Long live yeast!

by | Dec 3, 2008 | Ten Gallon Liberal

Turns out something weird about yeast is also true for humans. There's quite a mechanism at work inside both of us–genes called "sirtuins" handle turning other genes off and on, so that, for instance, the heart genes in a stomach cell stay turned...

Tween-age Wasteland

by | Dec 3, 2008 | Cherchez La Femme

This is so wrong. Another blog pointed this image out and I had to see if Amazon had done anything about it. I followed the link, and sure enough, the image of a mid-pubescent girl was used to illustrate an article of clothing being described as "sexy."...

The (Boob) Job

by | Dec 3, 2008 | Cherchez La Femme

A gang of theives in Uganda has taken a somewhat shrewd approach to robbery. Police in that country are warning bar-going men to watch their noses, lest they have a heaving bosom smeared with chloroform shoved in their faces. Apparantly, women have been applying the...