Vomit!
The other day a Morgan County, Tennessee, correctional facility inmate escaped quite easily. But getting back in was another problem. He was caught doing so. Yes, caught attempting to sneak back in.
Robert Fusco, 37, was serving a 68-year sentence for especially aggravated kidnapping, when he decided to break out and then … break back in, two days later, accompanied by loads of contraband: drugs, cell phones, tobacco, and the like.
Apparently he was trying to sneak in
Dying?
The Window of the World is a theme park in Shenzen, in the People’s Republic of China. A few years ago, they opened a new attraction—a death simulator. For about $35, you can get a “death experience.”
The experience begins with a journey through a “morgue,” after which guests are placed in a coffin that transports into them into a faux incinerator. Once inside, these coffin-ated folks are blasted with hot air at 104°F. Recorded screams and shrieks echo through
Odors!
Phan•tom adjective = fictitious, nonexistent, illusive (from Latin phantasma, from Greek phantazein = to make visible)
Phantom odor = the smell of something that isn’t actually there, usually unpleasant (“foul,” “rotten,” “chemical”)
That, apparently, is a condition afflicting about one in fifteen, report researchers from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) in the Journal of the American Medical Association:
Goats!
The other day, biological and experimental psychologists from Queen Mary University, London, performed an interesting study at the Buttercups Sanctuary for Goats in Kent: “Goats Prefer Positive Human Emotional Facial Expressions,” published in Royal Society Open Science.
Goats like happy humans!
(You’ve goat to be kidding me!)
Twenty goats (already domesticated and fully habituated to human presence) were shown greyscale human pictures of the faces of the same individuals—unknown
Inaction?
You think your kids are lazy? Well, they may be on to something.
So say researchers from the University of Kansas, authors of “Metabolic Rates, Climate and Macroevolution: A Case Study Using Neogene Molluscs,” published in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.
Of course, they were looking at fossilized and existing bivalves and gastropods in the Atlantic Ocean, but still ….
Laziness, apparently, is a fruitful strategy for the survival of individuals,
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.