Monthly Archives: October 2007

Archive of posts published in the specified Month

Hamster Jet Lag, Vanilla Cow Dung and a Self Refilling Bowl of Soup

The Ig Noble Prize awards people for scientific inventions that “first make people laugh, and then make them think.” Some Winners for the 2007 Ig Nobel Prize Linguistics: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Nuria Sebastian-Galles, for determining that

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From Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell to This?

Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A ‘Gay Bomb’Hank PlanteReporting, 6.8.07 cbs5.com (CBS 5) BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn

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A Cure for Hiccups Sure to be a Hit at Your Next Party

Fesmire, a specialist in emergency medicine and cardiology, probably did not have a real Nobel in mind when he published “Termination of intractable hiccups with digital rectal massage” in Annals of Emergency Medicine (vol 17, p 872). He was, it

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Marcel Marceau’s Last Words

from CBS News AP) Marcel Marceau, who revived the art of mime and brought poetry to silence, has died, French media reported Sunday. He was 84. France-Info radio and LCI television said the family had announced the death of Marceau.

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One Week. Fifty Four Years Ago

A Book Review All The Shah’s Men by Stephen Kinzer In 1953 the United States made a momentous decision. Partially out of legitimate fear of a possible Russian takeover of the valuable Iranian Oil field, and partly as a result

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Democratic Tradition in Iran

We conservative types tend to blame Jimmy Carter for the fall of Iran into Islamo Fascist Hands. We are wrong. Iran, unlike the many of her neighbors who were created by European colonialists and justified with outrageous myths, has a

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The Prime Minister of Canada

is Stephen Harper. I was just in Canada and I thought every one of us ought to know that.

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Reality for People Who Can’t Handle Drugs

At a meeting of our captive insurance company in Ottawa, we were addressed by Bob Stutman, retired special agent of the USDEA- who is now devoting his speaking career to addressing kids and parents about the current drug problem. Among

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The Value of Central Park

$528,778,523,156 according to an article in the September 2007 issue of Delta Sky Magazine.

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