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Scientists are confident that the egg definitely came before the chicken! There's still no agreement on why the chicken crossed the road.

Soon you can become invisible!

John Pendry's team suggest that by enveloping an object in a metamaterial cloak, light waves can be made to flow around the object in the same way that water would do so.

"Water behaves a little differently to light. If you put a pencil in water that's moving, the water naturally flows around the pencil. When it gets to the other side, the water closes up," Professor Pendry told the BBC.

Special materials could make light "flow" around an object like water "A little way downstream, you'd never know that you'd put a pencil in the water - it's flowing smoothly again. Light doesn't do that of course, it hits the pencil and scatters. So you want to put a coating around the pencil that allows light to flow around it like water, in a nice, curved way."

The work provides a mathematical "recipe" for bending light waves in such a way as to achieve a desired cloaking effect.

Smoking pot doesn't increase your chance of getting lung cancer. Does anyone else find it sad that you can go to jail longer for giving a friend some pot than for raping that friend?

Some monkeys can talk in full sentences.

Unmanned vehicles are future of terrorism. Did you know you can build a cruise missle with off-the-shelf parts for $5000? Or that they have small, unmanned helicopters, undetectable by radar, that could land on the White House without any advance warning? I sleep safely knowing terrorists will never attack Cleveland.

UPDATE: If you read the first draft of this post, I sincerely apologize. I've had either not enough or too much coffee. Even I couldn't understand what I was saying.

Slashdot just relayed this cool fact: the world's second fastest car is electric - and over a million dollars cheaper than the fastest car.

CNN's Business 2.0 has photos and video of a Silicon Valley-made electric car with a 0-60 acceleration rate that's faster than a Ferrari Spider and a Porsche Carrera. From the article: 'In fact, it's second only to the French-made Bugatti Veyron, a 1,000-horsepower, 16-cylinder beast that hits 60 mph half a second faster and goes for $1.25 million.' The X1 is built by Ian Wright whose valley startup WrightSpeed intends to make a 'a small-production roadster that car fanatics and weekend warriors will happily take home for about $100,000 --a quarter ton of batteries included. The X1 crushed the Ferrari in an eighth-mile sprint and then in the quarter-mile, winning by two car lengths.

A scientist stumbled upon a correlation. How many inches is the perfect lawn worth to you?

Philips has come up with a great new device that will stop you from fastforwarding through commericals. Good luck with that one, assholes. I will retire my cable for good - except HBO - and get a second Netflix account. I have seen the promised land, my brothers, and I will not go back!

Scientists have discovered fossils of a new species. It's still a fish, but has some of the telltale characteristics of the land dwellers that will follow:

The scientists described evidence in the forward fins of limbs in the making. There are the beginnings of digits, proto-wrists, elbows and shoulders. The fish also had a flat skull resembling a crocodile's, a neck, ribs and other parts that were similar to four-legged land animals known as tetrapods.

I would say this evidence would please science-loving IDers, but I'd be lying. They probably don't care. When it takes 400 years to accept that the Earth isn't the center of the Galaxy, you're probably not going to be persuaded by rock formations that look like fish.

Science has confirmed what I've always suspected: Vodka and Red Bull works!

Slashdot thinks you might have psychological problems: "The Globe and Mail is reporting on possible physiological problems caused by so-called 'dirty electricity.' Poor power quality caused by electrical feedback and harmonics from consumer electronics are cited as a possible cause of various 'physiological stress' problems. While previous research in this area looked for connections between EM fields and cancer, some research is now looking into possible connections to fatigue, headaches, depression, and other symptoms. From the article: 'If electricity were flowing in a constant way, most people's bodies would likely adapt, but with all the interference from modern devices, the resulting fields are too variable for people to get used to.'"

Lest you think the Islamic world is ass-backwards, there are over 1001 nifty things they invented before the West. The Independent has an article on the top 20, including coffee, scalpels, bone saws, inoculation, parachutes, hand gliders, soap, distillation, crank shafts, quilting, military-grade gunpowder, checks, and the three course meal. You can find the whole list here.

In a Washington Post op-ed, the former assistant commissioner of women's health at the Food and Drug Administration let's loose on the diminishing importance of science in her organization. She has a point. Why exactly is the FDA dragging its feet on last-minute birth control? If you can't tell, that question is sarcastic.

Researchers have confirmed what you've always guessed: women drop weight to win you then put the pounds back on once they have you. Less you get concerned, she will lose that weight and more the moment you propose.

That's the only good news for the next twenty years. As your children grow, so will her weight. There's not a ray of sunlight until mid-life makeover puts her back to her right-after-she-bagged you weight.

Think your women will break the pattern? Fat chance.

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