This recent quirky news story detailing how an entirely new species that clones itself was discovered in a diner (admittedly in rural VietNam) has me wondering a few things:

1) Are scientists no longer interested in possibly disappearing forever into swamplands (have they gone soft?)

2) If new species are to be found in diners – has anyone actually verified that what the rest of us have been eating has been documented somewhere? Including the plants – maybe there’s a new species of potato that they didn’t know about either?

3) Do self-cloning animals count as genetically modified? It’s just weird.

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Recently I was standing at the whiteboard in a small airless meeting room (meaning we were all losing braincells while trying to resolve business issues) when the discussion veered to the whiteboard markers instead of the database being diagrammed. Namely that the standard smell of whiteboard marker (high acetone) is boring, redundant and wasn’t helping [...]

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A new set of Olympic mascots is unleashed on the world every two years now. Regardless of what part of the world is playing host, the mascots seem to be universally ambiguous and not particularly liked.  But they sell out none-the-less because how else are you going to prove that you were really there after [...]

For the most part requests under the Freedom of Information Act (or local equivalent) are fairly low on the entertainment scale unless you are really into conspiracy theories. That was until a recent request in Great Britain made the news when someone requested information regarding the official tracking of Sea monsters. I’m not sure if [...]

Switzerland’s answer to speeding motorists wouldn’t even raise an eyebrow in California… Dostoevsky could have had fun with this one even though it has a happy ending Aliens may be controlling the stock market (or not) but it’s a fun theory Slowly, slowly the world is turning into the that of the Jetson’s – starting [...]

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I’ve never met anyone that actually liked learning to spell or practices it as a hobby. It is, simply, a necessary evil. Something that was brought home by a tiny news item this week regarding a cookbook with a recipe recommending ‘freshly ground black people’. People vs pepper is in fact only a two character [...]