http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20080329td.html
from the studs at improbable research, natch. (fun fact: improbable seems to be one of those words that, once you take a second to look at it, will never look like it’s spelled correctly again.)
i read this a couple of times. i’m still not really in total agreement here, but it’s close enough to what feels to me while i’m making it like an extremely weird argument that i have to give some propage. especially since i still can’t stand most things microsoft, and feel like that outfit is specifically responsible for the artificial retardation injected into the system by greedy know-nothings following yesterday’s news like it was handed down by the oracle at delphi.
that being said… you find me another billionaire who has decided it is his personal responsibilty to use his nigh-mythical wealth and prestige to cure diseases. all of them. starting with the ones that shouldn’t even exist anymore, in the poorest, most hardest-hit places in the world. not getting a check for it. not creating lots of photo-ops or whatever so he can pull a ross-perot on us in a few years. if anything, gates is smart enough to realize how much more efective he can be by NOT being president, which is good, because he’s dead right.
my personal fantasy is gates one day challenges rupert murdoch and roger ailes to a cage death match, although i’m about 95% sure that even decrepit old murdoch would use his satan-given gifts to literally eat gates’ head right off his body, but hey. maybe bill could wear the bear suit or something. i’m pretty sure he could afford a pretty nice one.
i’m the best there is at what i do, but what i do best isn’t very nice. because, apparently, what i do best is scatter wolverine caca laden with mysterious dna around the tahoe basin.
still: science! within my lifetime, the liklihood that someone would have been able to say “this animal clearly came from one of the groups 6 states and/or a country away and is not from one of the historical state populations” has gone from “nil” to 100%. that’s pretty cool.
okay, this is just awesome. it was linked from mefi a few days ago; i started watching it yesterday, and just spent 20 minutes watching two eagles making repairs to their hugaceous nest in a snowstorm on the coast of maine.
you know, internet, you’re pretty bitchin’. yes you are!
this is just pretty damn bitchin any way you look at it. just imagine if we actually really dedicated the money and resources to science that we throw away every single day on… oh, never mind. that part is too depressing right now.
but science! that part is bitchin.