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Golgot
04-12-06, 03:39 PM
Now that mild electrification of the brain is coming back into vogue, it's fun to look back at some old-school proceedures...

48 BC

Scribonius Largus, court physician to the Roman emperor Claudius, recommends curing headaches by placing an electric torpedo fish on the scalp. Pliny the Elder and Claudius Galen later report that similar treatments alter mood and behaviour

11thC

Muslim physician Ibn-Sidah suggests treating epilepsy with a live electric catfish on the forehead

Shocking facts found in: 'Electrify Your Mind' - New Scientist 15 April 2006

7thson
04-12-06, 04:56 PM
I energized myself one day when trying to fix a computer monitor, I never worked on those things again and since then I have had this strange buzzing sound in my head every time a bee flys near me for some reason...queer..:confused:

Golgot
04-13-06, 09:59 PM
Are you yanking my chord now sir 7th? Coz i've been wary o my own gullibility ever since a prof of mine 'confessed' to getting physical sparks off his wife ;)

All know for sure is that a metal hat will not protect you...

tin foil conspiracy (http://people.csail.mit.edu/rahimi/helmet/)

;)

Golgot
04-18-06, 09:33 PM
EU bans antibiotics as growth promoters in animal feed (http://europa.eu.int/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/05/1687&type=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en)

...which is good coz...

Similar bans have reduced microbial drug-resistance in humans (http://www.foodproductiondaily-usa.com/news/ng.asp?n=67114-antibiotic-campylobacter-pathogen)

...which is good coz...

The alternative is to watch our greatest defence against disease - antibiotics - needlessly lose their efficiency. Taking us back to the Dark Ages of death-by-colourful-disease. Care to poop your clogs until you pop them? I'd rather not ;)

...so...

*Newish news, same old story - boycott factory-farmed meat as much as you possibly can* :)

Especially if you live in the US ;)

Golgot
04-21-06, 01:14 AM
Just run with it (http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/nike.asp)

nebbit
04-22-06, 05:51 AM
http://bestsmileys.com/exercising/7.gif

Caitlyn
04-22-06, 11:37 AM
Just run with it (http://www.snopes.com/business/hidden/nike.asp)


:D

Golgot
04-23-06, 09:51 PM
Question: How long is a beheaded head aware of its plight?

Answers: [New Scientist - 16 Dec 2000]

"A particularly detailed report comes from Dr Beaurieux who, under perfect circumstances, experimented with the head of the murderer Languille, guillotined at 5.30 am on 28 June, 1905...

"...I waited for several seconds. The spasmodic movements ceased... It was then that I called in a strong, sharp voice: `Languille!' I saw the eyelids slowly lift up, without any spasmodic contractions... Next Languille's eyes very definitely fixed themselves on mine and the pupils focused themselves... After several seconds, the eyelids closed again, slowly and evenly, and the head took on the same appearance as it had had before I called out.

It was at that point that I called out again and, once more, without any spasm, slowly, the eyelids lifted and undeniably living eyes fixed themselves on mine with perhaps even more penetration than the first time."

Dr Livingstone wrote that Africans he encountered were aware that consciousness is not lost immediately. He recounts how they bent a springy sapling and tied cords from it under the ears of a man to be decapitated so that his last few moments of awareness would be of flying through the air.

:goof:


Sometimes only the goof emoticon will do ;)

Ophelia
04-28-06, 08:28 AM
How disturbingly wonderful.

Golgot
05-03-06, 07:23 PM
As are some of these silly patents... ;)

The ghosts of futures past (http://www.guardian.co.uk/weekend/story/0,,1762489,00.html)

An "airplane hijacking injector" (US3841328), for instance, involves stationing hypodermic needles under every aircraft seat, ready to "sedate or kill the passenger" at the flick of a pilot's switch.

the "unisex condom incorporated into underpants"... (US4966165)

Bobby Charlton "comb-over" hairstyle... (US4022227)

an "apparatus for facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force", which was devised by Mr and Mrs Blonsky in 1965 (US3216423). Their plans detail what is in essence a fast-spinning bed,

Frank Shuman's visionary plan, back in 1908, to replace coal with solar energy for the whole of Europe (GB190728130).

:)

nebbit
05-03-06, 11:01 PM
"no-hands contraceptive device" and the "unisex condom incorporated into underpants" (US4972850 and 4966165), both of which free users from the necessity of touching each other

I want a pair of these :nope:

Anonymous Last
05-04-06, 03:52 PM
the "unisex condom incorporated into underpants"... (US4966165)

Fits like a glove?

