For the first part of this story, please read The Lab Monkeys Escaped, and the Airlines Are Done Transporting Them: Part One. The U.S. Department of Transportation has been pressed this last year, the airlines wanted them to ensure animals that are used for legally required drug-testing weren’t excluded. “Laboratory animal models are not only essential …
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Did you hear about the experimental lab monkeys that escaped in a Pennsylvania truck crash? Well, the international airline that shipped the 100 monkeys in the first place says that they will cease transporting the animals going forward. The contract is soon to expire and that’s that. Michael Joseph, Kenya Airways Chairman, confirmed that the …
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You should never get too close to the waterfall, the dam, the cars in the street or a fire, but you shouldn’t get too close to the rocks either. No matter how pretty they are, and no matter how majestic they seem, they are dangerous, suspended, and in this case, deadly. This tragedy unfolded so …
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Ok, have you ever seen the movie I, Robot? It’s a great movie, but with the ever increasing use of robots in our everyday life, it’s also a little freaky. Or at least that’s how I think you will view a situation that happened this last Sunday. A now-viral tweet from Kristin Livdahl of Oakdale, …
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A 57-year-old man was jailed after police found body parts and a severed head in an allegedly stolen truck. Eric Holland has prior felonies and federal court convictions dating back to the 1980s in states like California, Texas, and Nevada. Holland was in court Tuesday along with some heavily armed security guards and a temporarily …
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The last month before a new year, in the coldest season, and deciembre, if you speak español. Here are a bunch of December fun facts before your Christmas festivities. Other Holidays December, besides the obvious Christmas, is a month that hosts several other holidays throughout its 31 days. Pearl Harbor day was celebrated December 7th, …
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Have you ever gotten fired? On a group call, no less? (It doesn’t feel good, and if I’m being honest, I know from experience. Corporate America, psh.) My zoom call had 9 of us though, not 900. This is the story of Better. com CEO’s latest lay offs. A CEO of an online mortgage company …
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On the morning of Saturday December 4th around 8:00 a.m., a man jumped out of a moving airplane. Flight 4236 flew into Phoenix from Colorado Springs and the 30-year-old man jumped out the door from the back of the plane, before locking himself in the fire department nearby. The captain stopped the airplane and contacted …
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Who doesn’t want to be younger? Or, err, at least look younger? To keep our skin looking good and fresh, be sure not to do these weird ways that are aging us. Using Bar Soap What? Soap? It’s true. The thing is that bar soaps can be very drying. So unless you have super oily …
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Did you catch the first part of Grandma Got Tattooed For Her Birthday: Part One? Here’s the rest of the details. So it was the time for her tat, and she did it family style. Dede went to the tattoo parlor with her family in tow, ready for her new forearm tat. “When I got …
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