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Random Bits

Posted by on December 7, 2009 No comments

Tomato plants are deadly killers. Said the researchers, “We may be surrounded by many more murderous plants than we think.” Maybe Christopher Walken is on to something.

Today, Alexander Ovechkin comes off his two-game suspension for checking another player in a National Hockey League game

In two days, President Barack Obama will accept the Nobel Peace Prize. Last week he announced plans to send 30,000 more US troops into Afghanistan

The count is up to seven mistresses now. I don’t even know how Tiger has had time to play golf.

Blue M&Ms

Posted by on July 28, 2009 2 comments

Blue M&Ms linked to reducing spine injury – CNN.com.

Apparently, the blue dye used in M&Ms and Gatorade can be used to reduce damage caused by spine injuries.

My take? Forget the medical benefits, I want this blue mouse!

(Blue mouse photo from CNN.com and University of Rochester Medical Center)

Science is neat.

Posted by on November 13, 2008 2 comments

Check out the huge aurora on Saturn.

Huge Aurora over Saturn's North Pole
Credit:NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Note the hexagonal feature in the atmosphere that Cassini found last year.

Yay for Science!

Posted by on September 10, 2008 No comments

In the wee hours (EST) this morning, CERN‘s Large Hadron Collider was turned on, and fired its first proton beams!

I can’t wait for this thing to start the actual collisions. I hear that should start happening in late October. All the end-of-the-world nutjobs will just have to wait to see if we’re all vaporized. It was interesting however, that my Twitter updates this morning telling me the beams were successful were followed almost immediately by Twitter updates about earthquakes in Iran, wildfires in Mozambique and Swaziland, and a predicted recession in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain.