Kent Brockman: Senator Dole, why should people vote for you instead of President Clinton?
Kang: It makes no difference which one of us you vote for. Either way, your planet is doomed. DOOMED!
Kent: Well, a refreshingly frank response there from senator Bob Dole. ............
Homer: America, take a good look at your beloved candidates. They're nothing but hideous space reptiles.
[audience gasps in terror]
Kodos: It's true, we are aliens. But what are you going to do about it? It's a two-party system; you have to vote for one of us.
[murmurs]
Man1: He's right, this is a two-party system.
I've never been one to try to drive a wedge between jock and brain (particularly since they're sometimes one in the same) but for students at state schools who see a large chunk of their campus' budget go to sports, while microscopes from the 1970s continue in use in the chem lab, this has got to feel fairly good. Winning college teams rarely attract more gifts, better applicants - [Science Blog]
A couple of items caught my eye this morning, each having to do with longstanding medical procedures now being found to be useless, or nearly so. First to the items: PSA test 'all but useless' for detecting prostate caner and Removing tonsils has little benefit.
One of the great promises of managed care, aka HMOs, PPOs, etc. was that in an effort to save money, they would rationalize medicine by examining what 'tried-and-true' methods actually worked, which didn't, and which were counterproductive.
And I thought my Gateway PC got hot. Lab-on-a-chip can get hotter than surface of Venus "Engineers have created a miniature hotplate that can reach temperatures above 1100°C (2012°F), self-contained within a ''laboratory'' no bigger than a child's shoe. The micro-hotplates are only a few dozen microns across (roughly the width of a human hair), yet are capable of serving as substrates, heaters and conductors for thin-film experiments ranging from material analyses to the development of advanced sen