Golgot
05-06-06, 11:18 PM
Fits like a glove?

Hey, it's fashionable, no matter what the weather ;)
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i feel compelled to share...

There is such a thing as a scale for rating poo - it is called the Bristol Stool Scale and it rates poos from 1-7. Apparently, from a medical perspective, a 4 is ideal.

And it's all true (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Stool_Scale) ;)

Anonymous Last
05-06-06, 11:41 PM
Hey, it's fashionable, no matter what the weather ;)


You think there’s a little wiggle room, but there really isn’t.... not that I would know.

nebbit
05-07-06, 07:01 AM
You think there’s a little wiggle room, but there really isn’t.... not that I would know.

Oh yeah :rolleyes: .............................................................:laugh:

Golgot
05-08-06, 02:23 PM
You think there’s a little wiggle room, but there really isn’t.... not that I would know.

Aha, Anonymous no more! Admit it, this (http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/2845/ndvd00131xy.png) is you during the SanFran Mardi Gra isn't it ;)

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Meet Lucifer typica (http://blog.wired.com/deepsea/index.album?i=13) and friends...

(He's photo number 13 too. Is this final proof that the devil exists? And that he's no looker?)

Anonymous Last
05-08-06, 02:35 PM
Aha, Anonymous no more! Admit it, this (http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/2845/ndvd00131xy.png) is you during the SanFran Mardi Gra isn't it.
Three things:



1. Where is the matching wife beater?



2. If that was me the fruit roll up tasting edible underwear would be worn on my head.



3. Lastly, my thighs would have shown some flirtatious shaking hope there.

Ophelia
05-08-06, 02:50 PM
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Meet Lucifer typica (http://blog.wired.com/deepsea/index.album?i=13) and friends...

(He's photo number 13 too. Is this final proof that the devil exists? And that he's no looker?)

Little lucifer reminds me of the day we examined the local water supply under the microscope in biology and came across little daphnia...such a yummy treat!

http://www.ocagcomm.com/images/mircoscope_Daphnia.jpg

Golgot
05-08-06, 05:01 PM
Three things:

Um, better (http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6144/nonyboosh27et.gif)??

(Actually, i think that's Squirto, the hygiene-monster in Muppets versus Predators)

Little lucifer reminds me of the day we examined the local water supply under the microscope in biology and came across little daphnia...such a yummy treat!

What is it about little transparent things that's so cute? Does the fact that they're drinkable somehow make them cuter? Is that why a transparent cat just wouldn't be the same? Is this one of those eternal mysteries they talk about?

I reckon we'll never know. The drinkable cats will have been drunk long ago. ;)

Anonymous Last
05-08-06, 05:12 PM
Um, better (http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6144/nonyboosh27et.gif)??

Quit making me laugh at work.

Ophelia
05-08-06, 05:16 PM
What is it about little transparent things that's so cute? Does the fact that they're drinkable somehow make them cuter? Is that why a transparent cat just wouldn't be the same? Is this one of those eternal mysteries they talk about?

I reckon we'll never know. The drinkable cats will have been drunk long ago. ;)

Maybe because they are look rather simplistic...we see through them, they appear uncomplicated, non threatening...they are so wee! Dont you just love wee things? Wee weird creatures.

-OR-

We are just damn curious and odd (you being a prime example! mwah ha ha).

Golgot
05-08-06, 05:32 PM
[must be] damn curious and odd

I'm still looking for the job that requires exactly those traits ;):)

Quit making me laugh at work.

Hey, don't be afraid to vibrate in front of others ;)

Anonymous Last
05-08-06, 05:39 PM
Hey, don't be afraid to vibrate in front of others

And instead I pour the milk...

Golgot
05-08-06, 05:58 PM
You and your midnight picnics...

[alright, so i had to check the web to find out what you were on about ;)]

Golgot
05-10-06, 09:04 PM
QuickClot, a type of 'sand' poured into wounds as a last resort to stop bleeding, saves lives, but has some tricky side effects:

The safety problem... arises because of the large amount of heat the material releases when it absorbs water, sometimes enough to cause second-degree burns.

The other prob is that you have to make sure every grain is removed afterwards, as the body can't absorb it.

An alternative is HemCon, a bandage made of ground-up shrimp shells...

The shells contain chitosan, a substance which binds strongly to tissue and seals wounds in much the same way as a tyre patch seals a tyre.

