h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I don't know what to make of this...
Interesting advantages and also almost certain abuses.


Microbial factories could produce locally brewed painkillers
Gene by gene, the opioid production pathway is being put into brewer's yeast.

http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/microbial-factories-could-produce-locally-brewed-painkillers/

It is just a ploy to get people eating marmite

More likely, you will get arrested for possession of Marmite.

I wish I had time just now for a long, carefully spoken and angry polemic.

Eccentrica Gallumbits?

http://boingboing.net/2014/09/22/woman-has-third-breast-implant.html

"To land a reality show" should NOT be a career goal.

"To become unattractive to men" strongly suggests she's a very disturbed young woman.

I'm not saying that she should want to be attractive to men, I'm suggesting that she probably experienced some traumatic encounters with men in her life.

Snopes is already on this case [as yet, undetermined] with more information.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/bodymods/jasminetridevil.asp

"To become unattractive to men"

Surely a burka would be cheaper and less likely to attract male attention, what she is doing is the equivalent to tackling male obesity by offering fat blokes extra donuts

*IF* she is doing this. I'm very skeptical. As the Snopes article says, so far all we have for evidence are some selfies.

Referring back to post 16304, "polemic" regarding issues in the news from post 16301, about careless gene modification practices, not about marmite.

Posts 16305 - 16309, one kind of hates to tell some of these people that circus and carnival freak show trade was pretty effectively killed by a deal between Todd Browning and Harry Patton back in the early 1930s.

ITIWBS
That's a shame, I was hoping for a multipost epic on Marmite

here you go then
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/search/?queryText=marmite&sort=recent

The Marmite Food Extract Company was formed in 1902 in Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire.

Those who are interested might want to revisit the Snopes article I linked to above regarding the "Florida Woman" impersonating Eccentrica Gallumbits. Snopes has much more info and have declared her a fraud.

Well I suppose someone had to do it...

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/sep/30/worlds-first-underground-hot-air-balloon-flight-completed-in-croatia

[Pastey, becoming adept at finding free WiFi]

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography

For a moment I thought he might be warming up for Son Doong Cave in Viet Nam, the largest cave in the world, with a thousand foot mountain under the worlds largest sinkhole, ehich is reported to have monkeys living on it.

We Fit...
Oh no you don't.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-29514013