Archive for September, 2009
Stop the Grizzly Bear Hunting
While there is no hunting in Katmai National Park, if bears wander outside of the park boundaries they can be shot. Attached to every National Park in Alaska, is a “preserve” where hunting is allowed. This fall, habituated bears in Katmai Preserve were hunted. Journalists captured this slaughter on film, and it caused quite an [...]
Gene Patents Are Unlawful but Why
Last week the ACLU and the Public Patent Foundation filed a lawsuit challenging the U.S. government’s practice of granting patents on human genes – specifically, the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, which are associated with breast and ovarian cancer. In the last 20 or so years the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has issued patents [...]
Increase your chances of getting the job
Face it: the job market sucks. Interviewing and not getting the job sucks, too. The good news? There are a few simple things you can do to make yourself stand out from other applicants and greatly increase your odds of landing the job. Doing these things will require a little bit of effort and time, [...]
Hairiest Man in China Decides to Remove Hair
China’s hairiest man Yu Zhenhuan undertakes laser hair removal treatment Hair covers 96 percent of Yu’s body.
Fat Donald
Fat Donald – Illustration Art Fat Donald by ~DonMak is dark, repulsive and intentionally so. It may not be a most balanced portrayal of good ol’ Ronnie but it runs with the current zeitgeist and expresses it very well. So it marks a point in time where there is a global phenomenon in which we [...]
Heat Up Your Room with Just a Candle
Doyle Doss, a Northern California Inventor, has created a candle powered space heater.
Blue M&M food dye turns you blue – but reduces paralysis from spinal injuries
One of the experimental rats, before and after injection with the blue food dye
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