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  • Honeybees May Help Search For Landmines

    Dogs are well-known for being able to sniff out deadly explosives but they could have a rival in the future - honeybees. Researchers say the insects have a perfect sense of smell that can detect the odour and they may be used to help find unexploded landmines in Croatia. The sugar-craving bees are being trained to identify their food by using the scent of TNT (trinitrotoluene), a powerful ...

  • Paid to sniff an armpit You bet

    who loves her job just as much as Mr Gooley, even though she has to sniff strangers' armpits for a living.As the company's "underarm odour assessor'' she works on research and development for brands like Rexona, Dove, Lynx and Impulse."The first time I took part in sniffing it did seem a bit strange however, within the first week of the job it was fine,'' ...

  • To manage your diabetes Weird Science recommends the munchies

    Fire ants are an invasive species in the warmer areas of the US, and we here at Weird Science are told by people who have experienced the invasion personally that their fearsome reputation is well deserved. So, normally, you'd expect said people to be happy to hear that the fire ants population seems to be going down. Unfortunately, it's going down because an even more deranged ant is ...

  • Eric Holder idiot zen master

    Prison Planet.com May 18, 2013 In his recent testimony before Congress, US Attorney General Eric Holder, the so-called highest law-enforcement officer in the land, responded to questions about the AP scandal. Holder's Justice Dept. had secretly subpoenaed and seized the phone records of Associated Press reporters. Holder stated he didn't know anything about anything, because he had ...

  • Strange SA key points

    Johannesburg - In defiance of Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa’s refusal to publicly disclose a list of national key points, the bid by civil society coalition Right2Know (R2K) to "crowd source" the list has turned up 84 of the estimated 180 to 200 ...

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Secret Window

Secret Window

(Major spoiler warning: For those who havent seen the movie yet, abandon this review and come back later if you dont want to know what the movies big twist is.) ...

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  • What the zombies reveal about our true fears

    , which is both its strength and its flaw. It's a flaw if you're expecting traditional horror and dread. The kind of dread that does emerge is, for example, a young gay man's dread of coming out. Or an immigrant's horror at being forced to fit into a closed society that loathes him.Kieren returns to his home village of Roarton, in northern England. Complications arise ...

  • A Good Appetite Cocktail Nuts With a Spicy Twist

    For many years, one of my favorite places to meet someone for a cocktail was the King Cole Bar at the St. Regis Hotel. I loved the moodiness of the dark-paneled room, the whimsy of the Maxfield Parrish mural behind the ...

  • The IRSs Bizarre Parsing of the Word Targeted

    sat on for more than a year or you receive a flurry of excessive and/or illegal information requests, that's not targeting. That's what former acting IRS commissioner Steve Miller, speaking at a new Ways & Means hearing, on Friday called "horrible customer service."To a layperson, the semantic parsing over whether the Tea Party-type groups were targeted or not seems ...

  • Popular Resistance Is Percolating Across the Country -- The Inspiring Actions True Patriots Are Taking That the Corporate Media Always Ignores

    Every week we are inspired by the many people throughout the country who are doing excellent work to challenge the power structure and put forward a new path for the country. The popular resistance to plutocracy, concentrated wealth and corporatism is decentralized, creative and growing. One growing series of protests has been the "MoralMonday" demonstrations in North Carolina. They ...

  • Edmonton police release image of car linked to bizarre alleged abduction

    Edmonton police have released a photo radar image taken May 10, 2013, of a new dark grey Dodge Dart involved in the alleged abduction of a woman on May 16, 2013, near Rexall ...

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