Month: August 2006

In our latest installment of NFTS, we bring you:

Self-timing egg
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=17948&in_page_id=2

Throughout history, boiling an egg has been one of the toughest domesticated tasks to master. But now scientists have developed a foolproof way of getting the perfect result every time. The answer was to produce a dye which changes its appearance when the egg reaches a certain temperature. Supermarkets will sell eggs carrying small clear plastic stickers which, when boiled properly, will reveal a black Lion Quality logo. Customers will have the choice of buying the eggs in boxes with soft, medium or hard boiling stickers to suit their taste.

Americans too fat for Xrays and MRIs
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/07/26/obesity.xrays.reut/index.html

According to radiologists, more and more american obese people are unable to get full medical care because they are either too big to fit into scanners, or their fat is too dense for X-rays or sound waves to penetrate. Scanning machines with larger-bore openings are in demand, a reflection of increasing obesity in America, where 64% of the population is overweight or obese.

Edit: This has to be added, because no NFTS entry should be without a goofy religion post.

Natural Earth Museum, Bible-style
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Creation_Museum.html

Like most natural history museums, this one has exhibits showing dinosaurs roaming the Earth. Except here, the giant reptiles share the forest with Adam and Eve. That, of course, is contradicted by science, but that's the point of the $25 million Creation Museum rising fast in rural Kentucky. Its inspiration is the Bible – the literal interpretation that contends God created the heavens and the Earth and everything in them just a few thousand years ago.

“If the Bible is the word of God, and its history really is true, that's our presupposition or axiom, and we are starting there,” museum founder Ken Ham said during recent tour of the sleek and modern facility, which is due to open next year. […] John Morris, president of the Institute for Creation Research in San Diego, an organization that promotes creationism, said the museum will affirm the doubts many people have about science, namely the notion that man evolved from lower forms of life.

“Americans just aren't gullible enough to believe that they came from a fish,” he said.

Emphasis mine on that last quote, which is priceless and has just made my day.