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May 16, 2012
Cathy Hutchinson imagined picking up her coffee from the table. She thought about bringing the red bottle toward her lips and taking a drink, without any assistance. Then, for the first time since a stroke left her arms and legs paralyzed 15 years earlier, she did it.
This is a really good video about the technology from Nature. Check it out:
May 16, 2012
Well…sounds peaceful!
Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) is seeing his foreign policy credentials come under fire after calling for Middle East peace negotiations between deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who has been in a coma since 2006.
May 15, 2012
It’s hard to know just how true stories like this are, but there’s no doubt that Lawrence Anthony was a remarkable man, and this would be a fitting tribute:
For 12 hours, two herds of wild South African elephants slowly made their way through the Zululand bush until they reached the house of late author Lawrence Anthony, the conservationist who saved their lives.The formerly violent, rogue elephants, destined to be shot a few years ago as pests, were rescued and rehabilitated by Anthony, who had grown up in the bush and was known as the “Elephant Whisperer.”
For two days the herds loitered at Anthony’s rural compound on the vast Thula Thula game reserve in the South African KwaZulu – to say good-bye to the man they loved. But how did they know he had died?
May 15, 2012
(The photo above is a sample fist pump and is not meant to represent the actual fist pump as portrayed in the story.)
May 14, 2012
That sound you hear is Dan Brown moaning huskily:
ROME (Reuters) – Investigators attempting to resolve one of Italy’s most enduring mysteries on Monday opened the tomb of a mobster in a Rome basilica for clues to the disappearance of a Vatican schoolgirl nearly 30 years ago.
May 14, 2012
It shows you the relative sizes of a coffee bean, bacteria, virus, piece of RNA…and much, much more. We love stuff like this. This is what The Intertubes were made for!.
Here’s a pic of just part of it:
May 14, 2012
Things that make you go “Huh…whu?…WTABFHW?
Kodak may be going under, but apparently they could have started their own nuclear war if they wanted, just six years ago. Down in a basement in Rochester, NY, they had a nuclear reactor loaded with 3.5 pounds of enriched uranium—the same kind they use in atomic warheads.
But why did Kodak had a hidden nuclear reactor loaded with weapons-grade uranium then? And how did they get permission to own it, let alone have it in a basement in the middle of a densely populated city?
Nobody really knows. Kodak officials now admit that they never made any public announcement about it. In fact, nobody in the city—officials, police or firemen—or in the state of New York or anywhere else knew about it until it was recently leaked by an ex-employee. Its existence and whereabouts was purposely kept vague and only a few engineers and Federal employees really knew about it.
May 13, 2012
From all of us kids at the BRI, we hope all you mums out there are having the most terrific Mother’s Day possible.
Now here’s a song that must have been written just for you…
