SCIENCE BUZZ – Botox can now be injected into the pectoral muscles to boost saggy boobs. Now you can have perky breasts to match that perky forehead!

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1. Botox Can Now Be Injected into Breasts for a Lift
2. Ideal for Smaller Breasted Ladies With Stooped Shoulders
3. It’ll Improve your Posture!
4. Botox is the Cure for Sagging Breasts and Sweaty Armpits
5. “Botulism Boobies … DO NOT WANT”

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SCIENCE BUZZ – Scientists discover the most recently exploded supernova in our galaxy. By “baby,” they mean it exploded 26,000 years ago (Baby Supernova would also make a good band name).

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1. It Practically Just Blew Up
2. “An Unprecedented Opportunity to Watch a Star Dying”
3. Kind of an Unfortunate Name: G 1.9+0.3
4. NASA Announcement Crashed By Nutjobs

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SCIENCE BUZZ – Biologist, Jason Bond discovered a new species of trapdoor spider which he has named Myrmekiaphila neilyoungi in honor of his favorite musician. Young joins the ranks of the late rock ‘n’ roll legend Roy Orbison who has a whirligig beetleOrectochilus orbisonorum named to honor him. I’m not sure if this makes spiders lovable or even creepier.

The Best Links:

1. Here is a Neil Young Track In Honor of His Spider
2. Neil Young Gets His Own Spider
3. “Neil Young gets new honor — his own spider “
4. New Species of Spider Named After Neil Young
5. Sneaky Spider Named for Rocker Neil Young
6. Neil Young, Now a Spider, Plans Blu-ray Box Set

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SCIENCE BUZZ – The U.N. warns that a quarter of the world’s wheat could be threatened by a new, “highly pathogenic strain” of wheat stem rust called Ug99. The scary what blight strain was first detected in Iran and may be making its way towards the bountiful wheat fields of Asia and the Near East.

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1. Stem Rust Fungi
2. UN Alert! UN Alert!
3. “Ug99 is not another Neil Diamond cover band”
4. Beware the Ug!
5. A Longer Look at the Scary Ug Super-Blight

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SCIENCE BUZZ – Efuel 100 has developed a contraption that lets you make your own ethanol out of water, sugar, and yeast, and fill up your car at home. It’s definitely not for the typical lazy American, but given the popularity of Hybrids, DIY ethanol could become a real trend.

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1. It’s $10k, but You Could Potentially Get Government Subsidies to Help You Out
2. MicroFueler Home Ethanol Pump Unveiled, Ready For Pre-Orders
3. Efuel 100 Is Now Taking Pre-Orders
4. The World’s First Portable, Produce-where-you-consume, Ethanol Distiller Will Cost $10K
5. Press Release: How the Micro Fueler Works
6. The First Ever At-Home Biofuel Kit
7. “Ethanol Is the People’s Fuel”
8. NY Times Article: “Home Brew for the Car, Not the Beer Cup”

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SCIENCE BUZZ – A battle between a pride of lions, a herd of buffalo, and two crocodiles. Everyone’s favorite animals vs. animals vs. animals video was recently turned into a National Geographic special. The original was captured in 2004 by videographer David Budzinski and photographer Jason Schlosberg at a Kruger National Park (South Africa) watering hole.

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1. The Story Behind Battle at Kruger

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SCIENCE BUZZ – Dissolving bodies with lye, which has been used to get rid of animal carcasses for years, is being touted as the green alternative to burial and cremation. Burial is expensive, and cremation can be sacrilegious (someone could try to smoke or snort your ashes). The third option of dissolution could become a viable, environmentally-conscious form of corpse removal.

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1. Dissolving Dead Bodies More Eco-Friendly Than Burial or Cremation
2. Discuss: Your Ethical Feelings about Honoring Someone’s Wish to be Cremated, Buried, Or Dissolved
3. Dissolving Bodies With Lye Isn’t Being Offered Yet in the US
4. Cremation and Burial Is Sooo Last Year
5. “It was like you never existed.”

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SCIENCE BUZZ – Scientists have mapped the bizarre DNA of the duck-billed platypus. Citing it as a key to understanding all mammalian evolution, scientists noted the platypus also has 10 different sex chromosomes, instead of just X or Y, and say it may finally solve the question about the origin of the scrotum.

The Best Links:

1. There’s a Reason the Platypus Looks So Weird
2. The Platypus Has Ten Sex Chromosomes, Whereas We Have But Two
3. The Platypus: It Ain’t No Evolutionary Accident!
4. “Platypus Genes Hint at Scrotum’s Origin”
5. The Long-Term Story of the Platypus

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SCIENCE BUZZ – A major volcanic eruption in Chile, a horrifying cyclone in Myanmar, a series of global earthquakes, most recently in Japan: Have the end times arrived? The Myanmar death toll keeps climbing, and the area around the Chaiten volcano has been evacuated. Relief organizations are doing their best to help out.

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1. Myanmar Death Toll May Top 100,000
2. A List of the World’s Worst Disasters
3. Image of the Day: Chilean Volcano From Space
4. Magnitude 6.8 Earthquake Hits Tokyo
5. Ash from Chile volcano shuts down Argentina flights

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SCIENCE BUZZ – No, pig’s bladder powder did not regrow a man’s finger. The Guardian’s Bad Science column debunks the long-circulating story about a man regrowing a finger through the magical use of powdered pig’s bladder: First problem, it was a minor injury, not a missing finger.

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1. Only Trouble: There Was No Missing Finger
2. “It grew back — ‘flesh, blood, vessels and nail’ — in four weeks”
3. Video Slideshow of the Re-growing Digit
4. Breathless Report of Finger Growth!
5. Esquire Reports on the Story in September

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