Tuesday, December 4, 2007
God Zammit!!!
Thieves stole 17.6 tons of ham and bacon from a warehouse and left behind a message busting the owners' chops, police said Monday."Thanks," the crooks daubed on a wall of the Zammit Ham and Bacon curers warehouse in suburban Sydney. "Merry Christmas."
Police said the robbery occurred some time between late afternoon Saturday and dawn Sunday.
Owner Anthony Zammit said that when he arrived for work Monday he found a hole in a wall of the building where the thieves appeared to have entered. The stolen meat was worth up to $88,000, he said.
Zammit said he was offering a $4,420 reward for anyone who helped to recover the meat, and that his company would work overtime to make sure all its Christmas orders were filled.
Chimp Off The Old Block
Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won.That challenges the belief of many people, including many scientists, that "humans are superior to chimpanzees in all cognitive functions," said researcher Tetsuro Matsuzawa of Kyoto University.
"No one can imagine that chimpanzees, young chimpanzees at the age of 5 , have a better performance in a memory task than humans," he said in a statement.
What's going on here? Even with six months of training, three students failed to catch up to the three young chimps, Matsuzawa said in an e-mail.
He thinks two factors gave his chimps the edge. For one thing, he believes human ancestors gave up much of this skill over evolutionary time to make room in the brain for gaining language abilities.
The other factor is the youth of Ayumu and his peers. The memory for images that's needed for the tests resembles a skill found in children, but which dissipates with age.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
It's Over!
The lights of Broadway will shine brightly again after stagehands and producers reached a tentative agreement Wednesday evening, ending a 19-day strike.Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Is That A Wang In Your Underwear?
A Penn student arrested today apparently had a very bizarre past time. The man is being accused of stealing women's underwear right out of their dorm rooms.Philadelphia Police say the University of Pennsylvania has a classic stalker in its midst. He's a 4-year member of the undergraduate student body. He was arrested last week during his alleged second break in at a female student's living quarters in a two-day period.
Diexia Wang, a senior at the University of Pennsylvania, faces multiple charges, including burglary, criminal trespassing, harassment and theft. His alleged victims were female students at Penn. Many of them live in the residence hall where Wang lives.
Wang is a math major from Oxford, Mississippi. He is free tonight on $200,000 bail.
Half Man - Half Tree
There is just one part of this man’s massively disfigured body that isn’t ravaged with gnarled tree-like growths.And today there’s a glint of hope in Dede’s clear brown eyes, because his 20-year nightmare could be coming to an end.
Dede’s grotesque limbs are caused by a virus and rare immune system disorder, but Dr Gaspari believes they’ll disappear with a high dosage of Vitamin A.
Hungry?
Doctors have removed a 10-pound hairball from the stomach of an 18-year-old woman, the New England Journal of Medicine reported last week.The woman had gone to the doctor because of vomiting, abdominal pain and weight loss. Doctors said she also suffered from a condition called trichophagia, or the compulsive eating of hair.
The Chicago doctors surgically removed the 15-inch-long, 7-inch-wide mass, which was taking up most of the room in her stomach.
The journal reports that a year after surgery, the woman is pain-free and no longer eating her hair.
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