SKIRMISHER

Occasionally, people make important discoveries while dreaming. And these are five of them.
One example: that of Dr Otto Loewi:
Dr Otto Loewi is described as the “father of neuroscience” and won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1936. But that was the fruition of 16 years of work that began after one particularly productive night’s sleep.
In [...]

The Rosenhan experiment was a famous experiment into the validity of psychiatric diagnosis conducted by David Rosenhan in 1972. It was published in the journal Science under the title “On being sane in insane places.”
Rosenhan’s study consisted of two parts. The first involved the use of healthy associates or “pseudopatients,” who briefly simulated auditory hallucinations [...]

Remember this. As the scrambled eggs. Stares up at you.

ATLANTA — Two men claim they’ve bagged Bigfoot, and they say they have the hairy corpse of the legendary creature stored away in a freezer.
Matt Whitton and Rick Dyer say they stumbled across the corpse in the woods of northern Georgia, across the country from the remote regions of the Northwest where people usually claim [...]

Viruses are glorified scraps of genetic code that are exquisitely designed to pirate a host to reproduce: the common cold virus needs cells in the nose and respiratory tract to reproduce, before being spread with a sneeze.
But the discovery of a giant virus that itself falls ill through infection by another virus seems to suggest [...]

Like all modern flatfish, the yellowtail flounder has both eyes on one side of its head. The first flatfishes had one eye on each side.
The change to the current arrangement was gradual, new fossil studies suggest, contradicting the long-held idea of a sudden shift. Intelligent design advocates have said sudden shifts in the fossil record [...]

In 1862, Charles Darwin examined this orchid from Madagascar — a flower whose nectar is at the bottom of a long narrow tube. So Darwin predicted there must be a moth with a 12-inch tongue that fits exactly the orchid. But Darwin merely got ridiculed for the prediction — among many others things he did [...]

Damn global warming just wouldn’t stop.
As climate change warms the nation, giant Burmese pythons could colonize one-third of the USA, from San Francisco across the Southwest, Texas and the South and up north along the Virginia coast, according to U.S. Geological Survey maps released Wednesday.

But then again, there would be enough reason to “create”  a [...]

In 1924, the Bronx Zoo tested the relative strength of a 165-pound man against a 165-pound chimpanzee. Using a dynamometer, which measures strength by the force of a pull on a spring, the man was able to pull 210 pounds. The chimp pulled almost 900. The lesson: Don’t mess with the apes. Pound for pound, [...]

Volcanoes, hurricanes, spooky natural lights and eclipses, global warming, tsunamis… you should always be on your toes in this dangerously beautiful planet of ours.

“State wildlife officials on Santa Catalina Island (California) said today that they were investigating the beheading of a deer in downtown Avalon by a city employee who dressed the carcass and left the head in a soccer net near a preschool and City Hall.”

Will environmental wonders never cease!
“Scientists in Southern California have discovered a mysterious booming population of endangered desert pupfish in man-made research ponds designed for an entirely different purpose.
“Although no one knows exactly how they got there, the fish probably took a 1.5-mile joyride through the piping used to deliver water to the ponds.”

Hailu Kidane Marian was selling religious materials in Miami when a lightning struck him on a sunny Sunday — most probably from a rival god.
Hailu Kidane Marian was working with members of his religious group, selling religious materials door-to-door in a Northwest Miami-Dade neighborhood, when the bolt from the blue struck him down.
“I heard a [...]

Look! It’s a duck! No, it’s a hair brush! No, it’s… Sarah Silverman’s vagina that smells exactly like a mountain breeze!

If you decide of changing your diet, well… here’s a “healthy” option.

We just noticed something creepy here…
Although San Carlos City (in Pangasinan province) Mayor Julián Resuello was shot dead last Saturday night (29 April), his assassination is still hot news here in the Philippines especially since it’s election season — but his opponents and assholes like them make it seem like rabbit season.
So here. We just noticed that In Spanish, the late Mayor’s surname literally translates into ”breath” [...]

Get a plastic bag and a couple of aspirins ready.