Ducks with 6 limbs are not caused by genetic changes!

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Cool: here’s a duck with four hindlimbs.

I have to gripe about the description, though:

A rare mutation has left eight-day-old Stumpy with two extra legs behind the two he moves around on. … The mutation is rare but cases have been recorded across the world.

No, no, no. This is almost certainly not the result of a mutation, and it’s one of my pet peeves when the media makes this wrong assumption, that every change in a newborn is the product of a genetic change. This is the result of a developmental error, not a genetic one, most likely caused by a fusion of two embryos in a single egg.

(via Apostropher)

I was hoping for Magneto

Since so many call me a bad guy, let’s see where I fall on the Super Villain scale.


Your results:
You are Mr. Freeze

Mr. Freeze
71%
Dr. Doom
54%
The Joker
51%
Magneto
51%
Apocalypse
47%
Lex Luthor
46%
Venom
42%
Poison Ivy
41%
Mystique
32%
Green Goblin
28%
Two-Face
28%
Riddler
25%
Kingpin
21%
Dark Phoenix
18%
Juggernaut
16%
Catwoman
8%
You are cold and you think everyone else should be also, literally.


Click here to take the Supervillain Personality Quiz


(via ZayZayEm the Joker)

Killer orgasms?

Sometimes I do get strange requests in email. For instance, I was asked if the claim in this article was true:

When an orgasm has been achieved through sex, you can measure theta waves. These are also said to cause the “running high” feeling of euphoria experienced sometimes by marathon runners. If theta waves are taken as a criterion, the entire brain emits theta waves when women reach an orgasm that are close on 10 times stronger than when men climax. So, if theta waves are an indication of an orgasm’s strength, then women experience an orgasm that is physically impossible for men to go through. Putting it a little crudely, if the intensity of a woman’s orgasm was played through a man’s brain, there’s a danger that the shock to his system would kill him. That risk makes it impossible to experiment on a man at the moment.

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