Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Sterilizers to skeletons to burglary...

Ionized Plasmas as Cheap Sterilizers for Developing World
University of California, Berkeley, scientists have shown that ionized plasmas like those in neon lights and plasma TVs not only can sterilize water, but make it antimicrobial -- able to kill bacteria -- for as long as a week after treatment.
Interesting discussion about burglary and fortifying one's house against it.

Skeleton of ancient human relative may yield skin.

Death with dignity.

For those gamers who have run out of ideas for names:

3 comments:

Steve Bates said...

Somewhere, deep in the innermost recesses of the U.S. military, someone is scheming to find a way to defeat ionized plasma disinfection...

Steve Bates said...

Also... my back-door neighbor has decided on the "get a dog" solution to burglary. It has the side effect that his/her back-door neighbor will almost never go into his own back yard to see what the racket is about, because the dog barks more or less continuously from dark until the wee hours. No Sherlockian, this dog NEVER does nothing in the night-time!

ellroon said...

My neighbor had an hysteric dog... one night it was barking non-stop. My husband got up and grabbed the nearest thing.. a bottle of Tilex I had been using to clean the bathroom. He threw open the slider, saw the object of the frantic barking: a raccoon in the tree. With one Wild West gunslinger move he shot the raccoon with the Tilex, and as the tree was right up against the fence, he leaned over and shot the dog amid a full roaring bark... right in the mouth.

Wasn't that much, but the dog retreated to contemplate why his mouth tasted like bleach and the raccoon decided to taunt dogs elsewhere...

The neighbors never turned on a light to see what the uproar was about....