Bipolar mice, good searches, bottles, dead old men, and frigid pigeons
Yes, they all connect up*.
- U.S. researchers create schizophrenic mice — I certainly did not know that mice liked to swim, I suppose I should look it up, and in future I’ll be able to get the best ever human-edited results.
- Wikipedia founder plans open-source search engine — will it be as not-quite-sure-if-it’s-entirely trustworthy as Wikipedia? Kind of like our next story, which is
- Bottled water and snake oil — bottled water is tap water in a bottle? I take that to work every day. It’s still as deadly and painful when lobbed through the air, and could kill, though ’sticks and stones can break my bones…’
- Man ‘died at hands of young mob’ — this poor man was killed by sticks and stones, called ‘missiles’ in the news. I was very nearly hit by a missile of pigeon poop the other day.
- Hollywood Pigeons to Be Put on the Pill — some sort of consequence must come of controlling birds’ reproductive cycles.
* In my mind
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Bottled water… you probably already know “and have bebunked” this, but hold an Evian label up to a mirror and it describes the people who think they are getting something special.
**spelling is not exactly right, but I’m sure you inteligent ones get the meaning.
Bipolar is not quite the same thing as schizophrenic.
Something seems to be missing from the “Man ‘died at hands of young mob’” story. Why didn’t they leave when the kids started throwing stuff, and why did they start throwing things in the first place?
There are some cities that have poor water in the US, but running it through an inline filter makes it as good or better than most of the bottled water sold here. The Economist story sort of ignored how much oil is needed to make the bottles and distribute them to consumers. I hope the bottles have higher recycling rates in the UK than here.
Tutu, yeah I watched Reality Bites, too. hehe.
Terry, Good Lord, can’t you tell that the titles of these posts are meant to be silly?
Re the man who died — we don’t know. Kids here are a disgrace, the thuggish ones, anyway. One of my colleagues was almost happy slapped just because she was at right (wrong) place at the right (wrong) time. There is no reason for why they might decide to abuse someone. Maybe he tried to shout back at the kids and they hit him on the head?
Re bottled water — they report, I don’t think they actually said bottled water was better, just that those who buy it think it is. And they did mention WASTE towards the end.
Terry, here is testimony from the victim’s son.
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