Is this as cool as adopting a goat?
Adopt a Star, Help Fund Science
Though it's impossible to own a star, now you can adopt one.
A new program offers people a chance to "adopt" one of the stars in a catalogue of targets where scientists hope to find Earth-like extrasolar planets.
For $10, members of the public can select a star to adopt from the catalogue, and receive an e-mail certificate and updates if any planets are discovered around their star. All the money raised goes toward funding scientific research on the stars.
The stars up for adoption are targets for NASA's Kepler spacecraft, which launched in March on a quest to search for small terrestrial planets in roughly one-year orbits around other stars. These kinds of planets may be our best chance at finding habitable worlds beyond the solar system.
The adopt-a-star program, called the Pale Blue Dot project, is run by a non-profit organization that is not affiliated with or endorsed by NASA. So far, Pale Blue Dot has raised about $10,000 to fund the Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium, a project to measure the absolute sizes of the stars on Kepler's target list. This endeavor is separate from Kepler's main mission to hunt for planets, and is not covered by the mission's $600 million NASA budget.
F Rick Bayless
C Eric Ripert
M Hubert Keller
Eric Ripert - Rick Bayless - Hubert Keller
I have no idea who these people are.
I feel so pop-culturally irrelevant.
F Rick Bayless
C Eric Ripert
M Hubert Keller
I'm with Perkins on this one. Also now I am hungry.
The second set are chefs, I even know what 2 of them look like.
I have no idea who these people are.
For some reason this surprises me.
Going with the shallow links:
Ripert
Keller
Bayless
Though with these guys it's really all about the food. And the charm. And the food.
Two are on Top Chef: Masters on Bravo (Bayless and Keller) and Ripert shows up as a judge on Top Chef regularly as well as occasional eps of Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations on the Travel Channel. For me, I'd totally F: Ripert (the man is hot!), but it'd be hard for me to decide between Keller and Bayliss who to C and who to M. I'd probably M Bayliss just because he's a local Chicago guy.
Sorry, Hubert!
Though with these guys it's really all about the food. And the charm. And the food.
For Ripert, I'd also add The HAWT and The Ability To Introduce Me To Anthony Bourdain. Hence, F.
Octomom has regrets.
Octomom: 'I Screwed Myself' (FIRST LOOK At Fox Trailer)
Octomom Nadya Suleman admits she "never" thought about the future and airs her deep regret for her latest round of multiple births in an interview that will air on Fox during a two-hour special, 'Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage,' on August 19.
"I screwed myself," she said. "I screwed up my life, I screwed up my kids' lives...What was I thinking?"
The second clip contains footage of eight screaming babies writhing around on Suleman's bed as she attempts to feed them with only two arms.
