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Sex is dead

ZURICH (Reuters) – German anatomists plan a new show dedicated solely to dead bodies having sex as part of the Body Worlds exhibitions. If you wish to read more about it, click the link below. This is too bizarre for me to write about any further. SOURCE: Reuters

Bugged by your shower?

For years, we’ve thought it was more healthful to shower than to sit in a tub of water. It seems that may be true only up to a point. Microbiolotist Norman Pace and his University of Colorado, Boulder team, with the unusual and perhaps unenviable task of analyzing the film of microbes that builds up [...]

Cheap shot

Some decisions are easier than others, like whether to spend your pocket money on beer or on a totally awesome space shot—provided the cost is the same. MIT students Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh opted for the latter when they decided to send a camera into space. Instead of rockets, boosters and expensive control systems, [...]

Deep sleep

PARIS – As a high-speed train roared over him, a 19-year-old drunk French teenager narrowly escaped death on Sunday after falling asleep on a railway track and slumbering undisturbed. The driver saw the body lying on the tracks and slammed on the brakes, but was only able to stop a few hundred meters further on. [...]

Where, oh where, does the time go?

New evidence suggests that time is slowly disappearing from our universe, and will one day vanish completely. It seems that the “time” part of the space-time continuum is literally running out. Scientists have previously measured the light from distant exploding stars to show that the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. They assumed that [...]

There’s a word for that?

Stendhal syndrome is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly beautiful or a large amount of art is in a single place. The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction to a surfeit of [...]