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Ancient Stoner Unearthed

Posted on 06 December 2008

Ancient Chinese Secret?Archaeologists in China’s Gobi Desert have discovered the 2,700-year-old remains of a nomad and his special stash: 789 grams of well-preserved Cannabis sativa (aka marijuana)…

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From Mice to Mammoths: The Cloning Craze Gets Prehistoric

Posted on 09 November 2008

Woolly Mammoths (from Wikimedia)Ready to see giant furry pachyderms roaming the plains?

Japanese scientist Sayaka Wakayama has successfully cloned mice from cells frozen for 16 years. That could open the doors to reviving history in a big way…

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Yeti or not? “It’s not a bear” say scientists

Posted on 25 July 2008

Mande Barung illustration from BBCIt stands ten feet tall, covered in black and gray fur, and lives in the dense jungles of northeastern India. Villagers have seen it lurking behind the trees and have spotted its claw marks and massive footprints. They call this ape-like creature “mande barung”…

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Care for a Glass of Fermented Tiger?

Posted on 10 June 2008

If you’re in China this summer, and the heat gives rise to a mighty thirst, just visit one of the local wildlife parks for a nice tall glass of tiger wine…

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Mooning Can Be Hazardous To Your… Um… Health!

Posted on 04 June 2008

For a group of young men in Utrecht, Netherlands, it started out as a lark. On Sunday morning, they decided to run down a commercial street with their pants down, mooning all the passersby. Then one of them saw a temptation he could not resist: a cafĂ© window…

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Wearing High Heels Causes Schizophrenia!

Posted on 01 June 2008

Everyone knows that the sight of a woman in heels drives men crazy. Now one scientist claims that those heels may also drive the woman wearing them schizo…

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Sanctified or Cursed? The Mystery of England’s Cursus

Posted on 30 May 2008

Not far from Stonehenge, that cryptic stone formation that’s baffled British scientists for centuries, lies an even more mysterious formation…

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