If you hadn’t heard, some Australian scientists think they have a new method for “species reintroduction” or bringing a species back from extinction. This story in the New York Times explains how a 25-year old frog is the first target of the method.

CNN covered the story in astonishingly innacurate fashion showing a Tyrannosaurus, which is only off by roughly 65 million years or so. Ooops.

Senator Rand Paul‘s speaking filibuster did not beat Strom Thurmond’s filibuster (in terms of length) according to the Washington Examiner.  Nevertheless, it went on for nearly 13 hours.  I’m fascinated when anyone can speak for ~13 hours in a row (to be fair Sen. Paul had a little help).  What do they talk about?  Does anyone really have that much to say?

To find out, I have compiled transcripts from the filibuster from the Senator’s Web Site and turned them into tag clouds using http://www.wordle.net/.

First see the combined first seven hours (the 8-13 hour are not yet available) and see each hour broken down.

Hour One

 

Hour Two