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CommentAuthorAurora Borealis
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
@Captain Lou:
Hey, do you know this one?
A Scott Pilgrim lookalike, a norse god and a furry walk into an ancient temple... -
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CommentAuthor3millionyears
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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Wonder if this'll include long pig?
When Will Scientists Grow Meat in a Petri Dish?It is not unusual for visionaries to be impassioned, if not fanatical, and Willem van Eelen is no exception. At 87, van Eelen can look back on an extraordinary life. He was born in Indonesia when it was under Dutch control, the son of a doctor who ran a leper colony. As a teenager, he fought the Japanese in World War II and spent several years in prisoner-of-war camps. The Japanese guards used prisoners as slave labor and starved them. “If one of the stray dogs was stupid enough to go over the wire, the prisoners would jump on it, tear it apart and eat it raw,” van Eelen recalls. “If you looked at my stomach then, you saw my spine. I was already dead.” The experience triggered a lifelong obsession with food, nutrition and the science of survival.
One obsession led to another. After the Allies liberated Indonesia, van Eelen studied medicine at the University of Amsterdam. A professor showed the students how he had been able to get a piece of muscle tissue to grow in the laboratory. This demonstration inspired van Eelen to consider the possibility of growing edible meat without having to raise or slaughter animals. Imagine, he thought, protein-rich food that could be grown like crops, no matter what the climate or other environmental conditions, without killing any living creatures. -
Every few years ^ that comes up, but it keeps never happening. I want my pandaburger, dammit. It's, like, the electric car of the food world. So much promise, but so little delivered.
Is there.... something like kickstarter, but for mad science projects? I'd give this one a few quid. -
Elsewhen in Whitechapel...
Scotland Yard fights to keep Jack the Ripper files secretFour thick ledgers compiled by Special Branch officers have been kept under lock and key since the Whitechapel murders in 1888.
Trevor Marriott, a Ripper investigator and former murder squad detective, has spent three years attempting to obtain uncensored versions of the documents.
But he has been repeatedly refused because the ledgers contain the identities of police informants – and the Metropolitan Police insist that revealing the information could compromise their attempts to gather information from “supergrasses” and other modern-day informants. -
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CommentAuthordispophoto
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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CommentAuthorlampcommander
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
Two unrelated things of note.
First, Michael Moore's thoughts on the death of Bin Laden--not meant to reopen discussion. We done did dat. Just has some interesting points. A snippet:I remember my parents telling me how, on the day it was announced that Hitler was dead, there was no rejoicing in the streets, just private relief and satisfaction. The real celebration came six days later at the announcement that the war in Europe was over. THAT'S what the people wanted to hear – not just the demise of one evil madman, but the end to all the killing.
And then there is the Everlasting Gin and Tonic
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CommentAuthorGreasemonkey
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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CommentAuthortwentythoughts
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011 edited
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CommentAuthorGreasemonkey
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011 edited
Pop history #17
Red Faces was a popular segment of the TV show Hey Hey It's Saturday, an Australian variety programme which ran from 1971 to 1999. Like the Gong Show on which it was based, Red Faces featured mostly unscreened, bizarre and usually appalling amateur performances, with the occasional piece of comic gold. The Music Men from the first clip, originally just a group of mates who played for a British pub's soccer team, were such a hit that they eventually landed a big advertising contract with the Toohey's brewery in Sydney.
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Nice!
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- CommentAuthorSoviet Rocket No. 9
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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CommentAuthorCat Vincent
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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- CommentAuthorSoviet Rocket No. 9
- CommentTimeMay 17th 2011
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@Cat - before I even clicked on it I knew it would be Yat-Kha. I love them so much.
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Very mean. But funny.
Man sets up Twiiter account for his 81 year old father but tells him it's a search engine.My dad is 81 years old. I'm teaching him how to use the internet. I told him twitter was how to search things on Google. These tweets are what he's searching.
