Science

Today we are all about science.

An interesting experiment which might lead to an identity crisis for cells. Well, actually the experiment could lead to some amazing cures for disease.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101129/ap_on_sc/us_sci_cell_id_switch

Now that we switched identities of cells, can we talk about slowing global warming? The following scientist is trying a new way to do just that:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101128/ap_on_re_eu/eu_russia_ice_age_park

The ice age is being created but what about the beginning of the universe? Could that be recreated?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101130/sc_livescience/dawnoftheuniverserecreated

Your comments are dearly appreciated.

WHO AM I?

I was born in 1841 and died in 1898. Although I was born in Canada I am known
for serving with the Union Army during the American Civil War. I left home at a young age after my mother and my verbally and physically abusive father attempted to force me to marry a man I hated. I worked for a time as a milliner and later sold Bibles and other odds and ends. Afraid of being found by my father I fled to the United States. During the Civil War, I enlisted in the 2nd Michigan Infantry on my first try, disguising myself as a man named Franklin. Extensive physical examinations were not required for enlistment at the time, and I was not discovered. First I served as a male field nurse, participating in several campaigns under including the First and Second Battle of Bull Run, Antietam, the Pensilur Campaign, Vicksburg, among others. My career took a turn before the war when a Union spy was discovered and went before a firing squad, which opened up a slot in intelligence gathering for me. Seeing this as an opportunity to avenge a fallen comrade's death I eagerly accepted. When I went before the committee for an interview as Franklin, I impressed the committee and the position was given to me. Having to travel into enemy territory in order to gather information required me to come up with many disguises and I established several. For my first disguise I used silver nitrate to dye my skin black, used a black wig, and walked into the Confederacy disguised as a black manm by the name of Cliff. Another time I entered as an Irish peddler woman by the name of Bridget claiming that I was selling apples and soap to the soldiers. Yet another time I was "working for the Confederates" as a black laundress when a packet of official papers fell out of an officer's jacket. When I returned to the Union with the papers, the generals were quite pleased. My career as Franklin came to an end when I contracted malaria. Unable to go to the military hospital, because I would be revealed as a woman, I left the army and checked myself in to a private hospital, intending to return to military life once I had recuperated. Once I recovered I saw posters listing Franklin as a deserter. Rather than return to the army under another alias or as Franklin in which case I would be shot for deserting I decided to serve as a female nurse at a Washington, D.C. hospital for wounded soldiers run by the United States Christian Commission. After the war I married a Canadian mechanic with whom I had three children. My two sons and daughter died young, so I took in two boys. I received a government pension of $12 a month for my military service, and after some campaigning gained an honorable discharge. I was inducted posthumously into the Michigan Women's Hall of Fame. If you don't know Who I am by now maybe you should read what I wrote about being a NURSE AND SPY IN THE UNION ARMY. That could help you answer the question, Who Am I?