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October 4th, 2007

Giant Jellyfish Lemonade

A recent invasion of jellyfish from the coasts of China has overwhelmed and partly paralyzed the fishing industry in Japan.  The solution?  Find a way to make use of the giant jellyfish. 
NPR has the story about one entrepreneur who is making these enormous nuicances into makeup and mixed drinks.  Sounds kind of gross to me, […]

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October 1st, 2007

TV Causes Brain Damage

A recent Johns Hopkins University study has found that too much television watching by children impairs their social development and increases the risk of behavioral problems.  File this study under: I’m not even remotely surprised… no pun intended. 
What I would be interested to see is if the impact of television watching has become more serious […]

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September 19th, 2007

Goat Born with Eight Legs and Three Ears

This is a really really odd story.  My guess is that something really toxic is in the water there in Uganda.  Aparently earlier this year another goat, this one with eight eyes, was born nearby but it died. 
This unfortunate accident appears to still be kicking… with all eight of its legs.  Ick.  Read all […]

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September 19th, 2007

Testicular Stem Cells?

Researchers at Cornell have discovered a new potential source of stem cells available in the male human body which would not have to be "tweaked" in order to mimic their embrionic precursors.  Yes, the source is testicular tissue and sperm… ouch. 
Research and experimentation so far has demonstrated that stem cells may be particularly useful to […]

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September 19th, 2007

Meteorite Causes Illness

A meteorite which crashed into southern Peru over the weekend has left a large crater and dozens of people sick.  Let’s hope this doesn’t go the way of steriotypical sci-fi thrillers and turn everyone into zombies or pod people. 
Relax everyone, the scientists think it’s just dust inhalation… or is it? Dun dun dun!!! […]

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September 11th, 2007

Debunking 9/11 Conspiracies

On the sixth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks on the United States, there are still plenty of idiots out there who claim it was an "inside job."  While we at Simply Dumb have no interest in giving these morons a platform, we thought it might be important to share Popular Mechanics’ March 2005 […]

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September 4th, 2007

Job Interviews in Second Life

In the virtual world of “Second Life,” things are getting very real. This Sims-like online community has become so strangely expansive that it has its own currency which is actually worth money, stocks to be traded, online relationships, and now “real” job fairs which include interviews for actual positions in the real-life business world.
Maybe […]

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September 2nd, 2007

Seniors Have Sex

For those of you uncomfortable with the idea of your parents having sex, get used to it.  Your grandparents do too!  According to a recent University of Chicago study, older people actually have about as much sex as young people do.  Viagra apparently works wonders!  Surprise, granny and gramps are still workin’ it in the […]

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August 29th, 2007

Real Life Spider-Man Suit Possible?

Please tell me where I can get get on of these!!!  On the other hand, if someone were to develop a real "spider-man suit", I can’t imagine anyone outside the military, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, and some oil-rich sheikhs would be able to afford them.  Oh well, so much for my dreams of "doing whatever […]

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August 22nd, 2007

T-Rex Faster than David Beckham

The first question: why is this the most obvious measure of how fast a dinosaur can run?  The second: does this mean we’ll be seeing David Beckham in a fourth installment of the Jurassic Park saga?  And finally: who really cares?  Read all about it below:

The smallest dinosaur could reach speeds of nearly 40 miles […]

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