“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we,” “Bush said”:http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-08-05-bushism_x.htm. “They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”
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That’s why they call it ‘hazardous’
It may sound obvious to anyone who knows me, but “hazardous, tricky clean-up of nuclear sites”:http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996199 is for me the single compelling reason to avoid nuclear power as a major energy source. I don’t worry nearly so much about Chernobyl-style accidents as I do about subtle, continuous contamination of an ecosystem due to nuclear byproducts.
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Contagious yawning
Apparently “chimps are subject to contagious yawning”:http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996182 just like humans.
_The team played videos of chimps either yawning or exhibiting other open-mouth behaviours such as grinning to six adult chimps and three infants at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University in Japan._
_…They argue that their figure of 33 per cent of adults showing contagious yawning compares well with humans since the chimps do not understand the purpose of the trial._
_…”Our data suggest that contagious yawning is a by-product of the ability to conceive of yourself and to use your experience to make inferences about comparable experiences and mental states in others,” Gallup told New Scientist._
MacGyver would be proud
I don’t know how many times I wish I had a tripod along, even for my pocket-sized camera. Now that won’t be a problem, because I can carry a “home-made bottle-cap tripod”:http://www.fiendishthingy.org/tripod/ and pop it on a handy water bottle.
To the Ace Hardware, Robin!
cuts both ways
I ordered my copy of “Outfoxed”:http://www.outfoxed.org today, and it’s left me feeling ornery. Here are some political quickies:
* “The bin Laden vote”:http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/001393
* “Something to make us ill with shame”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/20/evidence_for_hershs_.html
* “Refreshing humor”:http://www.boingboing.net/2004/07/18/daily_show_on_possib.html
* “The facts behind the film”:http://www.michaelmoore.com/warroom/f911notes/
* “A little something to chew on”:http://www.brothercanyouspareajob.com/