Are earthworms clean or unclean? hehehe

I must admit to never having eaten one. Maybe if they were fed chocolate for several days and then dusted with powdered sugar... ?

Or if there were fed on jalepenos and then put into some chili ... ?

One of these days... maybe...

Marijuana Skin Creme May Help Allergies

"....The compounds, called cannabinoids, have been credited with everything from stimulating the growth of new neurons to easing the symptoms of multiple sclerosis. Although they are best known for spicing up marijuana, the body also produces cannabinoids, which are thought to play a part in learning and in communications between the immune system and the nervous system. Now, researchers have shown that cannabinoids can relieve some of the swollen, itchy agony of allergic skin reactions in mice....."

more at : http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070604/full/070604-10.html

Building robots can teach us about humanity and God
according to Prof. Anne Foerst, a theologian and research scientist,
and visiting professor of theology and computer science at St. Bonaventure University.

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~frank/BerkeleyGroks_Foerst.htm

...relative sizes of our sun and its planets ...

(1. Earth and smaller planets
(2. Earth and larger planets
(3. Sun and all planets

"Some thinkers see mathematicians as scientists, regarding physical experiments as inessential or mathematical proofs as equivalent to experiments. Others do not see mathematics as a science, since it does not require experimental test of its theories and hypotheses, although some theorems can be disproved by contradiction through finding exceptions. (More specifically, mathematical theorems and formulas are obtained by logical derivations which presume axiomatic systems, rather than a combination of empirical observation and method of reasoning that has come to be known as scientific method.) In either case, the fact that mathematics is such a useful tool in describing the universe is a central issue in the philosophy of mathematics." -wikipedia article on 'science'

more information at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectiveness_of_Mathematics_in_the_Natural_Sciences

I love those pics. Really puts things in perspective.

They are beautiful. We should look at the relative distances between the sun and planets.

To build planets in relative size:


Body Model diameter (inches)
Sun 60.0
Mercury 0.25
Venus 0.5
Earth 0.5
Mars 0.3
Jupiter 6.0
Saturn 5.0
Uranus 2.0
Neptune 2.0
Pluto 0.1


SCALE MODE:
Using a scale of 1 standard sheet of toilet tissue as 10,000,000 miles, we can use the unwound length of the roll of tissue as a ruler for a scale model of the solar system.


Celestial Object Number of Sheets from Sun .........# of Tissues from previous object
Sun 0.0----- 0.0
Mercury 3.6----- 3.6
Venus 6.7 -----3.1
Earth 9.3----- 2.6
Mars 14.1----- 4.8
Jupiter 48.4----- 34.3
Saturn 88.7----- 40.3
Uranus 178.6----- 90
Neptune 280.0----- 101.0
Pluto (avg. orbit) 366.4----- 86.4

Has it been decided yet as to whether or not we count Pluto as a planet?