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News Briefs 21-07-2004

So, did Jupiter lose its core, or did it not ever have one? Post your thoughts.

  • Jupiter may have no core. Sounds about right according to this work.
  • Sacred geometry in the Boyne Valley? Perhaps it should be Orange shaped?
  • Secrets of the lost tribe: the Etruscan legacy.
  • A window into the Skull & Bones Society: Skeletons in the closet.
  • Could underwater patterns be evidence of super megalithic ruins on the bottom of the ocean?
  • Ancient DNA reveals skin colour.
  • The mystery of animal colours.
  • Property of Intelligence seemingly throughout the brain rather than in single area.
  • Oestrogen key to boosting male sex drive.
  • Diet can affect brain health. So, not too many vodka jellies at breakfast then.
  • Gene scientists plan aggression drug. Side effects include growing breasts and wanting to look like Marilyn Monroe.
  • Is 16th Century Voynich Manuscript a hoax?
  • Does the Gobi have its very own Sarlaac?
  • Flower power gadget turns flowers into amplifiers.
  • How has the US been spending other people’s billions? All governments spend other people’s billions.
  • Elves and Sprites: too high for planes and too low for satellites. So how come the casual certainty of the theory explaining them?
  • Yawning is catching in chimps. I wonder if deaf and blind people also yawn in synchrony with others? Having said that, perhaps they yawn all the time. They can’t have much to do.
  • The discovery of rapid climate change.
  • Comets and the bronze age collapse.

Quote of the Day:

Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: The only time we doctors should accept death is when it’s caused by our own incompetence.

Dr. Alfred Necessiter: Nonsense. If the murder of twelve innocent people can help save one human life, it will have been worth it.

The Man With Two Brains

  1. Yawning
    I think your ‘joke’ about deaf and blind people ‘…can’t have much to do…’ is uncalled for – and unnecessary – and rather incongruous with this site.

    I hope you will regret making it.

    Regards,

    Barry.

    1. Insight
      OK. Would be a fair point if society didn’t provide deaf people with signed programs only in the dead of night. The truth is they don’t get the opportunities many of us take for granted, and humour is a good method of bringing something like that to the fore – if you are smart enough to catch it.

      I don’t hope you will regret making your comment. I was expecting it from somebody.

      Jameske

      1. Addendum and quote of the day
        Just in case anyone else (or the avenging angel Barry) wants to have a go at the Quote of the Day as well as comments on the lives of the disabled or aggression pills that make men grow breasts, then consider Doctors and malpractice, or politicians going to war. Sometimes humour works to good effect. Alternatively, if it is all in bad taste you could get in touch with the actor/comedian Steve Martin, and the Klingon David Warner, by trying this site. They might also not appreciate the flak.

        As for me, I have of late lost all my mirth…

        Hamlet

      2. Yeah,
        The disabled don’t get

        Yeah,
        The disabled don’t get the opportunities many of us take for granted: like being Home Secretary? They have more motivation than the rest of us put together.
        Put the gun away mate while you have some feet left!

        Baldrick

      3. Hear no evil, speak no evil …
        Jameske,

        If you were making a point, and raising an issue, then provide a link to go with it. There’s a bad way and a good way to use such humour, and you chose the bad way.

        Well, not bad, but it was sloppy. Add more context next time! I know how it is to have a subtle sense of humour — I often make jokes that people stare blankly at, then hours later they walk past me chuckling, “I get it now!” I’d put it down to them being stupid, but a speech pathologist friend has often chastised me for not adding context to things I say. Subtle is in good, but there’s a fine line between subtle and vague.

        A link to a news item regarding the incongruities of signed programs never being scheduled at reasonable hours instead of the dead of night when most people are asleep would have added context. Having said that however, I couldn’t google any! So I’ll go away now and work on my own news briefs.

        I hope my subject line joke isn’t too subtle! 😉

        With sincere context,

        Rico

        “Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.” – Philip Pullman

          1. news
            Okay, I’ll comment on one item in the news:

            I’m not the least bit surprised by the compassionate conservatism the Bush Administration is showing Iraq — not spending any U.S. (or Iraqi) funds to fix everything they bombed to smithereens, taking billions of Iraq’s oil money while refusing to say what they’re spending it on, spending a billion or two for Halliburten’s catering service for U.S. troops (necessary, but overpriced due to no bids being let on the contract). I’m also not surprised by the great PR campaign the U.S. has used in Iraq – no jobs, no infrastructure, no health care, and no plans for any real reconstruction. Obviously the only concrete plan they had going in, was the torturing and murdering of prisoners, who were completely lacking in that highly touted U.S. value of due process (no lawyer, no day in court, no appeal, before being ‘accidently’ executed).

            Bush makes me ashamed of being a tax-paying registered U.S. voter.

  2. Theft
    I am going to go to the front of the classroom, turn around and count to twenty.
    By the time I have reached twenty I expect to turn around again and find the moonrocks back where they belong.
    Don’t pretend you dont know what I am talking about, I know who the culprits are, and will be taking the matter up with Mr. Nixon should the matter not be resolved.
    Some of you are very naughty.

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