Tuesday, July 3, 2007
TO AMERICA AND ALL MY AMERICAN FRIENDS...
Being graphically challenged, I'll make it simple - A HAPPY 4th TO YOU ALL!
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Monday, July 2, 2007
We already knew that Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was correct...
because we detected some time ago that mass bends light. But now, in an experiment that was 40 years in the making, it has been confirmed directly. Writes Stephen Ornes: “Nearly three years ago, NASA’s oft-canceled Gravity Probe B Relativity Mission finally shot into space with one goal – to...
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Friday, June 29, 2007
How can you people do this to your kids?
This is supposed to be my blog for humorous stuff, and what I have here is funny in a way, but it is also sad, at least in my view. I came across a list of children’s names, bestowed upon them by their ‘celebrity’ parents, and it floored me. These names are bizarre! Pilot Inspekter - Son of ‘My Name...
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Oh, for the good old days of summer camp, that Offy reminded me of...
In New York City, children of the city's most affluent residents are no longer content with being driven to summer camp. Revolution Air, a charter-aircraft company, has arranged more than 20 flights to summer camps using corporate jets. The flights cost $8000 each and cover distances that would take...
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Monday, June 25, 2007
Serbia: Men With Cows Want Bigger Beef...
Urologist Srecko Djordjevic claims dozens of Serb farmers are preoccupied with having larger penises. "The size of a man's member seems to play a big role in our society," he says. An $820 operation to stretch sex organs costs about the same as the price of a cow, and farmers are swapping animals...
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Saturday, June 23, 2007
More voters - and remember, some of them have law degrees...
And more from the court transcripts. Q: Do you remember what shoes you were wearing? A: You mean the day I fell down? Q: Yes. A: The same shoes I'm wearing. Q: What do you call those shoes? Are they flats...or how would you describe them? A: I'd describe them as 'these shoes.' Or this one... Q:...
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Friday, June 22, 2007
These people have a vote...
The following is taken from actual court transcripts. Q: What is the relationship? A: She's my aunt. Q: Who's brother or sister to whom here? A: My mother is his brother - is her - my mother is - what is it? By marriage. I guess you would say. My mother is her brother - is his brother by marriage,...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Juicing the Brain to treat Disease...
Magnets may make the brain stronger in the aged and in people suffering from Alzheimer’s. The technique called ‘transcranial magnetic stimulation’ involves a magnetic coil creating electric fields inside the brain, switching neurons on or off. That enables glutamate receptors to stay active longer....
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Monday, June 18, 2007
Plain-Speaking Doctor Lands in Trouble
Karin Howe of Colorado has complained officially about a local emergency room doctor, Yavinder Sooch, for issuing 'outrageous discharge instructions.' Howe was treated in hospital last year after falling out of a rickshaw while standing up. Hospital records indicate that Howe was 'acutely...
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Saturday, June 16, 2007
Your honour, there was this voice in my head that told me to kill...
The US Air Force is experimenting with a 'sonic projector', which transmits micowave signals in a manner that would enable a person up to one kilometer away to receive them inside their head, without a receiver device. The projector would permit soldiers in the field to receive information...
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