Young pigs are taught at an early age how to survive in a cruel, bacon-loving world!
Quote of the Day: “My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.” – Woody Allen
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Silk Pavillion: ‘3D printed’ structures created from silkworms
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We think of 3-D printers as desktop machines. But Silk Pavillion, a new, stunning piece of architecture by the Mediated Matter Group at MIT Media Lab brings all of those assumptions into question.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Skateboarding off the side of a mountain seemed like a such a great idea! Funeral is Friday at 4:00!
Quote of the Day: “Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.” – Peter Ustinov
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Steven King’s wife. No, not that wife, the other one!
Quote of the Day: “I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.” – Steve Martin
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Hmmm, now which car did I drive to work?
Quote of the Day: “I never said most of the things I said.” – Yogi Berra
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
It was the final match between good and evil, and unless he pulls a groin muscle,
evil is about to kick the sideburns off his opponent!
Quote of the Day: “It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.” – Douglas Adams
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Something tells me this is not a gesture of kindness!
Quote of the Day: “Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
What if shadows were inverted?
Quote of the Day: “Some people say that I must be a terrible person, but it’s not true. I have the heart of a young boy in a jar on my desk” – Stephen King
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Help Wanted: Needed, one exceptionally skilled knife catcher! Those with poor skills
will be considered as long as they’re exceptionally fast healers!
Quote of the Day: “Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm for the rest of his life.” – Terry Pratchett
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How isolated people and animals die sooner
Single people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people.
A trend that has held true in studies across the world and time periods is that single, widowed, and divorced people have as high as twice the mortality rate of married people. The tendencies for unmarried people to die seems to tell us about the relative strength of social bonds, which is supported by similar trends seen among ants, bees, and even cells, described in a fascinating paper in Cornell’s quantitative biology archive.
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They get shorter and floppier when they’re less excited!
Quote of the Day: “First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down.” – Leo Rosenberg
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Scientists grow kidney in the laboratory
Laboratory grown rat kidney.
Scientists in the the U.S. say the have “grown” a kidney in the laboratory and it has been transplanted into animals where it started to produce urine. Similar techniques to make simple body parts have already been used in patients, but the kidney is one of the most complicated organs made so far.
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