Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 06, 2013
August 05, 2013
August 07, 2013
Transcript:
Ta-dah! Here's the beef?! Dr. Mark Post of Maastricht University has grown a hamburger in a laboratory from only a single beef cell- at a cost of $325,000! Criminal Minds Scientists in New Mexico have found that brain scans of released prisoners can identify those who will reoffend! Until the early 20th century, it was fashionable for Japanese married women to blacken their teeth with a paste made from iron filings and tea soaked in acid!
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jon.acntx about 11 years ago
That Japanese tradition doesn’t really surprise me. The idea behind traditions is that they show the best candidates for marriage. The stronger wolf gets to be alpha because he can better protect the pack. In this case, dying your teeth was something you needed to do regularly, which showed you have the free time to do so.
Jogger2 about 11 years ago
Uh, that one about the beef has been in the news the last 2 days.
billb181 about 11 years ago
“Just in!” …….. It was found that eating a hamburger made from one cell in a Lab turned your teeth black and made you want to commit a crime! :)
suzleigh about 11 years ago
Got to wonder… who was the first married woman to come up with the notion to blacken her teeth, go out in public, and become a fashion icon.
Thehag about 11 years ago
Oh boy! It won’t be long now till we get replicators for food.Take ideas from science fiction and make them real! I may even be alive to see it.
Kerovan about 11 years ago
The black teeth thing isn’t as bad as foot binding. At one time Chinese parents would bind the feet of their daughters because small feet were considered beautiful. Whole generations of Chinese women were crippled to the point they could barely walk.
ChessPirate about 11 years ago
The scientists in New Mexico one makes me wonder if we are now on the road to “Minority Report”.
ChessPirate about 11 years ago
In this future time, they have the ability to accurately predict that someone is about to commit a crime.