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Merely a coincidence? I THINK NOT
The molecular structure of (a) the metabolite hydroxynorketamine (HNK), possibly responsible for the anti-depressant effects of ketamine... or (b) a child's pull-along toy? [h/t Neuroskeptic]Bonus...
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Regeneration Made Easy
For all your regeneration needs -- from piranha farming to hydrofluoric glass etching -- use 83.*Left: Before 83 Right: After 8383 is now available in Times Roman, Courier, Trebuchet Ariel and Verdana....
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Huge sockpuppets, the classiest sockpuppets
Of course there is nothing wrong or shameful about assuming a false identity in order to praise one's sexual prowess and give excuses for one's unavailability. Nor is there any shame in denying that...
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Running in my death trap, death trap
Apparently when a Google car is blebbed all over with chewing gum in the manner of a Douglas Coupland sculpture, it inspires indolent crash dummies to make them- selves comfortable upon the bonnet,...
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Dirty deeds, done with sheep
In which Australians continue to live down to our expectations.
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Return of the Lion's-mane fungus
An unobservant passerby will often overlook Hericium coralloidesgrowing on a dead tree, believing it to be a burst waterpipe within the stump where the water froze overnight. However, microscopic...
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“I couldn't help it, I saw the third guy coming back with pineapples”
Here at the palatial Riddled Research Laboratory, we remain staunchly unbeholden to corporate interests, impervious to the blandishments of potential funding sources. In particular, to blandishments...
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Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?No.Ah! Very good....
It was all very well for Professor Martial Canterel to reanimate electrical activity in Danton's mummified brain, training a depilated Siamese cat to deliver a massive current to the dissected head,...
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Anti-matter Black Orbs Climbing up the Eiffel Tower
Remember those simpler days when Trevor Constable could use a combination of sensitised infra-red film, lens flares and developing faults to document an ecology of giant transparent amoebae in the sky?...
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Three quarks for Muster Mark!
Yes, Gell-Mann was allowed to draw upon Finnegans Wake for the name of his postulated sub-hadron particles. But there is no place in particle physics for silly names inspired by Spike Milligan lyrics....
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At last, a politics / horror cross-over movie that does not involve Donald...
"Hur," thought some clever headline-writing sub, "Haiti, is just zombies, hur hur."Still, could become a plot device in "The Dead Zone - The Sequel".
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Twenty-seven faces With their eyes turned to the sky
"Why the photograph?" I asked peevishly, while my eyes recovered from the flash. Another Kiwi extended his hand, palm down, out of habit, to be fingerprinted."We're going to send them to the Faception...
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The hugest snotrags, the classiest
Donald Trump today introduced his range of Trump Handkerchiefs with a virtuoso display of nose-wiping.
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Paul's Doric and Ionic columns were widely syndicated in early Christian-Era...
Emperor's New ToupéeDonald Trump is open to new ideas on the staging of his acceptance of the Republican Party Presidential nomination at the coming Republican convention, like keeping party members...
View ArticleEngine Housing may become overheated.
"Oh" people might say "where is that Another Kiwi, with his wild stories of cheese theft?"You may have read a comment by me on this very blog about not caring what happens to NZ now, "meant it, stand...
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Like a spine made of cornflakes
Continuing further into the exploration of the badly set jelly we call NZ society we come to the subject of infrastructure. I know, right, you had better grab a hot chocolate, with extra marshmallows...
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"Oh" you might think "It is that little old New Zild again with the sheeps and cows and mad Sir Mr Peter Jackson of Rivendell, innit"But no, there is more to this green and peasant land than just nice...
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