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NICE KNIVES
Alfred Guercio, 54, was arrested in Burnsville, Minn., after forcibly entering a neighbor’s home and swiping a knife set that he had given the woman of the house as a Christmas gift. He told
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AND YOU THINK YOUR JOB IS BAD…
California State University-Los Angeles researcher Marc Kubasak spent 2,500 hours training 40 brain-damaged rats to walk on a treadmill. He sewed little vests on the rats to tether them to a robotic arm. His
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HARD-HITTING NUMBERS
In March, offensive lineman John Urschel of the Baltimore Ravens added to his curriculum vitae by co-authoring the latest of his several peer-reviewed academic articles: “A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector
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IS THIS A GREAT COUNTRY OR WHAT
Ion Productions of Cincinnati is eager to sell “the world’s first commercially available hand-held flamethrower.” It’s the XM42, which shoots 25-foot flames and costs around $800. Ion touted the device’s uses, saying it was
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DINING WITH SHEEP
An entrepreneur in Seoul, South Korea, has opened the Thanks to Nature Cafe, where sheep wander through the dining room. Owner Lee Kwang-ho said his novel business model has attracted visitors from Macedonia, Saudi
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FLASHLIGHTS ARE NOT HEADLIGHTS
The Knoxville, Tenn., Police Dept. recently reminded motorists that all vehicles need working headlights for night driving. Included was a recent department photo of the car of a Sweetwater, Tenn., motorist who was ticketed
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HERMAPHRODITES NO MORE
In January, Mittens the kitten and Charcoal the Chihuahua made news as hermaphrodites that veterinarians had recommended be considered part of a particular gender. Mittens, of the town of Heart’s Desire, Newfoundland, was scheduled
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ROBOT CAMEL JOCKEYS
Two recent innovations to the generations-old Middle East sport of camel racing boosted its profile. First, to cleanse the sport of a sour period in which children from Bangladesh were trafficked for use as
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SANDRA, THE NON HUMAN PERSON
A court in Buenos Aires, Argentina, granted a petition in ordering the freedom of a Sumatran orangutan from Buenos Aires Zoo. Sandra, age 29, is a “non-human person” and thus sufficiently advanced in “cognitive
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FOUND IT!!
At a recent art show at Paris’ Palais de Tokyo, Italian artist Sven Sachsalber brought in a large haystack, dropped a needle into it and gave himself two days to find it. Late the
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