Harper is Not. A. Leader.

Impolitical: Harper scrambling on BNN

Further, he pointed out, in response to one of the big issues of the
day, the solidity of the housing market, that "we acted early on the 40
year mortgage." You mean the irresponsible 40 year mortgages that your
very own Deficit Jim brought us in 2006? You brought it in and then acted just in July of this year to yank it back and deserve plaudits? Oh, OK then.

Some great new messages from the NDP

Peterborough Politics: New Democrats and Chalk Talk: The New Ads

Pirates 4, starring Johnny Depp for $56 million

Johnny Depp to Earn £32 million for Fourth ‘Pirates of the Caribbean' film - Movie

New uses for scorpion and spider venom

Mad Bioscience: Radioactive Venom Lengthens Lives, Promotes Tumescence

The scorpion Leiurus quinquestriatus lives in the Middle East
and among the powerful cocktail of neurotoxins packed into its venom is
a peptide that is non-toxic to humans but binds to tumour cells.

In laboratory experiments, the peptide has invaded tumours in
breast, skin, brain and lung tissue, but left healthy cells untouched.

"It's as if the tumours collect it," Michael Egan of the company
TransMolecular in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told the New Scientist.

Cell phone for luddites

The Luddite's ideal mobile phone is here - The INQUIRER

Confused by cell phones? Just want one that you have to manually dial? This one is for you.

570 million year old footprints

Oldest 'Footprints' on Earth Found | LiveScience

The oldest-known tracks of a creature apparently using legs have been discovered in rock dated to 570 million years ago in what was once a shallow sea in Nevada.

New findings about prehistoric cave paintings

Prehistoric cave paintings took up to 20,000 years to complete - Telegraph

Rather than being created in one session, as archaeologists previously thought, many of the works discovered across Europe were produced over hundreds of generations who added to, refreshed and painted over the original pieces of art.

Easy to make solar cells

New iJET Solar Cell is as Easy to Make as Pizza : CleanTechnica

An Australian scientist has developed a new method of manufacturing solar cells using nothing more than some nail polish remover, a pizza oven and a standard inkjet printer.

The iJET technique is so easy and cheap to carry out that it could revolutionize access to solar technology in the developing world.