February 2012
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Antarctica Microbes Offer Hope for Alien Life
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If scientists find microbes in a frigid lake two miles beneath the thick ice of Antarctica, it will illustrate once again that somehow life finds a way to survive in the strangest and harshest places. And it will offer hope that life exists beyond Earth. Russian researchers reported that they had reached Lake Vostok, a pristine body of water untouched by light or wind for...
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TSK: The Power of Negative Thinking
Cranquis: Well that strip of painful redness and blisters on your chest and back is shingles, ma'am.
60-something female patient: IT IS? HALLELUJAH!
Cranquis: Uh, ok -- I have to know, what did you ~think~ it was, that you feel shingles is a better option?
Patient: I thought it was breast cancer!
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“I’m asked quite often whether or not dead bodies are “scary” or if I worry about...”
– “Dead Bodies Look Like Dead Bodies,” on Order of the Good Death’s blog. (via theossuary)
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