More random links
- Texas man’s ‘beer gut’ turns food into alcohol due to rare auto-brewery syndrome
- "The man, whose wife suspected he was a secret boozer, has been placed on a low-carb diet after it was discovered that excess brewer’s yeast in his stomach sparked a chemical reaction that caused fermentation if he ate starch."
- Artist's Shit
- Someone apparently bought one of the tins of this shit for 124,000 pounds at auction in 2007. "Artist's Shit is a 1961 artwork by the Italian artist Piero Manzoni. The work consists of 90 tin cans, filled with feces, each 30 grams and measuring 4.8x6.5cm, with a label in Italian, English, French, and German"
- What's in YOUR handbag? Lipstick, diary, iPhone… plus E.coli, deadly bacteria - and excrement
- I've heard the argument that reusable grocery shopping bags tend to be dirty often here. Seems to make sense that purses and whatnot are likely to be dirtier yet.
- Cancer vaccine begins Phase I clinical trials
- "The technology was initially designed to target cancerous melanoma in skin, but might have application to other cancers. In the preclinical study reported in Science Translational Medicine, 50 percent of mice treated with two doses of the vaccine—mice that would have otherwise died from melanoma within about 25 days—showed complete tumor regression."