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…sounds crazy, and may well turn out to be. But if it’s validated, then what?

Why does it take so long for soul mates to find each other” How does disease spread through a person’s body? When will the next computer virus attack your hard-drive?

A new theory published last month in Nature on the statistical concept of ‘First Passage Time,’ or FPT, may provide the key to answering at least a few of these questions, says theory co-author Prof. Joseph Klafter from Tel Aviv University’s School of Chemistry. And the answers may lead to breakthroughs in medicine, mathematics, the environment, and elsewhere.

Prof. Klafter and his colleagues from the University of Pierre & Marie Curie in Paris (where he has been visiting professor) are the first to have developed an analytical model that calculates the average arrival time — the mean FPT — of a randomly-moving object in a complex environment.

(via Science Blog)

You were always crazy, Red Dog tells you.
But didn’t it have to originate some time?
Red Dog says maybe not.
Was it maybe like we didn’t always think alike?
Red Dog doesn’t know what that means.
Like, maybe before we thought we were crazy but had a different word for it?
Red Dog thinks possibly.

Naturally you’ve got your bacon candy bars, but did you also know: bacon cookies?

I mean, you’d assumed they were out there, naturally. But had you actually seen them?

(via MeFi and BoingBoing)

(by way of Seed Magazine via Bookslut)

Yes, it can happen to you. Well, maybe not you, but someone else:

Dropping something may have saved Joy Horton’s life. The 73-year-old woman was preparing some food in her western New York home on Monday morning when she dropped a spoon on the floor of her kitchen. When she bent down, her house exploded.

…

Fire officials said that because Horton was bending down when the explosion occurred, the kitchen sink and counter top helped keep debris from hitting her.

(via BoGlo/AP: “Spoon drop saves woman’s life” [Aug 21, 2007])

This quote from a “spokesman for the soap industry group” — a little suspicious, admittedly.

But seriously, Americans’ hands are getting dirtier.

(Reuters: “Americans getting lax about clean hands?” [18 Sept 2007])

Not necessarily in order.

1. Thundercats!
2. The Equalizer, 2009, with a screenplay being co-written by Michael Connelly
3. Get Smart, 2008, with Steve Carell as Maxwell Smart
4. Two movies based on Chuck Palahniuk books: Survivor (planned but with no timetable for the near future), and Choke (premiering this coming year).

(Incidentally, I’m not sure if the Thundercats is a movie to watch out for in order to avoid or to see.)