hideous looking tardigrades

Sometimes l think it's best not to know too much about stuff (I'm quids in then).
These little bastardos are called Tardigrades. They are very small (up to 1.5 millimetres) and can be found pretty much everywhere. And by everywhere - l mean everywhere.
It's the last time l lie around on the beach, that's for sure, as l won't be able to relax, now l know that these critters will be all over it.
Damn you! science and double damn you! microscopes.

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space age jet cars are nearly here!

This is amazing. It's the future! It will mean space age jet cars!!

About bleeding time.

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sea lampreys do not like the smell of death

These Sea Lampreys certainly do not like these tests being done, whereby they are introduced to (Hello Mr Sea Lamprey!) dead relatives. Serves the little bastards right.

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face in the cloud

This looks pretty impressive at about 1.30m in. No wonder our ancestors got freaked out by the weather in the past.

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schrodinger's cat

I want this on a t shirt (to mess with everyone's minds)

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the itch and the brain

There is a great article in The New Yorker about a woman who had an itch and scratched it so much that she went through to her brain (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande).

There is also information about treatment, phantom limbs and sight. Interesting stuff, especially regarding the eyesight and the brains memory.

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