Cool words

Posted by Madeleine Ball Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:00:00 GMT

Here is a short list of some cool words. If you have a cool word, add it with a comment (make say what it means and why it is cool)!

crapulent / crapulence

  • definition: sick due to excessive eating or alcohol, excessively drunk
  • why it's cool: this should be obvious

pulchritude

  • definition: beauty
  • why it's cool: ugliest word for beauty I've ever heard

chaotropic

  • definition: disrupts the structure of proteins and/or DNA, denaturing them
  • why it's cool: sounds bad ass

Doh! 1

Posted by Madeleine Ball Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:39:00 GMT

From Science magazine news Hobbit Redux? article:

Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg discovered the bones while on vacation in Palau in 2006. (His wife had deliberately chosen a remote, young island because it was unlikely to have fossils on it).

Random Links 2

Posted by Madeleine Ball Tue, 12 Feb 2008 00:39:00 GMT