An adviser from the Australian government who is involved in climate change matters asks people to let go of their beef and lamb-based meals and shift to kangaroo meat consumption if they want to help saving the planet.Economist Ross Garnaut based his 600-page studies on the fact that cattle and sheep have reached wo... |
2 October 2008
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Today, the shoulder height of a large domestic cow is around 1.5 m (5 ft). Despite this, their wild ancestors, the aurochs, were huge beasts that reached on average 1.8 m (6 ft) tall at the withers. Between 1931 and 1938, Dr. Lutz Heck, director of the Berlin Zoo, attempted to recreate the aurochs starting from domes... |
13 May 2008
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We do not know when genetics will insert cow genes in the breasts of the women, the dream of many men, but the first hybrid cow-human embryos and stem cells have already been obtained by British researchers led by Dr. Lyle Armstrong of Newcastle University. The research was presented to Israel's parliament last ... |
3 April 2008
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1.European sailors navigating, a few centuries ago, in tropical waters could not believe their eyes: they were seeing mermaids, common in the sea folklore. The creature were fish-like from the waist beyond, had a pair of breasts in the chest area, and their flippers and heads vaguely resembled human head and arms fro... |
9 January 2008
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This looks so fluffy and all, but it is so damn wrong! Why would somebody skin alive a cow to stick its fur on an Xbox 360 console controller? Well, the answer is because it makes the game more natural. In fact, the console faceplate comes in various versions, such as tiger print and more. Why cute face plates? Becau... |
13 November 2007
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Well, many things have a nasty smell, but what about that nasty thing smelling like vanilla? If not the whole thing, at least part of it...A team at the state-run International Medical Center of Japan has managed, in co-operation with Sekisui Chemical Co, to extract vanilla scent from cow dung. "A one-hour heating an... |
6 October 2007
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We do not know when cows will start to produce chocolate milk or strawberry milk (perhaps when they will cross a strawberry with a cow...), but scientists are already on the way to fill the pastures with cows that produce skimmed milk. New Zealand researchers have found that there are cows whose genes enable them to ... |
28 May 2007
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