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  1. L Gilbert

    Bears shot in Coquitlam

    Apparently not everyone is bear aware. I guess people just don't think that food is an attraction for creatures. http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i61KinTIbd8DQvJCDnFgY0bprdkg I saw this on CTV news also, and they said RCMP officers shot the kitchen-invading bear several times...
  2. L Gilbert

    New element discovered

    A major research institution has just announced the discovery of the densest element yet known to science. The new element has been named "Bushcronium." Bushcronium has one neutron, 12 assistant neutrons, 75 deputy neutrons, and 224 assistant deputy neutrons, giving it an atomic mass of 311...
  3. L Gilbert

    Think we'll be around in about 30 yrs?

    I musta missed this one.Was probably interested in some other branch of science at the time. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2005/dec/07/spaceexploration.research
  4. L Gilbert

    Are comets gods?

    - Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News October 2, 2003 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/10/1002_031002_cometstudy.html From 1999: http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/earth/Life/comet_origin.html&edu=high From 2007...
  5. L Gilbert

    15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense

    - Written by John Rennie, editor of Scientific American June 2002The PDF is here
  6. L Gilbert

    5th Estate story called "Firestar.45"

    I watched a 5th Estate show just now about a certain death in Canada by a certain handgun from the US. I sent a note to the 5th Estate. In it I said; Be neat if I get a reply.
  7. L Gilbert

    Food Waste

    The anthropologist, Timothy Jones, performed a study in the U.S. about how much food people waste there. http://www.communitycompost.org/info/usafood.pdf Are we that much different in Canada? Our personal waste is almost totally plastic wrapping. Paper, cans, etc. are recycled. Food...
  8. L Gilbert

    Not back yet

    Hey, you wonderful, neat, and interesting people. :smile: I sorta have my puter running. Still glitchy as Dante's subject, though, so I may have to reformat and reload everything back in again. *glum look* Just I thought I'd pop in and say "hi" so you know I am still live n kicking. ;-) Be...
  9. L Gilbert

    New kinda high discovered.

    lol Sky high. http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN4I30549520070419?feedType=RSS
  10. L Gilbert

    Gene plays key role in embryonic, adult stem cells

    I don't care what those self-righteous anuses think or say, I think this stuff is a great boon to humans and other critters: http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1928624320070419?src=041907_1905_ARTICLE_PROMO_also_on_reuters
  11. L Gilbert

    Justice in the courts? BS

    I think the courts (or some of them) need to be smacked upside the head a few times: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA94460520070419?feedType=RSS
  12. L Gilbert

    Are you a good kisser or a nasty kisser?

    Betcha this fella's not thinking about asking for any BJs: http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSEIC94878520070419?feedType=RSS
  13. L Gilbert

    Stalking

    Just outta curiosity, has anyone here ever experienced a stalker?
  14. L Gilbert

    Will Harper & Company crank up the corporate welfar program again?

    http://www.macleans.ca/homepage/magazine/article.jsp?content=20070326_103279_103279
  15. L Gilbert

    Glitches in the LHC at CERN

    Problems arise in the Collider. http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/09/1240249 Kind of a large scale bummer.
  16. L Gilbert

    Are there ANY benefits to big gov't?

    Kinda curious as to what people would say in favor of big gov't considering the conversation going on in the libertarianism=anarchy thread.
  17. L Gilbert

    The Coka Cola scam is back

    No Coca Cola logo or nothing. These people actually get suckers hooked. Anyway, here's what I got in my mailbox: I almost replied with. "Well, as you've found my email address you can find my snailmail address and send me the million £ check. Take the postage and handling out of the million £."
  18. L Gilbert

    New mum at 67 years of age

    http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-012807newmom,0,3683647.story?coll=la-home-headlines This is getting really stupid. This woman is old enough to be the great great grandmother of her own kids (presuming age of fertility to be around 14) and it's conceivable that she could be alive when her...
  19. L Gilbert

    USA's worst city

    Holy crap. Camden, New Jersey kinda threw me for a bit of a loop. http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news&id=4967702 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmtpi/is_200603/ai_n16097782 http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1058/is_23_116/ai_55805964...
  20. L Gilbert

    Health Authorities

    So, in their quest to cut healthcare costs, the various BC healthcare authorities have closed the hospital kitchens of the smaller areas in favor of having meals shipped in from wherever, closed wards, shut down ORs in smaller areas, laid off maintenance staff and cleaning staff and kitchen...