posted at Daves Daily
1. Polar bears are left-handed.
2. If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.
3.The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.
4. A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.
5. The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body. The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.
6. The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football field.
7. The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.
8. Some lions mate over 50 times a day.
9. Butterflies taste with their feet.
10. The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.
11. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.
12. Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.
13. Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.
14. A cat's urine glows under a black light.
15. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
16. If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
17. Starfish have no brains.
18. Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.
19. A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.
Friday, January 06, 2006
Bet Ya Didnt Know
Monday, January 02, 2006
With this bone, I thee wed...
I like this idea MUCH better than the traditional gold band.
With this bone, I thee wed
COUPLES are turning to the laboratory to create "biojewellery" - bone rings grown from their DNA as a token of their love.
In an extreme test of devotion, they must submit to the removal of wisdom teeth and the extraction of a fragment of jawbone. A team has won ethical approval for the procedure, which is attracting commercial interest.
Tobie Kerridge, a British Royal College of Art research fellow and co-inventor of the idea, said it would cost about $11,700 to produce each ring.
Matthew Harrison, 25, who with his girlfriend, Harriet Harriss, 32, is to exchange rings, conceded that others might find it "disgusting".
But Mr Harrison, a product designer from London, said: "I see it as a set of biological connections instead of something like marriage, a legal connection." Ms Harriss described it as "incredibly poetic".
They are among four couples selected from hundreds of volunteers who will undergo the procedure at Guy's Hospital in London. Scientists, led by Ian Thompson of King's College, London, will use techniques pioneered for growing tissue outside the body.
Cells from a fragment of jawbone will be "seeded" on a ring-shaped scaffold structure, where they will grow for six to eight weeks.
The bone sample will then be crafted into a ring by Nikki Stott, a jewellery designer at the Royal College of Art.
Mr Kerridge has received an inquiry from an American venture capitalist, but the team has no plans to cash in.
From The Sunday Times of London in The Australian
