Archive for the 'Strange People News' Category

Awesome vid: Tornado flips bus

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

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 […]

The Purple Painted Pigeon mystery

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

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 […]

Bigfoot corpse or gorilla suit?

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

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 […]

Video: Solar cookers in Darfur

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

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 […]

Some hope in the battle vs. bacteria

Friday, August 15th, 2008

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 […]

Fit or fat: why not both?

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

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 […]

This baby’ll make geomancers flip

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

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 […]

Koreans ready for commercial mass-production… of dogs

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

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 […]

World’s first double arm transplant

Friday, August 8th, 2008

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 […]

One more thing to blame genes for

Friday, August 1st, 2008

Lazy? Never feel like going out and exercising? would you rather sit in front of the TV or surf the web like you’re doing now?
It could be because of your genes.
A team of scientists at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte have used to number studies to come to a conclusion that genetics may predispose […]