Nickyitis – An Epidemic of Humorous Proportions

Hey, some good news – Koenigsegg is buying Saab! Time for a cheer, I say. I can still remember how bummed I was when I heard that GM had bought Saab. I guess they felt that Ford had acquired Volvo and so they needed their own Scandinavian nameplate. Bummer. Because I’ve always liked Saabs. Saabs [...]

Well, that’s impressive. The bacterium Herminiimonas glaciei, so named because it was found 2 miles beneath a Greenland glacier, had been snoozing for about 120,000 years. Chilling out, you might say. Recovered by scientists via a deep bore (very deep), it was treated to a warm and cozy  36 degrees F in their lab for [...]