Link: Scientists Recreate Spider Silk (50 Years After Teenager in Queens) -- Weird Things
Also, 50 years after the character was created scientists have finally caught up with Peter Parker and recreated spider silk by transferring key spider genes into silkworms which are far easier to farm the substance out of.
New steps added to my todo list:
Well so much for restoring habeas corpus
Crap, they’re on to us.
Link: Hank Paulson's inside jobs -- Felix Salmon
Paulson was giving inside tips to Wall Street in general, and to Goldman types in particular: exactly the kind of behavior that "Government Sachs" conspiracy theorists have been speculating about for years. Turns out, they were right.
Paulson, says Teitelbaum, "is now a distinguished senior fellow at the University of Chicago, where he's starting the Paulson Institute, a think tank focused on U.S.-Chinese relations". I'd take issue with the "distinguished" bit. Unless it means "distinguished by an astonishing black hole where his ethics ought to be".
Link: Man arrested at Large Hadron Collider claims he's from the future | CNET UK
Mr Cole was taken to a secure mental health facility in Geneva but later disappeared from his cell. Police are baffled, but not that bothered.
If a guy claims to be a time traveler and disappears from his cell in a secure mental health facility, shouldn’t you be at least a little bit bothered?
Link: 6 Yr Old Charged With Sexual Assault For Playing Doctor -- Dvorak News Blog
Attorneys for the parents of the 6-year-old, who is being referred to as “D,” said that Riniker has gone too far by bringing a felony sex charge against a first-grader for touching a 5-year-old girl inappropriately while playing doctor last fall.
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In justification for the charge, Riniker is quoted in the lawsuit saying “the Legislature could have put an age restriction in the statute … the legislature did no such thing.”
The lawsuit also alleges the charges were brought because the 5-year-old is the daughter of a high-ranking official in Grant County.
New phrase to teach those kids; that woman is an A*S*S*H*O*L*E!!
The Senate is going to vote on whether Congress will give this president - and every future president - the power to order the military to pick up and imprison without charge or trial civilians anywhere in the world … even within the United States itself.
Cause that pesky Constitution keeps getting in the way.
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