lolz!

i can't even begin to describe the variety of awesomeness embedded in these pictures. but i guess i kinda just did.

Quoted: A cloned Turkish Angola kitten, left, gives off a red fluorescence glow while an ordinary one appears to be green in this picture taken under ultraviolet light at a laboratory of Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday. The cloned cat’s genes were modified with a fluorescent protein.

whoa! and happy new year everyone!

Quoted: Columbia University physicist Brian Greene recently chose the winner of the String Theory in Two Minutes or Less user-generated video contest.

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Quoted: This show is all about the radical ideas of a Cambridge biomedical gerontologist called Aubrey de Grey who believes that, within the next 20-30 years, we could extend life indefinitely by addressing seven major factors in the aging process. He describes his work as Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS).

Quoted: "Anything that doesn't fit into the political appointees' ideological, theological or political agenda is ignored, marginalized or simply buried," Dr. Richard Carmona, who served as the nation's top doctor from 2002 until 2006, told a House of Representatives committee.

stuff like this makes me want to punch walls. effing bullies!

Quoted: Gavin McIntyre, left, holds a growing sample of organic insulation, while Eben Bayer shows off the finished product, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., Thursday, May 17, 2007. The two created their patented "Greensulate" formula, an organic, fire-retardant board made of water, flour, oyster mushroom spores and perlite, a mineral blend found in potting soil, and are hoping the invention will soon be part of the growing market for eco-friendly products.

those tiles look kinda tasty... i bet that dood on the left had some before he shaved that morning.

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Quoted: Scientists of the University of Twente in The Netherlands won a prestigious place in the 'Hall of Fame' of videos about fluid-in-motion. They have made a video of leaping shampoo, in which they explain the so-called Kaye effect. Scientifically interesting but also of great aesthetic beauty!

rotflmao!!!!!! this video is awesome on many levels: the music, the sensual shots, dutch scientists... i can only imagine other applications for the kaye effect. watch out if you see me with a bottle of shampoo coming towards you!! =P

Quoted: Are Jimmy and Warren related?

spoiler > they are! sorta.