Shannon Jiménez

"In the hot, dark water of a South African mine, scientists have found the world's loneliest species. Everywhere else biologists have studied life on our planet, they've found communities of life, but today, biologists announced they have discovered an ecosystem that contains just a single species of bacteria." - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

"Depending on whom you ask, either ice-fiends are suckers who pay for frozen water or ice-avoiders are cheapskates with a perverse attachment to warm fountain syrup. To settle this once and for all, we went to a local cineplex and bought three Cokes with varying amounts of cubes at 4 smackaroos each. Then we broke out our thermometers and measuring cups. The cold, hard data says it all." - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

these are great - Cee Bee

Love it! @:-D, BTW what is that girl doing in the basket? Dig that helicopter-plane, way ahead of its time! - Jason Brooks

http://awwar.com/Military-Weap... - Jason Brooks

The US immigration process explained. - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

My goodness... while sexual harrassment claims are never a laughing matter, I would be lying if I didn't say I had quite a few big chuckles when reading this article. 1) No quotes from band members? 2) Am I the only person who felt this read like something from The Onion? 3) Make the kids pay for property damage, but... unless current members of the band want to file a claim, why doesn't the director just get outta the way? Seems like the band was doing just fine before he barged in. 4) Damn, this band makes my high school band days look like they took place in a monastery! :P - Adam Lasnik

poor guy, but come on...i can't think of a marching band that isn't rowdy and lewd and davis has a reputation. as a grad student in music, he should have known that. - Faboo Mama

"The time interval between the first report on preparation, isolation, or synthesis (or the earliest patent) and the highly cited articles reporting successful clinical interventions -- between the report of findings with clinical potential and the determination via clinical trials that that promise is realized in a treatment -- is the "translational lag". (There is, of course, another lag that's harder to quantify this way -- that between the initial findings in the research lab and the publication of those findings.) Contopoulos-Ioannidis et al. found that the median translational lag for the highly cited articled in their study was 24 years." - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

But if they do work, take all your prescription! "Failing to take the full course of an antibiotic can produce the same effect." - Anne Bouey

Or if anyone has her e-mail, could you tell me? I'm not a stalker, I swear. - Shannon Jiménez

oooooooohhhh cool!!! WTG Mona!! - Lindsay Donaghe

Hey Shannon! Wow, thanks! It's monamail@gmail.com. :) - Mona N.

Message sent :) - Shannon Jiménez

118 videos, one explaining each element. - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

Bret and I at the graveyard. Were we stylish, or what? - Shannon Jiménez

Awww. - Anne Bouey

"To incorporate extra movement into the routines of sedentary workers (himself included), Dr. Levine constructed a treadmill desk by sliding a bedside hospital tray over a $400 treadmill. Without breaking a sweat, the so-called work-walker can burn an estimated 100 to 130 calories an hour at speeds slower than two miles an hour, Mayo research shows. Enthusiasts began following Dr. Levine’s example, constructing treadmill desks that range from sleekly robotic set-ups to rickety mash-ups that could be Wall-E’s long-lost kin. But the recent introduction of an all-in-one treadmill desk from Details may inch work-walking into the mainstream, as dozens of businesses invest in the hardware to let their employees walk (and, ideally, lose a little weight) at work." - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

Would be sweet to do something like this but for a treadmill. http://www.los-gatos.ca.us/dav... - Rodfather

That's like..working while working.. Double WIN! - Hao Chen

...lolcat fame! - Shannon Jiménez

I can haz immortality? - AJ Kohn

A great way to remember the little guy. - Paul W. Swansen

Instructions: Take a picture of yourself right now. Don't change your clothes, don't fix your hair - just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with the picture. - Shannon Jiménez

Grandma and Grandpa claimed us first :) We are going to dinner at their place this weekend. - Bret Taylor

I'm so jealous! We need to get over there more often... - Shannon Jiménez

"Asthma rates have nearly doubled in the United States since 1970, and are swelling in the developing world. Underlying the rise is a constellation of causes -- and one of these may be the loss of H. pylori, a vanishing member of the rich bacterial ecosystems in our stomachs. Nearly universal at the advent of modern antibiotics, it's now present in just one-fifth of young Americans. The drop is a boon for people in whom the bacteria would eventually cause stomach problems, but some researchers say the bug is needed to calibrate our immune systems." - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

Tad... READ THIS. - Lindsay Donaghe

"The use of vocalizations, such as grunts, songs or barks, is extremely common throughout the animal kingdom. Nevertheless, humans are the only species in which these vocalizations have attained the sophistication and communicative effectiveness of speech. How did our ancestors become the only speaking animals, some tens of thousands of years ago? Did this change happen abruptly, involving the sudden appearance of a new cerebral region or pattern of cerebral connections? Or did it happen through a more gradual evolutionary process, in which brain structures already present to some extent in other animals were put to a different and more complex use in the human brain? A recent study in Nature Neuroscience yields critical new information, uncovering what could constitute the “missing link” between the brain of vocalizing nonhuman species and the human brain: evidence that a cerebral region specialized for processing voice, known to exist in the human brain, has a counterpart in the brain of rhesus macaques" - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

Bret's other long-lost brother. - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

Now HE looks like Bret! - Sheila Taylor

Bret's long-lost brothers. - Shannon Jiménez via Bookmarklet

hmm. I'm not seeing the family resemblance. - Sheila Taylor