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Top Ten Scientific Discoveries of 2007
Josh Fink writes "Time Magazine has a piece about the top 10 scientific discoveries of 2007. '#1. Stem Cell Breakthroughs - In November, Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University and molecular biologist James Thomson of the University of Wisconsin reported that they had reprogrammed regular skin cells to behave just like embryonic stem cells. The breakthrough may someday allow scientists to create stem cells without destroying embryos -- sidestepping the sticky ethical issues and opposition from the U.S. government that surround embryonic stem-cell research -- but that day is still a ways off. ' Also included in the top 10 editorial are pieces on the top 10 medical breakthroughs, the top 10 man made disasters and the top 10 green 'ideas'."
Top 10 most duped articles.
Let us not become the evil that we deplore.
Strange...Windows Vista didn't make the list...hmm
Lost in the "Oh goody, non embrionic stem cells" congradulatory bit on the part of the zealots is they forget that this is also "big step towards human cloning".
I want my clone damnit!
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1. Changing to D2 /. anniversary t-shirt.
2. Coming up with a good critique of why there isn't really a top "10"
3. extend that with how it belittles the rest of the work that has been done
4. complain about not gettin
5. Change sig
6.
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Soon to come... the Top Ten Green Ideas Turned Man-Made Disasters, and the Top Ten Man-Made Disasters Turned Medical Breakthroughs.
... 2007 hasn't ended yet!
(I hate these "top X of this year" before the year has even ended, though at least this one is less than a month early)
Inventing Toilet paper HAS to be high on the discoveries list... Unless you still get the Sears catalog. I've yet to meet a scientist who hasn't used it.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
Um... toilet paper wasn't invented this year, buddy. Sorry if you just got the word.
Without this press release, I would not have realized that Time Magazine was still publishing. Who knew?
The real question is -- how did it taste?
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
Photon storage is lame too unless they put it on the iphone.
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Like a 405 year old chicken, of course
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
"#10. Real-Life Kryptonite
A mineralologist discovered a white, powdery mineral that has the same properties - sodium lithium boron silicate hydroxide -- as the fictional kryptonite."
Who did they test it on? Christopher Reeve is dead alreadymmm
wouldn't it be cheaper for them to put you into cryogenic storage and hope one day they can cure you cheaply?
:-)
Wow, what do you have? The war in Iraq?