ok.....they levitated mice...and the first one didn't like it so much, so they sedated the second one.
I'm still getting a good laugh from the descriptions in this article!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090909/sc_livescience/micelevitatedinlab

and sarah palin continues to spout the company line like a good puppet in the wall street journal. Or ( Read more... )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20090401/cm_csm/eg20

ooooo, the pressure....
"As the "hope" president, Obama should not disappoint."

It's mostly an article about global free trade, and commentary on the US current policy of promoting free trade abroad while shoring up the US economy and imposing trade tarrifs and other protectionism actions to limit ( Read more... )

as much as I despise AIG, and their scheming ways to make a Buck, I've felt ill-at-ease about the house's proposal to tax their bonuses in order to re-coup them. Something just felt wrong about it. I just don't believe that the government should be able to do it, as much as I hate the idea of them getting larger bonuses than I make in a year - for ( Read more... )

i know too many people who are proponents of "legalize marajuana" and "not all drugs are bad" to not think about them when I read something like this:

"But while the number of high-school-age kids using illegal substances has fallen recently, the US still has some of the world's highest rates of illegal drug use. The number of those jailed for drug ( Read more... )

I have a quote by Thomas Jefferson signing my e-mails right now:

"Laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed...institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. "

and as such I wanted know where it was from (it's on one of the pannels of the Jefferson Memorial - one of my ( Read more... )

i keep trying to shake the thought that today is more special than any other day. that this election is more special than any other election.
I keep trying to convience myself that while this election might mean many things to other people that it doesn't mean anything to me.
but I can't do it.
I fail.
I won't conceed the point.

It feels special today ( Read more... )

this article was a facinating read http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/trans-sex-ual/
and this one from the same blog i want to come back to and consider:
http://questioningtransphobia.wordpress.com/how-to-check-your-cis-privilege/

but when all is said and done, i can't handle the community i found them in.
i interpret hostility in ( Read more... )

here are two sides of the same coin:
Given the economic crisis of our country right now McCain is doing the Job he as a Senator was hired to do, realizing that multi-tasking brings poor results. He is making the decision to put his Country first asking the debates to be rescheduled the following week AFTER a decision has made made in Congress. It ( Read more... )

palin, mccain's vp choice represents american women ( Read more... )

i  talk too  much and have been in the habit of leaving sagas in comment sections ( Read more... )