Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Who in Heaven's name is Tea Leoni? Should she also be in the sex clinic?
She cancelled a Toronto appearance last week when hubby David Duchovny checked into a sex-rehab clinic to get cured of a sex addiction. And Leoni is also the subject of whispers of scandal, specifically a friendship with Billy Bob Thornton. Recently, Leoni turned up at several concerts by Thornton...
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Monday, September 15, 2008
And in Saudi Arabia: Bad Programming? Kill the Bastards...
Appearing on government-run Saudi TV yesterday, Sheik Saleh al-Lihedan, the chief of the kingdom’s highest tribunal, the Supreme Judiciary Council, was trying to mitigate his original decree that it should be permissible to kill television network owners. Al-Lihedan’s fatwa was broadcast last week...
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Sunday, September 14, 2008
And as for Dinner Sex...
Entomologists have long spun elaborate hypotheses about sexual cannibalism, the nasty habit some female insects have of eating their mates, sometimes while copulating. Sexual selection and sperm competition have both been proposed as explanations in an evolutionary balancing of costs and benefits....
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Friday, September 12, 2008
And in Nevada: Cop’s Warning Leaves Public Shaken...
When the police in Reno, Nevada, respond to an emergency, it isn’t enough just to use a siren. Says Sgt. Eric Spratley: “We see people who don’t hear us, or their music is too loud.” So the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office is testing a device called the Rumbler, a subwoofer loudspeaker installed...
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Thursday, September 11, 2008
And in New York: Hit-and Run-Driver Sues for Damages...
New York City Harry Shasho is alleging in a lawsuit that the police failed to care for his 2005 Bentley GH sedan, which they impounded in 2005 after Shasho hit and killed a pedestrian. Shasho pleaded guilty in leaving the scene of an accident after he mowed down Louis Couch. He claims in the lawsuit...
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Tuesday, September 9, 2008
To All Bloggers - Beware of Dirty QWERTY...
Armed with cotton swabs and a hunch, a British microbiologist has discovered that some computer keyboards contain way more nasty germs than the average toilet. The lesson? Clean your keys once in a while. And start washing your hands before you go to the bathroom. (Maclean’s, May 2008) Some people...
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Monday, September 8, 2008
And also in Science: More evidence of the decline in human intelligence...
In 2007 researchers at Kyoto University pitted chimpanzees against college students in three memory-based intelligence tests. The highest-scoring chimp beat all the students in the first test, tied with a few in the second test, and reigned again in the third. (Discover, Oct 2008) Meanwhile, the...
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
And from the World of Science: Bob and Alice are at it again...
All that enters a black hole may not be lost; data could leak out after trillions of years as Hawking radiation [yeah, but it would have very high entropy!]. A new analysis indicates that the recovery can proceed much faster than previously thought. Imagine Alice hurling some quantum bits into a...
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
And in London: Cars Made to Measure...
A GM dealer in south London is providing a “fitting room” where buyers can see how they look in a car they’re considering. The car is driven onto a turntable in an enclosed space with large mirrors in three walls. A GM spokesman said: “People don’t buy a jacket, trousers or a dress without trying it...
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
And in New Zealand: Today’s Special - Meat-Ghetti...
Food researchers have found that most proteins in beef and mutton can be formed into long strings that look like spaghetti. The discovery, say the scientists at a New Zealand food institute, could lead to protein-rich pasta that tricks fussy children into consuming meat in a more attractive form....
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