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| Warren The Pedantic |
Monday, May 06, 2013
Spotting A Highly Annoying 'So-So' Social Trend
Friday, April 12, 2013
North Korea, Nuclear Weapons And Magical Horses
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| 'Magical' Horse |
"It was only when the horse began to run with the wind that he discovered the flames on his coat. He had no time to pull it off. At this critical moment, the horse slowed down in front of a snow-covered depression and then slid into it sideways, with its forelegs folded in. The President stumbled into the snow, and the fire on his coat was put out as he rolled over in it. Other stories say that the white horse's foreleg tapped on the fallen tree and the sound woke the President up and that he was surprised to see tears trickling from the horse's eyes as it should have a premonition of parting to be used as draught horse for the people in the guerrilla zone."
Ah, tearfully sentimental magical white horses. And this lunatic's grandson has nukes?
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Oldest Universal Light Is Captured By Telescope
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| Literally, 'Let There Be Light' |
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Scientists Announce Confirmation Of 'God Particle'
Fittingly, one day after a new pope was named in Rome, scientists in Italy announced their certainty that the Higgs boson (or 'God particle') has been discovered. At a physics conference in the Italian Alps, only hours away from the pomp and circumstance in the Vatican, scientists from the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) made the announcement. The so-called 'God Particle' explains how matter takes on size and form in the universe. The fact that the Higgs boson actually exists—unlike a fantasy deity—helps confirm a theory that the size and shape of matter is determined when particles interact in an energy field with the key particle. This could be one of the most momentous discoveries in scientific history. Surely, it has more significance that what just happened in Rome. We can now say with confidence, "Habemus Deum particula".
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Jurassic Lark: Geneticist's Neanderthal Redux
Professor George Church of Harvard Medical School is a very well-respected geneticist. So, it's a little bewildering to hear of his bizarre plan to resurrect an extinct humanoid species via DNA manipulation. Church wants to reconstruct Neanderthal DNA, inject it into stem cells, and implant an embryo into a host human mother. We're all for scientific advancement, but this seems more like a bad George Romero film from the fifties. While Church rightly states that Neanderthals—who became extinct about 30,000 years ago—do not fit the stereotype of mindless caveman, what possible benefit could come from this scheme? Is Church thinking at all about the ethical implications of his experiment? How safe can it be for a being equipped with 30,000-year old DNA to be dropped into the 21st century? With all due respect, this seems like a dumb idea.
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