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Awesome vid: Tornado flips bus

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 23rd, 2008

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So there’s this choir in Poland, and they’re in the middle of a storm, and there’s about 37 of them.

One of them has a video camera and starts filming the storm outside when from out of nowhere comes this tornado, which flips the whole goldarned bus, with everyone in it, and the guy still filming!

Of course the only reason I’m putting this link up is because no one got seriously hurt.

You can watch the video here.

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The Purple Painted Pigeon mystery

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 21st, 2008

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Sure people living in and around The Big Apple, New York, are used to seeing pigeons. And a lot of those pigeons are purple. But this particular purple pigeon was a lot more purple than the rest, and with good reason: it was cruelly painted that color!

The victimized bird was unable to fly because its feathers had all gone stiff, and was taken to a nearby wildlife rehab outfit.

Let’s hope this doesn’t start a trend.

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Bigfoot corpse or gorilla suit?

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 20th, 2008

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Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer, two men from Georgia, USA claim that the above picture depicts the frozen corpse of the legendary Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot.

The couple claim that they found the corpse in the woods in northern Georgia and kept it in a freezer for a month, after which they called a press conference and admitted that they wouldn’t mind making money off their “find”.

Later, and to no one’s surprise, the whole thing was proven a hoax.

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Mama, is that you?

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 19th, 2008

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Old story: Whale swims up alongside yacht.

New story: Baby whale swims up alongside yacht, without its mother.

Strangest Science News Blog story: Baby whale swims up alongside yacht and stays with it, mistaking it for its mother.

It all happened of the Sydney coast, and if a new pod isn’t found for the little guy, he or she is gonna get euthanized.

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Video: Solar cookers in Darfur

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 16th, 2008

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The Time.com website has put up a video slideshow report about how Darfur refugees have benefited from solar technology that allows them to cook food using the power of the sun.

The alternative, burning firewood, has proven dangerous in the past, not because of the fire but because going off into the bush to gather firewood has put Darfur women at risk.

Link is here.

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Some hope in the battle vs. bacteria

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 15th, 2008

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To many we might seem to be losing the war against bacteria. They keep evolving and getting more virulent while we struggle to catch up and create new antibiotic drugs while misusing the ones we already have.

Still, according to Dr. Bonnie Bassler, there is a bit of a bright side. The recent salmonella scare, for example, was more due to a faulty food system than evolving bacteria.

Read the full interview here.

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Fit or fat: why not both?

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 14th, 2008

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I’ve had overweight friends who seemed pretty active, physically coordinated and generally healthy, and now science has accepted that fact, too.

Recent reports show that about half of over weight people and about a third of obese people in the US have normal cholesterol, blood pressure and other criteria for physical health.

On the other hand, about a quarter of people with normal weight were determined to be at risk of heart disease or diabetes.

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This baby’ll make geomancers flip

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 12th, 2008

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Numerologists, geomancers, feng shui practitioners and other soothsayer types were probably beside themselves with delight when the news came out Hailey Jo Hauer, a baby whose birth was loaded with the number eight.

Born at 8:08 a.m. on August 8, 2008 (8/8/08), Hauer weighed 8 pounds, eight ounces.

8 is considered a lucky number by many. And if it is, we can probably expect Hailey’s name to come up in the lottery winners’ list in the future.

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Koreans ready for commercial mass-production… of dogs

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 9th, 2008

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RNL Bio is the Seoul-based company that has fired the opening shot in the race to profit from nutty pet owners.

This week, RNL Bio released five pit bull puppies cloned form the dead dog of an American woman named Bernann McKinney.

The deceased canine who provided the DNA for this historic achievement bore the appropriately dignified moniker, “Booger”.

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World’s first double arm transplant

by strangestsciencenews.com ~ August 8th, 2008

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This German patient is sure to be clasping double armfuls of happiness to his painkiller-saturated breast right now, after being the first person in history to receive transplants of two complete arms.

A team of 40 medics labored for 15 hours in a hospital near Munich, Germany to give the unidentified patient back the appendages he lost six years ago in a horrible accident.

And what does one say after waking up with someone else’s hands? “It’s alive!”? Well, according to the doctors the patient’s first words were, “Very good.”

My question is, where did the arms come from? Strangest Science News suggests that the patient watch the film “Idle hands”.

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