Archive for September, 2008
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Boobies!! or the end of the world?
Mama’s milk ice cream cone, anyone?
By JOHN CURRAN – 17 hours ago
WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — Mooove over, Holsteins. PETA wants world-famous Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Ice Cream to tap nursing moms, rather than cows, for the milk used in its ice cream.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is asking the ice cream maker to [...]
Fossil Fuels Brewing Co. – The Jurassic of Beers
Fossil Fuels Brewing Co.
Sept. 23, 2008 — Trapped inside a Lebanese weevil covered in ancient Burmese amber, a tiny colony of bacteria and yeast has lain dormant for up to 45 million years. A decade ago Raul Cano, now a scientist at the California Polytechnic State University, drilled a tiny hole into the amber and [...]
I-35W Bridge Opens
13 months after the bridge collapsed, the 35W re-opens this morning at 5am. Read the full story from CNN.
So far, so good
Scientists today applauded as one of the most ambitious experiments ever conceived got successfully underway, with protons being fired around a 17-mile tunnel deep beneath the border of France and Switzerland in an attempt to unlock the secrets of the universe. The Large Hadron Collider is a $9 billion particle accelerator designed to simulate [...]