Comments on: Science Fridays?

By: illuminotorious

illuminotorious — Fri, 30 Dec 2005 03:21:34 +0000

The beached "Giant" featured in the first story's "news report" looks suspiciously like the first Colossus in Sony's recent PS2 videogame Shadow of the Colossus.

Reminds me of the false histories used to promote the first Blair Witch film and Sega's Seaman videogame for the Dreamcast.

By: brimful

brimful — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 17:45:45 +0000

Abhi & Cicatrix, there was a episode a few years back where the parents made sure all the kids got chicken pox. The children got revenge though, in typical South Park style.

A mom in my neighborhood made her kids all lick the same popsicle to spread the chicken pox around in one fell swoop. Now that they have a chicken pox vaccine, maybe the mothers can stop now.

By: Abhi

Abhi — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 20:25:31 +0000

Natural mothering US websites are advising mothers to deliberately infect their offspring with chickenpox by making them interact with infected children

There was a Simpson's episode about this two weeks ago in fact where Homer has a Chicken Pox party to infect the neighborhood kids with Maggie's pox.

By: cicatrix

cicatrix — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 19:42:39 +0000

Natural mothering US websites are advising mothers to deliberately infect their offspring with chickenpox by making them interact with infected children

Maybe it was just my mom, but she made me get both chicken pox and measles from my grotty sister, so she could take care of use both at the same time and be done with it. Of course the fact that I was fifteen when my sister got chicken pox didn't stop her ...ughhh..

(she also got me immunized for smallpox in SL when I was about a year old. Apparently I broke out in the small pox blisters cuz the vaccine was just a tad strong. euughhhh)

-now-you-know-why-cicatrix

By: Vikram

Vikram — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:17:13 +0000

MSNBC has an article about a "biplane" dinosaur. The paleontologist quoted in the article, is a desi,Sankar Chatterjee of Texas Tech University. Interesting article:

Biplane flying dinosaur

By: Bong Breaker

Bong Breaker — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 15:59:49 +0000

weird stuff from the medical world

Hey hey chick pea, you can do the serious medical stuff. WEIRD is my department. Like...(all taken from the latest issue of the World's Greatest Medical Newspaper)

Natural mothering US websites are advising mothers to deliberately infect their offspring with chickenpox by making them interact with infected children, admidst fears that the vaccine is ineffective. The gatherings of children have been termed Â‘pox partiesÂ’.

Pathological liars may have up to 26% more white matter than other people. Having more white matter in the prefrontal cortex may aid lying as it mediates quick and complex thinking, say the team from the University of Southern California.

Great idea Abhi.

By: Builder

Builder — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:08:38 +0000

Science is good. My favorite science blog, covering squids, and more interestingly, the creationist war on “Darwinism”: http://www.pharyngula.org

Others: http://www.corante.com/loom/

Weekly science blog fair: http://tangledbank.net/

By: Sakshi

Sakshi — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:40:48 +0000

The video is pretty cool, even if it is a hoax.

By: Kush Tandon

Kush Tandon — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 09:18:27 +0000

"circulation ($$) firewall so without circulation"

i meant subscription instead of ciculation, sorry.

By: Suhail Kazi

Suhail Kazi — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 08:34:28 +0000

nice story abhi. Indeed it’s a hoax. At the very end of the clip she says “for shreyas news….“. There is no shreyas news AFAIK and google didn’t help either.