I'm always proud when something wonderful comes out of the school I'm attending. Here at the University of Illinois we have this wonderful wonderful publication called The Booze News. You can find it at places like Subway, where the lines are so long you can get through the entire intelligently written piece of literature waiting for your meatball sandwich. This wonderful periodical has pictures of sorority girls making out with each other and dudes showing their muscles while practically falling on the floor. There are also great quizzes like what kind of cheater are you? All of this in a free publication!? Yes it's amazing isn't it!

Well this publication has expanded into neighboring Missouri where some pissed off people (3 or 4 at least) got the attention of CNN who has this to say about this wonderful publication:

But some Missouri students and local business owners aren't laughing. A Booze News book review about interracial gay adoption that referred to the two male parents as "freaks" drew a formal protest and request that university officials censure the paper.

Several downtown business owners have thrown out the free paper, which has published seven issues, afraid of offending customer sensibilities. Even some campus fraternity houses deem the material too edgy for members.

Ohhh the Humanity!! Can't we just enjoy our stupid offensive publications in peace?!

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And if you want a good reason to vote for Shelley (besides her blog Retrospectacle) she can kick some ass at Flippy Cup. That's her and I at the end of the table, after doing our drinking and flipping, watching the neuroscience flippy cup team kick the ass of the coast guards. Who ever said sailors could drink was lying - we beat them every single time.

Just because Chimps are Funny:

And no bitching about my use of the word monkey! Via Neatorama

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has gone to Mario R. Capecchi, Oliver Smithies, and Sir Martin J. Evans for inventing a technique called Gene Targeting.

According to the NYTimes:

The three scientists were honored for a technique called gene targeting, which lets scientists inactivate or modify particular genes in mice. That in turn lets them study how those genes affect health and disease.

To use this technique, researchers introduce a genetic change into mouse embryonic stem cells. These cells are then injected into mouse embryos. The mice born from these embryos are bred with others, to produce offspring with altered genes.

The first mice with genes manipulated in this way were announced in 1989. More than 10,000 different genes in mice have been studied with the technique, the Nobel committee said. That's about half the genes the rodents have.

''Gene targeting has pervaded all fields of biomedicine. Its impact on the understanding of gene function and its benefits to mankind will continue to increase over many years to come,'' said the citation for the $1.54 million prize.

So what may you ask are the real uses for gene targeting?! Yes! Making crazy freakin' animals that do stuff like glow in the dark and fly!

Ohh yeah.. this technique will lead to millions of lives being saved... but come on - glow in the dark mice! that has to be why they created this great technique, fully deserving of a Nobel Prize.

Ok... maybe there aren't flying mice yet.