http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8117619.stm Cute BBC fluff piece about swapping a kid’s iPod with a Walkman. Personally, I don’t miss my old Sony Sports, which weighed a ton and went through batteries pretty quickly. On my last trip, my nostalgia was of the “I can’t believe I used to use a Walkman” variety whenever I dragged out my […]
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090519/ap_on_sc/us_shuttle_hubble_166 The Hubble is prepped for its last mission. The craft we all mocked when it took its first problematic flight has redeemed itself a million times over with the incredible photos it regularly sends back. It’ll be missed. Atlantis’ astronauts gingerly dropped the Hubble Space Telescope overboard Tuesday, sending the restored observatory off on […]
Secrets of the Phallus: Why Is the Penis Shaped Like That?: Scientific American
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secrets-of-the-phallus A neat find by the newly-squeamish BobbyVardar about the anatomy of the human penis. After reading the term “cervical mucus”, I have to admit to feeling a bit queasy myself, but it is interesting stuff. Also, they provide a handy recipe for making your own seminal fluid – perfect for those of us who […]
Spleen – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spleen Behold! The Spleen! These days, one of our less considered organs, though popular enough with medieval generations across many cultures, each of which ascribed it different responsibilities to our humours. The word spleen comes from the Greek and is the idiomatic equivalent of the heart in English, i.e. to be good-spleened means to be […]
White Phosphorus (WP)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/wp.htm News, tonight, that Israel used Willy Pete during its bombing of Gaza. Doctors treating patients couldn’t figure out how to treat burns that were still smouldering, and Israel finally owned up. One news report on the CBC showed a girl of about 5 or 6 whose thumb had to be cut off, as it […]
StumbleUpon.com: Discover the Best of the Web
http://bumapples.stumbleupon.com/review/29123313/ First reaction: SQUEE! Second reaction: My, but the Hackney Gazette could use a decent editor.
Dissent of the testis — Williams and Dharmaraj 335 (7633): 1287 — bmj.com
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1287?fmr Further proof that the British tend to hilarious insanity: Pediatric endocrinologists apparently used specific off-the-shelf boxed chocolates as a quick reference for measuring testicular volume. When the chocolatiers changed the form factor, some pediatricians responded with an apparently huffy (yet tongue-in-cheek) medical journal article. This is a major setback for paediatric endocrinology, and the […]
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http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000X27XDC/ref=nosim/kkorg-20 The best “you got chocolate in my peanut butter” invention I’ve seen in a while: A wireless SD card. Mind officially blown.
Gorillas Photographed Mating Face-to-Face — A First
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080212-gorilla-sex.html Gorillas discover the missionary position. From the looks of the female in the picture, she’s already lost interest, and is instead fantasising about all the great shoes and lingerie her silverback will buy her…
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