Ssup, dude? Dis is da pope
Pope Benedict XVI, in an attempt to connect with people one-eighth his age, has decided to go mobile. He will be sending text messages to Catholic teenagers when he visits Australia for World Youth Day. The texts will be sent out for six days, and will have messages of hope and inspiration.
I would like to show my appreciation by helping him with the first one:
‘In da bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth’
Filed Under Technology
Love your booty
A recent American study offers hope to all of us who struggle to get into our jeans every morning.
Apparently, having a big butt can actually reduce your risk of getting diabetes. It has something to do with subcutaneous fat helping improve sensitivity to insulin, in case you want to get into the details. I’m too relieved to care.
Filed Under World Health
Global Cooling
Here’s some bad news for people who’ve grown up reading Popular Science.
Hidden between all those stories about amazing experiments and ultra cool spy gadgets in an issue from 1936 was this, an article that says that the world might face another Ice Age. Read more
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Scenic speedbreakers
When China inaugurated the world’s longest sea-bridge last week, the plan was to cut travel time between Shanghai and Nimbo by half.
While the bridge is an engineering marvel, things aren’t going according to plan. Read more
Filed Under Modern Life, Technology
What’s that smell?
There are people who think about Cleopatra’s beauty and influence on Egyptian history. And then there are people who wonder what her hair smelled like.
The University of Sunderland has created an exhibit of ‘strange and impossible smells’ for all the curious people in the world. Read more
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Street art of a different kind
The Belgian painter Luc Tuymans is one of the most important contemporary artists in the world. So Klara.be, an art radio station, hung up one of his paintings on a busy Antwerp street as part of an experiment to see how people react to art when it is outside galleries. The result? Read more
$1,000,000 for fake chicken
After years of covering celebrities in body paint, P.E.T.A have finally hit the big league. The animal rights organization is offering one million dollars to anyone who can invent a commercially-viable method to produce fake meat. They are specifically looking for ‘in vitro chicken’, which means chicken grown out of stem cells, without feathers or bones.
I’m sorry to cut this blog post short, but I really need to get back to my laboratory.