There has been some research that may Be disputing this. The latest one I heard is that an enzyme in the sperm my encourage the zygote to split under certain circumstances. Spoke as the older brother to identical twin girls who is also the father of identical twin girls. With several more sets in the extended family…

I was wondering how many of these were actually stolen for parts vs stolen for scrap. The catalytic converters being stolen confirms my suspicion.

Sounds like the makings of a Cracker song

I was on I-95 in Orlando once and watched a pickup bed -liner come loose from a truck. It probably flew up 12-16 feet into the air, two guys on bikes drove under it while it was in the air. Luckily it landed in the median, I was next in it's path. I'm willing to guess some leathers went to the cleaners that day.

Not quite. Many of these populations are DDT resistant. As in DDT continued to be used (and misused) in the developing world until bedbugs evolved resistance to the DDT. World travel spread these new super bugs around. I know the Cinncinati populations of bed bugs are DDT resistant.

The highest ( by unit) sold listing I saw was $20 for a ten pack. If those were real sales and not shills to drive the prices up some people made a killing this weekend.

I'm no coffee snob. I started off drinking day-old a sludge from the bottom of the percolator, and still given the choice I'll take a cup that is hot over a cup that is good. I've used the chemex, french presses, alessis, fancy drip coffee makers and more. On a slow day I still prefer the french press, but when I'm in…

I married a woman from the west Virginia highlands and I can personally attest to both the wild and the wonderful.

I worked for the scouts as a camp counselor in the 90s, and will say that while this doesn't surprise me, it's not my experience. We had 7 days in which to set up the cap, including hundreds of tents and the various program areas, us train all of the staff. Despite this a full day was spent on identifying signs of…

Why does he keep trying to talk through the side of his teeth? Aaaagh!

If this were my design the petals would be made from or contain numerous side firing fiber strands or another similarly light transmissive material (some polycarbonates) fed by color changing LEDs. No need for petals to configure around a light source, the petals would be the light source. Add a remote for changing…

I just found at a thrift store a new in the box giant swing set from 1982, complete with metal slide, see-saw and all sorts of other goodness. It was 150 bucks and yes I snapped that thing up. Metal slide!!!

I worked at sea world in the late 90s and we would have kicked it a person for something like that. The problem is finding the person once a guest complains or a front line worker notices the shirt. It's next to impossible normally to pick out just one person from a crowd, but my experience was that folks like this…

Yes, I would. But I would also look up your states whistle-blower protection laws and sexual harassment laws too. If this guy had made a "joke" song about putting a bomb I the office or targeting some racial minority it would be taken very seriously. Any good workplace would do the same, if he were my employee he…

Hand me my nose ring....

humansare pretty good at rationalizing the behavior of our ancestors. More likely we'll say that we as a species outgrew religion at just the pace one should expect for an still developing intelligent species. meanwhile at the few remaining monasteries and other relgious enclaves they are likely to say that God…

I don't know how much credence to give it, but there have rumours that some of these political junkets tend to encourage the frat-party atmosphere. The goal is to quietly catch a politician with theirs pants down so to speak and use it for blackmail later. I'm willing to bet the FBI is investigating just to make sure…

The Digg effect. Sorry, but the term Slashdot effect was in common use in 1998, six years before Digg was launched. Know your memes, you young whippersnapper!

Agreed! We ended up stuck with the minivan as our only alternative when child #2 turned out to be #2 and #3. Nothing else would accommodate two rear-facing car seats and not be pure torture on big brother. He still has to crawl under the car seat on his hands and knees to get to the third row. All SUVs ruled out since…

nice legs.