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Eating live frogs, rats “cures tummy upsets”
June 5, 2007

Beijing (Reuters) – A man in southeast China says 40 years of swallowing tree frogs and rats live has helped him avoid intestinal complaints and made him strong.

Jiang Musheng, a 66-year-old resident of Jiangxi province, suffered from frequent abdominal pains and coughing 20 years ago, until an old man called Yang Dingcai suggested tree frogs as a remedy, the Beijing News said on Tuesday.

“At first, Jiang Musheng did not dare to eat a live, wriggling frog, but after seeing Yang Dingcai swallow one, he ate … two without a thought,” the paper said.

“After a month of eating live frogs, his stomach pains and coughing were completely gone.”

Over the years Jiang had added live mice, baby rats and green frogs to his diet, and had once eaten 20 mice in a single day, the paper said.

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Trip proposed to centre of Earth via Arctic hole
Hollow Planet Theory; U.S. scientist, believers to sail on icebreaker
by Richard Foot
CanWest News Service
May 30, 2007

A U.S. scientist and a small band of believers are planning a journey to the Canadian Arctic for what they call “the greatest geological expedition in history.”

Are they searching for Arctic oil reserves? Documenting evidence of climate change?

Not quite. They’re looking for a fog-shrouded hole in the Arctic Ocean that leads — they say — to the centre of the Earth, where an unknown civilization is lurking inside the hollow core of the planet. Continue reading “Butt-holes looking for Earth-holes”

Sex toy’s ad campaign gives Apple bad vibes
by Christina Boyle
New York Daily News
May 27 2007

Apple execs have got their knickers in a twist over a new sex toy called the iGasm, which sends a vibrating beat from any music player into your underwear.

The British adult store Ann Summers has the makers of the iPod in an uproar, claiming posters advertising the kinky device are a ripoff of their own ad campaign.

The store’s neon pink posters show the silhouette of a woman on her knees and leaning backward, holding the oval white device above her head. Continue reading “Turn up the volume”

Here is a video that challenges the consensus that global warming is caused largely by humans. It is presented here in support of media literacy, which strives to “transform the process of media consumption into an active and critical process, helping people gain greater awareness of the potential for misrepresentation and manipulation“. Everyone has an agenda. Where does the truth “lie”?

Produced by Channel 4 in the U.K., this show first aired March 8, 2007. It is an hour and thirteen minutes long and can be viewed in a larger format on Google.

The Great Global Warming Swindle (1:13:32)

The Media Lens Web site provides insight into some controversies about this documentary.