The blog also discusses the "pew gap"story....
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The latest Librivox download summary: “I seen my opportunities and I took ‘em.”, George Washington Plunkitt of Tamminy Hall. There’s honest graft and dishonest graft according to Plunkitt. Listen to this candid discourse from a 19th century politician, and decide for yourself if things have changed..
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Refugee camps attacked in the Congo...50thousand flle...ho hum it's only Africa...don't expect to see it on the news...and don't expect anyone but the UN to send troops, and the UN Peacekeepers are too few to do much good.
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the big question of the day:
Where are the muon-muon pairs coming from? and what the Heck is a muon muon pair?
The easy explanation is HERE...and HERE...
it has to do with dark matter...
no, it doesn't have anything to do with the Kef MUON Loudspeakers that cost $140,000...
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ICEAGE update: mouse cloned from frozen skincells...
Cells from dead bodies have previously been useless as they are ruined in the freezing process. But Wakayama's team discovered a way to extract a nucleus intact from a frozen cell by grinding cell tissues into multiple pieces.
Their aim is to grow a mammoth...
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People with Down's syndrome are prone to certain disease (leukemia, chronic hepatitis) due to bone marrow/immune cell problems...
One of the curiosities is that people with Down's syndrome develop Alzheimer's disease in their 40's...and pathological changes are the same as in the elderly...
But one man with Down's is 70 without problems...the question is why...
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Sigh. A small boat that ferries passengers sank near Dimasalang here in the Philippines...40 dead, some still missing...it was a wooden hull outrigger that is common here for traveling between the small islands...there was a small storm, and some say it turned over from a wave, others from a whirlwind...119 officially aboard, but it may have been overloaded...
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