Delicious LiveJournal Links for 8-3-2009

[andrewducker]

• Protein key to premature births
  Now this is massive news (I say, as the son of a paediatrician who specialised in premature births)
  (tags: babies science health)
• Scientists find new strain of HIV
  The normal strain originated in Chimpanzees - this one is Gorilla related. Will people please stop shagging simians?
  (tags: HIV monkey health)
• Haggis is English, historian says
  Next up - television!
  (tags: history scotland england)
• Cash for woman sacked for her age
  Bloody good thing too. Idiot employers
  (tags: ageism law UK)
• FML: Your everyday life stories
  In which people tell you their tales of woe (in one paragraph) and then you get to vote on whether they deserved it. Strangely addictive...
  (tags: funny stories life web2.0)

Comments

Re: haggis

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

I'm overjoyed to discover this, and am hopeful that we may soon also prove that heart disease, midgies, alcoholism, red hair and rain are also Sassenach inventions. Let's hear it for Research!

[simont]

ObPedant: since "simians" includes humanity itself, if everybody did stop shagging simians ...