Topic: NEWS english - on January 8, 2007 at 8:21:00 AM CET
This year's must-have: a £4,000 book for the designer coffee table
If City traders can spend thousands on a night out, then why not on a special-edition book that lasts a lifetime? At least that's the theory behind Gloria.
The two-year-old publisher is about as niche as they come. Its first book, a 12kg tome on the footballing icon Pele, came out last summer and its plans are for just one title a year.
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Topic: Photoshop - on January 8, 2007 at 7:59:00 AM CET
Herman, Were-Rabbit for True
Stickypig sent me this link to a blog post about the most recent giant rabbit to hit the circuit, a German Giant named Herman. And best of all? Snopes says he’s legit. Take that, Photoshop.
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Topic: SEX - on January 8, 2007 at 7:55:00 AM CET
Fatal Consequences of Excessive Masturbation
Frequent masturbation and ejaculation stimulate acetylcholine/parasympathetic nervous functions excessively, resulting in the over production of sex hormones and neurotransmitters such as acetylcholine, dopamine and serotonin. Abundant and unusually amount of these hormones and neurotransmitters can cause the brain and adrenal glands to perform excessive
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Topic: STRANGE - on January 8, 2007 at 7:53:00 AM CET
400-Year-Old Telescopes Appear in the Strangest of Places
Like cell phones or the Internet in recent history, the telescope's introduction in the early 17th Century had a swift and lasting impact on the world. Telescopes revolutionized military strategy and within months showed the father of astronomy, Galileo Galilei, that Earth is not the center of the universe.
Until recently, scholars thought only 8 or 10 of these important early telescopes _ made between 1608 and 1650 of tightly rolled paper and crudely ground lenses _ had survived to the present day.
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