Breaking Nooze

Bush Doll Talks Tough
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A new President Bush doll is talking tough on terrorism, but like the real president, it occasionally misspeaks, too. [read more...]

Nooze-worthy bit: "The fledgling company isn't planning to stop with Bush. A talking Ronald Reagan is in the works for the spring. After that, Wessling and Warnock plan to manufacture talking Richard Nixons, Bill Clintons, John F. Kennedys and George H.W. Bushes."

Ah, yes. The Bill Clinton action figure, with Drop Actionô pants!

Agile Butterflies Use Different Strokes To Fly
LONDON - A butterfly relies on a variety of aerodynamic techniques, often in successive strokes, to fly. Researchers at the University of Oxford trained red admiral butterflies to fly toward a fake flower at the end of a wind tunnel. Wisps of smoke were blown over the insects' wings as an ultra-fast digital camera captured the turbulence.

By comparing the smoke patterns to mathematical patterns, Adrian Thomas and Robert Srygley found the free-flying butterflies (Vanessa atalanta) flap and rotate their wings in six different ways to stay airborne and land. [read more...]

Nooze-worthy bit: The researchers say if engineers could understand how insects manoeuvre so easily at low speeds, they could learn how to build tiny flapping-air vehicles.

Never mind a cure for AIDS or cancerówhat the world really needs is tiny flapping-air vehicles. And these would be used for what exactly? Air delivery of single postage stamps? Air-lifting small quantities of lint?

*shrug*