Ununoctium!

Well, according to the Globe and Mail, scientists have finally been able to make an inert gas. They slammed together calcium and californium to get a new element, element 118. It would be cool if they could make something like this that works for longer than 1 millisecond, but it's still pretty cool where we've come in creating elements.

In other news, apparently the tories kicked Garth out of caucus. I doubt they'll come out of this looking too well. I guess they don't approve of bloggers in the Tory caucus meetings.