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Weird Science Roundup: Wallabies on Drugs, Microsoft Lawsuits, and Predatory Nymphs

Yee-haw! It’s the blog roundup. • Humans aren’t the only ones who can feel the narcotic effects of opium; wallabies can, too. In fact, farmers in Australia have reported that the animals “get high” from munching on the stuff, which grows in open fields, then form crop circles when they repeatedly hop in circles.

• Hey, lay off my layout! Bing, Microsoft’s new search engine, has been accused of plagiarism by Kayak, a web site that helps customers find inexpensive plane fares. Apparently, Bing looks so similar to Kayak, it’s confounding customers.

•Talk about DIY: The woman who biopsied and treated her own breast cancer in 1999 while at the South Pole died on Tuesday, June 23.

•Remember those one-legged frogs deformed by chemical pollution? Turns out that there may be another explanation for those missing limbs: dragonfly nymphs, which feed on tadpole legs. Tasty!

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June 26th, 2009 1:31 PM Tags: opium, plagiarism, roundup
by Allison Bond in Blog Roundup | 7 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

  • QUASAR

    Wallabies on drugs! LOL

    This isn’t the first time is it?

  • Gadfly

    So crop circles aren’t a human-based hoax after all — it was the doped up wallabies all along.

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  • http://www.vncomputer.org/ Mike

    Damn, that’s crazy…

  • http://www.vncomputer.org/ Mark

    Microsoft ROCKS!!! I feel so bad when people say bad things about microsoft! Apple looks like a toy, and Microsoft is the best!





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