Why is there no holiday for this guy?

Borlaug received his Ph.D. in plant pathology and genetics from the University of Minnesota in 1942. He took up an agricultural research position in Mexico, where he developed semi-dwarf, high-yield, disease-resistant wheat varieties.These collective increases in yield have been labeled the Green Revolution, and Borlaug is often credited with saving over a billion people worldwide from starvation.

i like it. I shouldn't but do.

Make it large enough for two. A large seller in the Northeast college demographic

some stunning ink

For the person who has everything

A octopus chandelier for the tough to buy for person on your list.

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Insipidus versus Mellitus in diabetics- until as recent as 25 years ago it was standard practice for the physician to taste the urine of his patient to see if it was sweet or plain. Different treatments for sweet diabetics than non-sweet. Now known as Type I, Type II

Ramen?

Woman eats 399 bowls of noodles in 10 minutes


45-year old Hatsuyo Sugawara won a noodle-eating competition last month, when she downed 399 mini-bowls of noodles in 10 minutes. Each bowl had 10 grams of soba noodles; according to The Japan Times, this means she ate the equivalent of 40 normal-sized noodle bowls. It's actually her third year winning the competition, which is held in the noodle-famous city of Morioka in Iwate Prefecture. Her nickname? "The Witch" — it seems there's still a stigma that women who can do extraordinary things are freaks.

I am the only one that want's this guy to wake up with a case of the shingles in Ecuador and not have the co pay?

The advantage of a fundamentalist perspective is that you can clothe your basest motives in noble sentiments.

Ah....yeah,right.

Missing Bush administration emails (22 million of 'em) found

Some 22 million emails which vanished during the George W. Bush administration were just "apparently mislabeled." Don't expect to eyeball their contents until 2014.

Good for him....

IN NOVEMBER 2002, an obscure Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman caused a sensation in the mathematical community when he posted the first in a series of papers proving the most famous unsolved problem in topology: the Poincaré conjecture. He caused another sensation four years later when he was awarded the Fields medal - the "mathematics Nobel" - for his work, declined to accept it, and then left mathematics altogether. When last heard of, he was living a reclusive existence at his mother's home in St Petersburg

Poisoned Halloween candy is a myth


 Professor Joel Best  the researcher who combed reports of Halloween mischief going back to the 1950s and he has found not one case of poisoned candy or a razor in an apple handed out by strangers to unsuspecting children. But we are all so sure it happened one time somewhere to a friend of a friend of a friend we know.

BATTLE ARMOR..

A powered exoskeleton is a powered mobile machine consisting primarily of an exoskeleton-like framework worn by a person and a power supply that supplies at least part of the activation-energy for limb movement.

Powered exoskeletons are designed to assist and protect the wearer. They may be designed, for example, to assist and protect soldiers and construction workers, or to aid the survival of people in other dangerous environments. A wide medical market exists in the future as prosthetics to provide mobility assistance for aged and infirm people. Other possibilities include rescue work, such as in collapsed buildings, in which the device might allow a rescue worker to lift heavy debris, while simultaneously protecting him from falling rubble

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Ricin- made from castor oil seeds. Considered to be one of the highest biological warfare weapons available today. Has an enormous effect due to its ease of dilution into water and air streams. Ricin is 500 times more powerful than cyanide and anyone in possession of even minute amounts is considered high alert on the Homeland Security list and usually arrested for Federal Charges.

"Civil" War

In 1862...
* Evacuation system initiated to remove wounded from battlefield. Periodic "breaks" were called to clear the field. Then they resumed fighting like civilized people.

Doing God's work?

Uganda has made homsexual acts between two people punishable by life in prison. Warren won't go so far as to condemn the legislation itself. A request for a broader reaction to the proposed Ugandan antihomosexual laws generated this response: "The fundamental dignity of every person, our right to be free, and the freedom to make moral choices are gifts endowed by God, our creator. However, it is not my personal calling as a pastor in America to comment or interfere in the political process of other nations." On Meet the , he reiterated this neutral stance in a different context: "As a pastor, my job is to encourage, to support. I never take sides."

My wife would not think this is cool...but I do.

hand-crafted in Charkow, Ukraine by artist Bob Basset is up for auction on eBay. Current high bid is GBP 190 (approx. US $372). ("Bob Basset" is the nom-de-art for a group of artists; see update below.) All of Basset's handiwork is quite incredible.

Link to eBay auction, Link to Bob Basset's blog (via Kipling West, thanks Kirsten Anderson!)

You ever get the feeling you're rowing but the boat is drifting backwards?

The median US household income in 2000 was $52,500. In 2008  $50,300.

But it's all waterfront....

The Reverend Billy Graham has stated tha Heaven is 1500 cubic miles.

A sign of the times.

24 yo Woman Broadcasts Her Death Leap
Posted on November 28th, 2009 by Akky Akimoto
Stickam Japan is a personal video streaming service, a Japanese version of US Stickam.com, which is said to be owned by Japanese.Today on Stickam Japan, a girl whose handle is _mextli attempted suicide by jumping off her balcony, the 4th floor of apartment, during her live videostream, some watchers wrote on 2 channel BBS. It seemed to happen around midnight November 28th Japan Time, police officers visit was watched by the program watcher net-users and reported on 2 channel. Those officers read up her farewell note and gave some sentiment in front of the webcam without noticing they were broadcasted, one watcher had recorded and uploaded that part on YouTube