The saddest thing? No, not that this 75-years-old scientist might die in jail. The saddest thing is, he might be right. No, not about the threats, but about the laser:

Many people who know P. Leonardo Mascheroni describe him as a maverick and a technology zealot. Now, the Justice Department will try to prove that he is dangerous, too - a man ( Read more... )

I knew that the bacterial flora in our intestines was important to us, in a rather "if they are healthy we are healthy" way.

I was not aware, though, of how important they are... of that you can have other person's intestinal flora transplanted to your intestines:

Dr. Alexander Khoruts had run out of options. In 2008, Dr. Khoruts, a ( Read more... )

I was aware that the idea of frozing your head (or even just your head) immediately after your death, in the hope that, for some reason, somebody from the future will take the trouble to bring you back to life, is not particularly popular.

Yours Truly? Yes, I would like to see the future... but I will do that tomorrow. Hell, the next second, yes ( Read more... )

And so it came to pass that none other than J. Michael Straczynski has been hired to rejuvenate the 69 years-old super heroine, Wonder Woman:

Wednesday is a good day for Wonder Woman. This 69-year-old superheroine, published by DC Comics, will don a new - and less revealing - costume and enjoy the publication of Issue No. 600 of her monthly ( Read more... )

Well, nobody can be surprised if they got fed up with "But they are stealing our jobs!" hysterical accussations:

Farm workers are tired of being blamed by politicians and anti-immigrant activists for taking work that should go to Americans (sic) and dragging down the economy, said Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers of ( Read more... )

You have to enjoy the irony: in a country where the Communist Party enojy a complete monopoly of political power, the workers are organizing 'for higher wages and more rights':

A nondescript Beijing suburb was recently the venue for an evening of radical politics. The New Labor Art Troupe, a performance group with a cast of laborers, ran a ( Read more... )

As Don Quijote would say, Cosas veredes, Sancho: now the Iranian government sells condoms and syringes in the streets. Yes, I know:

This morning's news brings a face-slapping AFP story from the land of the mullahs: ran is setting up vending machines to sell condoms and syringes. The country's drug czar tells its state news service that the ( Read more... )

So, yesterday I read in the New York Times website this story about 'Holanda', a mysterious member of the FARC, who happens to be super-special for being Dutch.

The personnel file compiled by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia n Guerrilla No. 608372 seems mundane at first ( Read more... )

I already made known (at Facebook) my displeasure of having Shakira performing at the ceremony before the World Cup Final on July 11 in Johannesburg.

Well, it seems it will not be the only non-African thing about this, the very first World Cup celebrated in Africa:

The red-and-white Coca-Cola billboards outside the airports of Africa’s largest ( Read more... )

And so it came to pass that the Warner Studios finally decided to rescue their beloved cartoon characters from mediatic oblivion:

Ask a first grader to identify Bugs Bunny and the response more likely than not will be a blank stare. Dora, sure. Mickey, alive and kicking. But Porky who ( Read more... )