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Meat has become a bit of a controversial food in the past couple of decades, at least in some circles. Packed as it is with protein, there are some actual concerns surrounding our hunger for flesh. Without even mentioning any ethical and animal welfare issues, meat production presents some serious issues. Producing the amounts of …
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We rely on somethings in life to remain constant so we can know the world is right. Grass grows, birds fly, the sun shines, and the normal human body temperature is about 98.6°F. For you Europeans, that’s 37°C, precise. This measurement – first measured by German physician Carl Wunderlich some 200 years ago – is …
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It’s a common scene in Saturday morning cartoons and comedies. An elderly person, be it a grandma or grandpa, grabs a walking stick and chases someone around while beating them around the head. Usually such an instance of violence is used to elicit laughs from the audience. But there was nothing funny about it when …
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Some people love pizza, some like roasted Brussels sprouts, while others swear in the name of sushi. The point is, we all have a favorite food that we could eat every single day. But do you like your favorite dish enough that just hearing its name would bring you back from the grips of death? …
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If you’ve flown before, you know that people watching is one of the best parts. The people on this plane sure got a show when it comes to that and all thanks to a drunken women. A woman, 25, was arrested for disorderly conduct and public intoxication. After allegedly starting a drunken altercation. She was …
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Do biologists like listening to Pearl Jam? We’re just asking, because a German-Japanese group of researchers seems to have taken a page out of the grunge band’s playbook. Seemingly referencing one of Pearl Jam’s most famous songs, the scientists have successfully done the evolution, baby! Using a specific gene from the human brain, they managed …
Continue reading “Do the Evolution: Scientists Grow Bigger Monkey Brain Using Human Genes”
This is a part two, so if you need to read the first part, click on this title. Read Hairdresser Got Drunk Necking Gin While at Work: Part One, then come back and finish up here with the rest of the story. “I didn’t sleep properly, I kept waking up all night and I messaged …
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Emily Hunt, 24, went to a former work colleague for a highlight touchup and to get some extensions put in. But her hairdresser had other ideas. Emily says her pal said yes and asked for a small fee, to cover the cost of the hair dye and to sew in the hair piece. Everything got …
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They say heroes come in all shapes and sizes. But it takes a very special kind of person to decide that having a full set of limbs would just slow you down. Yet, that is exactly what a New Jersey lifeguard determined before jumping into Newark Bay and swimming out to pull a man out …
Continue reading “Heroic Lifeguard Sheds Prosthetic Leg to Save Man from Sinking Car”
Germans don’t really have a reputation of being a fun-loving people. There must be thousands of jokes about how Germans don’t understand humor. It might then come as a surprise to you that Berlin, the capital of Germany, is also the party capital of Europe. Really, the city’s nightclubs are famous for throwing some of …
Continue reading “German Court Officially Recognizes Techno as Music”