A urine-soaked egg.
At the end of the school day in the eastern Chinese city of Dongyang, eager parents collect their children after a hectic day of primary school. That is also the start of busy times for dozens of egg vendors across the city, deep in coastal Zhejiang province, who ready themselves to cook up a unique springtime snack favored by local residents.
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If you’re a hard worker , it makes you slack off.
If you think that drinking coffee will give you that extra kick to keep you going , think again, for a new study says that the “stimulant” effect of coffee only works on lazy people.
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This is great news for dogs and dog lovers: there is a new method to sterilize male dogs without surgery! It’s called Esterilsol, a solution of zinc gluconate, L-Arginine and water that is shot into the dog’s scrotum.
The method—also called zeutering—will sterilize your dog within a month. It has now been approved for 10-month and younger dogs in the United States. So far, about 300 dogs have been neutered in this way…
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Researchers studied 75 people at a manufacturing company where each day for a week 20 to 30 people were allowed to bring their dogs to work.
Bringing a dog to work could come with practical difficulties, but a trial at an American company suggested it improved people’s job satisfaction.
Cheers!
You are told before you reach 21 that drinking alcohol is bad for you . Then you’re suddenly told that, really, it’s drinking alcohol and driving that’s bad. The latter is definitely true. But the former? Scientists aren’t so sure.
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When faced with pathogenic fungi, bees line their hives with more propolis – the waxy, yellow substance seen here.
Research from North Carolina State University shows that honey bees “self-medicate” when their colony is infected with a harmful fungus, bringing in increased amounts of antifungal plant resins to ward off the pathogen…
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Croatian seamstress Radmila Kus
Croatian seamstress Radmila Kus has revealed she is struggling to cope with the huge demand for her latest product – her very own range of willy warmers. Knitting fan Radmila said ‘she just can’t keep up’ after launching her bespoke men’s product – and has had to recruit a small army of knitters in a bid to increase production…
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Google’s self-driving cars have absolutely nothing to do with Google’s core business, and Google has never even tried to explain how they’re going to make money.
But so what? They’re really cool. They push technology forward. And as this video shows, they could make people’s lives better in real, tangible ways…
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Europeans down the equivalent of 12.5 litres of pure alcohol a year or almost three glasses of wine a day.
People in Europe drink more alcohol than in any other part of the world. They down the equivalent of 12.5 liters of pure alcohol a year or almost three glasses of wine a day, according to report by the World Health Organization and the European Commission.
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Opana is the hot new prescription drug of abuse.
C.J. Coomer got good grades and played football back in high school in Houston, Texas. He was dark-haired and handsome, popular with his friends and doted on by his family.
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The most extensive face transplant ever gives a man a new jaw, teeth, tongue, muscle, tissue, bone and skin.
Thirty seven year old Richard Lee Norris from Virginia was so severely disfigured by a 1997 gun accident, he has received the most extensive full-face transplant in medical history, according to University of Maryland Medical Center surgeons.
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What if oil company executives were only allowed to drink fracked water?
Toxic fracking chemicals that leached into the ground making you sick? Why that’s bad press for the oil industry!
That’s why they came up with this ingenious (in an evil way) to deal with the problem: “gag” doctors from telling their patients what is making them sick. See, problem solved!
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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