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Photo of the Entire Night Sky. By Two Guys. May 14, 2011 :: This is incredibly awesome! Nick Risinger and his retired father traipse around the US and South Africa with expensive cameras taking an entire visible-spectrum image of the night sky. ...

Figs Are Flowers, Not Fruits September 14, 2010 :: ``Figs are not actually fruits but a mass of inverted flowers and seeds that are pollinated by a species of tiny symbiotic wasps. The male fig flower is the only place where the female wasp...

Figs Are Flowers, Not Fruits September 14, 2010 :: ``Figs are not actually fruits but a mass of inverted flowers and seeds that are pollinated by a species of tiny symbiotic wasps. The male fig flower is the only place where the female wasp...

DEET a human neurotoxin August 07, 2009 :: See also this story. So I guess my paranoia about DEET is not just retarded horseshit. By using toxicological, biochemical and electrophysiological techniques, we show that...

Estrogen analog BPA shown to enter urine during normal use June 05, 2009 :: Bisphenol-A (BPA), an estrogen analog used in polycarbonate and other plastic manufacture, has been shown to enter the urine during "normal" use (i.e. putting cold water in a polycarbonate...

Humans or Bacterial Colonies? June 05, 2009 :: I was playing around with Wolfram Alpha and noticed that there are an order of magnitude more bacteria (1015) in our bodies than there are human cells (1014)...

Cool: paper published April 30, 2009 :: I helped my friend Kyle with writing some Python code to do clustering of GPS data for his Biology PHd project. He has published the following paper which has my name on it also; pretty ...

Yay science! Glow-in-the-dark puppies! April 23, 2009 :: The next great leap for our awesome Science is...bumbumbum...glow in the dark transgenic dogs! Obviously, a pressing problem has been solved here. What a great day for mankind. Be sure to...

Lamarkian evolution not horseshit afterall? February 16, 2009 :: A new study finds that acquired traits can actually be passed on -- better known as "Lamarkian evolution", widely "debunked" and ridiculed as early as high school. ``In Feig's study,...

"Does not seem possible" that the LHC will destroy the Earth... January 23, 2009 :: So, all those scientists who were "absolutely certain" that the mini black-holes created by the Large Hadron Collider (turned on briefly a few months ago, breaking it) will not last long...