Glad for the warning Zen.
Will I be clicking?

No.

What do Jenny McCarthy and January Jones have in common ?

The Register-Guard
Lauren Gambino
The Associated Press
5/7/13

Senate approves bill to let mothers keep placentas

cannibals

I wouldn't be squeamish about eating placenta.
If it was given freely and well seasoned. Like drinking breast milk - I wouldn't have it direct from the source, but I have no problem with it.

Then again I'm European ;)
Except when I want to call myself a Briton.
Or English.
Or a Southerner....

Kristal is obviously not up on her anthropology. Many ancient societies ate the placenta, and many animals instinctively do it today. When food is scarce, you don't let that many nutrients go to waste.

I'm not saying I would do it, but it's silly to pretend this is somehow a modern invention.

Not to mention that predators can smell that shit a million miles away and will come and eat your defenseless ass and that of your hard-got babbehs.

Clodfobble's obviously not up on her predatory thinking.:p:

But, that's not why I'm here. I'm here for this bit of sickening irony. Enough iron in this irony to build an aircraft carrier...

Talk about letting the fox guard the hen house.

Wouldn't that be the wolf guarding the foxes?

"Research, your honor."

Vegetarian catches anthrax while eating salad at drum circle.

Here's how it happened. An anthrax infected goat in Africa was skinned and made into a drum head. The drum was brought to New Hampshire, and played in a basement multipurpose room drum circle. Hitting the dried drum head aerosolized the anthrax bacteria, which then floated across the room and onto the salad. She ate the salad.

You just never freakin' know.

Aerialized spores from the drums is likely, but this article doesn't
really incriminate the lettuce. But so be it, CDC may have good evidence for it.

It does remind me of my first (1960's) and worst (potentially) career mistake.

As a graduate teaching assistance for a course in Medical Microbiology,
one of my first assignments was to set up a class exercise to demonstrate "virulence".
That is, how one strain of a pathogenic microorganism can
produce severe disease while another strain does not.

So I wrote a letter on university stationery to Fort Detrick, MD,
the US Army's Center for Biological Warfare, asking for
one culture of virulent- and one of avirulent- B.anthrasus.
Within a few days, the cultures arrived, along with a letter giving the LD50 .
This is the dose (number of cells/spores) it takes to kill 50% of the animals infected.

The LD50 for avirulent strain was something like billions.
In other words, you could not inject enough to kill 50% of the mice.
The LD50 for that virulent strain of anthrax was 1. :eek:

This so scared the bejesus out of me and I immediately
autoclaved the entire package for several hours.

It also gave me a lifelong fear of what the military was capable of
doing to "prevent and protect" the US from biological warfare.

Funny how times change. They just mailed that shit to you.

My dad as a physics prof had an underground closet in his old lab that was full of radioactive samples. Dangerously radioactive samples. About 20 years ago, as various regulation were getting tighter, he started worrying about the stuff and worked really hard to get rid of all of it through quickly disappearing appropriate channels. If he had waited any longer, he would have had to devote the entire department budget to paying to get rid of the stuff. He had pulled one sample out of there once to show me, and the sample actually glowed in the dark. Very cool. Actually, now that I think about it, he took my grandmother's radium clock up there to get rid of it. That clock was cool. Its hands would glow in the dark too.

I hope the hackers were also smart enough to get
the movie rights to this scheme.
It smacks of George Clooney and Julia Roberts

NY Times
MARC SANTORA
Published: May 9, 2013
In Hours, Thieves Took $45 Million in A.T.M. Scheme

We live in interesting times.