Heart Heal Thyself

By David W. Boles on July 1, 2009 8:23 AM | 2 Comments
In a strange mixing of the beauty of the heart and the science of the mind, doctors at Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute made history on June 26, 2009 by injecting stem cells from a damaged human heart back into the heart of the original donor!

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Museum Street Food

By David W. Boles on June 18, 2009 6:52 AM | 4 Comments
If you've ever lived in a Big City, you have eaten in the street on the run.  Dornbracht has a wonderful museum show demonstrating how food vendors across the world do their jobs from the gutter.

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Becoming Superhuman with Down Syndrome

By David W. Boles on June 2, 2009 10:34 AM | 6 Comments
Is there Superhuman power hiding in the DNA of the Down Syndrome Simian Crease? 

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AT&T Text Thuggery Beats Adam Lambert

By David W. Boles on May 27, 2009 11:26 AM | 2 Comments
The great Adam Lambert -- seen below exchanging glee with another man in a previous moment of ecstasy -- was the real winner of American Idol and AT&T have confessed their text thuggery in giving the win to Kris, Adam's fundamentalist Christian, competitor.

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Drowning Debris

By David W. Boles on May 19, 2009 9:39 AM | 4 Comments
US Airways Flight 1549 skidded to a stop on the Hudson River and then sank to the bottom.

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Clemens Still Juiced in Denial

By David W. Boles on May 13, 2009 9:43 AM | 2 Comments
Roger Clemens is still in protection mode instead of confession mode and every time he opens his mouth he hurts his chances of ever getting into the baseball Hall of Fame.

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Mapping the Seven Deadly Sins

By David W. Boles on May 5, 2009 10:26 AM | 2 Comments
Kansas State University mapped the Seven Deadly Sins in the United States.  It looks like there's a ton of Wrath going on in New Mexico and we're wondering why.

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The Lipreading Computer that Couldn't

By David W. Boles on April 27, 2009 6:24 AM | 4 Comments
The internet community is all agog over new of a "lipreading computer" that can "read" many different languages.

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Thirty Ways to Die

By David W. Boles on April 20, 2009 11:49 AM | 2 Comments
Here is some great semiotic teaching from Germany in 1931 in the form of 30 illustrations explaining -- in a book called "Elektroschutz in 132 Bildern" -- how NOT to electrocute yourself.  In this image, baby found a new nipple!

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The Art and Science of a Sencha Shot

By David W. Boles on April 8, 2009 6:23 PM | 12 Comments
I have previously confessed in the public square that I have an Ito En green tea addiction.  Today, I am pleased to also confess, I am now addicted to Ito En's most delicious green tea yet:  The Sencha Shot!

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