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This study provides indirect evidence that modern Homo sapiens and so-called Neanderthals interbred at some point when they lived side by side in Europe.

"Finding evidence of mixing is not all that surprising. But our study demonstrates the possibility that interbreeding contributed advantageous variants into the human gene pool that subsequently spread".

Reference: Evans et al. Evidence that the adaptive allele of the brain size gene microcephalin introgressed into Homo sapiens from an archaic Homo lineage [PDF]. PNAS 2006 Nov 7 (in print).

Botta was driving down the highway about seventy-five miles from his hotel in an isolated area known as Bahia Blanca when he saw a metallic, disc-shaped object sitting on the grass just off the road way. He stopped his car to watch the object for a few minutes to see what would happen. After seeing no sign of movement, he decided to get even closer to the unknown object. This vantage point allowed him to see an opening or doorway in the object's side. He decided to go inside. At first the craft's inside seemed empty, except for a blinking red light in a domed top. As he ventured farther inside, he saw a curved divan with four seats; three of these seats were occupied with small beings about four feet tall with gray, tight-fitting overalls. The three small creatures were facing a control panel. It consisted of lights, gauges, and meters of different types.

Hollow, submicroscopic strands of carbon (carbon nanotubes) have been used to connect an integrated circuit to nerve cells. The new technology offers the possibility of building an interface between biology and electronics.

Described as the last of the old masters and the first of the moderns, Francisco Goya was a Spanish court painter who died in 1828.

Following chronic illness which left him deaf, he because increasingly withdrawn and introspective, and it was during the subsequent period between 1820 and 1824 that he created a series of disturbing murals within his own home that became collectively known as The Black Paintings.

Aside from the main link, there's some really good biographical information about Goya and his work here.

Very cool, I was talking about this just the other day (although this isn't the article I originally saw :/).

These guys want to create a transgenic human stem cell by inserting a human nucleus (DNA), into a cow egg that's previously had it's nucleus removed. You can then grow the egg to a very early stage of development (it'll just be a ball of cells; a ball of cells is not a fucking baby) and recover the embryonic stem cells.

Hay, lets not entertain the idea that what they'll end up with is a human-cow hybrid. It doesn't work like that. The nucleus will contain's human DNA only. The only "cow" DNA remaining in the egg, I would assume, would be mitochondrial DNA. The only DNA in the cell that makes it a cow, human or whatever is that contained within the nucleus.

It's true that mitochondria can communicate with the nucleus (as far as I remember), but mitochondrial DNA only codes for mitochondrial proteins. In other words, I can't see how the transgenic stem cell would produce any natively cow-like proteins that would make it look anything other than human. Although that wont stop you from making up stupid words like "frankenfoetus", will it? You dumbass fuckwit.

1) Lust (the craving for sexual gratification) is driven by androgens and estrogens.

2) Attraction (or romantic or passionate love, characterized by euphoria when things are going well, terrible mood swings when they’re not, focused attention, obsessive thinking, and intense craving for the individual), driven by high dopamine and norepinephrine levels and low serotonin.

3) Attachment (the sense of calm, peace, and stability one feels with a long-term partner) driven by the hormones oxytocin and vasopressin.

The GIMP's interface was "renamed and reorganized GIMP’s tools, options, windows, and menus to closely resemble Adobe Photoshop’s menu structure and naming conventions. Many of the menu options and even whole menus were recreated to faithfully reproduce a Photoshop-like experience".

Should make it easy for longtime Photoshop users to use The GIMP.

This link has sat in my bookmarks folder for like a year. Now it's finally in the db and I can delete the thing.

8 pics only and I've never been able to find the full set

edit: link should work again and now with more pics Full set? Don't know, but it's closer

Very nice. Sry for all the scrolling, but this was the best selection of pics I could find from this set. Someone email me moar.

Edit with bettar link. You nub

"As a small child, I saw a woman's body cut in half and babies cut out of the womb," said Pitts, recalling the satanic ceremonies she witnessed as a child growing up in Butler County Missouri.

"No one would help us and the authorities because the authorities were involved...Then in 1984, the federal authorities came in and removed the bodies from a mass gravesite in the woods behind the house I lived in. Since then everything has been closed up tighter than a drum and no one had been able to get any justice."