More random links
- Iranians arrest 14 squirrels for spying
- Seems kind of nutty!
- Stanley Cup riot hero charged for refusing to fill out 2011 census
- "Albert Easterbrook ... said he was surprised to be summoned to court last Wednesday for his refusal, which was an objection to his personal information being handled by a software subsidiary of the American weapons giant Lockheed Martin. ... If convicted, Easterbrook faces either a fine of up to $500, up to three months in jail or both under the Statistics Act."
- Bacteria from slim people could help treat obesity, study finds
- "The scientists found that mice stayed slim when they received faecal transplants from slim women, but put on much more fat when the samples came from the obese twin. Tests revealed that one type of bug, called Bacteroides, was more plentiful in slim women and protected the animals from putting on too much fat." Will they manage to transplant just the one bacteria or will poo-transplants become more common?
- Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood to Coptic Christians: Convert to Islam, or pay ‘jizya’ tax
- "The Muslim Brotherhood and its supporters have began forcing the roughly 15,000 Christian Copts of Dalga village in Egypt to pay a jizya tax as indicated in Koran 9:29, author and translator Raymond Ibrahim reported on Sunday."