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Surprised this hasn't seen the light of day anywhere. In a nutshell via Ledge of Liberty: On December 2, 2002, Texas resident Margie Schoedinger, filed a lawsuit against President George W. Bush, claiming he and others committed "individual sex crimes" against her and her husband. The proper...

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This story just boggles the mind!

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Just been reading a bit on oxytocin, birth and memory, when I came across this in respect of pre-natal memory. Quite interesting and makes me wonder how chemical and hormone levels affect recall post-natally for the child. The article also notes: regularly regress sets off alarm bells...

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LINK This was a pretty interesting story from The Sunday Wichita Eagle Newspaper a couple of weeks ago. A resident in the area saw a ball bouncing around strangely in a nearby pond and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a child's...

Story Researchers at the University of California-Los Angeles have created a chemical compound that might soon help cat lovers with allergies. The cat-human compound shuts down the allergic reaction that triggers tearing eyes, sneezing and itching, according to the UCLA scientists. The...

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This site is all about Sand Circles. Fascinating endeavour really.

BBC A team of Italian archaeologists working in Cyprus believe they have discovered the site of an ancient perfume factory from the Bronze Age. The 4,000-year-old perfumery is thought to have manufactured fragrances for export across the Eastern Mediterranean. The factory is thought to...

Deathonline Throughout the world, death and the rituals that surround it are steeped in taboos. Death is celebrated, embraced and feared. Around death and the dead, cultures put in place diverse restrictions and practices associated with clothing, food and ritual. This website explores what...

Lordy Link is dead. The MIA webpage can be retrieved from the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20050525074901/http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1315211.html?menu=news.quirkies

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Story The egg, found by chef Wang of at his restaurant in Anyang city, Henan province, is normal size, but has a tail that is 3 cm long. It is not known why the egg has the tail reports Dahe Daily. Wang says he wants to hatch the egg and see what will come out.

A Victorian Laser for you all to ponder. "The following letter, from Ernest Glitch of Weardale to Michael Faraday, indicates the demonstration of a nitrogen TEA (Transversely Excited, Atmospheric pressure) laser, using air as the lasing medium. This occured in Victorian England over a century...

Story A European spacecraft now orbiting the Moon could turn out to be a time machine of sorts as it photographs old landing sites of Soviet robotic probes and the areas where American Apollo crews set down and explored. New imagery of old Apollo touchdown spots, from the European Space...

New Scientist When the dinosaurs ruled the world, the mammals hid in the shadows, daring to grow no bigger than shrew-like insectivores that hunted at night. Or so we thought. Two stunning new fossils from China have overturned this preconception. Not only did large mammals live alongside...

Story This is quite unfortunate really: In the village of Wiston in West Sussex the erotic stone carving in the church, thought to serve as a warning against lust, has always been a talking point, treasured by some and viewed with unease by others. For eight centuries the tiny figure...

custom creature taxidermy. Some great 'cryptids', but if you look round there is all sorts on this site! "Incorporating animal remains into sculpture and abstract painting for over a decade gradually evolved into the art of taxidermy. Although now a licensed taxidermist engaged in free-lance...

New Scientist Psychological stress may be enough to age a woman’s chromosomes by 10 years, a new study suggests. The link between stress, ageing and health at the cellular level is unclear, but a team led by Elissa Epel of the University of California at San Francisco, US, has now looked...

Story An Australian diving club has claimed a world record in the extreme sport of underwater ironing. Forty-three members of Melbourne's Bay City Scuba Diving Club ironed in 10 feet of water in Port Phillip Bay. Club spokesperson Alan Igoe said the 25-minute dive, using cold...

For sale : British Shorthair, known to be friendly, playful and affectionate. Other popular breeds will follow soon. ALLERCA is working to produce the world's first hypoallergenic cats. These cats will allow some of the millions of people allergic to cats to enjoy the love and companionship...

Big fish A sunfish that washed up near the base of Farewell Spit is a monster with a strange sense of timing, a marine expert says. The 3m sunfish was discovered at Taupata Creek near Puponga by passers-by on Sunday. Department of Conservation worker and Pakawau resident Heather Gunn...

The Mystica "There are over 890 articles presented. Initially this volume seemed small to other on-line encyclopedias, but the encyclopedia's objectives are not small, they still are universal. The first objective is to objectively describe past and present ideas, concepts, beliefs, and...

Belly Button Plant Last September I went alone on a canoe trip. On the very first day my canoe turned over in a rapid and I lost some of my equipment in the water. Fortunately, I managed to save my camping gear and my food. But I lost all my spare clothes. So I knew I would have to wear the...

Here Scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have corrected a flaw in cancer cells that lets them evade the normal cell-death process, and as a result they eliminated leukemia cells from mice. With this achievement, the researchers confirm that a key anti-cell-death molecule called...

Story from The Sun SCIENTISTS have invented a towel that will not fall down when you wrap it around yourself after jumping out of the shower. The towel has a rough top edge so it clings on better and elastic inserts to help it stay put. Designers say in tests it stayed in place while...

Story Village womenfolk consider him a saint as he trudges along the national highway leading towards India's technology hub, Bangalore, in the southern state of Karnataka. Some of them prostrate themselves before the saffron-clad 32-year-old, Kailashgiri Brahmachari. Swami, as he is...

