"He said: "I don't know how this happened. One minute we were playing and the next he had the gun in his mouth. This dog is my best friend.""

Mexican shot by his own dog

""Are we pooping now?" Skyler Russert, 8, kept asking the lab-coat clad "Dr. Perry Stalsis" -- really museum staffer Rick McDaniel -- whose mock-doc name plays on "peristalsis," the muscular contractions that shove food through our innards. "

Engrossing education in San Jose Kids learn bodily functions with glee

] Since the earliest research into the the English Language
] as spoken in North America was begun by Noah Webster in
] the early 18th century, the regional variations in
] dialect have always been the most challenging and
] difficult to explain field. Since the development of
] carbonated beverage in 1886, one of linguistic
] geography's most important and least investigated
] phenomena has been the sharp regional divisions in the
] use of the terms "pop" and "soda." Due to the domination
] of hard-line conservative lingusitic geographers in such
] leading institutions such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford and
] the University of the West Indies, this dilemma has been
] swept under the rug . . . until now. Using the new
] technologies of the Internet and the World Wide Web, I
] and my colleagues at the California Institute of
] Technology and Lewis & Clark College are undertaking a
] bold new research into this fascinating area.

Great maps to go along with this.

The Pop vs. Soda Page

] Each person drank two glasses of champagne per session.
] Ridout adjusted the exact intakes so that everyone drank
] the same amount of alcohol per kilogram of body mass.
] Sure enough, alcohol levels rose much faster among the
] bubbly drinkers. After just five minutes, they had an
] average of 0.54 milligrams of alcohol per millilitre of
] blood. Those drinking flat champagne averaged just 0.39
] milligrams of alcohol.

Champagne does get you drunk faster

] Preliminary research on the new drug suggests it could be
] much better at preventing breast cancer than tamoxifen,
] an earlier cancer "wonder drug". Tamoxifen reduces the
] risk of breast cancer by about a third. But crucially,
] anastrozole also has a much lower risk of side-effects,
] say researchers.

Interesting comparison of tamoxifen to anastrozole.

Major trial tackles breast cancer prevention: Anastrozole vs. Tamoxifen

] "I think this study is very important," says Mark Pagel,
] an evolutionary biologist at the University of Reading,
] UK. "What they are trying to show is that human mating
] patterns, wealth inheritance and dominance systems
] respond to ecological variation in the same way that we
] would expect animal populations to behave."
]
]
] Bride wealth
]
] Holden believes reason the acquisition of cattle led to a
] switch to male-dominated societies is most probably
] linked to the system of "bridewealth". This tradition, in
] which a bridegroom gives cattle to a bride's family, is
] particular to the Bantu speaking regions of
] sub-equatorial Africa.
]
] "If a man's got lots of cattle he can have lots of wives.
] So if you have cattle it makes sense to give it to sons
] rather than the daughters," she says. The fundamental
] reason for this is that wealthy, and therefore
] attractive, sons are likely to have more children than
] daughters, because while women must bear each child a man
] need only impregnate a woman.

Feminist Cows Moo: Eat more Chiken.

Cattle ownership makes it a man's world

] The Wollemi Pine, a plant from the Jurassic age which
] survived in a single isolated Australian grove, is set
] for an amazing comeback.
]
] It was once thought to be extinct, but in 2005 small
] plants cultivated from the pines will go on sale.

wilpig:
] While the story for this is neat. I just love the title of
] the article.

I think the meant potted.... Doh!

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Jurassic pot plants on sale soon

] Well, get ready to enter the dark side as I share with
] you what I told my new personal-trainer buddy.
]
]
] The Top 10 Deadlift Mistakes
]
] Mistake #1: Training the deadlift heavy all the time
]
] Very few people can train the deadlift week after week
] and still make progress. I feel the only ones who can get
] away with this are the ones who're built to deadlift. If
] you're built to pull, then the stress on your system is
] going to be less than those who aren't built to deadlift.

Dave Tate on the deadlift.

Testosterone Magazine | Issue 194 | The Dead Zone

] The Box Squat
]
] Technique is the most important factor in squatting big
] weights. If you're training with bad technique then it
] doesn't matter what supplemental exercises you use or how
] many sets or reps you perform. Your squat will only go so
] far and then get stuck. This article will describe the
] correct technique for performing the box squat. I feel
] the box squat is the best way to train the squat, period.
] The form is the same as the regular squat but with the
] added bonus of being able to develop explosive strength.
] The box squat also places all the stress directly on all
] the squatting muscles.
]
] Every member of Westside Barbell performs box squats year
] around with the only regular "free squat" being done in
] competition. The technique I'll describe has taken my
] squat from 760 to 935 over the past five years, but I
] wasn't always a big fan of the box squat. When I squatted
] 760, I didn't believe in box squatting and trained all my
] squats the same way many of you are doing now. I used a
] progressive overload method using the Western method of
] periodization. The result of all my hard work? My squat
] stayed at the 730 to 760 range for five years without any
] progress! I had to change. Part of this change included
] box squatting.

Dave Tate on box squats.

Squatting from Head to Toe

] The Kremlin yesterday denied a report that it had
] instigated a plot to assassinate the Russian tycoon Boris
] Berezovsky in a London courtroom using a poisoned
] fountain pen.

God, I miss Russian politics. So much more... FUN!

Kremlin denies poison pen plot