Friday, December 14, 2007
Get the Battle Camels Ready!
India ’s Border Security Force is prepared to send battle-prepared camels to Sudan ’s war-torn Darfur region to assist peacekeepers. The BSF uses to track arms and drug smugglers along India ’s frontier. Sixty animals will take a crash course that includes not reacting to gunfire and following...
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Thursday, December 13, 2007
All I want for Christmas is a map of my own genes...
For a mere $1000, a company called 23and Me will scan a sample of your DNA and draw up what’s called a genomic profile – revealing your predisposition for all sorts of memorable diseases and bodily shortcomings. You’ll learn every flaw in your broad genetic makeup. You’ll discover which of your...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Cold Beer, Hot Earth...
A new study out of Michigan State University shows the high divorce rate is contributing to climate change by creating more wasteful households. Cold beer is a climate changer too, according to a University of Alberta researcher, thanks to all those ancient beer fridges buzzing away in the basement....
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Bloggers, this is not a joke...
Malaysia carmaker Proton recently announced that it has plans to team up with manufacturers in Iran and Turkey to build a vehicle specifically designed for the planet's 1,5 billion Muslims. The cars will be fitted with a compass that points towards Mecca and compartments for storing the Quran and...
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Sunday, December 9, 2007
Brains in a dish...
In an Atlanta lab, minibrains in dishes can control robots and computer-simulated animals. They may provide a simple model to study how the brain changes as it learns. Georgia Tech researcher Steve Potter calls his biological-mechanical hybrids Neurally Controlled Animats. Each animat’s brain...
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Thursday, December 6, 2007
A Holding Pen for Husbands?
To help women shoppers unburden themselves of cumbersome, complaining hubbies, merchants in Salzburg have again this year set up a männerhort, a daycare center for husbands, were wives can drop their men off for a few hours. The daycare features computer games, copies of Playboy and a bar. Each wife...
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Alien Limbs...
In 1997 Robert Smith, a surgeon at the Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary in Scotland, fulfilled one of his patient’s deepest desires: he amputated the lower part of the man’s left leg. Smith performed a similar operation on a German retiree two years later, the British daily The Independent...
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Meet the really hot new secretary...
On her first morning, driving to her new job in Witney, Oxfordshire, England, a woman noticed smoke coming from under the hood of her car. She continued on and parked next to the boss's Porsche 911. Seconds later flames began to shoot out, then ignited the fuel tank as the car went up in a huge...
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Monday, December 3, 2007
How would you rate the prospects for this marriage?
An off-duty sheriff’s deputy in Elko, Nevada, was pulled over and charged with driving under the influence by another sheriff’s deputy - her husband. The woman drove off before she could be given a breathalizer test; her husband pulled her over again and called for back-up. She is now on paid...
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Sunday, December 2, 2007
Nothing like rubbing it in for a really Merry Christmas...
The Durham Regional Police Service in Canada [that’s our boys right here where I live, they have their den close by] has sent out roughly 900 Christmas cards to motorists who have lost their driving privileges. The holiday message reads, “During the festive season, we remind you that you are...
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