SCENE 44, INTERIOR, DAY
WIFE plays with INFANT on the floor of the living room.
WIFE No, no. You can’t have that one, bubby, that’s my pen. Here, take this. It has a knife in it, but . . .
HUSBAND (!) Are you giving the baby an Exacto blade?
WIFE (pauses) Maybe.
You go Harvard. I’m sorry for all that shit I said about you to Yale.
Via the New Zealand Herald:
Harvard scientists are hoping to turn chickens into mini-dinosaurs, according to the Daily Mail.
Scientists at the Ivy League university have ‘rewound’ evolution with chicken DNA to create embryos with alligator-like snouts instead of beaks.
By altering the DNA of chicken embryos in the early stage of their development, the team were able to ‘undo’ evolutionary progress and give the creatures snouts which are thought to have been lost in the cretaceous period millions of years ago.
Wow. Nice. Good job, science.
Although the eggs cannot be hatched due to ethical restrictions,
Wait, WHAT? BULLSHIT! I CALL SHENANIGANS.
Yale? Are you going to just sit there and let Harvard have all the glory, or are you going to hatch a Dinochicken?
This weekend, I was browsing through the upcoming English Premier League games on my DVR, and I realized the Sunderland – Newcastle game wasn’t televised!
Me: Fuuuuuck!
Em: What?
Me: The Tyne-Wear derby isn’t televised? What the fuck? It’s the best game this weekend!
Em: I can tell you why.
Me: Why?
Em: Is Manchester Untied in it? Is Chelsea?
Me: (whining): But it’s a hotly contested local derby! They hate each other!
Em: It’s basically a bum-fight, CK.
Seriously, thank you nerds.
Now, in a development that could transform how viral infections are treated, a team of researchers at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory has designed a drug that can identify cells that have been infected by any type of virus, then kill those cells to terminate the infection.
In a paper published July 27 in the journal PLoS One, the researchers tested their drug against 15 viruses, and found it was effective against all of them — including rhinoviruses that cause the common cold, H1N1 influenza, a stomach virus, a polio virus, dengue fever and several other types of hemorrhagic fever.
This could be epic; utopian and dystopian in equal amounts. One one hand, never have a cold again. On the other, instructing cells to kill each other is the kind of world-building conceit that drives a near-future action/thriller. The GM in me knows how I’d handle it if a character in my campaign came up with this. We’ll see how Sum of All Things deals with it.
I don’t see any way this could go wrong:
http://saginaw.craigslist.org/m4w/2471587380.html
After all, it’s a well known fact that a woman with a chubby vagina can charm anyone. Especially if she is good at raising boys to be macho.
” i dont have any addictions or weirdnesss.” (This entire concept aside.)
looking for woman to carry my baby – 35 (pinconning)
i am seeking a woman to carry my child. I am on the road so i do not have time to have a relationship or to date to find misses right . i seek to have children and this is the best idea i can think to find the right woman to plan my seeed. first off you can not be a drug user, crazy or a felon.i prefer college but a pretty woman can charm anyone. you must be able to demostate that you are a decent woman with good skills to be a mother to my child. i want a woman that will raise my kid to be a sports star. a macho man and good with ladys. you must be good at his.
i am looking for a mid michigan girl. i prefer a chubby girl but i am interest in the prettyness of the face, shape of breasts, eyes, and a chubby vagina. and gusto.
i own a house that you are free to live in. I make aound 100k a year on the road and my job will not disspear and im close to retiring. it is not nessary to live with me. if you chose to live outside my house i will pay all the expenses of the child . i will provide you with a new car every year . i am 6 foo0t tall, fit and look like tom seleck in the 80s. i dont have any addictions or weirdnesss. I am a straight shooter.
if you are interested send me photos and a brief bio about yourself. i will give you more details if i want to advance. please put “baby” in the headline to weed out the spam.
I guess I should just change the title of this blog to “I fucking told you so.” Am I the canary, or am I the coal mine? [/ philosophy ]
First Jeopardy, and now this?
From Discovery.com (emphasis mine):
A team of researchers lead by Lulu Qian from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have for the first developed an artificial neural network — that is, the beginnings of a brain — out of DNA molecules. And when quizzed, the brain answered the questions correctly.
How could this ever become a problem? I really should have named my boy John Connor Kennedy.
So, did our paleolithic ancestors out-think, out-fight, or even (some have suggested) hunt and eat our Neanderthal competitors?
Of course not. We out-fucked them. We also fucked them, but mostly we fucked us, and before you know it . . . 10 humans for every ‘thal. Isn’t that a Beach Boys song?
Researchers had long surmised that human population growth may have overrun the Neanderthals, said study lead author Paul Mellars, an archaeologist at the University of Cambridge in England . . . humans would have outnumbered native Neanderthals at least 9 to 1, though they suspect the ratio was even greater.