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Camels drop their body temperature in the morning: with a purpose- win a harem Physorg.com

Emeritus Professor Gordon Grigg, from UQ's School of Biological Sciences, and a team of colleagues working in Central Australia, have found male camels have the ability to drop their body temperature which may help them last longer in rutting displays.

“Rutting involves very energetic daily display “fighting” during which bulls contest ownership of a herd of females,” Professor Grigg said.

“By starting each day cooler, a bull can postpone heat stress, compete for longer, win more contests and potentially sire more offspring.”

Dumb People

You don't celebrate a holiday burning cars- "Rioters burn 300 cars in France"- Salon

France's national holiday, Bastille Day, has been overshadowed by a night of rioting in which more than 300 cars were torched on the streets of Paris and other cities.

There are many ways to blow up things- even your mattress can be handy- Yahoo! News

A German who tried to fix his leaky air mattress blew up his apartment instead, the fire brigade in the western city of Duesseldorf said on Wednesday.

The 45-year-old man used tyre repair solvent to plug a hole in his airbed and left it overnight.

But it blew up when he went to inflate it the next day." A spark from the electric air pump ignited it," a fire brigade spokesman said.

Germans seem to have a way of getting into trouble, like in a manhole- Metro.co.uk

A German beer drinker ended up in an awkward situation after he failed to spot an open drain and fell inside - and then had to be freed by firemen because his oversized beer belly left him wedged inside.

(There is a photo for you)

This is really clever- "Soldier won't go to Afghanistan because he doesn't believe Obama is the president of the United States"- Boing Boing via daily irrelevant:

Birthers insist that a giant conspiracy has taken place. The birth certificate showing that Obama was born in Honolulu in August 1961 is fake, they say. Birthers are also certain that some kind of time travel treachery has been undertaken by shadow pinko government agents, who warped themselves back to 1961 to insert notices in the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star Bulletin saying that "Mr. and Mrs. Barack H. Obama" gave birth to a son on August 4, 1961.

Madness is the pandemic of the age- "Al-Qaeda Vows To hit China Over Uighur Unrest"- National Terror Alert

Al-Qaeda is threatening for the first time to attack Chinese interests overseas in retaliation for the deaths of Muslims in the restive region of Xinjiang, according to a risk analysis group.

Clever Stuff:

This is the best that Man can do: Heal a Heart- Physorg.

This April 12 2006 picture shows Hannah Clark, of Cardiff Wales, who has made a full recovery after she given an extra heart at the age of two. Hannah had a donor heart grafted on to her own after suffering heart failure as a baby. After 10 years with two hearts, Hannah Clark's heart did what many experts had thought impossible: it healed itself enough so that doctors could remove the donor heart. Details of Clark's revolutionary transplant and follow-up were published online Tuesday, July 14, 2009 in the medical journal, Lancet.

Please check Physorg for the photo and the incredible story.

And, we being what we are,

One's own nature is great because It can contain all things. As all things are contained in Your own nature, If good and bad people are Viewed with neither attachment Nor repulsion, also without Contamination, the mind which Is like space, is called great. For this reason, it is called maha. - Altar Sutra

via Daily Zen.


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