Friday, May 4, 2007
So, butt out already...
Smokers who cut back on cigarettes may not necessarily be curtailing the amount of toxic substances they inhale. Heavy smokers who light up less often still breathe in at least two times more toxic substances per cigarette than light smokers, according to a study by Dorothy Hatsukami and her...
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Thursday, May 3, 2007
Look what I found in my mailbox - will all my dreams come true now?
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Tuesday, May 1, 2007
More News on Whacko Jacko...
Michael Jackson wants to make a comeback, and he’d be using one of the biggest stars in the business. The singer is said to be considering construction of a 15-m (49ft) robot for use in a spectacular Las Vegas show. The robot will resemble Jackson and will shuffle about in the desert, shooting laser...
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Monday, April 30, 2007
From Space Rocks to Tears...
The word ‘meteor’ comes from the Greek and means ‘phenomenon in the sky’. It’s the streak of light produced by a meteorite, which is the particle of dust or sometimes larger rock which produces that light as it enters the upper atmosphere. The most famous meteorite showers are the Leonids (from...
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Sunday, April 29, 2007
If your dog can't do the job, you have to do it yourself...
'Portuguese police conducting a crackdown on dangerous dogs stopped a man near Lisbon recently for walking his pit bull without a leash. The unidentified man ordered the pit bull to attack. It ran away instead, abandoning its owner to struggle with the cops. He bit one policeman on the wrist and in...
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Friday, April 27, 2007
From Poop to Pop...
No, not that kind of pop, a much bigger one. ‘In 1965 astronomers Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson scrubbed their Bell Labs radio antenna to rid it of pigeon droppings, which they suspected were causing their instrument’s annoying steady hiss. That noise turned out to be the microwave echo of the Big...
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Thursday, April 26, 2007
And while we’re talking about lovable animals...
A recent study at the National Institute of Health revealed that decreasing the caloric intake of rats increases their life span, which on average is two to three years. So feed them as much as you can. And did you know a female rat can mate as many as 500 times during a six-hour period of...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Have You Hugged a Chimp Lately?
Anthropologists now pin down the date when humans split from chimpanzees at 4.1 million years ago and estimate the size of the common ancestral population at about 65,000 individuals. (Discover, May 2007) In hindsight, I’m not sure it was such a good idea to split. I’d rather not have to pay for my...
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Sunday, April 22, 2007
Mike the Headless Chicken Days...
On May 18-19, the farming town of Fruita in Colorado “commemorates the freak slaughtering accident in 1945 that left a chicken headless yet alive for 18 months (still a world record).” (Discover, May 2007) You will also be able to see a lot of headless people, some with their heads tucked under...
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Saturday, April 21, 2007
Men Raising Their Skirts in Poland...?
The government is considering a ban on men wearing skirts. Ordinarily that wouldn’t be an issue in the stern, Catholic nation. But Poland has become a hot weekend destination for hard-partying Scots and there are complaints about them lifting their kilts. A beef by one Krakow resident is typical: “I...
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