )