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• Commented on Lamp that runs on human blood
  It seems that the forthcoming Copenhagen meeting about global warming and other sci-fi stories is making people be stupid in more creative ways. Since the poles are not melting (artic has about 1 million square kilometers more ice than two...
• Commented on An American visits the Beijing Wal-Mart
  Hi, I have lived in the USA for 6 years but now I am back in Spain. There are no Wal-marts here, or at least I am not aware of them. We have our onw supermarket chains though, and the...
• Commented on Disney buying Marvel
  Does it mean that they will dumb down Marvel stories? This cannot be good news....
• Commented on Meth dealers laundered drug money with comic books
  The poor guy is blind in one eye. I know a person with the same looks. The medical condition is called ptisis bulbi...
• Commented on Chimp enjoys magic show
  A chimp that can speak Japanese. I am impressed...
• Commented on Half-man / half-Pooh Bear takes a break next to decapitated patriotic Mickey Mouse
  And the photo was taken by Peter Parker, while swinging on a spiderweb....
• Commented on The crap they built where the beautiful old train stations were
  You are right, endospores. At least Victoria Station in London and Atocha in Madrid keep their charm. (Atocha is where Dr. Zhivago was filmed, btw, although in the movie it is said it was Moscow train station) There is a...
• Commented on Fake Chinese antimalarials sold in Nigeria with "Made in India" lable
  Yeah, It would be nice to have an HPLC at home. Specially one of those coupled with a mass spectrometer. Geeezzz... Do you bother to find out how much does it cost a gallon of HPLC grade acetonitrile? $40 minimun....
• Commented on Slate on favorite orphaned tweets -- "picking lint from Judy's naval while she is napping!"
  Since English is not my first language, It took me a bit to figure out that you mean navel, that little holish thing we have in the belly, or buttonish, depending on the skillz of your matron, and, same as...
• Commented on State of the Hispanic Blogosphere report 2009
  I agree with Marco Antonio. Hispanic is an acceptable name. And it is old too, without much effort i could find that the name was used in 795 as in "marca hispanica" to name the spanish kingdoms located between the...
• Commented on Foro Internet Meeting Point in northern Spain (Asturias)
  Just for the record, It is ASTURIAS...
• Commented on Can a computer discover scientific laws?
  Can a computer discover scientific laws? Absolutely no. Science is empirical, meaning that knowledge arises from experience, and evidence. Unless the computer can set up experiments, a computer cannot discover scientific laws. That is why computer models are not science,...
• Commented on Drew Friedman draws Schlitzie the Pin Head
  Reminds me of Ronaldo....
• Commented on Nazi-bred super cows will save the dung beetles!
  Silly, silly, silly thing. They have been breeding this kind of bulls in Spain for centuries for bullfighting purposes and suddenly it is a new, ecological idea. Meh... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_Cattle...
• Commented on HOWTO make a $300 high-speed book scanner
  Sorry for the useless typo comment, but the title should read HOWTO, no HOWO, I think....
• Commented on United Airlines wants to charge large people for two seats
  LOL.. Hugo (Hurley) Reyes, the character from LOST comes to mind, and everything else is displaced out... BTW, in the episode where Hurley buys his ticket, back in season 1 or 2, they make him buy a second seat because...
• Commented on Hand-carved linocut animation
  ... oh, I forgot. Pretty animation. I liked it....
• Commented on Hand-carved linocut animation
  Dehisce' means 'release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound....
• Commented on London imposes de-facto 9PM curfew on under-16s
  Terrorists won....
• Commented on Verizon doesn't understand simple math
  But... e^2*PI is 535.49 so the check is worth $536....
• Commented on Dolphins blowing rings
  THEY ARE TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WITH US THROUGH AIR BUBBLES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111ONEONEONEELEVENELEVENELEVEN...
• Commented on Taco Town tacos, for real: fifteen starchy fried things all rolled into one
  That reminds me of a Lasagna I ordered in an well respected italian restaurant in Minnesota. It was a layer of pasta, a big scoop of spiced minced meat, another layer of pasta covering it and shredded oven cooked cheese...
• Commented on Complete run of Panic, EC's own Mad knock-off
  DON'T PANIC...
• Commented on Mental_floss' step-by-step guide to destroying civilization with nanotechnology
  Awesome cartoon. Scientifically inaccurate, but still....
• Commented on Obamasnacks - banned in Indonesia
  expiration date would be Jan. 20. 2013...
• Commented on Woman places 3 calls to 911 to complain about McNuggets incident
  So, what would you have done?...
• Commented on Working couple amass stupendous art collection, circulate it across the US
  ZOMG.... the Vogons. Luckily, they don't write poetry....
• Commented on Design for nine-square-feet house
  most. useless. porch. ever....
• Commented on Reconstructing the genome of the earliest mammal
  The cool thing is that you can get a lot of information about ancestral genomes just by crunching probabilities -- even if you don't have any fossils, or mosquitos-trapped-in-amber, or time machines, or whatever. So, I guess science is not...
• Commented on Steroids and the Lost Data of Self-Experiment
  "The usual distinction between a nutritional supplement and a drug is not a biological distinction, but a legal distinction.' It is a legal distinction based on a pharmacological and biochemical distinction....