Nothing gets me worried more than the WHO telling me not to panic.

Super-heavy elements "discovered".

Happy Candlemas. I seem to have observed it on the following Monday last year.

BugMeNot.com is your friend.

FBI endorsement of Macs’ hardness. I’m confused by the assertion that Macs are somehow harder to recover data from than “Unix-based machines”, what with MacOS X being Unix and all.

In addition to language, the FP crew are fascinated by squalor and its related phenomena.

Mel Brooks should be laughing right about now.

Sure, it’s a new (sixth) form of matter, but what are the implications? "If you had a superconductor you could transmit electricity with no losses." Mmm, yes. In much the same way that if you had a camera, you could capture images. Thanks, Deborah Jin, of the U of Colorado, for stirring up those thrilling visions of the future.
Bonus phrase (from the Jin Group’s page): "quantum degeneracy."

GM cress changes color in the presence of the by-products of explosives’ decomposition (NO₂), giving a handy map to the minefield beneath. If I weren’t such a cynical bastard, I wouldn’t interpret the land-mine-clearing charity’s objections as "Hey, we’ve got a good thing going here; don’t rock the boat."
All my minefields are already sown in lilacs and iris.

Nigeria is cracking down on 419 fraud. And who am I to doubt their sincerity in wanting to eliminate one of the top five industries in their country?