Eat a burger for your health
A recent study found that processed meats in particular may be what causes the increased risk of heart disease usually associated with red meat. The key may be that processed meats have almost four times as much salt as steaks, burgers, and other non-processed meat-like substances.
Sea Monkey Experiment: Epic FAIL!
Here's a followup on the Sea Monkey Experiment. On Thursday, there were about 30-40 baby sea monkeys happily swimming. When I checked them today, there were maybe 4 or 5 babies. MASS EXTINCTION! Both older Sea Monkeys were still alive.
So, not sure what happened here. I don't think it was the food, because they seemed content when I left them. There was no issue with environment as I had both the control group and the Sea Monkeys on Mars tank right next to each other, and there was no change in the population.
Conclusion: CONFUSED!
Hella Big Numbers
With various committees, under the authority of a 54 nation diplomatic treaty, the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures(BIPM) maintains world-wide uniformity of measurements in relation to the International System of Units (SI). This is why units of measure in quantities of 1,000 (103) are referred to as kilo and 0.000000001 (10–9) are referred to as nano. The last change to the official units of measure was in 1991 when BIPM adopted zetta and yotta to handle measurements of 1021 and 1024.
Now thanks to Austin Sendek, a physics student at UC Davis, a new unit of measure may be on the horizon. Sendek has proposed that a measurement of 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 units should be referred to as hella. Certainly anything measured to 1027 values would be hella big, but should it be official?