Oct 16, 2004
Here’s a very strange item from Peru.
Almost 150 riot police in Lima battled against fruit vendors for control of the city’s largest wholesale fruit market. The fighting resulted in 23 police officers and 10 fruit workers being injured with more than 110 arrested. Police General Luis Montoya said, “This is a war.”
Oct 7, 2004
I know that many people just hate turning on that bright bathroom light in the middle of the night when nature calls. So, what to do, what to do? In response to this most confounding of dilemas comes the Lav-Nav Nightlight. Lav-Nav, short for Lavatory Navigation, is basically an illuminated toilet. It even features [...]
Oct 6, 2004
BBC News reports that a US team of scientists have recreated a deadly flu virus. An experiment in which researchers added 2 genes to a non-lethal modern flu strain proved very lethal to lab mice which died within days after being exposed.
While the research is vital in providing us with new and better ways of [...]
Oct 6, 2004
Hamster owners in western Canada and northwestern Ontario are being asked to contact their doctors. The Public Health Agency of Canada said that some hamsters from a Manitoba pet distributor have tested positive for Type B tularemia, which is a bacterial infection capable of being transmitted to humans from rodents.
Dr.David Butler-Jones, the Chief Public Health [...]