View of nature changed. Thanks alot Guiseppe.

I've always thought of knots in wood as a massive pain in the ass. Anyone who's cut a 2x4 with a handsaw or chopped wood for a fire knows a gnarly knot can stop you faster than Scott Stevens.

Enter Guiseppe Penone, the Italian artist who carved into a giant tree trunk and left the knotted parts untouched to reveal a smaller sapling inside. Who knew?

Penone recently had an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario called The Hidden Life Within.

Yup... definitely doomed.

So with all the civil war, oil spills and financial crises happening on Planet Earth these days, it is especially unnerving to be reading about researchers creating a completely new organism with a man-made synthetic cell.

The man behind it all defends up the discovery with this:




Awesome. Probably what we need to do with brand new, man-made bacteria is put it in the hands of oil & gas companies and drug companies. Totally logical, as they are constantly proving that they're equipped to handle this kind of thing - BP and Halliburton especially - give it to them first. Perhaps they can give it to some CEOs on Wall Street, some Tea Partiers, the EU, Arizona, Homeland Security, Facebook, defense contractors, and politicians all over the world as well and see what they can do with it. Maybe Texas and their police can spray everyone with it while they spy on its citizens with their unmanned drones. Asshats.

I think one of the detractors got it right:





 I suppose it is appropriate that we're in zombie awareness month, as we can use I Am Legend as a cautionary tale (btw - if you haven't seen the Director's Cut alternate ending for I Am Legend, watch it here)