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Robert said:

Adventures in brain-hacking: how an electrical stimulator boosted my IQ

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I've heard about this electrical brain stimulation thing for years now but I've never got it to work when using what I would consider safe voltages. They say that the stimulator is passing 2mA through the head? That's a pretty hefty current. If you have 9v that means the head has a resistance of 4.5kΩ. That's at least 3 orders of magnitude too low. Perhaps they are putting 9000V through the electrodes ... unlikely ... at least I hope it's unlikely, but maybe that accounts for the burns!!! Or perhaps the burns are chemical from salts in the wet sponges... or maybe they are really talking about μA.

No sh*t, Sherlock! Bloke suspected of swallowing drug stash keeps colon schtum for 22 DAYS
Cops frustrated by lack of movement in the case
The Operation Raptor cops have been tweeting about the case under the hashtag #poowatch ever since he began his colonic campaign, and say the suspect is under the impression he will have to be released eventually and therefore he's going to hold on.

Sadly for the clenching criminal suspect, the British justice system thinks he's full of crap (as well as drugs, allegedly.)

The police went to a judge to get permission to continue to keep him behind bars, pointing out the prisoner is free to go once he goes but is choosing not to. The court agreed, and multiple extended detention orders have since been granted, keeping him in custody until there's a sphinctal solution.

woman, 21, who practised 'occultism' dismembered the body of her boyfriend after he 'died during a sex game'


On her online account, Onegina, the daughter of a policeman, wrote: 'I only want 3 things in this world: See you. Hug you. Kiss you.'

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metalman said:

woman, 21, who practised 'occultism' dismembered the body of her boyfriend after he 'died during a sex game'


On her online account, Onegina, the daughter of a policeman, wrote: 'I only want 3 things in this world: See you. Hug you. Kiss you.'

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BAD KARMA CHAMELEONS —
West sent lizards as nuclear spies, claims Iran defense official
Arrest of environmentalists justified by claiming reptiles collect "atomic waves."

A senior military advisor to Iran's supreme leader claims reptiles can be used for nuclear espionage because they "attract atomic waves."

The senior military advisor to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei claimed in a press conference in Tehran today that Western nations had deployed reptiles as nuclear spies. Agence France-Presse reports that Hassan Firuzabadi, previously chief of staff of Iran's military, justified the recent arrest of environmentalists by claiming that the West had used scientists and environmental activists to spy on Iran's nuclear program by deploying lizards that could "attract atomic waves."

A 26-year-old Oregon woman has received the undesirable title of the first human to have tiny parasitic worms previously only ever seen in cattle squirming around in her eyeball.

Infectious disease experts reported that the woman had a total of 14 of the wriggling parasites pulled from her left eyeball after she experienced eye irritation. This happened in August 2016, although the experts only published their paper on Monday, February 12. The woman pulled most of the worms out herself over a 20-day period, despite visiting several doctors. The translucent worms were less than a half-inch long. Since then, she’s made a full recovery, with no more irritation or any evidence of additional worms.

Several of the parasites pulled from her peepers were sent to experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Parasitic Diseases Reference Laboratory. There, the worms were identified as Thelazia gulosa, a type of tiny worm that’s known to infect the eyeballs of cattle in the US and Southern Canada, as well as Europe, Central Asia, and Australia—but never seen in humans before. The authors report the find in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

The worms live in between the eyeball and the eyelid and tend to cause mild inflammation and an irritating sensation of having something in your eye. Occasionally, they can try to swim across the eyeball and cause corneal scarring and blindness.

They move from eye to eye by hitching a ride in face flies that drink tears, typically in the Musca genera of flies. Worm larvae in tears get sucked into the fly’s intestines, where they grow and go through two molts. When they’re ready, they move up to the fly’s mouthparts and await eyeball delivery.

CDC experts suspect that the Oregon woman picked up the infection while horse riding or fishing in Oregon over the summer. The flies and parasites are known to pester cattle in the region. And the CDC experts suspect that she may have simply delayed swatting away a face fly while she was focused on her summer activities.

