(Editor’s Note: This REPRINT from HuffPost represents a deviation from the normal weird; this certainly does not qualify as weird in my book. It is simply one of the most brilliant ideas I’ve heard in quite some time and want to do my part in moving it along. Happy 2010! — Lin) Move Your Money: [...]
December 30, 2009
Party planners take note. For the first time in almost twenty years, there’s going to be a Blue Moon on New Year’s Eve. “I remember the last time this happened,” says professor Philip Hiscock of the Dept. of Folklore at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. “December 1990 ended with a Blue Moon, and many New [...]
December 29, 2009
Wake Forest University’s Institute of Regenerative Medicine, which has successfully grown human bladders in the lab using only a few extracted cells sprayed onto a chemical frame that mimics the body’s tissues, has so far been unsuccessful at regenerating penises because of the organ’s complexity. However, it announced in a November journal article a success [...]
December 29, 2009
A 55-year-old British man whose bowel was ruptured in a nearly catastrophic traffic accident has been fitted with a bionic sphincter that opens and closes with a remote controller. Ged Galvin had originally endured 13 surgeries in a 13-week hospital stay and had grown frustrated with using a colostomy bag until surgeon Norman Williams of [...]
December 29, 2009
SELMA, Ind. – Police say a fifth-grader handed out about $300 to others on the bus ride to his eastern Indiana school. Problem is, they say, the cash was among some $10,000 he took from his grandparents’ safe. Delaware County Sheriff George Sheridan says the boy was riding the bus to Selma Elementary School when [...]
December 28, 2009
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. — A Nevada couple letting their SUV’s navigation system guide them through the high desert of Eastern Oregon got stuck in snow for three days when the GPS unit sent them down a remote forest road. On Sunday, atmospheric conditions apparently changed enough for their GPS-enabled cell phone to get a weak [...]
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