Tim Russert sounds a lot like me. Better update my will.

Quoted: Tim Russert’s fate underlines some painful truths, most notably that cardiology is not the exact science that many people wish it to be.

This is a pretty cool story. Otlet was born 60 years to soon.

Quoted: The Mundaneum Museum honors the first concept of a world wide wonder, sketched out by Paul Otlet in 1934 as a global network of “electric telescopes.”

Hmmm, my folk remedy is busted. Bummer.

Quoted: A batch of ice for a sunburn may seem like the perfect remedy, but is it?

Remind me to check under my bed for buried treasure...

Quoted: An ancient gold cup mysteriously acquired by an English scrap metal dealer is expected to fetch close to a million dollars at auction after languishing for years in a shoe box under its current owner's bed.

This sounds pretty bizarre.. but could lead to interesting experimental experience.

Quoted: A small red berry called miracle fruit temporarily rewires the way the palate perceives sour flavors, rendering lemons as sweet as candy.

Talk about old growth forest...

Quoted: What's sixteen feet tall and 9,550 years old? It’s the world's oldest tree.

This seems to me to be an excellent criterion for selecting a spouse. I have no doubt my spouse would easily meet this criterion. She, on the other hand, might not be so fortunate.

Quoted:

Portfolio: You had a list for a spouse?

Bezos: I kind of did. It was a short list. I wanted a woman who could get me out of a third-world prison. It was really just a visualization for resourcefulness, because people who are not resourceful drive me bananas.

Huh. So I'm a superorganism. Who knew.. but I'm very proud now.

Quoted: Since humans depend on their microbiome for various essential services, including digestion, a person should really be considered a superorganism, microbiologists assert, consisting of his or her own cells and those of all the commensal bacteria. The bacterial cells also outnumber human cells by 10 to 1, meaning that if cells could vote, people would be a minority in their own body.

Awesome. In the true sense of the word.

Quoted: A paper being published in Nature recounts the rare observation of a star’s eruption into cataclysmic explosion known as a supernova.