Human-sheep hybrid
By injecting human cells into the fetus of a sheep, scientists have created a sheep that’s 15% human. To the chagrin of human-animal hybrid fans, the sheep does not have human features.
Scientists have created the world’s first human-sheep chimera – which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.
The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells – and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer.
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Animal rights activists fear that if the cells get mixed together, they could end up with cellular fusion, creating a hybrid which would have the features and characteristics of both man and sheep. But Prof Zanjani said: “Transplanting the cells into foetal sheep at this early stage does not result in fusion at all.”
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Super Mario, the stop-motion Legos edition
This little stop-motion animation recreates Super Mario Brothers in legos, which is charming enough, but what’s even better is the theme, performed on guitar and recorder, and the sound effects, which appear to be some guy going “week! week!” and so on.
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He Was Only Five-Foot-Three; Girls Could Not Resist His Stare
A Hidden Picasso: Will Shank always suspected something was buried beneath Picasso’s Scène de Rue, a somber street scene painted by Picasso in the fall of 1900 during his first stay in Paris. X-rays revealed a second painting: a nightclub scene which appeared to be the prototype for Picasso’s Le Moulin de la Galette, a 1900 painting thought to be the first Picasso made in Paris. Technicians extracted the colors visible through the cracks in the surface of Scène de Rue and transferred them onto a black-and-white radiograph.
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The Economics of Fat
Cheap Donuts and Expensive Broccoli: the Effect of Relative Prices on Obesity. Using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) for the period 1982-1996, we find that individual BMI measures, as well as the likelihood of being overweight or obese, exhibit a statistically significant positive correlation with the prices of healthful relative to unhealthful foods.
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What took you so long?
The Evolution of Homer Simpson Best. (and Longest.) Couch gag. Evar.
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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
Poison Dart Machine Hidden at Hong Kong Race Track No good explanation for why and how someone dug up the turf at a Hong Kong racetrack and installed a machine capable of blowing poison darts at the horses. The Triads? (First link NYT)
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‘The new Doctor… He’s so young!’
Doctor Who fun and games. While you wait for Series 3 to start – and toss and turn wondering who the next Doctor will be – blow a little bit of time with K-9, the Daleks and the Slitheen.
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The eye of Sauron… er, Saturn
Riddle: What has an eye on the bottom, and a hexagon on the top?
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