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Mignon's an aunt! Welcome Ryan and Hannah!

They came into the world the old-fashioned way, but over three million babies have now started life in a test tube.


What's better than drugs for insomnia?

Australian researchers find that: Diet Drinks = Drunkeness
Story from MedPageToday, Story from AOL.
Also, mixing alcohol with energy drinks doesn't reduce drunkeness. And what's the deal with Vodka and Redbull?

What's New in the Journals?
Science magazine reports that global warming leads to an increase in wildfires, which then adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, potentially increasing global warming. (That's what's known as a positive feedback loop.)


Better Biodiesel
Hydroelectric power in the San Francisco Bay
Three cheers for UPS, which is investigating hydraulic hybrid trucks for their fleet.
An Inconvenient Truth
Al Gore's presentation at the TED conference (It gets serious around 6:10, but Al Gore was pretty funny for the first 6 minutes.)

My Taxes Paid for What?

Football Hives

Disclaimer: We don't really know that your tax dollars paid for this, it's just a hunch.

Cool Website/Science Jokes

Courtesy of Michael Wrigglesworth via Science Jokes

There was this biologist who was doing some experiments with frogs.  He
was measuring just how far frogs could jump.  So he puts a frog on a line
and says "Jump frog, jump!".  The frog jumps 2 feet.  He writes in his
lab book: 'Frog with 4 legs - jumps 2 feet'.

Next he chops off one of the legs and repeats the experiment.  "Jump frog
jump!" he says.  The frog manages to jump 1.5 feet.  So he writes in his
lab book: 'Frog with 3 legs - jumps 1.5 feet'.

He chops off another and the frog only jumps 1 foot.  He writes in his
book: 'Frog with 2 legs jumps 1 foot'.

He continues and removes yet another leg.  " Jump frog jump!" and the
frog somehow jumps a half of a foot.  So he writes in his lab book again:
'Frog with one leg - jumps 0.5 feet'.

Finally he chops off the last leg.  He puts the frog on the line and
teels it to jump. "Jump frog, jump!".  The frog doesn't move.  "Jump
frog, jump!!!".  Again the frog stays on the line.  "Come on frog,
jump!".  But to no avail.

The biologist finally writes in his book:  'Frog with no legs - goes deaf'

Shout Outs
Hi to Jonathan in Japan.

Why we can't Live Well anymore...
It's all GNC's fault.

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