For once, there’s some good news coming out of Ferguson
The Highway Patrol of St. Louis has taken over for the St. Louis PD. Their captain is from Ferguson, and has been marching with the protesters.
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Researchers in the US are developing ‘organs-on-a-chip’ - an entire electronic set of human organs that can take the guesswork, and animals, out of drug testing.
“We are learning more and more that mice and rats don’t predict humans. The shortcomings of animal testing are becoming clear.”
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Back when I was in charge of hiring for GameStop, a guy came in, handed me his application, and ‘accidentally’ let a sonic screwdriver fall out of his sleeve. “Now that you know I’m a time lord, I guess you’ll haaaaave to interview me,” he laughed alone, and that’s why I refuse to watch Doctor Who.
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US to send team to Nigeria in response to kidnapping
Reuters: The U.S. State Department says Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan has welcomed a U.S. offer to send an American team to Nigeria to support the government’s response to the kidnapping of more than 200 schoolgirls by an Islamist militant group.
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Photo: Women take part in a protest demanding the release of abducted secondary school girls from the remote village of Chibok in Lagos, Nigeria, on May 5. (Akintunde Akinleye / Reuters)
Princess to princess, there is no saving that awful dress.
Hey
Psstt
The guy who invented the theory that vaccines cause autism had his medical license revoked for it
thats ridiculous
they took it away because he came up with a seemingly plausible theory?
They took it away because other scientists have been unable to reproduce his results, his results were made up, he didn’t even get approved by an ethics committee, and now he’s risking the health and lives of a whole bunch of people
So I just found out that there is an annual event in Australia where people dress up ducks in fancy clothes, called the Pied Piper Duck Show.
It’s a serious event, apparently.
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