A panda at a zoo in southern China attacked a student who snuck into its pen hoping for a cuddle with the endangered bear, state media said Saturday.The 20-year-old male student surnamed Liu jumped over the fence at the zoo in the tourist city of Guilin, ignoring warning signs not to, Xinhua news agency said.
Panda attacks man who wanted a cuddle | Oddly Enough | Reuters
Authorities in Texas have filed corpse-abuse charges against two men who allegedly removed a skull from a grave and used it as a bong.
Men charged after skull dug up, used as bong | Oddly Enough | Reuters
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor.Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert contain the same psychoactive molecules as those found in plants from which the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca is prepared.
The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet which the Book of Exodus says emanated from Mount Sinai could just have been the imaginings of a people in an “altered state of awareness,” Shanon hypothesized.
“In advanced forms of ayahuasca inebriation, the seeing of light is accompanied by profound religious and spiritual feelings,” Shanon wrote.
High on Mount Sinai? | Oddly Enough | Reuters
they were stoned
Baking soda nearly killed an elderly man. He was using it to relieve the stomach pain caused by an ulcer, but went way overboard with the home remedy.
They ran a battery of tests, including a CT scan, but there was no sign of a head injury. However, the pH of his blood and urine were high — a condition called alkalosis. In other words, his body fluids were way too basic.
Soon after the examination, he became very agitated and tore the heart-monitor electrodes off his chest and the I.V. from his arm. To calm him down, the doctors gave him two doses of the tranquilizer Lorazepam. It worked too well.
His breathing failed. The medical staff intubated him.
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