Thursday, April 30, 2009

Stop boring Hugh Laurie

Well if you ever needed proof of the wide diversity(NOT) of questions that you can be asked on talk shows USA - see how Hugh Laurie manages not to thump each of these well known chat show hosts!

100 days of "Fair & Balanced" coverage for the Obama administration on Fox News

10 Ways to keep your Mind Sharp

1.Tease your brain eg.crosswords, puzzles, sudoku
2.Skip the supplements eg.get vitamins from natural sources like food
3.Chill Out eg. sports, yoga, socializing
4.Eat Fish
5.Enjoy Ur coffee eg.growing evidence suggests a caffeine habit may protect the brain
6.Get your beauty sleep
7.Take care of your body eg.plenty of excercise
8.Watch your diet eg.not too much and not too little
9.Eat, eat, eat eg. A low GI diet is recommended
10.Do something eg.for mental fitness, aim for at least 30 minutes of physical activity every other day

The 10 Most Outrageous Military Experiments

From this choice list of Experiments performed by the U.S. Military here are 2 of my favourites:

GET YOUR PLUTONIUM SHOT

As the United States raced to build its first atomic bombs near the end of World War II, scientists wanted to know more about the hazards of plutonium. Testing began on April 10, 1945 with the injection of plutonium into the victim of a car accident in Oak Ridge, Tenn., to see how quickly the human body rid itself of the radioactive substance. That was just the first of over 400 human radiation experiments. Common studies included seeing the biological effects of radiation with various doses, and testing experimental treatments for cancer. Records of this research became public in 1995, after the U.S. Department of Energy published them.

NERVE GAS SPRAY

Threats of chemical and biological warfare led the U.S. Department of Defense to start "Project 112" from 1963 to the early 1970s. Part of the effort involved spraying different ships and hundreds of Navy sailors with nerve agents such as sarin and VX, in order to test the effectiveness of decontamination procedures and safety measures at the time. The Pentagon revealed the details of the Project Shipboard Hazard and Defense (SHAD) project in 2002, and the Veterans Administration began studying possible health effects among sailors who participated in SHAD. This was just one of many chemical warfare experiments conducted by the U.S. military, starting with volunteer tests involving mustard gas in World War II.

Monday, April 27, 2009

6 Ways Mushrooms can save the World

Mycologist Paul Stamets lists 6 ways the mycelium fungus can help save the universe: cleaning polluted soil, making insecticides, treating smallpox and even flu.....


Pew Research Poll shows Fox news is too critical of President Obama

In the latest Pew Research Poll(an independent, non-partisan public opinion research organization that studies attitudes toward politics, the press and public policy issues in the U.S.), FOX News tops all networks by a huge margin as being too critical of the president.

When Americans are asked to assess television news coverage of Barack Obama, Fox News Channel stands out from other networks for being too critical of the president. Nearly three-in-ten (29%) select Fox when asked which of six broadcast and cable news networks have been too critical of the new Democratic president, a far greater share than any other network. In contrast, no one TV network is singled out for being too easy on Obama.

Then today the network is turning down the president's request to show his prime-time news conference on Wednesday. The news conference marks Obama's 100th day in office. Instead of the president, Fox viewers will see an episode of the Tim Roth drama "Lie to Me."

It's the first time a broadcast network has refused Obama's request.

This will be the third prime-time news conference in Obama's presidency. ABC, CBS and NBC are airing it.

Bleach Bath may help excema

Adding bleach to the bath may be an effective treatment for chronic eczema, US researchers say.In a study of 31 children, there was significant improvement in eczema in those who had diluted bleach baths compared with normal baths.
The Pediatrics study also showed improvements were only on parts of the body submerged in the bath.UK experts stressed the treatment could be extremely dangerous and should only be done under the care of a specialist.

Studies have shown a direct correlation between the number of bacteria on the skin and the severity of the eczema.
It has been shown that bacteria cause inflammation and further weaken the skin barrier.In the study, researchers randomly assigned patients who had infection with Staphylococcus aureus to baths with half a cup of sodium hypochlorite per full tub or normal water baths for five to 10 minutes twice a week for three months.

They also prescribed a topical antibiotic ointment or dummy ointment for them to put into their nose - a key site for growth of the bacteria.Eczema severity in patients reduced five times as much as those on placebo.
But there was no improvement in eczema on the head and neck - areas not submerged in the bath.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Earth Day

Today is Earth Day, you hippie treehuggers and to celebrate NASA has posted high definition video of our home planet from the space station. Ain't it pretty?

In celebration of Earth Day, NASA presents images of Earth captured by cameras aboard the International Space Station. Traveling at an approximate speed of 17,500 miles per hour, the space station orbits Earth every 90 minutes from an altitude of approximately 220 miles, and can be seen from Earth with the naked eye. Its crew experiences 16 sunrises and sunsets each day.

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Banjo Playing Chicken, Pink Monkey on the Standing Base, Blue Monster on the Xylophone

Any chance you guys could come to Grafton Street?

Facebook Manners

The etiquette video covers everything from how to dump someone (do not break-up with your partner by changing your relationship status) to the best practices for making hate groups (don't create an "I hate so-and-so" group. But if you do, don't use it to call that someone a Communist).
People gots way too much free time.............................

Lickable Wallpaper








Willy Wonka would be proud. When Adnan Aziz saw people licking orange-flavoured wallpaper in the movie Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, it gave him the idea for a novel form of advertising.

Together with Jay Minkoff, a "serial entrepreneur," he set up First Flavor, a company that makes edible film strips that allow consumers to sample the flavours of foods, drinks and other products.

So far First Flavor has distributed strips that taste of grape juice, acai-berry juice, lime-spiked rum, and baking-soda toothpaste in shops and magazines and via direct-mail campaigns.

Just as retailers stuff newspapers with coupons and sales promotions, First Flavor wants to get food and drink companies to attach a sealed pouch, containing a flavour sample, to front-page newspaper advertisements for their products. Consumers can then take them for a "taste drive," puns Minkoff.

First Flavor has already run magazine-based campaigns, so edible ads in newspapers are an obvious next step.

First Flavor and US Ink think the decline in newspaper advertising revenue, as a result of the recession and the rise of the Internet, provides an opportunity.

While Internet advertisements can do all sorts of things, so far there is no way to transmit tastes electronically.

Edible ads would allow newspapers to offer something the Internet cannot match.

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

First Cloned Camel

The United Arab Emirates on Tuesday claimed its own version of Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, after the birth of a cloned camel in Dubai this month.

"This is the first cloned camel in the world," said Dr Nisar Wani, researcher at the Camel Reproduction Centre.

Injaz, a female one-humped camel, was born on April 8 after more than five years of work by scientists at the Camel Reproduction Centre and the Central Veterinary Research Laboratory, The National newspaper reported.

"This significant breakthrough in our research programme gives a means of preserving the valuable genetics of our elite racing and milk producing camels in the future," Dr Lulu Skidmore, scientific director at the Camel Reproduction Centre, said in a statement.

Injaz, whose name means achievement in Arabic, is the clone of a camel that was slaughtered for its meat in 2005, the National said.

Scientists used DNA extracted from cells in the ovaries of the slain animal and put it into an egg taken from the surrogate mother to create a reconstructed embryo, it said.

Dolly was born in 1996 in Edinburgh in what was regarded as one of the world's most significant scientific breakthroughs, but was put to sleep in 2003.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Star Trek XI

At long last for all you Trek Fans The new Star Trek Movie