Something fishy going on?? An explosion ripped through a sardine museum here early Friday, leaving one worker with severe burns and trapping another worker under rubble, police said. Police said the explosion occurred at the Sardine Museum in Kujukuri at about 8:50 a.m. on Friday as...

From the Dept. of Double-you Tee Eff "The cactus project is a transgenic artwork involving the fusion of human genetic material into the cactus genome resulting in the cactus expressing human hair. The cactus project involved the use of the agrobacterium system introducing the keratin gene...

Blind Pilot Completes pt.1 of Flying Challenge Oh lordy! Daredevil sportsman Steve Cunningham today completed the first leg of his bid to become the first blind person to fly a plane around the UK by touching down with a smile and a joke. The 41-year-old, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, today left...

MSNBC reporting a lucky escape. A San Antonio man is shot in the face, then spits out the bullet. Police say the 37-year-old man was shot at by his girlfriend's brother just close to 8 p.m. Monday on F Street on the east side. The bullet entered the man's right cheek, went into the his...

101 year old man parachutes into the record books! A 101-year-old man is believed to be the world's oldest skydiver after he accepted a dare from friends and jumped out of an airplane Wednesday at nearly 10,000 feet. Frank Moody, from Holloways Beach on Australia's northeastern coast...

Article from June 1997 issue of the Miami New Times. VERY interesting reading: Captured on South Beach, Satan later escaped. His demons and the horrible Bloody Mary are now killing people. God has fled. Avenging angels hide out in the Everglades. And other tales from children in Dade's...

Those Swedes! A government watchdog has asked a regional council why it placed a mythical monster on Sweden's endangered species list. The Parliamentary Ombudsman's office in Stockholm also asked the environment court in the Jaemtland province of central Sweden to explain why a...

Sex in space! Nasa acts to ensure that astronauts don't follow their urges In the First World War, frontline troops who were away from their loved ones for long periods famously had bromide put into their tea to reduce the distraction of their sexual drive. But yesterday it was suggested that...

In a 'I saw this and thought of you' moment: Godchecker The site has more Gods than you can shake a stick at. Godchecker's Mythology Encyclopedia currently features over 1,600 deities. Browse the pantheons of the world, explore ancient myths, and discover Gods of everything from...

Miami Herald story: When Arley Johnson was in seventh grade, he stood on a hillside one morning and watched his community being swept away by flood waters from the Buffalo Creek slurry pond collapse. Among the items lost on Feb. 26, 1972, along with his family's home in Proctor Bottom...

Story and picture here... :eek: :eek: A woman is to undergo an operation to remove a giant tumour that weighs almost twice her normal body weight. Lucica Bunghez, 46, will be operated on by a team of Romanian and US doctors at Floreasca Hospital in Bucharest next week. The Discovery...

Yahoo Story Police charged a woman Friday with stealing 50 antique glass eyes from a hospital display case on Christmas Eve. Melissa Jane Wink, 36, of Owensboro, was charged with theft by unlawful taking over $300. A surveillance camera recorded the theft from an exhibit of medical...

CNN story: BANJUL, Gambia (Reuters) -- A 28-year-old man accused of stealing a man's penis through sorcery was beaten to death in the West African country of Gambia on Thursday, police said. A police spokesman told Reuters that Baba Jallow was lynched by about 10 people in the town of...

The year isn't out yet and here's a list of the The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 02/03. #1: The Neoconservative Plan for Global Dominance #2: Homeland Security Threatens Civil Liberty #3: US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq U.N. Report #4: Rumsfeld's Plan to Provoke Terrorists #5...

Yahoo news story: Astronomers have detected the deepest note ever generated in the cosmos, a B-flat flying through space like a ripple on an invisible pond. No human will actually hear the note, because it is 57 octaves below the keys in the middle of a piano. The detection was made with...

Chicago Sun-Times story "MOSCOW--An ancient icon depicting Christ has been removed from display at the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg after claims that its "energy field" is killing staff. The icon has led to the deaths of several supervisors, an official at Russia's foremost art...

Krill, Krill are good for your heart.... ;) " IT'S one of the unfortunate consequences of being a mammal - flatulence. And, more unfortunately for a group of whale researchers, nature took its course right under their noses - literally. The researchers claim this is the first...

The moveable hole is 'out there'! Some other highlights include: - The Self-Cleaning House: Miracle of miracles. Scientists would genetically engineer microbes that automatically clean dust, dirt, grime and grease from all indoor living spaces. The house-cleaning industry may not like...

a suitable chicken story!! (below) " A POTENTIALLY explosive rooster had New Zealand police running around like headless chickens yesterday. The bird, which had canisters with protruding wires strapped to its wings, was spotted by a member of the public in the Christchurch suburb of...

Only just found this gem even though it was from March 13th. Those poor lab rats... Artificial hippocampus story from the Guardian website (below): "US researchers are poised to test an artificial aid to the brain. They have made a mathematical model of a memory store called the...

"In September of 2001, just seven days before 9/11, I issued a "telekinesis breakthrough" news release that swept around the world and caused a lot of confusion. You see, for while I claimed a scientific breakthrough, I decided to keep the exact details of the breakthrough a secret. Here now is...