HOLY S--T!

You can sell your poop for $13,000 a year

The company, OpenBiome, is willing to pay as much as $250 for a week's worth of donations of healthy stool samples, or $13,000 a year, according to The Washington Post.

The sample is used to treat patients who are sick with infections of a bacteria called C. difficile. It is administered, in frozen form via endoscopy or swallowed capsules

http://www.cnbc.com/id/102385027

Because It's The Cup!

One of the best nites ever for us!!!   #selfie

Meeting Phil Pritchard - The Keeper of the Cup!   Brendan wondered on the way home how one gets such a job!

Just one of the Wings' spots on the Cup!

Sooooo cool!

OYMYAKON, RUSSIA... THE COLDEST PLACE ON EARTH

People here regularly consume frozen meat, keep their cars running 24/7 and must warm the ground with a bonfire for several days before burying their dead. Most people use outhouses, because indoor plumbing tends to freeze. Cars are kept in heated garages or, if left outside, left running all the time. Crops don’t grow in the frozen ground, so people have a largely carnivorous diet—reindeer meat, raw flesh shaved from frozen fish, and ice cubes of horse blood with macaroni are a few local delicacies.
It’s dark — completely, utterly dark — for up to 21 hours a day during the winter, and the temperature averages -58. That’s balmy compared to one February in 1933, when Oymyakon earned its title as the coldest place on Earth when the mercury plunged to -90. BRRRRRRR!

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/amos-chapple-the-coldest-place-on-earth/

Astronomers seek widest view ever of the universe with new telescope

Construction of the $700 million telescope (LSST)will begin in earnest this spring on a mountaintop in Chile's Atacama Desert.

LSST stands for Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, a name even astronomers agree is clunky for what has been described as the world's most powerful sky-mapping machine. While most telescopes can take only snapshots of a narrow sliver of space, LSST will scan the heavens continuously in wide swaths.

The telescope will produce an image of the entire southern sky every three days - a feat that would take the Hubble Space Telescope 120 years to accomplish once.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-astronomers-widest-view-universe-telescope.html#jCp

Eddie the Altar Boy