But HemCon is difficult to apply to oddly shaped wounds. So a new type of 'sand' medication is on the way, which has none of the heating problems of QuickClot. The only problem is that they're currently making it out of silver. (Which has antibacterial properties too, dontcha know. Screw the price. It's good for you ;))

Oh, altho they'll probably use a 'bioactive glass made of silica and calcium instead'. Weirdos.

[New Scientist - Saved by 'sand' poured into the wounds' - 18/03/06]

Golgot
05-10-06, 11:04 PM
If you'd been a US freedom fighter taking on the dastardly Brits in the 1770s, you could have done just that... turtle submarine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtle_(submarine)).

Luminous dials and everything :). Although i wouldn't have fancied piloting it. What with all that tea in the water.

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Other amazing submarine facts include...

The 1925 Japanese invention of a homing-pigeon torpedo. According to the Maritime Museum in Portsmouth (UK) it was fired to the surface, at which point it released its canny flighted messenger. Bless.

On a more illustrious note, not many people know just how the British sunk their first ship by submarine torpedo. It happened thusly. .. The captain had been constipated for quite some time. On having finally relieved himself, the crew were not best pleased with the smell. They surfaced for fresh air, spotted a ship, and sunk it.

Huzzah! ;)

Golgot
05-24-06, 01:18 AM
Mass-anxiety, the anti-placebo (http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=6941729)

Apparently 'mass hysteria' can cause large groups to exhibit symptoms similar to those of poisoning. Blimey.

Golgot
05-24-06, 06:21 AM
There is a dinosaur named after Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits.

It's a 'two legged predator' called Masiakasaurus knopfleri (http://www.utah.edu/unews/releases/01/jan/dinosaur.html)


(the 'two legged' quote comes from this (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,11069-2194527,00.html) article, about a JK Rowling dinosaur. Have they no shame?)

Golgot
05-24-06, 04:31 PM
Scientists build caramel-powered margarine-making fuel cell (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/23/epsrc_hydrogen_project/)

I think Wonka holds the patent rights tho.

Golgot
05-27-06, 11:10 PM
Have you heard the one about the old man who swallowed $650's worth of coins?

Well he did.

He had a condition called pica - the compulsion to swallow non-food items.

Another sufferer preferred cigarette lighters. Fortunately tho, some of these cravings have a fairly obvious cure. Often they're just an attempt to replace missing nutrition, as with the 9-year-old who regularly ate cloth and string, until vitamin supplements helped curb her habit.

Incidently, soil-eating is something we don't do much in the tame 'West', but several societies still embrace it. Pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa like to indulge, for example. And probably for good reason. A study conducted on soil-eating individuals from China, Zimbabwe and the US showed that they targeted soils rich in nutrients like iron, calcium and potassium.


[New Scientist - The Word: Pica - 27 May 2006]

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[A UK study] found that in elementary schools, for every £100 spent on books, students grades improved by 1.5% - and for every £100 spent on computers, grades improved by 0.7%.

'Two words is a minute description of a human need' (http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/insideit/story/0,,1782023,00.html)

nebbit
05-28-06, 04:53 AM
Incidently, soil-eating is something we don't do much in the tame 'West', but several societies still embrace it. Pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa like to indulge, for example. And probably for good reason. A study conducted on soil-eating individuals from China, Zimbabwe and the US showed that they targeted soils rich in nutrients like iron, calcium and potassium.

When i was a toddler I ate dirt :eek: my Mother took me to the Dr, he said not to worry about it that i was getting something I needed from the dirt, He was right :yup: I have now given up dirt eating. :yup:

Golgot
06-03-06, 04:25 PM
Wise doc, wise kid ;)

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I've been digging around trying to find the origins of the word 'Earth'. The best i found were these (http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=269452) ponderings...

I kinda like the answers...

...because the International Astronomical Union says so

...it originated from the Indo-European "er", the verb form of which is 'ar'


;)

I'd like to know if other languages settled on similar 'earthy' themes to English tho. Maybe Froggy knows.

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In 1972 an amazing 44% of Scots over 16 had no teeth at all

!!?!! (http://observer.guardian.co.uk/foodmonthly/story/0,,1781910,00.html)


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Man 'freezes himself' to avoid census (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/organisation/story.cfm?o_id=500508&ObjectID=10371610)

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'Teen Buzz'

The technology behind a high-pitch teenage-deterrent (http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/teenage_control_products.html), which stops them loitering (because only they can hear its annoying bleep) is allegedly now being subverted by the kiddies. They're supposedly using said high-frequencies as a ring-tone, so that teachers can't hear it when it goes off in class.

