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Curiosities and bonus pictures

Posted in RANDOM 9 Jul 2009 16590 11

Hey!!!
How are you?
It’s easy to work these days since the weather is not that great. Here in West of France we had some rains, it’s not that hot anymore. But I hope that this weekend it will be hot so it would be possible to go on the beach :))))))
Hope it’s a good weather where you are.
See you tomorrow!

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To ensure that employees at Keihin Electric Express Railway in Japan are putting their best lip forward, the company has implemented a "smile check" policy, in which workers will be required to smile into a camera and have their mug subjected to software analysis of their happiness.

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Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever.
The group of scientists was studying a poorly-understood region of the visual cortex.
The researchers concluded that this region of the visual cortex, known as layer six of region V2, is responsible for creating visual memories. They found that if they boosted production of a protein called RGS-14 (pictured) in that area of the visual cortex in mice, it dramatically affected the animals' ability to remember objects they had seen.
What's particularly intriguing is the fact that this protein works on visual memory only. So, it would be perfect for mapping. It would also be useful for engineers and architects who need to hold a lot of visual images in their minds at once. And it would also be a great drug for detectives and spies.

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An astonished mother has told how she gave birth to conjoined twins despite being told by medics she was expecting two normal babies.
Scans and ultrasound tests had failed to pick up that the babies were joined at the waist, forming one long body with a head at each end.
Doctors in Xiaogan, eastern China, have so far been unable to say even what sex the tots are as they have been born without any external sexual organs.

The commanding officer of a regiment in the U.S. Marine Corps was about to start the morning briefing to his staff, battalion and company commanders.
While waiting for the coffee machine to finish its brewing, the colonel decided to pose a question to all assembled.
He explained that his wife had been a bit frisky the night before and he failed to get his usual amount of sound sleep.
He posed the question of just how much of sex was ‘work’ and how much of it was ‘pleasure?’
The regimental executive officer chimed in with 75-25% in favor of work.
A captain said it was 50-50%.
The colonel’s aide responded with 75-25% in favor of pleasure, depending on his state of inebriation at the time.
There being no consensus, the colonel turned to the private who was in charge of making the coffee. What was HIS opinion?
Without any hesitation, the young PFC responded, ‘Sir, it has to be 100% pleasure.’
The colonel was surprised and, as you might guess, asked why?
‘Well, sir, if there was any work involved, the officers would have me doing it for them.’
The room fell silent.

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It’s become a trend or what for the kids to kill cats??? Here’s a site that talks about Tyler Hayes Weinman who’s accused in Kitty Serial Killer Case . I’m shocked!

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Manta ray or devilfish – a beautiful and harmless fish (11 pics)

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The interior of a private jet Cessna (8 pics)

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1st Company of the 2nd Foreign Parachute Regiment in France (20 pics)

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Live painting exhibition of Greg Simkins aka Craola at Gallery 1988 in LA (11 pics)

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Emma Watson (27 pics)

Lady Gaga gave a concert in the gay nightclub G-A-Y in London! You will find inside the curiosities some pics of her on stage in different clothes + some other photos as a bonus (38 pics)