A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!I think that I may finally have seen everything (yeah, I know, every time I say that I get proven wrong fairly soon.). Some scientists in Japan have been doing some interesting work with, of all things, butterflies. And no, it isn’t something weird like studying their effect on Facebook postings or [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads There’s a really interesting bit over at Scientific American about, of all things, Invisibility. It seems that scientists have made a lot of progress in coming up with materials that bend light around them making them effectively invisible.
It’s a long way from any kind of practical application since they’re talking [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads There’s a story at the University of Texas that I think needs to get all the attention possible. Scientists there have created a new cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae), by adding cellulose making genes from another cellulose making bacterium. The resulting critter is apparently very good at taking [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Once again “Global Warming” raises it’s ugly, fictional head. This time however, it’s in an article on newsmax that does a good job of poking all kinds of holes in the whole global warming mess.
What it’s saying, in a nutshell, is that global warming is totally bogus. I think [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I love it when I find headlines like this:
STEM CELL BREAKTHROUGH AVOIDS EMBRYO USE
U.S. and Japanese research teams have both, independently, reported success in making
skin cells take on characteristics of stem cells. The technique avoids the swarm of
ethical, political and practical obstacles involved with cloning embryos.

… because it proves what a [...]