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Sex with sheep

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 16:14:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How you're gonna keep em down on the farm!

Briton arrested for sex attacks on sheep

"Two male joggers said they had observed a man molesting the sheep in a field at Botany Bay Lane, Chislehurst," police said in a statement.

Tags: england

Do you know what you're wearing?

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 03:25:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If you use health and beauty products, you are using many powerful and harmful toxins

Clip Source: www.ewg.org

The Power of Information

At EWG, our team of scientists, engineers, policy experts, lawyers and computer programmers pores over government data, legal documents, scientific studies and our own laboratory tests to expose threats to your health and the environment, and to find solutions. Our research brings to light unsettling facts that you have a right to know.

Tags: health

Cut food waste

Sat, 12 Jul 2008 18:04:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I gotta agree.

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Britain urging return to wartime food frugality

Evoking an era of World War II austerity, British families are being urged to cut food waste and use leftovers in a nationwide effort to fight sharply rising global food prices.

Tags: food, economy

No "gay gene"

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:51:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: new research - it's complicated

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Genetics, Environment Shape Sexual Behavior

"This study puts cold water on any concerns that we are looking for a single 'gay gene' or a single environmental variable which could be used to 'select out' homosexuality

Stonehenge Solstice 2008

Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:51:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: kinda hippy dippy

Clip Source: yourehistory.wordpress.com

Stonehenge Summer Solstice 2008

Thousands of druids, revellers and the simply curious witnessed a cloud-obscured sunrise at Stonehenge during an annual pilgrimage to the site to celebrate the summer solstice, the longest day of the year.

Tags: england, stonehenge

How you'd look as a different race/age

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 22:21:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: could be fun - or not!

Clip Source: shine.yahoo.com

Wanna see what you look like as a different age or race?

Up for hours of fun? Yeah, I thought you might be. If so, go screw around on The St. Andrews Face Transformer for a spell. Part of a publicly funded project aimed at exploring "the latest advances in facial computer vision and graphics, and what they mean for society," and associated with the computer science program at the UK's University of St. Andrews, it makes facial reconstruction, well, accessible to the rest of us.

Tonite's Moon Illusion

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:06:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: it's huge!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

See a Huge Moon Illusion Wednesday

As the full moon rises this Wednesday evening, June 18, many people will be tricked into thinking it's unusually large

The moon illusion, as it's known, is a trick in our minds that makes the moon seem bigger when it's near the horizon. The effect is most pronounced at full moon. Many people swear it's real, suggesting that perhaps Earth's atmosphere magnifies the moon.

Hearing the silence

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:39:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: people are like bats!

Clip Source: dsc.discovery.com

Like Bats, People 'Hear' Silent Objects

Since blind individuals may be particularly tuned in to such sounds, the research helps explain how they can often find doorways, windows and objects without seeing or touching them. It may also lead to a better understanding of echolocation, the technique used by certain animals, like bats and dolphins, to detect reflected sound.

Tags: science

World's Fattest Man

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:12:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: another birthday - now that IS an accomplishment!

Clip Source: news.yahoo.com

Man once world's most obese fetes birthday on bed

MONTERREY, Mexico (Reuters) - Mexico's Manuel Uribe, once the world's most obese man, celebrated his 43rd birthday on Wednesday with a very short trip outside his house.

80 is the new 50

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:58:31 GMT

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clipper's remarks: no more grumpy old men

Clip Source: www.slate.com

80 Is the New 50How did America's business leaders get so old?

Our culture relentlessly celebrates youth. But in the corporate world, 80 is the new 50. The exploits of these Sunshine Boys and advances in medicine make a retirement age of 65 seem like a relic.

Tags: ageing

Don't Blame the Tomato!

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 20:18:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: avoid food borne illness

Clip Source: shine.yahoo.com

Don't blame the tomatoes!

What bugs me about buggy fruits and veggies is that they are getting a bum rap. Salmonella and E. coli, along with most other candidates for nastiest variety of common food-borne infection, reside in the intestines of animals. Produce gets contaminated by animal waste, and thus becomes a delivery vehicle for the infectious agent.

Walmart reduces food prices!

Sun, 01 Jun 2008 19:52:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: First medicines, now food!

Clip Source: money.cnn.com

Wal-Mart puts the squeeze on food costs

(Fortune Magazine) -- With gas, grain, and dairy prices exploding, you'd think the biggest seller of corn flakes and Cocoa Puffs would be getting hit by rising food costs. But Wal-Mart has temporarily rolled back prices on hundreds of food items by as much as 30% this year. How? By pressuring vendors to take costs out of the supply chain.

Tags: food, prices

Flat Belly foods

Sat, 31 May 2008 17:30:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: eat this, not that

Clip Source: health.yahoo.com

8 Ultimate Flat-Belly Summer Foods Posted Fri, May 23, 2008, 12:11 pm PDT

Find a way to work these potent superfoods into your diet every day, and you’ll curb cravings before they hit, crowding out much of the junk we turn to when hunger calls. The result? Well, it could mean saving 600 calories or more a day. Couple that with 30 minutes of moderate exercise, and you can shed as many as 12 pounds in six weeks — just in time to strut your stuff on the sand!

Alcohol helps bones

Fri, 30 May 2008 16:57:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: first chocolate as a health food, and now alcohol!

Clip Source: health.msn.com

Light Alcohol Consumption May Help Bones

FRIDAY, May 23 (HealthDay News) -- Although excessive alcohol consumption has long been associated with poor bone health, a new review suggests that people who have just one drink a day may actually have stronger bones that are less prone to fractures.

Green Replacements for Everyday Chemicals

Wed, 28 May 2008 18:34:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: 8 easy ideas. go green!

Clip Source: www.gardenmandy.com

8 Great Green Replacements For Everyday Chemical Crap!

One of the best ways to help our planet and lead a more green organic life is try to cut back on some of the chemicals in you household.

Here are 8 great green natural alternatives for the nasty chemicals we use everyday:

Tags: green