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# Contraceptive in a cuppa. (BBC) A male contraceptive based on traditional
Indonesian herbal tea has been discovered by Australian scientists. Tea for
two: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_296000/296140.stm
# Also: A short history of the pill:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_250000/250337.stm
# Male 'pill' in pipeline:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/newsid_201000/201217.stm
@ Links: University of Western Australia: http://www.uwa.edu.au/
@ Contraception: www.bbc.co.uk//education/health/womens/sexual.shtml#contra
: What's your favorite reproductive technology? For contraception, do you
prefer drugs, surgery, alien implants, abstinence, masturbation, bestiality?
# Genetic clock runs slow. The "African Eve", from whom all women are
thought to be descended, could be twice as old as first thought. Two new
pieces of research challenge the widely accepted view that modern humans
are descended from a common ancestor that lived about 200,000 years ago.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_294000/294808.stm
: Is your genetic/reproductive timing off? Can you be resynchronized? Have
our genetic clocks been tampered with by demons, aliens, insects, worries?
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> Y2K: THE HUNT FOR GLOBAL GLITCHES. The good news: The scope of the year
2000 problem has forced a few industries to work together to obtain and
share information, develop resources and provide help around the world. But
a report from the World Bank estimates that only 21 of 139 developing coun-
tries had taken concrete steps to address the year 2000 problem, which could
mean impacts on power, telecommunications, energy, food distribution and
medical care in developing countries. Analysts see burdens for U.S. firms
abroad: http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/10/global.y2k.idg/index.html
# Millennium bug bites both ways. (BBC) Beating the millennium bug in Russia
could be the springboard for firms there to enter the world of e-commerce,
says one of that country's key Y2K experts. But it will only happen if the
money can be found. If not, further economic strife may lay ahead. See the
future: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_294000/294912.stm
@ Links: UK Action 2000: http://www.bug2000.co.uk/
@ Relativity Technologies: http://www.relativity.com/
: Do you look forward to The End Of The World As We Know It? Will 1-1-00 be
the big transition? Can you profit from Armageddon? Is this a problem, a
challenge, an opportunity, the final chapter, just another date, irrelevant?
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# MEXICO VOLCANO: MT. POPOCAPEPETL. Latest activity updates are always at:
http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/cgi-bin/popo/mvolcan.cgi - After the moderate
explosion which occurred yesterday (01:40 GMT, Mar. 12, 1999) ejecting
incandescent fragments over the North flank and producing an ash emission
http://www.cenapred.unam.mx/popo/1999/mar/p0311993.jpg, the activity of the
volcano returned to similar levels recorded on previous days.
: Would you like to live next to a volcano? Would you mind if you and your
civilization were buried by lava & ash? Would you rather be firmly embedded
in epoxy? How much longer until Mexico City becomes Pompeii? Will you visit?
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# Animal abuse by Taiwanese Buddhists is cruel irony. TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP)
To animal lovers, Taiwan poses a cruel contradiction: A profoundly Buddhist
society that reveres life in all its forms but that treats its large popu-
lation of stray dogs quite literally like garbage. Belief inadvertently
promotes neglect: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,70001176,00.html?
: Does your religion have any specific positions on animals? Should animals
be worshipped, neglected, eaten, mutated, tortured, washed, vivisected? Why?
# Christian diets grow in popularity. TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) - Many food
worshippers struggling to shed pounds are coming to a new revelation:
They are losing weight through prayer and the Bible. Not just fasting -
see http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,70001327,00.html?
: Does your religion offer a weight-control program? Does it work? Would you
rather be a fat sinner, a skinny saint, a well-rounded atheist, worm food?
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Dyed In The Silkworm: Researchers Develop Novel Way To Produce Colored Silk.
Scientists in Kyoto Japan have developed a technique to produce genetically
altered, green fluorescent silk fibers that are spun by the silkworm. The
development of an insect system to produce foreign proteins has significant
potential applications for silk or other economically important proteins.
Infectious color: http://www.eurekalert.org/releases/cshlab-dit031299.html
: Do you prefer silk, cotton, rayon or coolmax? Would you like to be gene-
spliced to produce colorful emissions? Have your genes been tampered with
by researchers, aliens, deities, cosmic rays, spies, artists, insects, me?
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# Utah Hindus are on a mission to build permanent home for elephant-faced
god. Lord Ganesha, the elephant-faced god, brings everyone together. Hindu
faithful believe that he wards off all evil. He is the manifestation of the
Supreme Being that blesses devotees as they start on missions or tasks.
Not a Mormon: http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,70001332,00.html?
: Are animal gods better than anthropomorphic deities? What kinds of faces
do your deities have? Are your gods aliens, mutants, spirits, celebrities?
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SkeptiLinks:
# "Macspotting": The New Obsession. What's even crazier then celebrity spot-
ting? Spying celebs using Macs. www.wired.com/news/culture/story/18415.html
# Clinton administration aggressively sought to provide China with nuclear
weapons technology: http://38.201.154.103/articles/?a=1999/3/11/55955
@ Science, Logic, and the UFO Debate: http://www.primenet.com/~bdzeiler/
@ UFO-arama: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/5623/ufo.htm
# SHOULD I SHAVE MY PUBIC HAIR?
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=10470
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