Well, I suppose the dead mouse itself is not alive and well, but Japanese geneticists have created healthy clones from mice which were dead and frozen 16 years ago.

An article at National Geographic News reports that the team successfully extracted dead brain and blood cells from the frozen mice. These cells were then injected directly into unfertilized mouse eggs. The result, happy little baby mice primed for poking and scientific testing.

The article goes on to note that this same process could be used to bring extinct species back to life, such as the woolly mammoth. My question: Isn’t this going just a little too far? I saw Jurassic Park, and I have to say, I don’t really have any interest in becoming breakfast for some resurrected 100 million year old dinosaur.

Physicists have made a recent discovery that just might affect you this Christmas. It seems that when you peel scotch tape off of the roll, it emits X-Rays lasting about a billionth of a second long. no need to be too worried though – apparently this phenomenon only occurs within a vacuum.

When the tape is pulled away from the roll electrons jump from the roll to the sticky underside of the tape. When hitting the stickiness of the tape, the electrons slow down and that is when they emit the X-Rays.

Unless you plan on wrapping your Christmas presents inside your Electrolux, you really have nothing to worry about, but its interesting never the less.

I have to say, some people are just idiots. At least Sandor Ferenci, a motorcycle stunt driver from the UK. Ferenci had had friend video him driving at speeds of more than 130 miles per hour. His video was then posted on YouTube.

A random motorist had seen Ferenci driving recklessly and reported it to the police. They went to his home to investigate, and he asked them “Is this about the YouTube video?” Well, the police didn’t know about the video and looked into it.

The video ended up being the final nail in his coffin. He Ferenci was sentenced to 12 weeks in jail, and will also lose his driving privilages for the next two years. He will be required to take a driving test before getting his license back sometime in 2010.

All I have to say is, what an idiot. Posting his crimes online wound up screwing him in the end. While he does deserve what he gets, its amazing how people go out of their way to advertise what they are doing. This isn’t the first, nor will it be the last time when someone posts something to the web and winds up incriminating themselves. Watch out what you post online! That’s all I have to say!

I have to say that PETA’s stance on urging Ben and Jerry’s to use human breast milk as a replacement for cow’s milk in their ice cream is just disgusting. While I am confident that this is something that will never happen, should some how this become a reality, I will switch exclusively to Haagen Dazs. No more “half baked” for me. (sigh)

Now first off, I want to note that perhaps human breast milk would be the more natural choice, after all, that’s what most of us start off living on, and in some aspects, consuming cows milk seems strange – but our lifestyles and culture evolve around drinking and eating cows milk based products, so it just seems normal – after all, we’ve been doing it for centuries.

One of the biggest questions on my mind is however, if Peta finds milking cows to be in-humane what would the millions upon millions of women who then need to be “milked” think if man kind made the switch in their dairy sources… seems to me that milking women for mass production dairy is less humane then milking cows…