"NYU loses years of scientific research and thousands of mice to Hurricane Sandy."

"Many precious reagents -- special enzymes, antibodies, DNA strands -- generated by scientists and stored at -80 degrees and -20 degree...

The insulated tent cabins are killing people.

Deer mice — carrying hantavirus — nest between the double walls. 2 have already died, and 10,000 are at risk.

"No one pretends that better laws would prevent all tragedies, but if that were the standard, then we wouldn't pass any laws at all."

On NPR last evening, the topic was the Aurora movie-theater murders, and the NPR host, Robert Siegel, invited WaPo's E.J. Dionne to comm...

"Researchers inserted the human cells into the brains of mice where they successfully integrated themselves into the wiring."

"Then the UW team applied a new technology, using light to stimulate the human cells and watching as they in turn activated mouse brain...

"Great Expectations, the Miss Havisham Cake" — banned from the Melbourne Cake Show.

In bad taste? But it's literary! A reading, from Charles Dickens: The most prominent object was a long table with a tablecloth spread on...

These would be lovable if they were moles...

... but they are mice. "Inadvertently raked up" — Meade IM's from the garden. ME: Ouch MEADE: I didn't hurt them I even us...

We've found those "mice with fully functioning human brains" that Christine O'Donnell was worried about.

It's Pinky and the Brain, brain, brain, brain... Good lord! She's right to be worried. Every night, they try to take over the world!...

"American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains."

Uh oh! That's Christine O'Donnell, my dear friends. Via Memeorandum . ADDED: And here she is with Eddie Izzard!