“The wheat genome is the holy grail of plant genomes,’’ said Nick Talbot, a professor of biosciences at the University of Exeter.

<a href=”http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2010/08/28/wheats_genetic_code_finally_unlocked/?p1=Upbox_links”>Awesome.</a>

new art project by Sally Davies photographs a Happy  Meal every day for 137 days.

Dehydrated, sure, but the old and the new don’t look so different:
Day 1:

Day 137:

Mr. Jacqmain has evaded arrest for 8 days after stabbing a man to death in a motel parking lot.

Though there have been dozens of reported sightings of the 52 year old Santa-in-Training, all have turned out to be either unsubstantiated or simply different bald, middle aged, overweight dudes.

“We’re going after everything, but we’re kind of chasing our tails,” an officer said. “He blends in and looks like a lot of other guys.”

Jacqmain is a diagnosed schizophrenic who suffers from bipolar disorder. Six days before the murder he walked out of a mental health facility.

Wendy Lewis, 32, fled from her court hearing after being publicly shamed by a group of disgruntled veterans in Blackpool.

Ms. Lewis was caught on security camera urinating, then “performing a sex act” on a nearby man.

“It is unforgivable what she did in the face of these dead men,” said former Royal Marine James Baker, 88, who was one of few from his unit who survived the Normandy Landings.
“It can be neither forgiven nor forgotten by the ex-services’ community and the wider community as well. If she had expressed remorse, and meant it, we could forgive then, if not forget. But I’m sorry, she is just beyond the pale.”

Leave it to retired WWII vets to make a middle aged hooker feel bad.

He puts Hayward and other BP execs on the short list that the actor doesn’t even reserve for rapists and murderers.

He said for a documentary that came out this week: “I was never for the death penalty before – I am willing to look at it again.”
Sure, 11 people died on the rig that was co-managed by three companies…can you really try their suits for murder? Come on, Mr. Pitt.

MADISON, Wis. – The camera of a vacationing New Jersey family who posed for a picture in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol captured more than smiles. It also caught a thief in the act.

John Myers, of Bloomfield, N.J., set the self-timer on his camera and hustled into the frame with his wife and two children Saturday. While their backs were turned, someone grabbed their bag, which held Myers’ wallet and other items.

After Myers discovered the bag missing, he checked his camera. Sure enough, the image showed a man picking up the bag.

Myers told the Wisconsin State Journal that he showed the photo to officers, who recognized the man.

When officers found him, he was still carrying the bag.

The suspect pleaded not guilty Tuesday to misdemeanor theft.

The neighbor was just doing a favor: bring in the mail each day while her next door neighbors were away. So she was obviously shocked to see to naked 30-somethings sprawled out on the floor.

The impromptu porn stars ran away, but they left a (stolen) camera there; identifying the would-be thieves at that point was easy as pie…the police deputies recognized the 39-year-old woman and 31-year-old man from previous interactions.

A 23-year-old Louisiana woman found out the hard way that pants “so low-slung you could see her underwear” are not ok. Kimberley Senette was given 10 days in jail by a Jefferson Parish judge who found her in contempt of his court. She said that they were only so low because the security guards had her remove her belt - but Judge Windhorst was having none of it.

Can’t blame him, K Slimm doesn’t look like the most apologetic of ladies.

Two Canadian women have come out with a hemp-infused vodka. The 80-proof, quadruple distilled vodka is made with a hemp extract and is so far for sale only throughout Alberta.

This if the first Cannabis liquor in North America.c