Robert said:

BAD KARMA CHAMELEONS —
West sent lizards as nuclear spies, claims Iran defense official
Arrest of environmentalists justified by claiming reptiles collect "atomic waves."

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Bizarre indeed. Sounds like a bad translation. Strange that the people detained should have desert reptiles in their possession. Collecting wild animals from various parts to see what isotopes they collect in their bodies over time is an interesting idea. I don't know that reptiles would accumulate isotopes better than other animals, but in the desert there may not be too many animals to choose from. Cesium and Strontium often collect in bone. Perhaps reptile scales would trap isotopes better than other parts of the reptile, and because of the way they grow they would contain are sort of time stamp on the samples. Interesting idea.

Mexican exploding hammer festival?

FluffyMcDeath said:

Bizarre indeed. Sounds like a bad translation. Strange that the people detained should have desert reptiles in their possession. Collecting wild animals from various parts to see what isotopes they collect in their bodies over time is an interesting idea. I don't know that reptiles would accumulate isotopes better than other animals, but in the desert there may not be too many animals to choose from. Cesium and Strontium often collect in bone. Perhaps reptile scales would trap isotopes better than other parts of the reptile, and because of the way they grow they would contain are sort of time stamp on the samples. Interesting idea.

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A common misconception. Having been born and raised in a desert environment i can tell you that deserts are thriving with life. I think the misconception comes where people don't see the animals so assume they are not there but they are just out of sight. Where i am from Kangaroos live underground in burrows like Rabbits.

FluffyMcDeath said:

Mexican exploding hammer festival?

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"fiesta del martillo explosivo" San Juan de la Vega, Guanajuato, Mexico
coincides with the parade of San Juan Bautista ( John the Baptist )

Aching bad: 'Kingpin Granny' nicked in huge prescription drugs bust
Raid on 75-year-old's home yields over a thousand pills

metalman said:

woman, 21, who practised 'occultism' dismembered the body of her boyfriend after he 'died during a sex game'


On her online account, Onegina, the daughter of a policeman, wrote: 'I only want 3 things in this world: See you. Hug you. Kiss you.'

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Russian woman, 21, admits she killed her boyfriend in a sex game, cut off his genitals, fingers and toes, gouged out his insides and put them in the freezer

"Onegina's husband previously died in suspicious circumstances shortly after their wedding.
After his death, she was sentenced to a psychiatric hospital for a year and a half, but was then released."

Suspects arrested in theft, slaughter of pregnant Berlin petting zoo goat

Police are unsure if Sunday's crime was related to one three weeks ago, when a pregnant sheep named Rose was found slaughtered in nearby bushes.

Man murdered after WhatsApp argument over who was 'least gay'

Former Freemason, 51, found drunk and naked inside a huge pipe organ with a toy gun and remote-controlled police car says he got lost while trying to hand out cheeseburgers to the homeless

the damaged historic pipe organ was insured for more than $1 million. Glenn Langford was arrested on Wednesday after allegedly flooding the Brisbane Masonic Memorial Centre and setting off the fire alarms.
Mr Langford is charged with damaging a number of organ pipes and destroying part of a decorative wall.

‘Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying’ in Seattle’s Greenwood area!'

“Hi. Suddenly there is a Confederate flag flying in front of a house in my Greenwood neighborhood. It is at the north-east corner of 92nd and Palatine, just a block west of 92nd and Greenwood Ave N. I would love to know what this ‘means’ … but of course don’t want to knock on their door. Maybe others in the area are flying the flag? Maybe it’s a story? Thank you.”


It was from Rebecca Morris, who is an author of The New York Times best-seller true-crime books. So, of course, we drove to that corner.

A woman taken into custody after driving her car into a White House barricade claims President Trump is her fiancée.



In court, she then said she was going to visit her fiancée, President Trump.

On Friday, police said Ford had a gun, which turned out to be a BB gun.

Last year, Ford tried scaling a fence and jumping over security gates at the White House.