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Before reading this article, Soup Hound - yours truly, has some news for you: your mother is a cyborg, and your dog was recruited by the CIA. We know all about you!
PITY future cyborg insects. As if being remotely controlled by a human isn't bad enough, their every movement may be harnessed to power the electronics that hijack their bodies. This could also extend the length of their enslavement, since the microchips had previously relied on tiny batteries with short lifespans.
The most interesting "artifact" of the year award is a piece of crap. Literally. When a pile of poop discovered in an Oregon cave in 2002 was retested this year thanks to new techniques in DNA extraction, excited researchers determined that the ancient feces — officially called coprolites in polite archaeological terms — were human and were more than 14,000 years old, marking the earliest evidence of human presence in North America by almost two thousand years. Other bits and pieces of cultural material have turned up in the Americas and called the date into question, but the coprolites are the oldest of definite human ... extraction. Read more...
A nearly complete skull of a primitive cheetah that sprinted about in China more than 2 million years ago suggests the agile cats originated in the Old World rather than in the Americas.
The seven astronauts killed during the 2003 loss of NASA's space shuttle Columbia survived less than a minute after their spacecraft began breaking apart, according to a new report released Tuesday that suggests changes to astronaut training and spacecraft cabin design.
According to a recent review article in the Dec. 3 issue of The Journal of Sexual Medicine, sexually unsatisfied women who practiced the Eastern techniques of mindfulness and yoga reported improvements in levels of arousal and desire, as well as better orgasms. In addition, yoga has been found to effectively treat premature ejaculation in men. Eastern practices have been touted as sexually beneficial for years — as the article states, the techniques have "their origin in the Kama Sutra of the fourth to sixth centuries." Read more...
Stalactites and stalagmites form as water drips from from the roof of a cave. In a previous post, earthquakes have been dated from stalactites and stalagmites. (Sometimes they start from cracks that formed at the time of an earthquake.)
Cocaine is a terrible drug — not just for humans, but for honeybees as well, whom it turns into exaggerating liars. When researchers applied a drop of cocaine to the backs of feeding bees, they returned to their hive and gave a waggle dance that described the pollen as being far better than it was. Read more about these high bees...
Teens faint or have panic attacks at festivals. Medical personnel provide help, but wonder how to tell if person is OK to return to crowd. In one interesting case, if the teens can text message, they are declared ready for return to "society." Read more...
Various tobacco companies are attempting to divert public awareness in China of the danger of second-hand smoke. Pond slime, I say! An example is British American Tobacco (BAT.) BAT's internal corporate documents produced in response to litigation against the major cigarette manufacturers to understand company activities in China related to SHS. BAT has carried out an extensive strategy to undermine the health policy agenda on SHS in China by attempting to divert public attention from SHS issues towards liver disease prevention, pushing the so-called “resocialisation of smoking” accommodation principles, and providing “training” for industry, public officials, and the media based on BAT's corporate agenda that SHS is an insignificant contributor to the larger issue of air pollution. Read more...
Sports drinks containing protein are better at improving athletes' performance. Research published in BioMed Central's open access Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition has shown that drinks containing a mix of carbohydrate and protein are superior to carbohydrate-only drinks in improving cyclists' recovery from exercise. Read more...
A group of bottlenose dolphins have been confounding humans since they took up residence in two rivers near the Jersey shore six months ago. Now that it's winter, some people are worried they'll never make it out. Three dolphins have died out of the original group of about 15 that spent the summer and fall in the Shrewsbury and Navesink rivers, waterways just north of Asbury Park. Federal wildlife experts say the remaining dolphins are healthy, and should be able to make it through the winter if they choose to stay. They cite the cases of dolphins that successfully spent winters in Massachusetts, Virginia and even northern Scotland. But some animal advocates worry the dolphins will meet the same fate as four that drowned in the Shrewsbury River in 1993 when ice closed in on them, or the 26 dolphins killed by a sudden freeze in 1990 in Texas' Matagorda Bay. Read more...
Pooch Dog warning: I believe the picture is the new IAR rifle discussed below. But, am not sure...
As many as one in eight teens in the United States may take a virginity pledge at some point, vowing to wait until they're married before having sex. But do such pledges work? Are pledge takers more likely than other teens to delay sexual activity? A new study suggests that the answer is no. While teens who take virginity pledges do delay sexual activity until an average age of 21 (compared to about age 17 for the average American teen), the reason for the delay is more likely due to pledge takers' religious background and conservative views -- not the pledge itself.
BASRA, Iraq – Iraqi Security Forces recently uncovered hundreds of historical artifacts during two raids in northern Basra.
Here's the first few sentences of a www.military.com article about evangelizing at recruitment centers...
Washington, D.C. "Post Office Department. Motorcycle postman. 1912." S14 collects the mail. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.
I'm sure Santa has been or will be good to this serious little guy, reminiscent though he may be of Augustus Gloop. I can't read the calendar, but the 31st falling on a Friday makes it either 1926 or '37. After researching, I found out that "Boy Scouts to the Rescue" came out in 1921, and the little poem "Am I Ready for School?" was mentioned in a 1924 Louisiana State Health Department bulletin. Any thoughts? [Update: The calendars are from January 1941.]
At the 16th Annual World Congress on Anti-Aging Medicine & Regenerative Biomedical Technologies in Las Vegas, Zannos Grekos, MD, director of Cardiac and Vascular Disease for Regenocyte Therapeutic, addressed physicians from around the world with a presentation on patients treated with pre-engineered Adult Stem Cells. In the presentation, Grekos showed the successful engraftment of stem cells into damaged organs and subsequent regeneration of tissue. 
I'm sure you've heard that Israel and Hamas are at it again. Here's a blurb from a Wired article...
Hollywood action director Michael Bay enlisted the U.S. military to provide realistic props for his 2007 giant-robot epic Transformers. After the Pentagon helped rewrite the script, Bay got access to helicopters, warships and -- for just $25,000 an hour -- F-22 stealth fighters. As we speak, Bay is shooting a sequel that has even more U.S. military hardware on display. Read more...
Fascinating! A submarine releases a buoy in their trash containing a communication device. When the submarine is away from the trash dump location a sufficient distance, the buoy surfaces and sends the text message. Pretty interesting experimental stuff here, Pooch Doggy Dog says! Read more...
After 9/11, many American Muslims were openly ridiculed to varying degrees. An example is Hanan Arzay, 15, a daughter of Muslim immigrants from Morocco who lives in East Islip, N.Y. In the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, pedestrians threw eggs and coffee cups at the van that transported her to a Muslim school, she said, and one person threw a wine bottle, shattering the van’s window. 
The world watched OJ I.0, and more recently they were titillated by OJ 2.0. We've also entertained our planet with countless other Scott and Laci Peterson extravaganzas. Pooch Dog says it's time you grooved to another country's juicy tidbits!
I guess I'm not as happy as the Chinese in Shiqiao. Guess I'll get my bone and apply for citizenship in Shiqiao! 
Facebook is experiencing controversy regarding breast-feeding photographs being posted by mothers. Some photos have been removed. What rules are reasonable? This article contains some contoversy history, and recent developments. Read it...
BAGHDAD - Iraq's Christians, a scant minority in this overwhelmingly Muslim country, quietly celebrated Christmas on Thursday with a present from the government, which declared it an official holiday for the first time.
BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- On a recent house-to-house search for illegal weapons in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood, soldiers confiscated a number of toy guns.
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