September 2009
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Overheard...
Hobo: Where you guys from?
Tourists: Australia.
Hobo: Oh, far, far, far. Tip for you, break the law on weekends. If you break the law on weekdays, it's easier to get caught. But break it on weekends, you can get away with it.
Tourists: Oh...awesome. Thanks.
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“Many people reach their conclusions about life like lazy school children. They...”
– Soren Kierkegaard
Penguins are turning to prostitution
Penguins are turning to prostitution. But instead of doing it for money, Antarctic dolly-birds are turning tricks to get rocks off their menfolk. Stones are essential for penguins to build their nests. A shortage has led to the unorthodox tactics.
“Stones are the valuable currency in penguin terms,” said Dr Fiona Hunter, a researcher in the Zoology Department at Cambridge University,...
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“I don’t know, most of the time I feel like a very confused person anyway. And I...”
– Jim James, of My Morning Jacket
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“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s...”
– Erica Jong
Twin Tigons Born In Chinese Wildlife Park
Rare twin tigons, the offspring of a male tiger and a female lion, have survived their first 28 days since being born in a wildlife park in south China’s Hainan Province, a park official announced Sunday.
The cubs were born in the Hainan Tropical Wildlife Park and Botanical Garden on Sept. 1, after the 106-day pregnancy of an African lioness. The first tigons born in the island province,...
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iNudge →
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This is buckets of fun!
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Song of the day: “Can’t Take My Eyes...
Brain Scans Reveal What You've Seen
Scientists are one step closer to knowing what you’ve seen by reading your mind.
Having modeled how images are represented in the brain, the researchers translated recorded patterns of neural activity into pictures of what test subjects had seen. Though practical applications are decades away, the research could someday lead to dream-readers and thought-controlled computers.
“It’s what you would...
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Song of the day: “When They Fight, They...
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“Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: ‘I am with you kid. Let’s...”
– Maya Angelou
More Slaves Today Than at Any Time in Human...
The world suffers global recession, enormous inequity, hunger, deforestation, pollution, climate change, nuclear weapons, terrorism, etc. To those who say we’re not really making progress, many might point to the fact that at least we’ve eliminated slavery.
But sadly that is not the truth.
One hundred forty-three years after passage of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and 60 years...
I’ve been sick in and out for more than a week now. Top it off, with some major food poisoning last night and some abrupt nausea today and I think I’ve just about had it all. I even had to pass on a very important function I was greatly anticipating attending tonight. Grr, this isn’t good and I’m not happy.
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New spider species named after David Bowie
A new species of hairy yellow spider discovered in Malaysia has been named after the singer David Bowie.
Spider taxonomist Peter Jager from the Senckenberg Forschungsinstitute und Naturmuseen named the new speciesHeteropoda davidbowie in honour of Bowie’s 1972 concept album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars and to raise awareness of the family of spiders he...
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“Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, and of course, each...”
– Betsey Johnson
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