Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Best Valentine I've Seen All Day

This Valentine comes from Bad Bad Girl.

Freedom Day

For the rest of the world it may be Valentines Day, but for me it is Freedom Day. Three years ago today, I left a good paying job to go back to writing. While I can’t yet say it was the smartest move I ever made, I can say it has been one of the most gratifying. There are times when I’m writing and Calliope, the ancient muse of epic poetry, is whispering seductively in my ear I feel have finally returned home.

To the rest of the world, that feeling is of very little importance—far less important than a new car or a great job. But for me, it means everything.

My Technorati Rating:

As a newbie, my Technorati rating is 1,730,344.

I wonder if I should throw a party when I break 1,500,000?

I want to see if I can do that by next month.

Scientists clone mice from hair follicle stem cell

I keep saying I'm not going to post anything else from That's Fit for a while, but this was just way too cool to ignore.

"Scientists clone mice from hair follicle stem cell

Posted: Feb 14th 2007 10:17AM by Brian White

As stem cell research marches on these days, there is no lack of news on how using stem cells may be able to one day cur all kinds of diseases and ailments -- and to clone mammals.

The 'clone mammals' part is a little disconcerting to many, but researchers have reported as of this week that mice have been cloned using stem cells -- from the hair follicles of those same mice.

The U.S. team of researchers says that the stem cells from adult mice are relatively easy to obtain and inject. Will this be opening the door to more experimentation on the cloning of mammals from their own stem cells? Science marches on."