No tigers

So the project to clone the thylacine has been scrapped. Inadequate facilities & skills, and the DNA was too degraded. For now.

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1302459.htm (The rock art article in the related stories links at the bottom is interesting too.)

Disappointing in the "can it be done" sense, but was it really a sensible thing to even attempt?

Ouch

Bonus points for originality on this one I think.

As I do every night, I opened the door and let the dog out the front. She started drinking but I wanted her to go to the toilet, so I went down the stairs to take pick up the water bowl. Of course, I have bare feet. And it's dark.

I step off the bottom step, putting all my weight on my foot as you do and, yesterday I was pruning the roses and I put the prunings into a bag, except for one big, thick stem, which was now under my foot, at the base of the toes, the soft part of the sole.

At least it was the big, thick stem from the bush rose with large thorns on it; not the little, ones that break off easily.