Hulleye Comes By!

In India,

Problem: On the run from the cops.

Solution: Hire some women to strip naked and distract the police.

the army needs you. uncle sam wants you. let’s go make some money.

Force fields for astronauts? Here comes the science from NASA.

The European Union, the United States, and four other countries will build the world’s first major nuclear fusion reactor. They’re doing it because we’re running out of oil, and other energy options (solar, wind, coal, nuclear fission) are inefficient or hazardous. But fusion hasn’t been made cost-effective either, and “even fusion proponents concede that the process is decades away from practical use.”

Scientists are learning how to save your life by killing you. They drained blood from dogs and replaced it with very cold saline solution, stopping the dogs’ hearts and brains. Three hours later, they restored the blood and electrically shocked the dogs’ hearts back to life. The dogs suffered no brain damage. The idea (if you suffer an injury with severe blood loss) is to do surgery on you while you’re “dead.”

More evidence that chocolate may be good for you: A study in the American Journal of Hypertension says “high flavonoid intake confers a benefit on cardiovascular outcome,” evidently by dilating and relaxing arteries.

A day of abstinence improves male fertility. A study suggests sperm quantity and quality peak after a day off but decline if you wait longer.

Japan is developing robotic security guards to take jobs left unfilled by its aging population. When the robots detect intruders or fires, they send radio and video signals to human monitors.

Your penis isn’t as small as you think. In a study of men who came to doctors “complaining of a small-sized penis … penile length and girth were measured twice using a tape measure in both flaccid and fully stretched states. Every patient was informed that if his flaccid and stretched penis size was 4 cm and 7 cm or more, respectively, it was considered normal. … None of the patients had short penis according to our measurements.”

(most headlines stolen from slate)