A Peculiar Blog

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!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 [...]

 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 [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads You know how the tv series “Law and Order” often uses “Ripped from the Headlines” to describe an upcoming episode that addresses issues from a real life case? Well this is a reverse case. On the tv Series “Boston Legal” not long ago, the character Alan Shore (played by [...]