Because the half-life of DNA is 521 years, or so claims a group of scientists from Denmark and Australia after studying the leg bones of the extinct moa bird. Unless of course you believe the Earth is 6,000 years old and humans and dinosaurs co-mingled, then, sweet! Life will totally find a way.
Alex Karras, the former Detroit Lions defensive tackle turned actor in the ABC sitcom “Webster,” died Wednesday in his Los Angeles home following a battle with kidney disease, heart disease, dementia and stomach cancer, according to a family spokesman. He was 77.
“A farmer sprayed milk on policemen during a protest against falling milk prices outside the E.U.’s headquarters in Brussels, where agricultural ministers discussed its policies at an emergency meeting.” It sort of looks like Dale Earnhardt Jr. was taking a break from NASCAR races to help with the protest, doesn’t it? [via clusterflock]
By year’s end, major internet service providers will institute the “Copyright Alert System”, a six-strikes and your out plan that has the backing of the Obama administration and of course Hollywood and the major record labels. The plan, now four years in the making and put on the back-burner after the implosion of SOPA and PIPA, [...]
About 20 percent of Americans identify themselves as no religion in particular, agnostic or atheist — a figure that has doubled since a similar survey was taken in 1990. Also, that number increases to a third when you focus on people under 30. That’s not to say those people don’t believe in God, it’s just [...]
Riffing off the famed post that you can’t be further than 107 miles from the closest McDonalds in America, Jim Davenport crunched the data on Starbucks to determine the farthest one can get from the ubiquitous coffee shop is approximately 170 miles. But, that’s just a jumping off point for a more cogent examination of the [...]
Tell Your Boss Anything is a new site to help anonymous worker bees and cubicle monkeys send anonymous emails to their boss. The straight-forward site has been live for a month and comes to us courtesy of Canadian Tom Williams. Read Write Web has more: Here’s how it works: For $20 a month, you can send messages [...]
1. “Google isn’t taking the step of asking developers to make separate phone and tablet versions of their apps, as Apple has done, but this effort is still notable and long overdue. While Apple proudly touts that more than 250,000 apps have been built specifically for the iPad, Google has declined to say just how [...]
On one side of the debate is Richard Wrangham, an anthropologist at Harvard, who claims that hominids became people, like you or I, by mastering fire and learning to cook food over it some 1.8 million years ago. Other anthropologists and archaeologists believe humans learned to control fire only 12,000 years ago. That’s a pretty [...]
According to, get this, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), who is a prominent member of the House Science Committee. Broun made his thoughts known about science during a lecture at the Liberty Baptist Church Sportsman’s Banquet on September 27, 2012, in Hartwell, Georgia. Further, Broun also told the audience that all available scientific evidence leads him to believe that [...]
