by friver ~ May 28th, 2009
Buying valtrex online can be a daunting task and often times a strange experience. There are so many pharmacies nowadays selling generic medications. You actually can find medications from trusted pharmacies if you know where to look. We have personally had experience with 4rx.com and are happy to pass on the news that it is safe to buy valtrex online at affordable prices.
You can also find herpes medication online for far less than name brand medications. It’s easy, fast and secure.
by lyndsie ~ October 24th, 2008
Most of us are far more familiar with Disney’s The Little Mermaid than we are with the original, altogether sadder version first penned by Hans Christian Andersen. As it turns out, the wicked witch of the undersea world, Ursula, didn’t really need to rely on a curse in order to steal Ariel’s lovely voice.
Theoretically, it is entirely possible to keep sound waves from escaping. Working around the methodology which allows light waves to be bent, a professor at prestigious Duke University theorizes that it is possible to do the same to sound waves, thereby stopping them from ever being heard.
The really spooky thing is that sound waves trapped in such a manner, be it by invisible shield or technical contraption, will never escape. That makes me think of being trapped in some sound shielding bubble with my own thoughts — and having to exist forever with my own sound waves as well, echoing forever with nowhere to go.
by lyndsie ~ September 24th, 2008
How many times have you heard the story of Rapunzel? Ah, the long haired maiden rife with split ends, stuck way up high in her isolated tower, constantly at the mercy of a witch while she waits for her prince. He, naturally, is later enticed by the sound of her beautiful singing voice. Of course, we all know that none of that could happen. At the very least, no man could ever climb up a head of human hair, right?
Wrong. It terms out that one average strand of human hair could easily support approximately three and a half ounces of weight. That means you could tie up two candy bars with a strand of your hair, and they would just dangle there, chillin’. Insofar as that goes, dark hair tends to be thicker than fair hair, and that thickness makes dark hair stronger.
Rapunzel was, of course, a blond. Blonds have somewhere around one hundred and forty thousand hairs, so Rapunzel could totally support the weight of her prince, scientifically speaking – but there’s more. While the prince could theoretically climb up home girl’s hair, there is the question of whether or not he’d rip it out by the roots – plus, would she be strong enough to support the prince? Actually, the answer to both questions is yes, as long as she tied her hair around a stable object first. That way, the hair is protected by its knot, and the object supports the prince. So fear not, girls – if you’re willing to let your hair grow a few (dozen) feet, then someday your prince will come.
by friver ~ August 23rd, 2008
So there’s this choir in Poland, and they’re in the middle of a storm, and there’s about 37 of them.
One of them has a video camera and starts filming the storm outside when from out of nowhere comes this tornado, which flips the whole goldarned bus, with everyone in it, and the guy still filming!
Of course the only reason I’m putting this link up is because no one got seriously hurt.
You can watch the video here.
by friver ~ August 21st, 2008
Sure people living in and around The Big Apple, New York, are used to seeing pigeons. And a lot of those pigeons are purple. But this particular purple pigeon was a lot more purple than the rest, and with good reason: it was cruelly painted that color!
The victimized bird was unable to fly because its feathers had all gone stiff, and was taken to a nearby wildlife rehab outfit.
Let’s hope this doesn’t start a trend.
by friver ~ August 20th, 2008
Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer, two men from Georgia, USA claim that the above picture depicts the frozen corpse of the legendary Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot.
The couple claim that they found the corpse in the woods in northern Georgia and kept it in a freezer for a month, after which they called a press conference and admitted that they wouldn’t mind making money off their “find”.
Later, and to no one’s surprise, the whole thing was proven a hoax.
by friver ~ August 19th, 2008
Old story: Whale swims up alongside yacht.
New story: Baby whale swims up alongside yacht, without its mother.
Strangest Science News Blog story: Baby whale swims up alongside yacht and stays with it, mistaking it for its mother.
It all happened of the Sydney coast, and if a new pod isn’t found for the little guy, he or she is gonna get euthanized.
by friver ~ August 16th, 2008
The Time.com website has put up a video slideshow report about how Darfur refugees have benefited from solar technology that allows them to cook food using the power of the sun.
The alternative, burning firewood, has proven dangerous in the past, not because of the fire but because going off into the bush to gather firewood has put Darfur women at risk.
Link is here.
by friver ~ August 15th, 2008
To many we might seem to be losing the war against bacteria. They keep evolving and getting more virulent while we struggle to catch up and create new antibiotic drugs while misusing the ones we already have.
Still, according to Dr. Bonnie Bassler, there is a bit of a bright side. The recent salmonella scare, for example, was more due to a faulty food system than evolving bacteria.
Read the full interview here.
by friver ~ August 14th, 2008
I’ve had overweight friends who seemed pretty active, physically coordinated and generally healthy, and now science has accepted that fact, too.
Recent reports show that about half of over weight people and about a third of obese people in the US have normal cholesterol, blood pressure and other criteria for physical health.
On the other hand, about a quarter of people with normal weight were determined to be at risk of heart disease or diabetes.
