Hold up! Meres is actually making a post about science?

Gather round, if you won't be terminally bored by my jargon, and let me tell you a story of how people are, once again, kind of wrong on the internet.

On Wednesday the CBC posted an article about how some scientists in the UK managed to make stem cells undergo meiosis and become very like ( Read more... )

1. OMG, I have a working oven now! The old one gave up the ghost a couple weeks ago. The stove still worked okay, and I thought maybe it was just the oven switch was kerfucked, but the landlady deemed it Busted and said she'd get me a new one. And lo, she did! "New", anyway. I think this oven is the very first of the digitals, from sometime ca. ( Read more... )

I return, if not triumphant, at least satisfied.

Firstly: meeting the fangirls was awesome. scriggle, primroseburrows and nos4a2no9 are all lovely ladies that I was very pleased to meet. Unfortunately Nos was quite busy and didn't have a lot of time to hang around in Toronto with us. More unfortunately, this put me in the position of being the person doing a lot of the ( Read more... )

Hehe. If Callum goes to the TIFF, he's going to have to watch where he's lighting up.

I went downtown today to get my credit card and mail a book (THE book) to omphale23. It is hot as hell out there. 38oC with the humidex (that's 100.4oF for you Yankees). Considering it was cold and rainy last week I was not prepared for this. Thankfully the forecast says ( Read more... )