Researchers have shown that older mice can benefit from swapping blood with younger (identical) mice, sort of like, well, vampires. The probable explanation is that the new blood stimulates stem cells and speeds recovery. The trick now is to find a way to do it without the need for a couple of hollow fangs.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy trailer. Low quality sound I’m afraid.
Via Waxy
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The Vatican is to offer lessons in exorcism.
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Lance Armstrong is to enter this year’s Tour de France, aiming for his seventh win.
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The low value of the dollar is reducing the US’ power and influence. Which can only be a good thing.
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Buster the Bunny is a cartoon character who appears in a series of American educational programmes for kids. In them he visits various states and send video postcards home to his mother. When he visited a farming community in Vermont the family he profiled happened to have two mothers. Cue mouth foaming reaction from the bigot in charge of the department of education, removal of funding and basic hysteria.
Video blogger Ryanne Hodson interviews one of the people who worked on the show.
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