An Austrian university is on the hunt for girls who recoil at the sight of spiders for research into how fear affects the processes of the brain. “The researchers are looking for girls aged between 8-13 years who are very fearful of spiders and/or who feel sick at the sight of them,” the University of [...]
June 27, 2010
LOS ANGELES — The apparently endless market for images of Marilyn Monroe now extends to inside the bombshell’s body. A set of three Monroe Chest X-rays from a 1954 hospital visit sold Sunday for $45,000 at the Hollywood Legends auction at Planet Hollywood Resort and Casino in Las Vegas. Julien’s Auctions, which sold the X-rays, [...]
June 25, 2010
ATLANTA — A caged, 2-inch turtle traveling with a 10-year-old girl caused a crew to turn around a taxiing plane, take the girl and her sisters off the flight and tell them they couldn’t bring their pet along. The sisters threw the animal and cage in the trash and returned to their seats crying Tuesday [...]
June 17, 2010
Neil Caldwell is not revealing the secret behind how he was able to create bacons in bold new colors like red, blue and purple, but I suspect it has something to do with food coloring. The amazing thing is that the slices of porcine heaven retain their color even after frying. Ever had trouble getting [...]
June 16, 2010
Over the past year, the Ada County Library in Boise, Idaho, has been hit with more than 10 incidents of strange but serious vandalism. And each time, the vandalism has involved CONDIMENTS. One time it was a book that was filled with ketchup, and another time, a bunch of kids’ books were drenched in corn syrup. And [...]
June 3, 2010
A New Zealand funeral home has stepped in to stop a fake mourner who was attending up to four funerals a week to stock up on food, even filling up tupperware containers to take home, according to media reports. Harbour City Funeral Home director Danny Langstraat told local newspaper The Dominion Post that the “grim [...]
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