Looks like a Tricorder to me
Gizmag reports an awesome new technology that clearly has its inspirational roots in the 1960s classic tv series, Star Trek!
Read on, True Believer!
A Californian based company has produced the world’s first disposable photonic lab-on-a-chip solution for next-generation water and food analysis, chemical and biological agent detection, and point-of-care diagnostics.
The PhotonicLab Platform from Bioident Technology Inc. enables rapid in-vitro diagnostics, chemical and biological threat detection, and environmental testing without the need for off-site lab analysis.
This offers greater mobility and sensitivity compared to existing biological and chemical assays and delivers a cost-effective disposable lab-on-a-chip solution by eliminating the need for complex and expensive readout systems.
Great seeing that we are well along the way to a genuine Star Trek style Tricorder!
I’ve known this for years…
Rense.com reports…
Tutankhamun was not black: Egypt antiquities chief
Tue Sep 25, 12:18 PM ET
Egyptian antiquities supremo Zahi Hawass insisted Tuesday that Tutankhamun was not black despite calls by US black activists to recognise the boy king’s dark skin colour.
“Tutankhamun was not black, and the portrayal of ancient Egyptian civilisation as black has no element of truth to it,” Hawass told reporters.
“Egyptians are not Arabs and are not Africans despite the fact that Egypt is in Africa,” he said, quoted by the official MENA news agency.
Hawass said he was responding to several demonstrations in Philadelphia after a lecture he gave there on September 6 where he defended his theory.
Protestors also claimed images of King Tut were altered to show him with lighter skin at the “Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs” exhibit which leaves Philadelphia for London on September 30.
The exhibition sparked an uproar when it kicked off in Los Angeles in June 2005 when black activists demanded that a bust of the boy king be removed because the statue portrays him as white.
The face of the legendary pharaoh, who died around 3,300 years ago at the age of just 19, was reconstructed in 2005 through images collected through CAT scans of his mummy.
The boy king’s intact tomb caused an international sensation when it was discovered by Briton Howard Carter in 1922 near Luxor in southern Egypt.
And Let’s Be Heard!
NY Metro area newstalk radio icon Bob Grant returns to the airwaves this evening, at his old old haunting grounds WABC 770 radio.
I just tuned in via the magic of the internet and heard the opening theme and Bob re-enter the marketplace of ideas! I got goosebumps and was cheering!!! He will be broadcasting weeknights live at 8pm-10pm from the WABC studios in beautiful midtown Manhattan, over Madison Square Garden, where his radio colleagues Sean Hannity & Mark Levin also broadcast.
78 years young, tanned, rested and ready for more, here he is, Bob Gigante himself, the one, the only…Mr. Bob Grant!
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It’s a cool & refreshing drink
AP reports today that Pepsi has launched a new flavor over in Japan – Ice Cucumber Pepsi!
AP reports that…
The soft drink, which hit stores here on Tuesday, doesn’t actually have any cucumber in it – but has been artificially flavored to resemble “the refreshing taste of a fresh cucumber,” said Aya Takemoto, spokeswoman of Japan’s Pepsi distributor, Suntory Ltd.
“We wanted a flavor that makes people think of keeping cool in the summer heat,” Takemoto said. “We thought the cucumber was just perfect.”
The mint-colored soda is on sale just for the summer and only in Japan, Takemoto said.
Gotta say, I suspect it’s an acquired taste!
Gosh, this guy sure took ‘Pagliacci’ seriously!
If someone says ‘two clowns were shot,’ it’s never taken literally. Well, until this past Wednesday that is.
Reuters reports…
Two clowns shot dead at circus
Thu Feb 22, 2007 9:19AM EST Two clowns were shot and killed by an unidentified gunman during their performance at a traveling circus in the eastern Colombian town of Cucuta, police said Wednesday.
The gunman burst into the Circo del Sol de Cali Monday night and shot the clowns in front of an audience of 20 to 50 people, local police chief Jose Humberto Henao told Reuters. One of the clowns was killed instantly and the second died the next day in hospital.
“The killings had nothing to do with the show the victims were performing at the time of the incident,” Henao said in a telephone interview. “We are investigating the motive.”
With an entrance fee of under 50 U.S. cents, Circo del Sol de Cali attracts mostly poor Colombians. It pitched it tents in Cucuta, near the border with Venezuela, earlier this month.
Now We Won’t Find Out How He Would Have Done It
Word just broke that the increasingly controversial OJ Simpson book “If I Did It,” where the football legend and movie star speculates exactly how he would have killed his wife and Ron Goldman “if he did it,” has been canceled by the publisher. The 2-part TV interview scheduled for a week from today has been canceled, also.
I guess they ran this one up the flagpole and nobody saluted, as we say in the corporate world!
I had no plans on watching it nor buying the book, but at the same time i figured the tv interview was going to be a huge hit. Folks eat this stuff up. I guess some serious heat came down.
