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The Darker Side of Folk Medicine

October 22, 2007

sriracha-tiger-zoo.jpg  At the Sriracha Tiger Zoo in  Thailand near Bangkok, they race pigs to supplement tiger breeding programs and cocodile exhibits.  Visitors can bet on a pig to win, and get a prize if their pig is victorious in the race.  The pig racing is cute and popular, as are the tiger cubs…but some of the tigers find their way to China where their body parts are in demand for folk medicine, which is not cool…

Similar demand for bear gall bladders and other body parts in China fuels the illegal slaughter of bears and other species in North America at the hands of poachers…a very dark and despicable business indeed!

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Why Dinosaurs?

October 19, 2007

– -So why the fascination with dinosaurs, and why do so many people…little boys and guys, especially…love them?–Well, dinosaurs didn’t take orders, did what they wanted to, and were best known for their larger specimens.  They appeal instinctually to the male Id, that primitive part in all of us.  Dinosaurs didn’t go out quietly, and didn’t die in nursing homes.  They were forever untamed, and were really an outgrowth of the natural world.–Primitive and good at it!

There’s also something cool to a kid about knowing of something adults don’t, and don’t even care about.  Dinosaurs are forever part of the internal kid landscape, and we hope for them to come back!

It’s fun to speculate about what life forms will survive beyond humans…roaches can!

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New Dinosaur Found!

October 18, 2007

dino.jpg   The Puertasaurus has been found in Argentina…a few vertebrae, at least.  It’s a new sauropod dinosaur that lived 70 – 90 million years ago in the late Cretaceous period. — This puppy was well over 100 feet long!

Don’t you love dinosaurs?  Most little boys do, and know more about them than almost anything else.  I used to have a pretty extensive collection of hard rubber dinosaurs when I was a kid.  If not for the mass extinction of 65 million years ago when that asteroid or whatever hit the earth, reptiles would probably have continued to evolve, probably becoming sentient and intelligent. 

But now that they’re safely dead, we can smugly call the dinosaurs clumsy and stupid…we’ll see if homo sapiens last for a fraction of the time that “Thunder Lizards” did!

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Milk Dud

October 16, 2007

cow.jpg     A cow in Cambodia was arrested and held at a police station on charges of causing six traffic deaths this year.  Most recently, a motorcycle rider hit the cow and died; many Cambodian roads are dark at night.  Earlier, a truck had veered off the road while trying to avoid the cow, resulting in the deaths of five people.

The cow’s owner had been warned four times to keep the cow penned up or leashed; I guess you could say that this was an udder failure!  The owner could face a six month prison sentence…

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Not Useless

October 8, 2007

appendectomy-series.jpg   The appendix, long regarded as a useless, vestigial organ, may not be worthless after all!  Scientists are now thinking that the appendix may be an incubator or breeding ground for healthy, pro-biotic bacteria that support your gut and its functions! 

Yes, you can live without it…but the appendix still serves a purpose!

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Body Parts

October 7, 2007

leg.png   Human body parts are turning up in the strangest places, and just in time for Halloween!  There was a bizarre tale of a guy who bought a grill at auction to find that it contained a severed human leg…the auction winner was charging people to see it!  When the owner of the amputated limb, an accident victim, heard about the leg, he wanted it back so as to someday have it cremated with him.  The auction winner initially resisted this course of action, and litigation ensued.  Well, the biological owner of the limb will be re-united with it!

Then in Philadelphia, some morticians were selling human body tissue such as bone from corpses for surgical implantation without getting permission from the families of the deceased!  Several hundred cases may be involved.

Pleasant screams, everyone!

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