Sea Creature Self-Portrait 150 Million Years in the Making. Dr.
Phil Wilby and his team were thrilled to find the famed Victorian dig site in Wiltshire that had been lost for nearly 170 years. But when they dug in and examined an ordinary-looking rock, they found something they never expected: a perfectly preserved, 150 million-year-old ink sac. The ink inside was so well preserved that they were able to take a small amount of it, combine it with an ammonia solution, and make an ink with which they drew the creature’s portrait and wrote its Latin name: Belemnotheutis antiquus. Pornification. Are We Having Fun Yet? Argentina is home to two amusement parks and one zoo where having fun means completely ignoring the voice in your head that says, “This is not normal.” I know this because I recently visited all three and returned home physically and mentally battered. Does a weekend spent ambling around a Christian “experience,” watching children pretend to run a government, and petting adult lions sound enticing to you?
If so, Argentina is your wonderland—specifically the area in and around Buenos Aires, where these attractions can be found within an hour’s drive from one another. My experience was challenging, to say the least; however, I must admit that I wasn’t bored for a single moment. Recent image by Vw2op on Photobucket. Rodney Mullen: Pop an ollie and innovate! Just how small is an atom? Questions no one knows the answers to. Danny Hillis: Back to the future (of 1994) Joshua Foer: Feats of memory anyone can do. Julian Baggini: Is there a real you? - StumbleUpon.
Charlie Todd: The shared experience of absurdity. Greatest Scenes In Film: They Live - Sunglasses. Paddy Ashdown: The global power shift. Stem Cell Basics: Introduction. Laboratory studies of stem cells enable scientists to learn about the cells’ essential properties and what makes them different from specialized cell types.
Scientists are already using stem cells in the laboratory to screen new drugs and to develop model systems to study normal growth and identify the causes of birth defects.