Cat RNBMX A. discovered this, and it’s definitely worth watching.

Art student Jamie Bell created this masterpiece. It’s actually a lot like a brief history of my academic career

From Neatorama

Last year, I started work on a book trailer for a writer out of Tennessee. The book, “Bruin’s Wake”, is the story of the anti-hero making his way through various calamities and avoiding the cops.
The rest? It’s all here in this book trailer:

I wrote this a few months before the H1N1 emergence. I’d say “I told you so” if I wasn’t so certain that I’d still be talking to myself anyway.

The landscape of infectious disease is evolving, driven by a spectrum of rapidly changing societal and environmental factors. Rural-to-urban migration and high fertility rates in the developing world have lead to the explosive growth of mega-cities that strain their countries’ inadequate infrastructure, while the overall aging population in the developed world is faced with a huge burden of chronic disease. Climate change has contributed to the changing ecology of zoonotic and vector-borne infectious diseases, causing diseases once confined to tropical areas to spread geographically into entirely new populations. International commerce has fueled the travel industry: anyone can be anywhere in the world in 24 hours. Scientific and technological advances have provided the tools to address these changes, as well as the means by which to introduce new challenges, intentionally through bioterrorism or unintentionally, such as through the misuse of antibiotics. These factors converge into a volatile equation for the vulnerability of an individual, and populations, to emerging infectious diseases.

News stories like the recent confirmation of an imported case of Marburg virus in Colorado send a clear message: infectious diseases do not respect geopolitical boundaries. You are only as healthy as your neighbors, and our definition of “neighbor” is becoming more globally inclusive every day.

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Watch the first flash animations on benthic macroinvertebrates and sedimentation from the Cacapon Institute in West Virginia! The animations were made by Jen Gillies, a friend of BZD Productions, who works for the Cacapon Institute. The animations will be used by the CI to raise awareness of the importance of Appalachian watershed conservation through science education.

http://www.cacaponinstitute.org/PHWS%20Benthics/PHWS_BMI_Portal.htm

(Click on the activity names to view the animation.)

It’s not cats typing on keyboards or a guy throwing his Wii controller into his flat-screen television, but it is just as important…… perhaps even more important.

This is Why I Don’t Eat Meat

These things are devilish I tell ya, DEVILISH!

Exploding hamburgers, sushi, french fries. I’m hungry.