We’ve known for a while that one way to make the body impervious to certain diseases is to give it a low, safe dose of that disease, so our immune system gets a good idea of how to fight it and build up antibodies to fight it. That’s the basic concept for vaccination in general.
What’s […]
Let’s face it. You NEVER hear about McDonald’s and weight loss together in the same sentence, unless it’s how impossible the latter is given the prevalence of the former.
But Chris Coleson of Quinton, Virginia, USA has bucked that trend. He claims to have lost 80 pounds over six months, simply by eating every meal at […]
According to a neurophysiologist at the University of California named Katherine Rankin, sarcasm may have played a significant role in human evolution.
Dr. Rankin discovered that sarcasm plays an important role in human social interaction. And when people lose their ability to detect it in each other (such as after head injuries or illnesses like dementia), […]
The annual World’s Ugliest Dog, uh, pageant(?), has been the go-to place for all sorts of proud canine anti-aesthetics.
And this year’s competition was no different. From the throng of hopefuls emerged Gus, pictured above.
Gus is a pedigree Chinese crested with three legs, one eye, hairless skin except for a tuft on his forehead, and, after […]
The two kids in the picture above may not look like newborns–I’d think they look at least six months old–but twins Sean William Maynard and Abigail Rose Maynard were brought into this world just this week in North Carolina, USA.
Sean weighs 10 pounds, 14 ounces while Abigail Rose tips the scales at 12 pounds, 3 […]
If you remember, a while back we posted an entry about Beauty, the bald eagle who got most of her beak shot off by a hunter.
Happily, she recently got fitted with a prosthetic beak replacement, which has helped her drink and feed more easily.
It’s only a prototype beak, though, and a final version will […]
People don’t usually toss lots of junk into a city water reservoir, unless as part of a comic-book villain’s plot to take over the world or something.
But the Ivanhoe Reservoir in Los Angeles recently got 400,000 shimmering black plastic balls dumped into it for reasons that sound like they also cam from a comic book […]
If getting accidentally shot in the head with a nail gun ranks among your daytime nightmares, or is at least of those ideas that send shivers up your spine, here’s a reason to take heart: it’s actually quite painless.
Or at least so says George Chandler, a Shawnee from Kansas, USA. He and a buddy […]
This curious creature is not the product of a Photoshopping project–it’s a real live Roe deer with a single horn in the middle of its forehead, just like the legendary unicorn.
The deer, aptly named Unicorn, was born in captivity inside a research park in Prato, Italy. The single horn is thought to be due to […]
Well, actually, it’s not. The sell-by dates on cartons of organic milk indicate a much longer shelf life compared to regular milk, but that’s not because the milk is organic.
The real reason lies in the processing each kind of milk goes through before being put on the market.
Organic milk is pasteurized at a higher temperature […]