I've no idea if either thing is true. But i did notice the device's website (http://www.compoundsecurity.co.uk/index.html) is trying to cash in on both, either way ('Mosquito TM ring-tones coming soon etc ;))

SamsoniteDelilah
06-03-06, 04:46 PM
"This was just the latest census-avoiding stunt for Mr Cairns. In 1986 he claimed he was possessed by the spirit of an ancient ape and was not legally a person. This failed in court.

In 1991 he filled out his form in Latin and nailed it to a tree. In 1996 he hovered over Garden Place in a hot air balloon and was deemed to be out of New Zealand's legal air space. In 2001 he was genuinely absent, in Australia tending to a dying friend."

:rotfl:

Golgot
06-03-06, 10:20 PM
:D

(altho i'm not sure you should be laughing at dying Australians ;))

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Was Eve a sponge? (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/04/0401_0401_shapeoflife1.html)
And are mushrooms a little bit animal?

Fun sponge facts:

If you push one through a sieve, then put it back in some water, it reforms into living sponge(s) again.


If you blend a load of sponges in a blender, then put 'em back in some water, they all reform separately, each one only 'using' its own original components.


A loofah isn't a sponge. It's a vine.

Golgot
06-27-06, 09:43 PM
How a plinth became art (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14933-2240405,00.html)

http://secure.auction-air.com/timesonlineauctionroom/single-lot-auctions/david-hensel-plinth/images/david-hensel-plinth_01_w450.jpg

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Bats and horses get strangely chummy (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025575.600.html)

Golgot
06-28-06, 07:05 PM
The sweet taste of love (http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/product.cfm?id=1222)

nebbit
06-29-06, 01:43 AM
:licklips:

7thson
06-29-06, 01:50 AM
The sweet taste of love (http://www.lovehoney.co.uk/product.cfm?id=1222)

Holy I swallow now Batman!!!


Wow my apple cider is awating your citrus alleyway!!:D

Golgot
07-05-06, 07:05 PM
They weren't lying when they said that stuff would affect your dreams ;)

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Dr Strangelove Syndrome (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/916005.stm)

I had no idea that one really existed.

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How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971)

Forget a bit of dirt being good for you. Try **** loads ;)

nebbit
07-05-06, 07:41 PM
How to cure your asthma or hayfever using hookworm (http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/4/30/91945/8971)

Forget a bit of dirt being good for you. Try **** loads ;)

:eek:

Golgot
07-15-06, 11:08 PM
When Iraqi peacekeepers stood guard at Hadrian's Wall (http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,1821179,00.html)

Probably guys from Basra no less ;)

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Time for some purty stuff...

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/images/060619-rainbow-fire_big.jpg
Rainbow cloud thingummy.

http://www.boingboing.net/images/serpent.jpg
A 'piglet squid' (swimming upside down - the daft bugger ;))

Caitlyn
07-16-06, 12:25 AM
Very cool GG.... that 'Rainbow cloud thingummy' is awesome.... thanks.... :)

nebbit
07-16-06, 05:35 AM
Love the swimming piggythingy :yup:

Golgot
07-16-06, 09:12 PM
Time to rebalance the cute-ugly ying 'n' yang methinks ;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/00/Uakari_male.jpg/200px-Uakari_male.jpg
An Uakari monkey.
(In need of no more visits to Rod Stewart's barber)

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Don't think i've ever posted this stuff here...

Building in Iceland? Better Clear It With the Elves First (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/international/europe/13elves.html?ex=1278907200&en=5e99759b563f81fe&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss)
Elves in modern Iceland (http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/elvesmoderniceland.htm)

Are they larger than life or tiny pixies tho, eh? Doesn't seem the elf-spotters can agree. I think some kind of thermal mud-wrestle is in order.

Equilibrium
07-16-06, 09:26 PM
Time to rebalance the cute-ugly ying 'n' yang methinks ;)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/00/Uakari_male.jpg/200px-Uakari_male.jpg
An Uakari monkey.
(In need of no more visits to Rod Stewart's barber)

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Don't think i've ever posted this stuff here...

Building in Iceland? Better Clear It With the Elves First (http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/13/international/europe/13elves.html?ex=1278907200&en=5e99759b563f81fe&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss)
Elves in modern Iceland (http://www.stavacademy.co.uk/mimir/elvesmoderniceland.htm)

Are they larger than life or tiny pixies tho, eh? Doesn't seem the elf-spotters can agree. I think some kind of thermal mud-wrestle is in order.

