Doctor Who Dreamcast:
Chiwetel Ejiofor as The Doctor
Indira Varma as The Master
Ruth Negga as The Companion
I would love the shit out of this cast. LOVE.
Okay, this is fucking awesome. From the New York Times:
Living plants have been generated from the fruit of a little arctic flower, the narrow-leafed campion, that died 32,000 years ago, a team of Russian scientists reports. The fruit was stored by an arctic ground squirrel in its burrow on the tundra of northeastern Siberia and lay permanently frozen until excavated by scientists a few years ago.
This would be the oldest plant by far that has ever been grown from ancient tissue. The present record is held by a date palm grown from a seed some 2,000 years old that was recovered from the ancient fortress of Masada in Israel.
Seeds and certain cells can last a long term under the right conditions, but many claims of extreme longevity have failed on closer examination, and biologists are likely to greet this claim, too, with reserve until it can be independently confirmed. Tales of wheat grown from seeds in the tombs of the pharaohs have long been discredited. Lupines were germinated from seeds in a 10,000-year-old lemming burrow found by a gold miner in the Yukon. But the seeds, later dated by the radiocarbon method, turned out to be modern contaminants.
Despite this unpromising background, the new claim is supported by a firm radiocarbon date. A similar avenue of inquiry into the deep past, the field of ancient DNA, was at first discredited after claims of retrieving dinosaur DNA proved erroneous, but with improved methods has produced spectacular results like the reconstitution of the Neanderthal genome.
The new report is by a team led by Svetlana Yashina and David Gilichinsky of the Russian Academy of Sciences research center at Pushchino, near Moscow, and appears in Tuesday’s issue of The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
“This is an amazing breakthrough,” said Grant Zazula of the Yukon Paleontology Program at Whitehorse in Yukon Territory, Canada. “I have no doubt in my mind that this is a legitimate claim.” It was Dr. Zazula who showed that the apparently ancient lupine seeds found by the Yukon gold miner were in fact modern.
Sounds like the Jurassic Park Plants Attack!!! movie is about to get greenlighted.
Dear Science,
Please don’t stop doing this crazy shit until I get to own a pet triceratops. And can you cross breed it so it is Labrador size?
NO RAPTORS
7:50am (by { Sweet life })
untitled by Daniel Gebhart de Koekkoek on Flickr.
Bahahahaha XD Oh my goodness.
I am going to need someone to move up the release date for The Hunger Games to, like, yesterday. KTHANX
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How do you like your gator?
Photo by Alan Bedenko - http://www.flickr.com/photos/buffalopundit/
Oh, Louisiana, I love you.
I think there’s a reasonable chance that I can find SOMEONE to give me some blackened gator on Saturday. Yum.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANT
Yes, these are ridiculous(ly awesome).
And I want them.
I cannot even express how much I want these stupid things. I mean they are just glitter covered loafers. But they are lovely “just glitter covered loafers”
WANT
Why is it
That there aren’t any overly earnest acoustic covers of “You Wanted a Hit” on YouTube? There should be.
I am just going to put that out into the world like The Secret or whatever.
SEC Football: Win an iPod Shuffle or Death to the BCS!
SEC Football has reached 1,000 followers and I would like to send my thanks with a couple giveaways. One will be a new iPod shuffle. The other will be a copy of the book ‘Death to the BCS’.
How to win the copy of ‘Death to the BCS’
- Follow SEC Football
- Like this post for 1 entry
- Reblog…
There is a possibility that everyone I work with is getting a copy of this book.
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SEC Football: GIVEAWAY #2!
I’m giving away my copy of “Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series” by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, and Jeff Passan
How to win:
- Follow SECFootball
- Like this post for 1 entry
- Reblog this post for 2 entries
That’s all! Cut off is next Wednesday…
SEC Football: GIVEAWAY! Who wants a Christmas present?
I’m giving away a copy of “Death to the BCS: The Definitive Case Against the Bowl Championship Series” by Dan Wetzel, Josh Peter, and Jeff Passan
How to win:
- Follow SECFootball
- Like this post for 1 entry
- Reblog this post for 2 entries
That’s all! Cut off is next Wednesday (December…
zoee:
GPOYW - This is bliss.
Right about now is when I start to really miss the Abita Strawberry. I’m really grateful for seasonal brews and that Abita uses local strawberries, but I want to drink this year round.



