what hath science wrought?

BLUE MICE!

Blue Rats Move Again After Food-Dye Injection

i'd move too, that doesn't sound like a good neighborhood.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogalleries/blue-rats-food-dye-heals-pictures/images/primary/090727-01-blue-rat-after-dye_big.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bb/Berserkernuman.jpg

Now I have a name for my next band.

This is a tough one. Would I rather stay paralysed or be BLUE!

http://api.ning.com/files/OWalY4UavzMdoo7egA4FjDmPoLF8SeShdalnvPtJsl8TL*okLiDanusOpXkspkLdGA9n2uRwz6zdZFR3vkxrAerRH**H29pK/smurfs3.jpg

We're one step closer to creating an X-Man, I'm pretty psyched.

a quasi-paralysed X-man.

X-mouse

a quasi-paralysed X-man.

prof X

touché

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24455141

A Researcher Made an Organic Computer Using Four Wired-Together Rat Brains

Japanese Make Delicious, Nourishing Steaks From Human Feces

the rat-brains article is !!!!
cronenbergian

Not mad scientist material, but =O territory:

Man Dies After Tapeworm Inside Him Gets Cancer

Consumption of garlic positively affects hedonic perception of axillary body odour.

eg, girls prefer armpit scents from guys who consume garlic.

As who wouldn't?

Woman who has never felt pain experiences it for the first time

A woman born incapable of feeling pain has been hurt for the first time – thanks to a drug normally prescribed for opioid overdoses. She was burned with a laser

I'm picturing a variation on one of those videos where someone has just received a cochlear implant or had surgery to restore their vision and is walking around in a teary-eyed daze and taking in all of this new sensory input and talking about how amazing it all is except in this case it's a video of the woman's loved ones smashing bottles over her head and slamming her fingers in doors.

A nanobot picks up a sperm by the tail and inseminates an egg with it, by the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences in Germany

One that's more IgNobel bait.

de Clercq et al, 2019. The effect of having Christmas dinner with in-laws on gut microbiota composition. Human Microbiome Journal, p.100058.

In participants visiting in-laws, there was a significant decrease in all Ruminococcus species, known to be associated with psychological stress and depression. A larger randomized controlled study is needed to reproduce these findings before we can recognize in-laws as a potential risk factor for the gut microbiota composition and subsequently host health.

First line:

Christmas and feces appear to have a traditional yet mysterious connection.