Bag O' Anything

-- A scientist reports on his work for a paper that suggests a whole lot of nutrition research has had problems and may need to be re-thought. That made today's French fries at lunch taste that much better and I feel a whole lot less guilty about the sausage egg biscuit for breakfast a couple of days ago.

-- The "coldest place in the universe" is apparently the "Boomerang Nebula," a pre-planetary nebula about 5,000 light-years from Earth. Pre-planetary nebulae, of course, are stars at the end of their life cycle but are not gaseous clouds about ready to become planets. Sometimes science's descriptive capabilities could use a little tune-up. The Boomerang is actually colder than the look given the project's lead researcher when he forgot his anniversary; something heretofore believed scientifically impossible.

-- If you are a male toadfish, you have problems attracting the ladies. Not because you are ugly -- after all, you're trying to land a female toadfish, who is herself no great easiness on the eyes. But because your particular brand of booty call -- a "bellowing, foghorn-like" one, to be precise -- may be blocked by your toadfish bro's series of short grunts design to reduce your appeal. Which just goes to show you that while pimpin' may not be easy, being a toadfish is even tougher.

-- ...photons and electrons, living together...mass hysteria!

bellowing, foghorn-like call

bellowing, foghorn-like call

bellowing, foghorn-like call

bellowing, foghorn-like call

bellowing, foghorn-like call