Saturday, November 29, 2008

chemistry


Today is the Second of December. Happy St. Bibiana's day! It's also Georges Seurat's birthday (1859).

Blow up your TV.

2,700 year old stash http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird/2008/11/27/7557641.html

More natural than alcohol; more natural than corn ferchrissakes*. And no, it doesn't kill brain cells; it actually helps make them.

The closest wild relative of modern maize is "too small and hard to obtain to be eaten directly, as each kernel is enclosed in a very hard bi-valve shell" (wikipedia).