Students at Rice University are working on BioBeer a genetically modified beer that could fight heart disease, cancer and Type 2 diabetes.
The students created genetically modified yeast that will produce Resveratrol. If Resveratrol sounds familar that’s because it’s the naturally occuring compound found in red wine that gives red wine all those health benefits people are always talking about.
The students don’t actually have a drinkable beer yet but they expect to have one by the end of the semester.
I can’t wait for this shit to come to market. The health benefits are a nice bonus but really I just want to be able to say, “Fuck no I didn’t drink too much last night. I might have fought too much cancer but I sure as shit didn’t drink to much.”
If you have never seen the Fritz Lang classic film, Metropolis, I would normally tell you that you had to see it immediately. It is that important and influential. But now it looks like you might be okay waiting a little longer.
Seems that a huge amount of footage from the film, lost for 80 years, has been discovered in Buenos Aries. The original film was 210 minutes long (that’s Lord of the Rings length, kids), but it was only screened at that length for a short while in Germany. For international distribution, it was cut considerably, and the longest length it has been seen since is about 118 minutes. That’s a LOT of footage that no one has seen for 80 years!
Apparently many scenes are much more dramatic and the pace and arc of the story are quite different. I should hope so with almost 100 minutes more footage!
Read more from the German magazine ZietOnline, that got the original story. (Don’t worry, it’s in English)
Winter is coming and you’ve got 125 scientists stationed on Antartica for the next year, how many condoms do they need?
Answer: 16,500
Yep, almost 17K condoms for just 125 scientists. If you break that down (16,500 / 125) it comes out to about 132 condoms per scientist. However the article doesn’t say the break down of male and female scientists so if it was 50/50 those males would have about 264 condoms each to burn through. This has got to be the one situation where there is absolutely no acceptable excuse for not having a rubber.
I realize it’s dark and there probably isn’t a lot to do during the winter in Antartica but that is a lot of fuckin’. How are they going to get any actual experiments done when they are trying to work through that many jimmy hats?
Don’t mind the Deliverance theme in the background, or the minute thirty of babbling bullshit. This guy creates a sweet science fair project on his kitchen table. The infamuous magnesium fountain. It’s worth a watch. Trust me.
If you are upset because your local Hot Topic has run out of ghosts you can dry your tears because John Deese is here to save the day. That’s right John sells ghosts. More specifically Mr. Deese sells ghosts that are in bottles. Let’s be honest, an unbottled ghost can be a real bitch, so you can’t beat the pre-bottled convenience.
How does Mr. Deese get these ghosts, you ask? He contracts with professional ghost catchers, dumbass. Of course Mr. Deese won’t say how he actually gets the ghosts into the bottles once the professionals have done their work. He considers that a trade secret.
“Well, if you went to KFC, you wouldn’t ask for secret recipe,” Deese said. “They’ll go in and catch them from haunted establishments, cars, hotels, maybe even graveyards.”
Genius. The Colonel’s recipe has been secret for almost 70 years so you can’t argue with that logic.
Of course there is a product page and just so you know a ghost is going to set you back about $20. There is an entire warning page on the site so don’t be fuckin’ around once you get your ghost in the bottle.
It is not recommended that you break or open the bottle. The intent of this product is for entertainment purposes only. We have had several customers open or break the bottle and contact us stating that unexplained things have occured in their homes and how could this activity be stopped?!
We’ve all seen some funny photos of famous people when they were younger. They’re good for a chuckle, but it’s usually pretty easy to spot who it is. But we here at TastyBooze have managed to compile some photos of people who, when younger, really didn’t look the same as we’re used to seeing them. Click on the pictures to see biggie-sized versions if you like, then give it your best guess and click the link at the bottom to see if you were correct.
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To see the more familiar versions of these folks, click here.
Want to see some poor sap take a 50 MPH tennis ball right to the gonads all in the name of science? This is the video for you. My favorite part is when they go into a fancy animation of what is happening inside your body after the nut shot while this guy is still withering on the ground and pounding his fist against the floor.
SPOILER ALERT: The “science” is that you practically shit yourself with anticipation knowing the ball shot is coming and once you get hit your heart instantly jacks to red line while you try not to puke.
The Teste Touch works just like the ball sack of any man on this planet. It rises and falls based on temperature. If the Teste Touch is looking a little high and tight you can give it a rub and as the temperature increases the balls will drop.
