Watch as an organized office becomes a land of anarchy and chaos (aka the Synthesis office). Seriously, the mess is a sure sign that we’re being productive! That dude wiggin’ out? That’s just Spencer dancing around to Daft Punk… and those seemingly frightened girls holding eachother are actually our interns swooning over Spencer’s chocolatey mane.

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The naked mole rat (Heterocephalus glaber), also known as the sand puppy, or desert mole rat is a burrowing rodent native to parts of East Africa and the only species currently classified in genus Heterocephalus. It is notable for its eusocial lifestyle, nearly unique among mammals (only the Damaraland mole rat shares the trait), and for a highly unusual set of physical traits that enables it to thrive in a harsh, underground environment; including a lack of pain sensation in its skin, and a nearly cold-blooded metabolism.

Anybody else resisting the urge to just beat it off right now?

With great pride and the promise of blood letting to come, Synthesis is happy to announce that we have 666 pages of Award Winning* blogs.

To commemorate this auspicious occasion we present to you our correspondent Grant Noblin’s review of Desaster’s new album, "666: Satan’s Soldiers Syndicate" on Metalblade Records.

*exaggeration

This actually made my heart jump for a second. If it’s not real, someone is a goddamn video editing wizard. Or whatever. I don’t know shit about video editing, so this could be child’s play. But it looks authentic. Check it!

Remember a few weeks back, when rice prices were rising to phenomenal levels and box stores stateside were rationing rice ahead of what the Wall Street Journal and many others were predicting would be an exponential further increase in price and mass shortages? Well it turns out that all was not as it appeared. For example, a “quirk” in WTO rules essentially forces Japan into buying American rice they don’t need, which has created a 1.5 million ton surplus of high quality American rice. While third world countries were rioting, Japanese pigs were eating their fill. But the unlocking of this surplus is now sending rice prices downwards, where they will probably stay for some time:

Rice prices nosedived today as Japan moved closer to unlocking its massive hidden surplus and bullish supply forecasts routed speculators.

The price collapse came as commodity experts called on Japan and the US to urgently unwind one of the biggest “invisible” distortions in global rice markets: a quirk of World Trade Organisation rules that obliges Tokyo to buy grain it does not need and effectively turns millions of tons of high-grade American rice into feed for Japanese pigs.

If that distortion were removed, said researchers at the Washington-based Centre for Global Development (CGD), and the 1.5 million tons of unwanted US rice were released from Japan’s storage silos, the crisis that has sent the price of the crop that feeds half the world would be instantly solved. Rice prices, suggested the group’s forecasts, could even halve between now and June.

Maybe the world’s not ending after all.

Today NASA announced that they’ve discovered a recent supernova - recent in geological terms (140 years ago). I do know that a “Supernova” is the term when a star explodes, but apart from that I’m not even going to pretend I know anything about interstellar physics. So let’s let the professionals discuss this one, shall we?

From Nasa:

The supernova explosion occurred about 140 years ago, making it the most recent in the Milky Way. Previously, the last known supernova in our galaxy occurred around 1680, an estimate based on the expansion of its remnant, Cassiopeia A.

Finding such a recent, obscured supernova is a first step in making a better estimate of how often the stellar explosions occur. This is important because supernovae heat and redistribute large amounts of gas, and pump heavy elements out into their surroundings. They can trigger the formation of new stars as part of a cycle of stellar death and rebirth. The explosion also can leave behind, in addition to the expanding remnant, a central neutron star or black hole.

Sweet! You see, they did a much better job of explaining that than I. I could discuss how badass John Squire’s guest lead guitar playing was in Oasis’ “Champagne Supernova,” but that’s as close as I would get. I say let the techies and Trekkies handle this one:

From Wired News:

Scientists using a combination of radio and X-rays have found the most recent supernova remnant observed in our galaxy, located about 26,000 light-years from here. It’s the youngest, most energetic supernova we know and could shed light on just exactly how the stardust we’re made of — heavier elements and all — gets created. The finding also lends some support to astronomers’ calculations that there should be about three supernovae in our galaxy per century, although they still need to find dozens more similar supernova remnants to confirm their suspicions.

Here’s a video of a famous supernova.