Google really is spying on you but “declined to assess the quality”.

“Researchers have identified a key player in the killing of brain cells after a stroke or a seizure. The protein asparagine endopeptidase (AEP) unleashes enzymes that break down brain cells’ DNA, scientists…have found…While some brain cells die directly because of lack of oxygen, others undergo programmed cell death, a normal developmental process where cells actively destroy their own DNA…At first, [scientists] thought the results of a critical experiment that led them to AEP were an aberration because the experiment was performed under overly acidic conditions.

“But if you can repeat the mistake, it’s not a mistake,”…” Full Slice

“A team of researchers…have synthesized a stable inorganic metal oxide cluster which catalyzes the fast and effective oxidation of water to oxygen. The work, a step toward artificial photosynthesis and the efficient production of hydrogen through solar energy…” Full slice

According to this full slice of baloney, NASA intends to “put one of the twin Mars rovers to sleep and limit the activities of the other robot to fulfill a NASA order to cut $4 million from the program’s budget” The rovers are no good if they can’t move. Why not sell them to the highest bidder on something such as EBay? I would imagine that such a sale would include access to the control rooms for the two rovers until they fail and rights to all NASA controlled technology used.

NOTE:  According to a thinner slice of baloney, NASA “has absolutely no plan to turn off either of the Mars Rovers because of budget cuts”.

Google:
“http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=petulant+finger+pointing+scold&btnG=Google+Search”

“…The reflection of short wavelengths like ultraviolet gives a good indication of the occurrence of cloud particles, but the utility of ultraviolet observations is enhanced by the presence of an as-yet unidentified ultraviolet absorber in the atmosphere of Venus, which shows up in the form of dark streaks on ultraviolet images….” Full Slice

the airtanker deal was awarded to EADS was specifically to bring to light McCain’s lobbying to support a non-US (hah!) company in favor of US based (hah!) Boeing.  Karl Rove knows that McCain will lose so much support (maybe even dropping out) so that the nominating convention must put forth a Rove approved replacement candidate.  Who might that be?

sepsis prolepsis:
I will counter in advance
objections to soap

A NASA spacecraft in orbit around Mars has taken the first ever image of active avalanches near the Red Planet’s north pole.

Soon “the man” will know where everyone is, all the time. Full Slice

Subsequent note: The man identified via DNA in the “Full Slice” story committed suicide.

“What do marathoners and heart failure patients have in common? More than you think according to new findings by physiologists…The new study shows that the fatigue that marathoners and other extreme athletes feel at the end of a race is caused by a tiny leak inside their muscles that probably also saps the energy from patients with heart failure.The leak – which allows calcium to continuously leak inside muscle cells – weakens the force produced by the muscle and also turns on a protein-digesting enzyme that damages the muscle fibers….” Full Slice

The Full Paper

well fuck you dean
who the hell do you think you are?
you’ll fuck our genes
who the hell do you think you are?
you think we’re memes
Who the hell do you think you are?
and less life means.

Few people have experienced traveling into space. Even fewer have experienced the smell of space. Now this sounds strange, that a vacuum could have a smell and that a human being could live to smell that smell. It seems about as improbable as listening to sounds in space, yet space has a definite smell.

“…Researchers have reconstructed proteins that were likely to have been used billions of years ago by the ancestors of modern bacteria and have found that these proteins provide estimates of the early earth’s temperatures that match those generated by geologists….” Full Slice

“Calendars might have read Friday, the first, but for many on Puget Sound freeways it seemed a lot more like the 13th.

There was the carjacking, the stabbing and the high-speed chase on Interstate 90 heading east from Seattle. Then there was a rolling domestic violence episode that sent a car weaving down the busy freeway.

Oh, and that 25-car pileup that closed Interstate 5 for hours just south of Tumwater, and a crash that blocked southbound I-5 during the afternoon commute in Seattle.

“It was a crazy day,” said Trooper Jeff Merrill, a State Patrol spokesman and one of several officers who helped arrest the carjacking suspect. “I don’t know what happened out there.” ” Full Slice