Sunday, October 3, 2010

Amphioxus

Amphioxus or lancelets are small, eel-like animals that spend much of their time buried in sand. However, because of their remarkable morphology, they have proved crucial in understanding the morphology and evolution of chordates(a subphlyum of the animal kingdom) including vertebrates. Fossil cephalochordates have been found in very old rocks predating the origin of the vertebrates

Saturday, September 25, 2010

Race to Arms

The United States and U.S.S.R were in a tense Cold War from the late forties till 1990. In 1960 a Russian scientist claimed to have created a new form of water, polywater. If polywater came in contact with other sources of water it too would turn viscous. This had dangerous implications, but in the end polywater was a hoax that came about due to dirty equipment.

Wiki Article
Polywater

Photo credit: flatrock.org

Thursday, September 23, 2010

Natural Relaxer-Spoof Website

http://www.naturalaxer.com/
This website is legit but they are falsley advertising their product. Relaxers are a products that chemically alters the hair strand by breaking the disulfide bridges. This process is permanant and cannot be reversed. This website claims to be all natural when in reality it is not.