Random links for the week of August 10th
There’s a research call for subjects willing to eat chocolate every day for a year – the fine print is you have to be diabetic, post-menopausal and probably live in England but hey, it’s got to start somewhere. Maybe they’ll open it up to everyone in a few years
Women know that runway models aren’t representative of them and men have made it clear they don’t really care what percentage is silicon vs carbon-based. So maybe the robot runway models will solve everything and this one seems to be quite low drama!
Cucumber thieves are running rampant in Australia – possibly a ploy by the cucumber association because the rest of the world seems unaware of this industry. In any event, it brings up a curious point – the lack of cucumber branding makes it impossible to detect the hot merchandise.
Breakthrough science may soon tell us what color dinosaurs really were – pretty sure Barney magenta is out but we’ll have to wait and see. It could also mean a wave of fund raising if natural science museums discover they have to redo all their dioramas – much better use of economic recovery funds…



