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
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.
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.
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