Penn's student newspaper is doing its April Fools issue today[*], and the lead articles made me laugh.
The Messiah comes -galloping all the way -
Iowa woman starts new religion centered around her love for Kentucky Derby-winner Barbaro"Barbarology"? HEEE.
Beating an undead horse| QUOTE |
| With space a premium in the New Bolton Center, Prado and a group of Peruvian immigrants lugged the 1,000-odd pound equine cadaver to the Old Bolton Center in Ambler, Pa. for treatment. The center is home to the only known functional "Pet Sematary," whose soil has been known to breathe new life into dead tissue. |
[*] They never do it on April 1st, so as to take people by surprise. It's a tradition.
"I'm working on a tail, but that's harder."
Hee.
Seems valuable items
really do fall off the back of a lorry. Though maybe if the owners had been helping rather than taking pictures, the accident might have been avoided.
Stem cells "cure" Type I diabetes??It's a 15 person study, which just means there need to be more studies, but a VERY interesting result:
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Diabetics using stem-cell therapy have been able to stop taking insulin injections for the first time, after their bodies started to produce the hormone naturally again.
In a breakthrough trial, 15 young patients with newly diagnosed type 1 diabetes were given drugs to suppress their immune systems followed by transfusions of stem cells drawn from their own blood.
The results show that insulin-dependent diabetics can be freed from reliance on needles by an injection of their own stem cells.
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All but two of the volunteers in the trial, details of which are published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), do not need daily insulin injections up to three years after stopping their treatment regimes. |
Similar techniques are being tried with other diseases:
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| The therapy, known as autologous hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, has already shown benefits to individuals with a range of auto-immune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn’s disease and lupus. |
That's so wrong. I mean, how is this necessary information?
If they insist on issuing forms like that, I'd say they should also issue forms asking men to describe in detail their la-*test*-('") erectile disfunction, any vasectemies they've had recently...even that doesn't really equal this, as periods are a natural and normal thing for every woman.
Idiots.
Even the pro-*test*-('")ors are rendered near speechless by this. There isn't enough WTFness in the world for it.
In better news -
Striped rabbit spotted in Sumatra (did you see what they did there?)
Johnny Weissmuller's chimp co-star celebrates his 75th birthday | QUOTE |
| Diabetic Cheeta, his fur now speckled with grey, celebrated with sugar-free cake and diet soft drinks at his home in the legendary retirement destination of Palm Springs, California, where he passes his days watching TV, painting and playing the piano. |
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Women make up majority of internet users
| QUOTE | | eMarketer estimates that there will be an estimated 97.2 million female Internet users ages 3 and older in 2007, or 51.7% of the total online population. |
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"3 and older"? How many three year olds understand the internet? Then again, my 57 year old mother doesn't understand it either.
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it is matter of pride for the temple that a person of another faith has found solace there and wants to live there for the rest of his life.
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Scientists extract dinosaur proteins!That's one small step for man, and one giant step closer to Jurassic Park.
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| Three of the seven reconstructed protein sequences were closely related to chickens. The scientists resisted being drawn into speculation on the likely taste of a T-rex drumstick. |
So...T-Rex might have tasted like chicken?
Vet loses arm due to croc, has it reattachedThe picture made me yelp, so hopefully you're less wussy than me.
Teenage Snarkers whose parent complain about a few cigarette ends and some smashed glasses after a party should be able to silence them forever with
this| QUOTE |
| The party ran out of steam around 4am following a chase involving neighbours armed with golf clubs. By then, it was reported, the visitors had urinated on Rachel's mother's wedding dress, stolen cash and jewellery, barricaded the back door to prevent neighbours from intervening and dyed Fred Perry clothes belonging to her brother |
And that's the cropped version. You don't want to see the
uncropped version if you're squeamish.
In other news, it seems
the animals are angry this day, my friends. Very angry.
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| "3 and older"? How many three year olds understand the internet? Then again, my 57 year old mother doesn't understand it either. |
My niece has been able to Google image search since she was three. My sister writes the word down so she can see the letters, she hits the button to take her to the right page, finds the keys, hits enter, and voila - "HORSIES!!" It's crazy, man.