Rhesus monkey genome sequenced.

Chron.com: "An international team of 170 scientists led by Baylor College of Medicine has sequenced the genome of the rhesus monkey, an important research animal and the most wide-ranging primate aside from humans."


Yes, but does the rhesus monkey really taste like peanut-butter and chocolate?

So... everything really tastes like T-Rex?

CNN: "Tiny bits of protein extracted from a 68-million-year-old dinosaur bone have given scientists the first genetic proof that the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is a distant cousin to the modern chicken.

"It's the first molecular evidence of this link between birds and dinosaurs," said John Asara, a Harvard Medical School researcher, whose results were published in Friday's edition of the journal Science."


I think we're going to need a bigger ziplock...

15% human. 85% sheep. 100% tasty?

the Mail on Sunday: "Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs. The sheep have 15 per cent human cells and 85 per cent animal cells - and their evolution brings the prospect of animal organs being transplanted into humans one step closer."


File under "what could possibly go wrong?"... We wonder if New Zealand is somehow behind this - as a means of increasing the apparent human:sheep ratio? We also wonder what happens if the beastie gets into the wild and breeds. Will we all one day be cannibals?

Nebraska finds a way to measure the emotional state of non-living substances

NewsNet5: "OMAHA, Neb. -- Area drivers will soon be able to fill up with gasoline made from 'terror-free oil.'"


So.. does that mean that the oil was slaughtered humanely? Or just by surprise?

IHOP required photo ID to seat customers...

Red Orbit: "John Russo has been a victim of identity theft. So when he was asked to fork over a photo ID just to be seated at an IHOP pancake restaurant, he flipped. "'You want my license? I'm going for pancakes, I'm not buying the Hope diamond,' and they refused to seat us," Russo said, recounting his experience this week at the Quincy IHOP. "

Just because it's the INTERNATIONAL House of Pancakes, a passport shouldn't be required for entrance... Apparently this 'policy' was the result of one lone employee trying to dissuade dine-and-dash incidents.. But since the employee usually doesn't have a stake in the final tab at any real level, so it could also be that iHOP is throwing a worker under the bus on this lame lame practice.

Outsorcing minimum wage jobs to call centers...

The Boston Globe: "When Jairo Moncada pulled up to the drive-through at Wendy's in Burbank, Calif., for his usual cheeseburger, fries, and soda, he knew things looked different. There was an extra lane.

But the 25-year-old could not see the biggest change: The woman taking his lunch order was sitting 3,000 miles away at a computer terminal in Nashua, and fielding calls from Wendy's customers at drive-throughs as far away as Florida and Washington, D.C."


What other minimum wage jobs can we outsource to remote workers?