January 27, 2005
Game Away
This site has browser-playable ROM’s of hundreds of old Nintendo video games. Play in your browser! Waste Time! Yay!
*SQUAWK!* Polly Shouldn’t Be! *SQUAWK!*
Ya think?
Hang on to your lunches, folks:
Chinese scientists at the Shanghai Second Medical University in 2003 successfully fused human cells with rabbit eggs. The embryos were reportedly the first human-animal chimeras successfully created. They were allowed to develop for several days in a laboratory dish before the scientists destroyed the embryos to harvest their stem cells.
In Minnesota last year researchers at the Mayo Clinic created pigs with human blood flowing through their bodies.
And at Stanford University in California an experiment might be done later this year to create mice with human brains.
Scientists feel that, the more humanlike the animal, the better research model it makes for testing drugs or possibly growing “spare parts,” such as livers, to transplant into humans.
Colorado Trip
Pictures. Oh yes, I have pictures.
I realized tonight that I never posted pics from our Colorado trip last August, so I put together a bunch of them tonight to choke the server with.
You’ll have to hit the “continue reading” link to see them all, as I don’t want to curse those with slow connections with 40-some pictures without warning. If you have a slow connection (mainly you, Dad), hit the link and go get some coffee. It’s going to be awhile.
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