Australian scientists aim to reduce sheep burps

“Australian scientists are working to breed a sheep that belches less, as they look for ways to reduce harmful methane emissions from the country’s woolly flocks…Twelve percent of Australia’s total greenhouse gas emissions originate with agriculture, and some 70 percent of that amount is blamed on ruminant livestock, with most of it coming from burps.”

Whether or not you think global warming is real, you gotta love it for providing news like this.

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Smart Phones Allow Quick Diagnosis of Acute Appendicitis
But will doctors text: “UR OK LOLz” and will carriers still charge 95 cents per incoming medical text?

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The Sapeurs of Congo: Open Gutters and Gucci Loafers, Héctor Mediavilla photos of Sapeurs

“The Sapeurs adhere to a subculture of high fashion, often against a backdrop of extreme poverty. Many live in shacks bordered by stinking sewers in the southern suburbs of Brazzaville [Congo]. Those of them who can work double jobs; those who can’t must beg, borrow and occasionally steal; whatever it takes to strut in Versace, Prada and Gucci…Within the SAPE movement there are rivalries and affiliations. Paris vs Brussels, Brazzaville vs Kinshasa, Bacongo vs Mungali. It is total fashion warfare.”

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Explanation for brain fart

“It turns out the root of these brain farts may be a special kind of abnormal brain activity that begins up to 30 seconds before a mistake even happens…The international team of researchers suspects this abnormal behavior is the result of the brain attempting to save effort on a task. When the brain goes too far, errors occur.”

Lazy brain!

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The dark side of the internet

“‘Many many users think that when they search on Google they’re getting all the web pages,’ says Anand Rajaraman…But Rajaraman knows different. ‘I think it’s a very small fraction of the deep web which search engines are bringing to the surface. I don’t know, to be honest, what fraction. No one has a really good estimate of how big the deep web is. Five hundred times as big as the surface web is the only estimate I know.’”

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Study: Believers’ inferences about God’s beliefs are uniquely egocentric

“The final study involved functional magnetic resonance imaging to measure the neural activity of test subjects as they reasoned about their own beliefs versus those of God or another person. The data demonstrated that reasoning about God’s beliefs activated many of the same regions that become active when people reasoned about their own beliefs.”

It turns out that god truly is inside each and every one of us.

  

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