Quoted: After two weeks, the researchers had created a culture that included all three kinds of heart cells, and – importantly – no others. Even in a Petri dish, the cells beat.

Huh.

Quoted: "If you want a boy, eat a healthy diet with a high calorie intake, including breakfast," says Fiona Mathews of the University of Exeter in the UK, and lead researcher of the study.

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And that priest will fly, fly away... but hopefully not in the manner of Elijah...

I kid because it's pretty hopeful they'll find him OK.

Quoted: Rescue workers on Monday searched the waters off the coast of southern Brazil for a Roman Catholic priest who has been missing for more than 24 hours after lifting off with 1,000 large helium-filled party balloons. (April 21)

An update to John's previous fave.

This was funny and on target... Politics in all its asinine drama... I need a beer...

Quoted: The point wasn't really to convince anyone that she, Bill and Chelsea commute between their two lavish mansions in a five-year-old Ford F-150 pickup with a gun rack and a "Jesus Rocks!" bumper sticker. Her aim was to prove to the nation -- or at least to Democratic primary voters in Pennsylvania and Indiana -- that she's better at feigning regularness than Obama.

Bokashi recipe, in case I ever start doing this...

More on the Bokashi method of food-composting... inspired by Jigna's dot...

Quoted: Using Bokashi and a bucket fermenter is an excellent way to speed up the composting process while giving your garden ...

Phone home...

Quoted: The St Andrews researcher said this planetary system, and others like it, could host terrestrial planets like Earth. It was just a matter of time before such worlds were detected, he explained.

A hint...
Quoted: "Gravity pretty much is irrelevant."

Quoted: World boomerang champion Yasuhiro Togai gave the paper boomerang to Doi and asked him to try throwing it in space.