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^^ I agree, the practical use of a Neanderthal does seem a bit limited. Then again, the practical use of a rhino is pretty finite too, and people are still trying to save those from extinction... In other news, Mad Dutchman plans to use 3D printer to create Möbius strip-shaped house

That's the thing, though; if the embryo is biologically Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis rather than Homo Sapiens Sapiens, does that change anything? It's a fair bet most countries don't have legal regulations on non-human humans, at least. Or if you really want to push the envelope - is it more...

Perhaps, though FWIW, the professor in genetics seems to think it's closer to 1. The hypothetical is still interesting, though; would it be ethical to resurrect a living, breathing, thinking, reasoning extinct human species as an experiment?

:rofl:

So apparently we now have the know-how, if not quite the technology just yet, to clone Neanderthals. Hooo boy. There's an ethical ticking timebomb. Forget cloning mammoths - what would we do with a bunch of intelligent and conscious experiments? Probably patented by some large biochemical concern?

Bit o' nostalgia. The Boppers - Promised Land - YouTube

...and for those who think 3 3-hour movies is too much to spend on The Hobbit, here's the Soviet version from 1985. No, really. http://www.amara.org/ru/videos/YpJbaasMOKiN/info/khobbit-the-hobbit-sssr-ussr-1985-g/

Let me know when we get a new Surtsey. Any Old One worth his salt will rise in fire and smoke, not gradually over years in the form of a sand dune with bird shit on it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LYsxUilo-o

So not very "out of nowhere" then.

Philip Roth picks his best novels | Books | guardian.co.uk

This is pretty cool: https://vimeo.com/24939206 "Losing My Religion" with all the minor chords taken out. Sounds a lot happier. Which may or may not be a good thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqwIZNECRoU Slayer's coming to town this summer! \m/ O \m/

And more importantly, how does it take him 4 years to churn out these madlibs books? Barbara Cartland wrote 20 novels per year. Stop slacking off, Danny.

Meanwhile, in related news, the Wall Street Journal posts an explanation of how the Fiscal Cliff will affect, quote, "poor", unquote, people. Oh, those poor single moms desperately trying to put food on the table on a measly two hundred and sixty thousand US dollars. Look at how sad they all are.

Yes. Stop diluting his precious bodily fluids, commie.

In the spirit of a true self-sustaining society, I think citizens of Independence will be encouraged to drink their own.

Dan Brown's new novel Inferno revealed by readers | Books | guardian.co.uk Can't help but notice that this seemed to be much bigger news the last time he released a new book...

Kind of like Song of the South, then?

Wait a minute - Glenn Beck is promising to isolate himself from the rest of the world? Isn't that a good thing?