I want one.

nebbit
07-16-06, 11:40 PM
Are they larger than life or tiny pixie.

http://smilies.vidahost.com/contrib/blackeye/linksmileMIR.gif

Golgot
07-18-06, 04:07 PM
Proof at last! If they're that tiny they better watch out for wild mad professors (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v218/aubergene/butterflies.jpg) tho ;)

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The Boy Who Sees with Sound (http://people.aol.com/people/article/0,26334,1212568,00.html)

Echolocation by Blind Humans (http://hcs.harvard.edu/~husn/BRAIN/vol1/echo.html)

Golgot
07-19-06, 09:35 PM
Back to the beautiful... or at least, the thoroughly beguilingly odd...

Biomedical Image Awards 2006 (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/bia/gallery.html)

Golgot
07-19-06, 11:52 PM
Alright... not the most beautiful by any means... But my god! It builds its own house! (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/bia/gallery.html?image=15) And it looks like something you'd sneeze out!

Perhaps the most outright arty one i've seen so far has been this (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/bia/gallery.html?image=8) one. Altho this one (http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/en/bia/gallery.html?image=9) comes a close second [But it's specifically 'tainted', so that's cheating ;)]

If anyone wants more anatomical, biological, 'oh my god it's growing on me!' oddities, try here (http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?_IXDB_=wellcome&_IXSESSION_=pftsvTQTRtK&search-form=static/gallery4.html&submit-button=search)

And seeing as i've mentioned God so many times...

So sorry. But it is 'true' (http://www.geocities.com/pythoninsanity/dullugly.mp3) ;)

Golgot
07-20-06, 12:33 AM
Oh god, and now i've seen this (http://paleo.cc/paluxy/tooth3.jpg)... ;)

Golgot
07-20-06, 02:46 AM
And Heavens! (http://www.anatomy.unimelb.edu.au/researchlabs/rees/images/rees_lab_.jpg)

*Not shopped*

Golgot
07-20-06, 03:04 AM
But hey, having seen 'hell', why not explore limbo (http://www.ajwrb.org/images/fetus.jpg) and heaven's gate (http://www.lennartnilssonaward.se/spermegg.jpg) ;)

Golgot
07-20-06, 03:24 AM
Alright, i'm on a roll tonight/this morning. Or possibly a tumble.

Behold! The "clothes used by doctors during the plague to protect themselves from infection."

Scare pinoccio (http://medphoto.wellcome.ac.uk/static/pic2.jpg)

Golgot
07-20-06, 04:35 AM
Damn i love this (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/category/just-weird/) site. And damn, i really should stop blogging here ;)

Barber speeds up Haircuts with 200,000 Volts Through Customer's Body (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/ModernMechanix/1-1932/med_electric_barber.jpg)

Odd Shout-O-Phone (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularScience/6-1940/med_shout_o_phone.jpg)

Gloves Ends Thumb-Sucking (http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/PopularScience/5-1938/med_thumbsuck.jpg)

And that's without even mentioning 'Grapefruit Conquered at Last' or 'Use Car Power to Grind Meat' ;)

Golgot
07-20-06, 05:07 AM
Is it a bird on speed? Is it a rocket without fins? No. It's Anguilla Rostrata in situ (http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/upload/3/3e/Rostrataluk.jpg)

(I just liked the earlier bit in this science-fair-project about how Aristotle believed eels were mud's love children. Altho i've heard him talk dirty like that before ;))

(Initially I just went 'eel-chasing' cos of a report that PCBs were actually smacking the eel population to ****. Who knew - lowering PCB exposure really was a wise thing to do ;))

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Cosmic 'eel' preys on spiral galaxy (http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8823)

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Global Warming warnings are normally a bit more imposing than this:

Cloudy future for ground-based astronomy (http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/mg18925423.300.html)

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A minimalistic Lebanese improv set to the sounds of recent bombings (http://www.muniak.com/mazenkerbaj.html)

(There has been no Israeli rocket-music as of this point, that i'm aware of. Make of that what you will ;))

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Bespoke badger bathrooms may save cattle (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925423.200.html)

nebbit
07-20-06, 07:43 AM
http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/qf/c/ModernMechanix/1-1932/med_electric_barber.jpg
http://bestsmileys.com/scared/4.gif

Golgot
07-20-06, 06:59 PM
Oh dear - i just watched the nerdy-pedant-oddity show known as QI.

