For all of you students out there who need help with math of any sort, this is a great site to help aid in the process of learning.

Yes it does exist. For those of you that have no idea what this is (image on left) its the doomsday clock. The clock itself does not tell time, but since 1947 the clock has been kept and maintained. The famed workers of the Manhattan project thought of creating this symbol to set a standard of alert and time until the end of the world or a large disaster. The end being the symbolic strike to midnight. Since the establishment of the clock at seven minutes to midnight its time has fluctuated quite a bit going from the safest the world has ever been in 1991, seventeen minutes to midnight, to an all time low of two minutes in 1953. The clock has been adjusted according to nuclear threats over time, but since 2007 has included climate changes and nanotechnological threats. Its most current reading is six minutes to midnight as of January 14th 2010. The clock turning back may be a sign that the world won't be ending in 2012. Having the world end as I finish college would be horrendous. My whole life would have been spent in school, learning for nothing. But there may be hope that I may live in a time where I don't have class everyday. Yet again in the next two years the clock may fluctuate like a sine curve until our eventual downfall. Only time can tell what's in store for the future.

Doomsday Clock Timeline
http://www.thebulletin.org/content/doomsday-clock/timeline

-MF

Sheep gives birth to what looks like lamb body with human face

(full article) http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/12-01-2010/111621-sheep_human_face-0

Women may think of men as primitive, but new research indicates that the Y chromosome -- the thing that makes a man male -- is evolving far faster than the rest of the human genetic code.

A new study comparing the Y chromosomes from humans and chimpanzees, our nearest living relatives, show that they are about 30 percent different.

The idea of a wooden bone may sound pointless, especially with all of the different metals and ceramic materials available for surgeries but its the future of medicine. Italian scientist have been devising this new method for some time now, where rather than using a metal bar to aid in the curing of a broken bone a artificial wooden bone is used instead. This would beneficial to all, just imagine a compound break for something like a collar bone and being able to have it as good as new within a week or two. The burden of having to remove excess metal plates would be removed completely and the cure time would be cut greatly, but for now this is only the future. Its only been tested on sheep as of now and it will be some time before you get this option from your local doctor.

For the full article :

http://news.discovery.com/tech/artificial-bone-made-wood.html

-MF

Scientist discover new ways of delivering injections to blood stream without needles.
Full story (popular science) http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-01/synthetic-skin-grafts-deliver-genes-therapies-straight-body-no-needles-necessary

For some reason this reminds me of " The Matrix".

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