Weird Science Roundup: Swallow the Higgs Boson, Snort Chocolate, and Love Gay Elephants

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Yee-haw! It’s the blog roundup.• “We didn’t pay 37 million zlotys [7.6 million pounds] for the largest elephant house in Europe to have a gay elephant live there” —Polish politician Michal Grzes.

• A chocolate inhaler now provides calorie-free indulgence in four flavors: raspberry, mint, mango, and plain. Inhaled mango-flavored chocolate powder? Really?

• What to do if you—oops!—swallow the Higgs boson.

• A divorced couple fights over frozen dog sperm.

• Watch a spider roll like an eight-spoked wheel.

• And, a humpback whale was spotted swimming under New York City’s Verrazano Bridge! Watch it surface here.

April 10th, 2009 2:24 PM Tags: , ,
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