I can't resist posting that...

Chelmsford was the capital of England for five days.


In some (very silly) ways, your toothbrush was once alive. (Coz it has nylon bristles, which are derived from coal - which is 'squashed up living things' - o'course).


Ian Fleming suggests in The Man with the Golden Gun (the book) that Scaramanga couldn't whistle because he was gay. (He may have been taking the mick tho). The stuff about people suffocating if you paint them gold ain't true either tho ;)


We have all poo-ed out our own moustache. (As babbies in the womb we grow first eyebrows and a 'tash', and then all-over body hair, apparently. This is then shed. And we eat it. And when we're born, it forms our first wee dump)

There you go. Live an learn. Having unknowingly ingested our own moustaches ;)

nebbit
07-20-06, 07:19 PM
We have all poo-ed out our own moustache. (As babbies in the womb we grow first eyebrows and a 'tash', and then all-over body hair, apparently. This is then shed. And we eat it. And when we're born, it forms our first wee dump)[/list]

Now that is info, i could have lived without :yup:

Golgot
07-20-06, 07:36 PM
Hey, to poop is good :)

(And you never know. Some day it may become a new-age alternative to plucking and bleaching ;))

nebbit
07-20-06, 07:54 PM
Hey, to poop is good :)
:laugh:

(And you never know. Some day it may become a new-age alternative to plucking and bleaching ;))
I am one of the lucky ones, I don't have to pluck or bleach as I have very minimal body hair http://bestsmileys.com/cats2/8.gif

Bill
07-20-06, 07:55 PM
Golgot, you must be one of the funniest members here.

nebbit
07-20-06, 07:58 PM
Golgot, you must be one of the funniest members here.

No he isn't :nope: I am :yup:................weeeeeeell, ok! Golly is :yup:

Golgot
07-20-06, 08:28 PM
Golgot, you must be one of the funniest members here.

Why thanking you Billiam :). I'm loving your filmisciousness and way-of-being too as it goes, btw :)

But Nebs has just proved her ever-fluffy funkiness with that rolling marmoset-cat thing ;)

(Is it supposed to roll in slow-motion Nebs? Coz it's making me wet myself ;))

Oh, i went dirty again.

[And talking of which - Bring back the avvie naturals Nebbie!]

Golgot
07-24-06, 01:10 PM
Got me a new rule. Only gonna post oddities here after i've posted something vaguely meaningful on the film-front elsewhere.

Now that's out the way... ;)

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Top Scientist Gives 'Backing' to Astrology (http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/04-05-17.html#dark)

Intriguing, but i mainly loved the juicy extra info...

Several years ago it emerged that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development was using astrology to help manage its £5 billion investment portfolio—programming computers with crucial dates such as lunar eclipses and planetary conjunctions.

Among the powerful who have admitted consulting astrologers to make decisions are Ronald and Nancy Reagan, who allowed the astrologer Joan Quigley to dictate the presidential agenda, including the take-off times for Air Force One. Reagan’s chief of staff reportedly had a colour-coded calendar around which he was expected to organise the President’s schedule: green for “good” days and red for “bad”.

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The death of political parties, and Adam Sandler sporting flicks? (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2265843,00.html)*

*Some of the vocab here probably makes no sense outside the UK ;)

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*EDIT* - Couldn't resist ;)

Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts to Move a Cursor (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/science/13brain.html?ex=1153886400&en=5da04e423aff5835&ei=5070)

Bill
07-24-06, 06:04 PM
Paralyzed Man Uses Thoughts to Move a Cursor (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/science/13brain.html?ex=1153886400&en=5da04e423aff5835&ei=5070)
That's..... strange.

Golgot
09-28-06, 08:34 PM
Flesh-eating kangaroo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/13/wroos13.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/13/ixnews.html

The demon duck of doom
http://www.lostkingdoms.com/snapshots/miocene_late_animals_birds.htm
http://www.lostkingdoms.com/images/snapshots/8_demonduck.jpg


nacreous clouds
http://www.sundog.clara.co.uk/highsky/nacim8.htm


Hungry men fancy bigger women
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5157964.stm


You age faster at the top of a skyscraper
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18925442.100.html

nebbit
09-28-06, 11:44 PM
Flesh-eating kangaroo
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/13/wroos13.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/07/13/ixnews.html
Lies, Lies :nope: not our cute little hoppers :nope: