News Briefs 25-09-2012
Posted by Greg at 12:38, 25 Sep 2012Hi anonymous readers out there who never comment! Goodness there's a lot of you…
- The Big Pharma scandal: the drugs don't work.
- Animals are conscious and should be treated as such.
- Death rituals in the animal kingdom.
- Super-pig rescues a baby goat from drowning. Saved his bacon, one might say...
- Meet Zeus, the tallest dog ever recorded.
- Ancient sarcophagus-like tombs discovered in Philppines jungle.
- Study shows ancient relations between language families.
- Italian officials bring Da Vinci Code-style quest to a premature end.
- Does telepathy conflict with science?
- The Office of Naval research wants to fund more research on intuition.
- New Age movements are easy to mock - but they have long-shaped the American experience.
- Two skeptics see a chupacabra.
- Exposed: manufacturing conglomerates plan for moving humans off of Earth.
- Humans hunted for meat 1.6 million years earlier than previously thought. Go back much further and we'll be talking about brontosaurus burgers…
- Slivers of quartz can store data for hundreds of millions of years without degrading. The more our science progresses, the more it seems that messages from ancients or aliens could be all around us…
- An ayahuasca-inspired Irish icaro.
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21 January 2005
23 min 35 sec
A refreshing observation:
"Travis and I learned a great lesson, which is to treat people reporting an unusual sighting with respect and not to 'tell' them what they’ve seen. There is a lot of weird stuff out there. Skeptics often have as much trouble as paranormal believers in just accepting 'we don’t know.' Travis and I have developed a better understanding of how it must feel to have skeptics tell you what you saw, wasn’t what you saw."
14 April 2009
7 weeks 5 days
"Hi anonymous readers out there who never comment! Goodness there's a lot of you…"
They have to be observed to collapse into nonanonymous readers...:3
(the multiverse is everywhere and quite tricky)
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All that lives is holy, life delights in life.
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21 June 2008
1 week 1 day
I briefly worked for a medical research organization that got nicked by the FDA for falsifying clinical trials results. Fearing the loss of funding from big pharmaceutical company trials, without pressure from big pharma, researchers were fudging results in favor of trial drugs. It was felt that too many negative results would result in a loss of clinical trials funding for the organization across the board.
The FDA was threatening to shut down all drug and device research, yet researchers were still tap dancing around with their fudged results. I was let go after I casually mentioned that I commuted to work daily with a federal government health care fraud investigator. All in all, no big loss for me because I quickly had lost any respect for the people I worked for and came to see them as bottom feeders no matter how many advanced degrees, from which highly respected institutions, they held.
Sometimes, it's not just the pharmaceutical companies who are committing fraud.
6 April 2010
9 hours 40 min
Greg gets +10 internetz for posting 5 animal stories in a row, and after loosing a pet this week to illness, it made me smile :)
the tallest dog link is broken though
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
12 April 2007
13 hours 31 min
I guess a wombat ate that news at the Herald Sun. I fixxored the link by using the story at the SF gate.
PS: Sorry to hear about your loss, bro :(
It's not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me...
It's all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!
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6 April 2010
9 hours 40 min
As for the tallest dog, a lot of people are saying he is too skinny or malnourished, but I think he is relatively healthy looking considering his medical issues. He would be showing other signs, like extreme exhaustion if he wasn't get enough food. My guess is that the combination of hormone therapy he's getting to stop his growth, and his own metabolism is what is causing his gangly look. Also it takes a long time for a dogs weight to adjust to a change, sometimes years especially if they are that big. I have seen malnourished dogs and rescued a few and the biology of every animal is different. You have to consider that his skin is being stretched over an ever expanding frame and over feeding could result in a metabolic catastrophe. If you are not a vet, don't judge how someone takes care of their dog, but if you witness true abuse don't be a bystander. We see greyhounds and don't call them malnourished, but I'll be damned if someone tries to convince me those racing dogs aren't abused. And no I am not a vet, but if I had a dog like this (and a house big enough) or with any medical condition I would consult a vet with how to handle his diet and go from there, which is likely what the owners are trying to do.
Sorry for all this, but I love animals and I will not stand for attacks on other animal lovers or their creatures.
...I forgot how I got here but everyone seems to be heading off in that direction. I hope someone brought food. I have a feeling this is going to be a long journey................
20 April 2012
10 weeks 9 hours
Does a bad HTML link conflict with realitysandwich article? Read my mind...