Posts by M Bargo

Little bang for the Big C? Nitro in the anti-cancer arsenal

I thought vasodilation can be achieved simply by sustained low-level exercise?

Bacon can kill: Official

In the words of Vincent Vega

"Yeah but pork chops taste good, bacon tastes good"

Mystery object re-entering atmosphere may be Apollo booster

'tis a mysteriously empty coffin that missed its planned landing site and date - Whitby goth weekend

New Horizons: Pluto? Been there, done that – now for something 6.4 billion km away

Re: Slow download speeds

Its a simple matter of distance and the available transmit power. But let's buy them a pint anyway.

Bacon as deadly as cigarettes and asbestos

But there is a well established link between processed and red meat consumption and bowel cancer. I don't think the actual causal mechanism has been determined. Perhaps when that comes about we will be able to take a pill that makes eating bacon safe.

There is also a well established link between eating lots of dietary fibre and not getting various nasty lower-colon diseases.

So its a bacon butty on wholemeal for me thx.

GCHQ to pore over blueprints of Chinese built Brit nuke plants

The sad fact is we haven't the brains or the balls to build a single nuclear power station, despite the obvious and pressing need for a whole set of them.

How Chairman Mao's secret military project led to a Nobel Prize

In her later career she created the in-house fashion label for Sainsbury's supermarket.

Intel inks $8bn debt deal, preps for Altera buy

Re: Data center chip business?

Not just small runs. The increasing engineering costs of getting an ASIC into production, and the time it takes, mean that FPGA's have eaten into increasingly large slices of the custom logic chip pie.

Benefit of this deal for Altera is they will have direct access to cutting edge chip manufacturing technology.

Playboy drops the butt-naked ladies

Unfortunately the world also adopted Mr Hefner's preference for skinny blondes with big tits as a definition of what women are supposed to look like.

Shame on you, Hugh. Shame on you.

Surface Book: Microsoft to turn unsuccessful tab into unsuccessful laptop

I can see a Macbook in my future

Miss Brittany dethroned for posting 'nude' Facebook pics

Looks a bit skinny to me. She'll have a difficult time getting any if recent reports are to be believed.