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“kids smarter than chimps”
“A unique study comparing the abilities of human toddlers to chimpanzees and orang-utans found that two-year-old children have social learning skills superior to the apes, the researchers said.”
The Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany also claims to have found that water is wet.
Moderation in all things, including moderation…
“Popcorn Lung" Patient Ate Two Bags A Day”
“Wayne Watson loved microwave popcorn so much he would eat at least two bags each night, breathing in the steam from the just-opened package, until doctors told him it may have made him sick.”
At least I’m no corn huffer. I’m holding out for the condition known as Lobster Jowls.
But what do we do with all this coleslaw?
“Memorial called off after woman missing for weeks is found alive”
(Oregonian)
Multi-tasking Comes to Vermont
“Driver crashes while spraying computer cleaner into his mouth”
The police affidavits revealed a string of bizarre details behind the accidents, which included allegations that Robar was inhaling computer keyboard cleaner while driving and was on crack cocaine, and had indicated a willingness to purposefully hit pedestrians and other cars. (Times Argus)
Must be the Unions again
Length of Saturn's Day Revised
By Ker Than
Staff Writer
Space.com
A day on Saturn just got a few minutes shorter, if new calculations are correct.
Using data collected by NASA's Cassini, Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft, scientists have revised the ringed planet's rotation period to 10 hours, 32 minutes and 35 seconds-about 15 minutes shorter than an estimate made only last year.
Those precious minutes could have big implications for how scientists think about Saturn and other gas giants.”
Think about gas giants? You mean like calculating the circumference of Al Gore?
Everybody needs a catch phrase
“Paris Hilton Sues Over Hallmark Card
Claims company stole her image and "That's Hot" catch phrase
SEPTEMBER 7--Paris Hilton has filed a federal lawsuit over a $2.49 Hallmark greeting card that uses a photo of the heiress and her trademarked phrase "That's Hot." In a complaint filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Hilton alleges that Hallmark has, among other transgressions, misappropriated her image and invaded her privacy with the card, a copy of which you'll find below. According to the lawsuit, the greeting card, which purports to show Hilton's "first day as a waitress," was first distributed earlier this year and remains on sale.” (The Smoking Gun)
Invading Paris Hilton’s privacy. That’s like squaring the circle, right?
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