Takes the fun about the yikes.
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Get acquainted with the internal organs of a frog - no formaldehyde, no gloves, but plenty of icky fun and lots of learning.
10 inch authentically decorated frog with "feel like real" removable organsDissecting table with storage...
created by vincente | 5 years ago 710 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
That's right, the philosophical debate of Free Will is no longer a question for old men in white robes, but rather one for white-coat adorned scientists (now, whether it is divine in nature is still up for...
created by ScienceDave | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 1252 views | 22 recommendations | 4 comments
We'd like to hear from you about campus security at University of Minnesota Twin Cities. From the website, this is what we've got so far:"We have one of the largest, most urban campuses in the country. Constantly...
created by Kaitlin | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 605 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
This is kind of cool. I accidentally did a search on Amazon for NowPublic and we're in two books:"
Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them
by Bob Walsh
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created by mtippett | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 506 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
A trench coat-clad teenager who opened fire on shoppers at a mall had one thing in mind: "to kill a large number of people," and he likely would have killed more than five had an off-duty officer not confronted him, the police chief said Tuesday.
"There is no question that...
I love freakonomic-type stuff that takes conventional wisdom and subjects it to some kind of emprical test. Recently I came across a study into randomness. Totally cosmic man."The poll was inspired by this post...
created by mtippett | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 805 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
"You are probably aware of Navy Chaplain James Klingenschmitt who was fired for praying 'in Jesus name". He lost his job, pension, home, was publicly ridiculed and court-martialed.
There is a real double standard when you compare Klingenschmitt to a Wahhabi-trained Muslim...
"After seeing a number of unscientific polls, scattered across the web, including the home page for my ISP, asking people if they approved or disapproved of the surge of troops, it occurred to me that few actually...
created by nukegingrich | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 571 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
(AP)
LOS GATOS Los Gatos High School plans to join a growing number
of high schools that perform random breath alcohol tests on students at
dances and other events. -
Principal Doug Ramezane said he would institute the new policy after
winter break because several students...
""TESCO is carrying out random searches on its staff in a clampdown on stealing. The supermarket giant, which makes £1billion [sic - it's actually £2billion+] profit a year, says the checks are necessary - but workers claim the searches are degrading. One said: "For loyal...
A world without ring tones, laptops, and digital cameras seems so far away, yet so quiet and even peaceful."Staying outrageously silent in a sea of beeps and buzzes, blasphemously eschewing electricity whether...
created by clorenz1 | 6 years ago 1535 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Two of Britain's biggest book publishers are locked in a battle for control of the lucrative literary classics market. Penguin is the leading classics publisher, with its familiar black or silver-spined series accounting for about 65% of all classics sold in the UK. But next...
created by publicreader | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 481 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The nucleus of a mammal cell is made up of component parts arranged in a pattern which can be predicted statistically, says new research published today. Scientists hope this discovery that parts of the inside of...
created by jorolat | 6 years ago | updated 6 years ago 512 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
"Police will resume random bag inspections on Boston's subways for the first time since the city hosted the Democratic National Convention in 2004, Gov. Mitt Romney said Thursday."
created by clorenz1 | 6 years ago 707 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments