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Ted Williams' frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab Posted: 2 months ago by nateebiinature
Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility allegedly mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice
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Repairing Broken Bones With Dissolvable Glass Posted: 2 months ago by 2manyusernames
Steel or titanium is great for helping bones to repair but they have to be removed once the repair is completed. A new metallic glass mixture of o 60% magnesium, 35% zinc and 5% calcium has been created in Switzerland that will perform like steel but will dissolve instead of having to be surgically removed.
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Mom Goes Blind So Her Daughters Can See Posted: 2 months ago by nateebiinature
Monique Zimmerman-Stein has been nearly blind for the last two years from Stickler syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. She recently decided to forgo her own treatment to save funds to treat her two daughters, who also suffer from the condition, reports Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times.
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Galaxy's centre tastes of raspberries and smells of rum Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
Scientists hunting for amino acids in the giant dust cloud at the center of the Milky Way were surprised to discover ethyl formate, a chemical that smells like rum and gives raspberries their unique taste.
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Things That Science Can't Explain Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
This is just going to be a light-hearted thread about things that science can't explain.
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Study reveals 2/3 of prostate cancer patients do not need treatment Posted: 2 months ago by bernardblack
In the largest study of its kind, more than 4000 prostate cancer patients were tracked. Findings from the study show that aggressive cancer requiring surgery has a certain protein indicator. More than 60% of the patients lacked the indicator and could be treated with careful monitoring.
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Children Who Get Spanked Have Lower IQs Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Beat the defenseless into the hopeless.
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Same Fish In Queens Petshop For 41 Years Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
Meet Buttkiss, the black pacu who has eaten more than 175,000 fish during his residence in Queens.
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British Study Backs "Killing Season" Hypothesis Posted: 2 months ago by suckersklub
Researchers say they have found a small but statistically significant increase in the number of patients who die each year when junior doctors start work.
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Why Dogs Sniff Each Other's Butts Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Do you ever wonder why dogs sniff each other’s butts? Whether it is a new acquaintance or old one, they meet up and immediately run to the rear. Most people believe it is their way of saying “hello.“ However, this is a myth. Dogs sniff each other’s butts for a much deeper reason - to get to know one another.
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Fantastic Photos of our Solar System Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
We've been looking at other planets through telescopes for four centuries. But if you really want to get to know a place, there's no substitute for being there. And in the past decade, more than 20 spacecraft have ventured into the deepest reaches of our solar system.*check out Photo Gallery*
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Freaky New Shark with a Sex Organ on its Forehead Posted: 2 months ago by equinox
A new ghostshark species has been identified off the coast of Southern California, and it’s darker and weirder than any shark we know. The purplish black ancient relative of the modern shark comes packed with a suite of odd features that give its taxonomical family the name chimaera, after the mythical beast made from the parts of many animals.
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The Cause of Illnesses and Diseases All in Your Head? Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
The main premise of the New Agers is that our thoughts create our reality—positive or negative. So, by extension, our thoughts make us sick or well. On an elementary level, that seems easy enough to accept. After all, we all know people who are stuck in a quagmire of self-pity, depression, and anger who exhibit physical symptoms that mirror their mental state
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Woman implanted with the wrong embryo Posted: 2 months ago by nateebiinature
It is supposed to the happiest news a couple can get, especially a couple who have difficulty conceiving and carrying babies. The in vitro fertilization procedure had been a success: Carolyn Savage was pregnant.
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Get A Flu Shot or You're Fired! Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
The New York State Health Department is now requiring mandatory seasonal and swine flu vaccinations for all hospital, home health and hospice workers. No other state or city agency in America has such a requirement, and a coalition of local health care workers unions are considering filing a lawsuit to block it.
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Project ‘Gaydar’ Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy.
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Hundreds of volcanoes could cause 'well overdue' eruption in Australia Posted: 2 months ago by kakana
As if bushfires, drought and floods aren't enough, Australians have now been warned to watch out for volcanoes.
A scientist has warned an eruption is "well overdue" and says there are hundreds of volcanoes that could cause trouble, from South Australia and Victoria through to Queensland.
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Tokyo Scientists: Living in the city affects tits Posted: 2 months ago by kakana
Just as humans speak louder in noisy locations, great tits likely avoid low-pitched tones so that their calls will carry further, said the researchers, who will present their findings at an Ornithological Society of Japan's conference that began on Saturday in the Hokkaido Prefecture city of Hakodate.
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genetically engineered dandelions ooze rubber Posted: 2 months ago by kakana
If you pop the head off a dandelion, white sap oozes freely from the wound for about a second.
But if you pop the head off the genetically engineered variety, the sap oozes for minutes, producing five times more latex than from the average dandelion.
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The Deepest Links Posted: 2 months ago by 2manyusernames
Most people can see and most textbooks point out the evolutionary similarity between a human arm, a dolphin's fin, and horse's leg. Insect legs, lacking bones are far different. Both type of limbs evolved independently of each other. However scientists are finding there is more homogeneity between the two evolutionary paths and similar seemingly disparate features than we thought.
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7 Solid Health Tips That No Longer Apply Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Are you taking a daily aspirin or multivitamin to stay healthy? Avoiding eggs and choosing no-cholesterol margarine over butter? Convinced that jogging will ultimately kill your knees? Advice that was once considered gospel truth among the medical community is now being questioned.
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What our Universe does when no one is looking Posted: 2 months ago by hoosker
Many years ago a teacher asked me, "Hoosker, if a tree fell in the forest, and no one was there, would it make a sound?"
After several minutes of contemplating the question I replied "Yes, but only if you made me aware of it falling. If you hadn't told me about it, then it actually never would have existed, then No."
Turns out, I may have been on to something.
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Monkeys Cured of Color Blindness Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
Two male squirrel monkeys were given gene therapy and now the normally color blind animals are able to distinguish between shades of red and green in color vision tests. In normal situations, female squirrel monkeys can see a full range of colors, but males cannot see red or green.
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Study finds humans still evolving, and quickly Posted: 2 months ago by karenben
Until recently, anthropologists believed that evolutionary pressure on humans eased after the transition to a more stable agrarian lifestyle. But in the last few years, they realized the opposite was true.
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Getting Drunk on Liquid Hand Sanitizer Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
Those of you with children, or taking care of children know they like to taste everything, especially if it smells good. I got an email at the office that illustrates the dangers of alcohol based hand sanitizers and curious children. Another source
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