Julius Richard Petri: Google Doodle honours Petri dish inventor

Julius Richard Petri: Google Doodle honours Petri dish inventor

The Google homepage today depicts six Petri dishes colored in the familiar blue, red, green, and yellow hues of the Google logo. Click on the small play button in the center of the doodle, and a gloved hand will swab down the dishes. A few seconds

Google turned its homepage into a living petri dish today in honor of the 161st birthday of Julius Richard Petri, the German microbiologist who developed the technology. Google.com currently features six petri dishes colored to match the search giant's

Google turned its homepage into a living petri dish today in honor of the 161st birthday of Julius Richard Petri, the German microbiologist who developed the technology. Google.com currently features six petri dishes colored to match the search giant's

Google celebrated the 161st birthday of bacteriologist Julius Richard Petri today with a Google Doodle.

Today's Doodle represents the latter, and is celebrating the 161st birthday of the inventor of the Petri dish, Julius Richard Petri. Rather than some stoic science scene, though, Google went down a more interesting route.

Grumpy Cat's Star Continues to Rise

Grumpy Cat's Star Continues to Rise

Grumpy Cat â€"the king of the internet cat meme â€" is breaking off from the computer screen and heading to the silver screen. Grumpy Cat's agent has sold a one-picture deal for a Garfield-like feature film in which Grumpy Cat, whose real name is Tardar

Grumpy Cat's ready for her closeup. According to reports, the feline famous for her sourpuss could soon have a movie built around her. Entertainment Weekly describes it as a "Garfield"-esque tale in which Grumpy Cat -- real

EXCLUSIVE: More depressing news for humans who can't get a Hollywood movie made. Grumpy Cat, the cranky-faced kitty voted Meme of the Year at the 2013 Webb.

Pages of the script for the forthcoming Grumpy Cat flick hace been leaked by Dan Abramson of Funny or Die, but we know its authenticity is questionable because they refer to the famous feline as male. Grumpy Cat

Grumpy Cat's ready for her closeup. According to reports, the feline famous for her sourpuss could soon have a movie built around her. Entertainment Weekly describes it as a "Garfield"-esque tale in which Grumpy Cat -- real

Boston Strong concert for the One Fund

Boston Strong concert for the One Fund

Thousands of concertgoers ponied up big money Thursday night to revel in more than five hours of music performed by a Who's Who of local musicians in support of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. According to the Associated Press, the

The Dropkick Murphys will play at the 'Boston Strong' concert at the TD Garden Thursday night.

Thousands of concertgoers ponied up big money Thursday night to revel in more than five hours of music performed by a Who's Who of local musicians in support of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings. According to the Associated Press, the

Boston Strong Concert LIVE STREAM - Watch Marathon Bombing Benefit Show May 30, 2013 Video Streaming.

Last night at the TD Garden, Boston's finest (and a few non-locals) teamed up for a concert to benefit The One Fund for victims of last month's Boston Marathon bombing. There was stand-up from hometown comics like Steven

'Knaidel' for the win (mazol tov!)

'Knaidel' for the win (mazol tov!)

Knaidel is a word. A word that 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali, of Bayside Hills, New York, spelled correctly to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. It's a German-derived Yiddish word meaning dumpling. While Arvind won the whole thing, there were a few

Knaidel is a word. A word that 13-year-old Arvind Mahankali, of Bayside Hills, New York, spelled correctly to win the Scripps National Spelling Bee. It's a German-derived Yiddish word meaning dumpling. While Arvind won the whole thing, there were a few

"Knaidel" was Arvind Mahankali's winning word at tonight's Scripps National Spelling Bee. And his correct answer to the spelling of the German-Yiddish word referring to a small mass of dough, was something of a coup for the speller, who was eliminated

Arvind, an eighth grader at Nathaniel Hawthorne Middle School, won the nationally televised contest last night by spelling “knaidel,” a Yiddish term of German origin meaning “dumpling.” Straight-faced through most of the bee,

The winning word at this year's National Spelling Bee is familiar to those with a bit of Yiddish.

Mom, baby, three others killed as tornadoes hit Oklahoma City suburbs

Mom, baby, three others killed as tornadoes hit Oklahoma City suburbs

By M. Alex Johnson, staff writer, NBC News. Multiple tornadoes â€" one of them a mile wide â€" killed five people Friday evening in the Oklahoma City area, just miles from where a monster tornado left 24 dead last week. The National Weather Service said

A large tornado has touched down just west of Oklahoma City, with some damage already being reported. Authorities are advising everyone in the region of El Reno, Oklahoma to stay underground. The tornado comes less

Sirens wailed once again in Moore, Okla., on Friday night as multiple tornadoes ripped through the central part of the state, killing at least 5 people.

Blake Shelton closed out his Healing in the Heartland benefit concert last night on a duet with Usher. The pair, colleagues on NBC's singing competiti.

A group of severe thunderstorms was spawning tornadoes as they moved through Oklahoma on Thursday afternoon. Storm spotters were tracking at least two confirmed tornadoes, one southwest of Quay and another just

Let's Prancercise!

Let's Prancercise!

First of all, as we mentioned yesterday, Prancercise dates back to 1989, and Joanna has been a Coral Springs, Florida-based wellness coach and aerobics instructor for two decades now. She has a degree in Health Services

She made the video â€" “Funky Punky's Prancercise Program” â€" in 1989 and started writing a book, “Prancercise: The Art of Physical and Spiritual Excellence.” But she didn't do anything with her business, Prancercise LLC, until last December when she

FREEwilliamsburg: The Williamsburg, Brooklyn Culture Guide.

How it took this long for the internet to discover Joanna Rohrback and her inventive (and wildly hilarious) exercise method dubbed Prancercise, we will never know. But thank god we now have her, forevermore, demonstrating

It's called Prancercise, "a springy, rhythmic way of moving forward, similar to a horse's gait," as creator Joanna Rohrback, 60, describes the video sensation on her YouTube channel. It's also "ideally induced by elation." Posted five months ago as a

Red Wings' future looking promising

Red Wings' future looking promising

From the blog Puck Daddy: (Ed. Note: As the Stanley Cup Playoffs continue, we're bound to lose some friends along the journey. We've asked for these losers, gone but not forgotten, to be eulogized by the people who knew

Game 7 of Red Wings-Blackhawks was the fourth-most watched program in NBCSN history.

The Blackhawks have brought Chicago together for a common cause, but few can watch Game 7 against the hated Red Wings with any sense of inner peace.

As it turns out, defenseman Danny DeKeyser could have been back next week. Forward Valtteri Filppula, not so much. The day after the Detroit Red Wings were eliminated in Game 7 of their second-round series against the top-seeded Chicago Blackhawks,

Despite speculation that he wants to return to the KHL, Pavel Datsyuk expressed a desire to remain with the Detroit Red Wings beyond next season.