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Chinese scientists have produced a herd of genetically modified cows that make milk that could substitute for human breast milk.
Chinese researchers have successfully introduced human genetic material into Holstein embryos and t…
Your e-book may be tracking your reading habits. The major players in e-book publishing can easily track how much time you spend on a page, whether you take notes or underline, and how many pages you read at a sitting. They can also trac…
Gijsbert Rider claimed that he and his wife felt “threatened” by two of the residents at a mobile home park near his home in the south of the Netherlands. He proceeded to build a fence around his property. A dispute arose with the local …
When the owner of a new supermarket in the city of Süderlügum, near the German/ Danish border, offered a basket of free groceries worth €270 to the first hundred shoppers willing to shop naked, he rea…
Last week a couple of men were walking a dog in the Swedish woods on their way to a fishing competition when they happened upon an abandoned bunker from the Second World War. When they explored inside they found a bed, several c…
The picture above was taken at Lake Retba in Senegal. The lake gets its vivid pink color from cyanobacteria that are present because of the high salt content-50% higher than in the Dead Sea.
Like the Dead Sea, it is very easy …
Russian police have a new “non-lethal weapon” for crowd control at protests. Tear gas and pepper spray sometimes are lethal and tasers kill at an alarming rate here in the states. Water cannons would kill by the hundreds in the Russian winter…i…
Consider the web-cam. Hard as it may be to believe, it was invented for a purpose other than allowing drunks to share close-ups of their genitalia with casual acquaintances. I know, it’s hard to believe, but it is true no…
The Blood Lamp is a teaching tool about understanding our carbon footprint. To activate it one must break off the top, crush a tablet to powder, dissolve it in the liquid in the bulb, then add a drop of blood. A chemical reaction…
There was a story I read long ago. I think it was by Ray Bradbury. It is certainly in his style. In the future all fiction has been banned and burned. The ghosts of Poe and Lovecraft and all the others live on in a haunted mansion …
