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Archive for the ‘Dumb Science’ Category

January 12th, 2008

Milky Way Hit by Gas

This is just one enormous bathroom joke waiting to happen. 
At the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, it was reported that an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas is heading directly for us here in the Milky Way galaxy traveling at more than 150 miles per second.  When it does […]

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January 11th, 2008

Awkward Incest Moment: Twins Married

This story is about as close as real life can get to the plot of a daytime soap opera. 
The BBC has reported that the British courts have just annulled the marriage of two siblings.  But this is no simple case of incest.  As it turns out, the couple are biological twins and, what’s more, […]

By Ariel -- 2 comments

January 6th, 2008

Paying for Sex: Monkeys Do it Too

This just seems all too appropriate now that I have just finished watching the entire original Planet of the Apes movie series on AMC.  According to researchers examining macaque monkeys in Indonesia, some males "pay" their mates for sex by grooming.
Apparently the likelihood that a female would have sex with a male was increased by […]

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December 21st, 2007

Men More Humorous Than Women

Here is one piece that is sure to piss off feminists everywhere.  According to one university professor, humor comes from testosterone. 
Apparently men are more likely to make jokes and be generally comedic than women.  This, he argues, can be seen not only in day-to-day interactions between people but in that there are many more male […]

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December 20th, 2007

Whale Ancestor “Deer-like”

If fundamentalist humans are upset about the evolutionary likelihood that humans and apes are descendent from a common ancestor, imagine how fundamentalist whales might feel after this news.  :-D  According to paleontologists, the earliest ancestral relative of modern whales has been discovered in Kashmir, India.  The fossil bears very little resemblance to whales however.
The animal […]

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December 14th, 2007

Forbidden Legos

Two former employees of the LEGO company have just released a book in Europe entitled: Forbidden Legos: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against.  Inside it teached you how to build all those things that all you boys out there probably wanted to but just could figure out from handguns to catapults.
Parents, this might […]

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December 11th, 2007

Video: Hollow Earth Theory

Well, it’s that time of year again when everyone gives fruitcake.  Since I can’t send a nutty brick of fruitcake to all you readers out there, at least I can share a video by a nutty fruitcake to brighten your day…
Bad jokes aside, this is really funny.  Did you know that the Earth is actually […]

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December 10th, 2007

Spam Showcase: Herschel the Astronomer

It’s not often that a piece of spam turns out to be legitimately educational.  Did you know that Sir William Herschel, a British scientist, was the first to identify Uranus as a planet in 1781?  Of couse, as with all spam, there’s a catch.  At the beginning and end of the message, it discretely links […]

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November 23rd, 2007

Chocolate Powered Mission from UK to Timbuktu

Two brave gentlemen from the British Isles begin their mission today to drive 4500 miles from Great Britain to Timbuktu, Mali in a vehicle powered entirely by biofuel composed of discarded chocolate.  Just in case you were wondering, this wasn’t something stolen from the set of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 
No, these guys are on […]

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November 21st, 2007

This Thanksgiving Don’t Eat Hair

To say that this story is gross just doesn’t do it justice. 
The New England Journal of Medicine has reported that an 18-year-old woman recently had a 10 pound hairball removed from her stomach relieving months of pain, vomiting, and weight loss.  The mass was approximately 15 inches by 7 inches by 7 inches practically […]

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