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Should women be astronauts? Sure – just be sure to drink their pee

Astronaut Barbie
Astronaut Barbie

There are some people who say that women shouldn’t be astronauts. 

It really doesn’t matter who those idiots are, because we have people like Dr William Rowe, and his website FEMALES IN SPACE, which offers many scientific and medical reasons why women are superior astronaut material.

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How to fold a piece of paper in half, 13 times

Origami Craft Studio
Origami Craft Studio

Many years ago, Web Watch told you about a girl who figured out that it was mathematically possible to FOLD A SINGLE PIECE OF PAPER OVER ON ITSELF 12 TIMES.

The long-held reasoning was that it was physically impossible to fold a piece of paper in half more than eight times, but Britney Gallivan proved that paper could be folded over 12 times.

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The end to embarassed farting cows, flatulent goats, and stinky sheep

Cow Pie gift box
Cow Pie gift box

Science may not have found a way to cure major diseases, but they think they’ve figured out a way to keep a cow from farting.

And wouldn’t you know it, it’s the same concept that also helps keep you from farting as well:  A CHANGE IN THE COW’s DIET WILL PREVENT EXCESS GAS.

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Science

Solar power will rule the world in 16 years

Ray Kurzweil - The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence
Ray Kurzweil – The Age of Spiritual Machines:
When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

Ray Kurzweil is a very bright, inventive person.  Forbes magazine, for example, calls him the “ultimate thinking machine” and “the rightful heir to Thomas Edison”.  Among his accomplishments is the flatbed scanner, text-to-speech reading machine for the blind, and a music synthesizer.  He was inducted into the National Inventor’s Hall of Fame in 2002.

So yeah, when Ray Kurzweil says stuff – people tend to pay attention.

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Science

Monkeys may have thumbs, but they can’t draw worth a damn

Paul Frank's Julius Monkey
Paul Frank’s Julius

That old adage, about putting a million monkeys into a room with a million typewriters and eventually they’ll write the collective works of Shakespeare, may not necessarily be a realistic statement anymore.

At least if by “writing Shakespeare” is the same as “painting art masterpieces”.

So says a recent study from Boston University that says that PEOPLE PREFER ART PAINTED BY OTHER PEOPLE, AND NOT BY MONKEYS.  We know, how could you go wrong with something like this?

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Need to make a fast decision? Try not to pee

Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions
Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions

We’ve all been there, or have seen it in others on various occasions.

The inevitably bad-time moment when you have to do two things at the exact same time: make an important decision, or pee your pants.

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How To Science

Want to attract the ladies like the swinging monkeys do? Just pee on yourself. Seriously.

The Peepee Teepee for the Sprinkling WeeWee
The Peepee Teepee for the Sprinkling WeeWee

If you have difficulty attracting the ladies, maybe it’s time to take a clue from the animal world and do what they do.

Think about it – there is some truth to how people imitate the strutting, boasting, show of force or elaborate mating rituals that go on in the jungles and forests across the country by animals of all shapes and sizes.

So try not to be surprised if people start to imitate the Human Man’s closest relative, THE MONKEY, COVERS THEMSELVES WITH URINE TO ATTRACT A MATE.

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The “Don’t Eat That, Don’t Eat That” Diet. Lose weight by not eating gross stuff

History's Grossest Moments
History’s Grossest Moments

So you want to lose weight, but don’t have a good weight-loss diet program?

You can always do what Web Watch does — just pay attention to the quality of the food service at the restaurants you eat at.  Because let’s face it – people are generally gross, and don’t really care.

Ask any friend of yours who has worked in food service.  They’ve all done — or seen — some really nasty stuff go on behind-the-scenes in the restaurant kitchen.

For example, next time you go into your favorite local establishment, take a look at the posted health score on the wall.  And keep in mind that no matter how high that number is, the restaurant manager had to negotiate that upwards from where it was originally.  So while you may see an 89 out of 100 point score on the wall, you have to ask what was so awful that the health inspector couldn’t bring it up to a 90.

Yeah.  Low food scores are pretty gross.  Good sign of cross-contamination or other major food handling issues that can get you pretty sick.  Half the battle of sticking to a diet is just deciding not to eat at those kinds of places.