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: No Italian Castrati were harmed during production of this bulletin. Yow.
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# ITALIAN CASTRATI: THE PRICE THEY PAID FOR A BEAUTIFUL VOICE. The Lancet
reports on a fascinating, though brutal, aspect of musical history: the
castrati, or castrated male singers. Most interesting is the physical
effects of castration on their growth and development in later years.
http://www.healthcentral.com/drdean/DeanFullTextTopics.cfm?ID=13562
: Would you rather be castrated by humans, aliens, machines, deities, me? Do
you prefer castration by mechanical, electrical, chemical, emotional, magic-
kal methods? Should clones, politicians, UFOlogists, preachers be castrated?
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# Asteroid Hunters Bring Oldie-But-Goodie Into New Age. NASA astronomers
searching for asteroids headed at Earth are expanding their sky-watching
repertoire by adding high-tech, computerized electronic upgrades to the
classic 1.2-meter- diameter (48-inch) Oschin telescope atop Palomar Mtn.
Retrofit: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990624081007.htm
: What ancient scanning devices would you like to upgrade? Can you match The
Conspiracy's latest monitoring equipment? Does your sundial detect UFOs???
# Comet's shadow captured on cosmic screen. (BBC) The shadow of a comet
projected on a huge "screen" of hydrogen gas has been seen by scientists.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377126.stm
# Also: Where the solar wind blows:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_272000/272386.stm
# Soho pointing at the Sun again:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_173000/173319.stm
: Are comet shadow projections almost as good as drive-in movies? Do aliens
make shadow-figures with their fingers? Are you entertained by big shadows?
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# A WEEKEND ON THE MOON. Buzz Aldrin suggests that tourism could boldly take
space exploration where NASA failed to go, and studies show that a market
exists for such pricey travel. Off to Disney World, or 300 km above it:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20386.html
@ Links: Space Tours: http://www.spacetours.de/home.htm
@ Int'l Symposium on Space Travel: http://www.spacetours.de/ISST99.htm
@ NASA/Vacationland: http://www.nasa.gov/hqpao/nasa_centers.html
# See also: Space Travel Not So Far Out:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/18974.html
: Where is your dream extraterrestrial vacation destination? How much would
you pay to bounce on Luna, swim on Mars, have sex in orbit, suntan on Venus?
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# Pumping With Tiny Bubbles: Vapor Pushes Liquid Thru Micro-Devices. Geeks
are developing tiny bubble-powered micro-pumps, smaller than a postage
stamp, useful in drug delivery and testing, pollution monitoring and other
applications. http://sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990623094755.htm
: Would you like to have new micro-machinery built into your body? D'ya want
to be a Borg? What custom engineering do you want to have implanted? Where?
# GM plants to produce medicinal honey. (BBC) A spoonful of honey could soon
replace bitter pills or painful injections as scientists use the nectar of
genetically-modified plants to produce honey containing drugs or vaccines.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_377000/377035.stm
: Should you be genetically modified to produce all the drugs you need for
yourself? What drugs d'ya want to exude? Will others lick you for the high?
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# Health Food Supplement May Have Great Value -- For Hogs. It's touted for
boosting your energy and helping your immune system. But the real value of
the faddish nutritional supplement known as blue-green algae may be as a
cheap and nutritious food for hogs one that can be grown in part with an
ingredient that commercial swine operations have long struggled to get rid
of: manure. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990622115216.htm
Also: http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20394.html
: Do you eat blue-green algae? Are you a pig? Are you cost-effective? Should
hogs have their energy levels boosted, auras strengthened, chakras cleansed?
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# Green Tea Can Help Prevent Rheumatoid Arthritis. Antioxidants in green tea
may prevent and reduce the severity of rheumatoid arthritis, according to
a study: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990623062746.htm
# Music, Relaxation Can Complement Pain Medicine. Patients facing surgery
can expect to have less postoperative pain if they use relaxation & music
with their pain medicine. Relaxation and music, separately or together,
significantly reduce a patient's pain following major abdominal surgery.
Like, duh: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990623062029.htm
: Would ya rather be medically dosed with tea, music, algae, probes, prayer?
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SkeptiLinks:
# NASA launches ultraviolet telescope - FUSE looks for Big Bang debris:
http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=2560057712-c4a
# Jet Contrails To Be Significant Global Climate Factor By Year 2050:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/06/990624080829.htm
# Eliminating cervical cancer, the second-biggest killer of women:
http://www.wired.com/news/news/email/tip/technology/story/20387.html
# Falwell's newspaper 'Tinky Winks' Lilith Fair:
http://cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/News/9906/21/showbuzz/#story3
# Colombia lawmakers rack up huge bill on phone sex:
http://customnews.cnn.com/cnews/pna.show_story?p_art_id=3891158
# Taiwan bakery serves up 'Viagra' cake:
http://cnn.com/HEALTH/men/9906/24/viagra.cake/index.html
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