Body-clock gene reveals sleep cycles with just a pluck, study says.  Early bird or late riser? The mysteries of your sleep cycle may be unlocked by the hairs on your head, says this National Geographic article, and that's because the genes that regulate our body clocks can be found in hair-follicle cells, researchers have discovered.

And The Latest Word On Climate Change Is -How to solve the climate change problem?Invent a new word.There!  Job done.  You can go back to sleep now.http://www.grist.org/article/2010-08-24-climate-change-found-to-be-rapid...

As told by the creator at Overclockers.comI made the Playstation controller coffee table for my year 12 major work, as an Industrial Technology project. I made the whole controller out of Plywood, MDF and Veneer on Veneer. I used the MDF for the R and L legs and the Veneer on Veneer for the 2 analogue joysticks as the 6mm Bendy Plywood wouldn’t bend around such a small diameter. To bend around the Handles I used 6mm Bendy Plywood. To give the finish of the playstation controller coffee table I used polyurethane full gloss finish. I used White gloss for the whole controller and the Black gloss for the Buttons.

A game that involves scientists?  Why not?   AmoebaMike is creating a series of Science Trading Cards - now he just needs to invent a game to go with it.  Sample:Sure, some of our writers have cards, but they are more like Magic:The Gathering, with some specific effects, as you can see:

A U.S. district court issued a preliminary injunction on Monday stopping federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, in a slap to the Obama administration's new guidelines on the sensitive issue.There's a growing conflict between liberalism and progress in the country and the courts go either way, almost at random.   An appeals court can overturn state constitutional amendments so they can certainly shut down a controversial government policy - but it isn't that controversial, it isn't even much different from the Bush policy ... 

The Minneapolis city attorney's office has decided to pay seven zombies and their attorney $165,000, which settles a federal lawsuit the seven filed after they were arrested and jailed for two days for dressing up like zombies in downtown Minneapolis on July 22, 2006, to protest "mindless" consumerism.

Many people today either are too young to have ever seen some early pc’s or have forgotten what they looked like and how much they cost. Today we complain about the cost of a laptop running 2Ghz with 4GB ram for a cost of $ 400.00, however it wasn’t that long ago that laptops and pc’s were priced quite a bit higher. Here are 30 Old PC ads that will make you laugh and possibly appreciate what you have today.

Randall Stephens of The Historical Society writes "As the semester revs up, quite a few history profs are looking on-line for primary source docs, web-based activities, digital images, and on-line map collections. I use a healthy does of maps and map progressions in the various courses I teach. "

Randall Stephens of The Historical Society writes "As the semester revs up, quite a few history profs are looking on-line for primary source docs, web-based activities, digital images, and on-line map collections. I use a healthy does of maps and map progressions in the various courses I teach. "

I know the bulk of the contributors, and maybe even the readers, are progressives, but big government progress has never accomplished much good over the long term - and going after bloggers making $50 a year and requiring them to pay $300 for their 'business' is the kind of thing a bigger government will get us.   Let's hope this doesn't become a bigger problem.