Anti-wrinkle drug gets OK - US health officials gave their blessing Monday to the use of the toxin Botox to reduce facial wrinkles, a long-awaited action likely to make it this year's Viagra -- the must-have drug that everyone talks about. (source: Mecrury News). Gotta get me some of that for my crows-feet.

Botox is apparently "a natural substance that can be injected into the muscles to decrease spasticity" and used for treatment of Cerebral Palsy. One of the scary things about it is "Studies on effects in pregnancy have not been done in either humans or animals" and
"It is not known whether botulinum toxin type A passes into the breast milk".

7:51:12 PM  

Researchers find 3,600-mile ant supercolony - it's the largest cooperative unit ever recorded. The 3,600-mile colony consists of billions of Argentine ants living in millions of nests that cooperate with one another. Cool

5:42:23 PM  

Things still crazy in Venezuelan coup crisis - looting and riots on the streets of Caracas, loads of rumours and still no president. 40 dead, 300 hurt. The National Guard is now on the streets.

5:24:20 PM  

Goodbye Global Warming!...Hello Terraforming? - There's a discussion at Slashdot today about an Science-Daily article on a new technique to extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere "scalable to the point of repairing Earth's atmosphere to pre-Industrial-Age levels".  Freaky.  One Slashdot poster quips.. "Surely there must be some way to turn this into a weapon of some sort. It would make it easier to get funding"

5:18:31 PM