Teste Touch is an interactive installation that mimics the human anatomy. In the same vein as Matthew Barney’s Cremaster series, our installation is based on the natural interaction between the male reproductive organs and their environment. Teste Touch’s hanging scrotum responds to temperature by ascending or descending, highlighting the function of the cremaster muscle. Without a working cremaster muscle, the sperm can easily overheat, killing them and rendering a man sterile.
Hit the Gizmodo link for video of the Teste Touch in action.
NASA is looking to pay someone $17K to spend 90 days in bed doing nothing. If you are feeling a little like Peter in Office Space then this is your chance to blow off work for 90 days, do absolutely nothing and still get paid for it.
After the first 11-15-day period, participants will spend 90 days lying in bed, (except for limited times for specific tests) with their body slightly tilted downward (head down, feet up). Every day, they will be awake for 16 hours and lights out (asleep) for 8 hours.
So really if you have some reading to catch up on or a big ass crochet project you just haven’t been able to find the time for then this might be right up your alley. Apparently there is some actual science behind this study. Our bodies have evolved special mechanisms to deal with the gravitational forces that act on us while we are here on Earth. Astronauts that spend extended periods of time in space under much lower gravitational forces experience problems with muscle atrophy and loss of bone density. NASA scientists use the head down ass feet up bed test to simulate these conditions.
So if you are tired of your job or just finished college and are trying to avoid the real world fill out the application and see if you can spend your summer in bed. Shit 90 days in bed eating NASA food might be a good way to burn off some those college/post college beer pounds.
Let’s just be honest with one another, none of us really need an excuse to look at internet porn. However, it never hurts to have a little ammunition in reserve just in case your girlfriend, wife or even parents bust into the room. Researchers in Australia have found that men who blow their load regularly had a significantly lower risk of developing prostate cancer. The scientists believe that carcinogens build up in the prostate when a man does not regularly feed the ducks. In fact they found that men who ejaculated five times a week were a third less likely to get cancer.
First of all, can we nominate these guys for some kind of an award? Does anyone have the email address for the Nobel Prize committee so that I can forward this on? Not only have these researchers proven that it is healthy to masturbate (suck it bible thumpers) they have given us the only excuse we will ever need when we are caught watching porn. You aren’t a sicko abusing yourself to some platinum blonde getting double teamed, you are trying to maintain your prostate and prevent cancer. You are trying to make sure that you are around for years to come so that you can spend more time with your girlfriend, wife, kids, family, etc. You couldn’t come up with a better excuse if you tried.
Looks like I know what I am going to be doing after work tonight.
I don’t mean we’re screwed because a 13 year old German kid corrected the math of an organization made up of rocket-fucking-scientists. I mean we are screwed because there is now a 1 in 450 chance that a big ass hunk (1,049 feet wide) of iron and iridium known as the Apophis asteroid is going to land in the Atlantic Ocean right about 2036. NASA’s crack squad had calculated that the odds were 1 in 45,000. Sure the numbers are similar but that is a pretty big goddamn difference.
What Nico Marquardt took into account that NASA didn’t are the 40,000 satellites currently orbiting the planet. In 2029 this big ass hunk of metal is going to pass within 32,500 kilometers of the earth. The problem is that most of those 40,000 satellites are orbiting 35,800 kilometers above the earth. Nico figured out that if the rock hits one of those 40,000 satellites it will be enough to change the trajectory of the rock so that the next time it passes through our neighborhood in 2036 it will destroy the fucking neighborhood.
So, these two women are computer generated ‘averages’ of faces of females wanting either to have a long meaningful relationship, or a one-night-stand.
Which face is which you ask? Does it matter? They look the fucking same!!!
The study, authored by Lynda Boothroyd and published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior, was based on the responses of 700 men and women who were shown pictures of people in their early twenties.
Women are god-damn baffling enough. Now it’s a scientific fact that there is no way to tell if she wants to come back to the pad for a quickie or head to the Shane Company for a rock.
Also, according to the findings, men are more likely to obviously display the characteristics of our intention. Really? No shit? Is that because I’m drooling and have my hand down my pants?
FYI, the chick on the right is the one that’s more likely to be down for a one-night-stand. She looks a little hotter now doesn’t she?
If she randomly looks like your sister, I am sorry… and have her email me.
