Maggot therapy growing

Maggot Therapy Gains in Popularity | LiveScience

Juvenile larvae are used, because that is the stage of the animal that feeds on dead tissue. The maggots
do not actually eat dead tissue in the way we think of it, nor is it
specifically their "eating" that benefits the wound, Sherman said.

"They liquefy or dissolve the dead tissue (by secreting their digestive
enzymes into the wound), so the wound is debrided [cleaned] whether the
liquefied tissue and debris is eaten or simply drains out of the
wound," he said.

Interview with True Blood's Tara - Rutina Wesley

Exclusive: True Blood's Rutina Wesley Tells Io9 She's Not The Huxtables

Live Piracy Map

Live Piracy Map

Google shows you where all the latest piracies have occurred.

More water found on Mars - not at the poles

The Raw Story | Massive frozen water reservoirs discovered on Mars

The buried glaciers reported by Holt and his 11 co-authors lie in the
Hellas Basin region of Mars' southern hemisphere, and scientist said
even larger frozen water reservoirs may exist in Mars' northern
hemisphere.

Yay Lard!

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Travelling beyond the solar system

Voyager 1 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As of May 22, 2008, Voyager 1 was at a distance of 106.4 AU (approximately 15.92 terameters or 0.0017 light years) from the Sun, which makes it the most distant human-made object from Earth.^[8] At this distance, it is more distant from the Sun than any known natural solar system object, including Eris and 90377 Sedna, but excluding long-period comets. Though Sedna has an orbit that takes it 975 AU away from the Sun at aphelion, as of 2006 it is less than 90 AU away from the Sun and approaching its perihelion at 76 AU. ^[9][10]

I has a flava

Why McDonald's Fries Taste So Good

The flavor industry is highly secretive. Its leading companies will not divulge the precise formulas of flavor compounds or the identities of clients. The secrecy is deemed essential for protecting the reputations of beloved brands. The fast-food chains, understandably, would like the public to believe that the flavors of the food they sell somehow originate in their restaurant kitchens, not in distant factories run by other firms. A McDonald's french fry is one of countless foods whose flavor is just a component in a complex manufacturing process. The look and the taste of what we eat now are frequently deceiving -- by design.

Steampunk Art - tons of it

Even More Steampunk Art, Design & Fashion | WebUrbanist

Brain-based computer - Skynet anyone?

IBM wants to build a computer based on the brain - The INQUIRER

The big idea is to get a machine that can sense, perceive, interact and be
cognitive while saving on energy and space.

If they pull it off, cognitive computing offers the promise of systems that
can integrate and analyse vast amounts of data from many sources in the blink of
an eye, allowing businesses or individuals to make rapid decisions.

IBM is looking to break the way that computers have been made for the last
half a century. Like the brain, they want it to run on a cup of coffee, and use
nanoscale devices for synapses and neurons.

If it works, and does not think about sex every 30 seconds, like a human
brain, it will bring about entirely new computing architectures and programming
systems.