Express your love with germs!

Greetings.
Jewish date:  20 Shevaṭ 5770 (Parashath Yithro).

Today’s quasi-holidays:  International Dadaism Month, World Cancer Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Take Action | Oceana North America:  Tell President Obama: No More Offshore Oil Drilling!”, “Save BioGems: Take Action: Protect Grizzly Bears”, “Include Children in HIV Vaccine Research - The Petition Site”, and “Take Action: TrueMajority.org:  Fix the Budget, Fix America”.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “How To Hide An Airplane Factory”:  (Submitted by Barry.)  It is amazing what one can do with camouflage.
  
• “Troubleshoot your DNS”
  
• “Hubble captures picture of asteroid collision!”
  
• “Bees Can Recognize Human Faces”:  Who knew?
  
• “NASA has tons of cool space technologies that may never get to space”

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Today’s weird thing is “Valentine's Day Box of Mini Plush Microbes”, the perfect gift for the microbiologist or immunologist you love dearly.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron