Sunday, April 5, 2009

excorsism skull found in italy (national geographic website)




From what has recently been unearthed in Venice Italy one very unusual piece was found... a skull of someone accused of being a vampire. In Venice one of the people found a partial body and a skull of a woman from the middle ages and the jaw of the skull was forced open with a brick which was what excorsists did to suspects of vampirism, Im not sure if it killed them or just held there mouth open but either way I wouldn't want it done to me cause that's cruel but what can you expect from the Middle Ages.

The Yesterday of Today (amazing ain't it?)

Yesterday I was part of a movie. The movie was Dozers and I got to look like an addict... with blood on his arms and mouth... freaky. In it we got to chase a car and get chased by a car, and run around a corner, oh and beat up a construction worker with a nuclear symbol on his hardhat and rubber-ish sledge hammer and wrench. It was fun... and cold... fun and cold. But despite this horrible combination it was still good because we got fifteen gajillion boxes of pizza more specified tasty pizza and tasty makes everything better unless you're lactose n' tolerant in which case tasty pizza with soy dairy products would make everything better I would guess.

Friday, April 3, 2009

Putting clean Coal to the test (discover feb 2009)

In Germany there is the only green coal factory. The green coal factory is very clever. The factory started up in September and it's considered "clean" because it doesn't release the CO2 gas instead it uses a carbon capture system to get the CO2 and pump it into the ground for natural geological formation. So if you're interested here is a link:

From tar with teeth (discover feb 2009)


In Venezuela people were excavating a tar pit. In this tar pit there was a perfectly preserved Saber tooth Tiger skull. paleontologists believe that the tar pit has a high amount of fossils yet to be found.

Oldest Oil Paintings found in Cave (national Geographic link added)


On the sixth of February of two-thousand six a mural made with oil paints was found in one of the famed Bamian Caves in Afghanistan and evidence of a oil-based binder that would have dried paint and help it adhere to the rocky surface it was painted on. With the murals were the remains of two giant destroyed Buddhas, and the mural was predated to be at least one-hundred years. Researchers made the discovery when trying to conduct a chemical analysis for preservation and restoration of Bamian. Which I think is all very cool.

Thursday, April 2, 2009

An "Elite" Immune System can prevent AIDS(discover jan 2009)

Now another one I thought near impossible there is a way that you can be immune to AIDS. The people who can are only able to because they're immune system is powerful enough that it can withstand the full power of HIVs. These people have certain immune cells that stop the replication of the HIV. Joel Blankson an assistant at John Hopkins University says that because of these immune cells a vaccine for AIDs should be possible.

Is that a dead mouse your cloning?(discover jan 2009)


Japanese researchers were able to extract brain cell nuclei from two dead mice that were frozen for up to 16 years into mouse egg cells who's nuclei had been removed. The result was the mouse egg cells grew into fertile adult mice. This I thought wouldn't be possible but, apparently I was wrong and ice doesn't screw up brain cells. Now some people might think that we could now resurrect the ice age creatures that are in permafrost but it would be much harder and they could only do it to very very very close relatives to that creature.