10 - Friday, July 29, 1994 - North Shore News

Barnyard debate

AFPPER A spirited debate at the
Great Midwestern Think-Oi on
June 26 in Minnesota, the audi-
ence of professional and amateur
phifosophers officially affirmed.
by 70-54. that life has meaning.

Winning debater and some-
time-fishermaa Peter Hilts argued
that life has meaning even for a
fish, prevailing over heckeeper
Charles Carpenter, who main-
tained that life simply “is” and
that fife is beyond such a bland
concept as “meaning.”

E-ch of the four semi-finalists
received a medal of Rodin’s “The
Thinker" seated on a tractor.

In Dallas in June, a 63-year-old
woman had a 70-kg (156 pound)
ovarian cyst, representing about
half her body weight. removed.
Her surgeon said “several stout
people” were necessary to get the
tumor off the operating table.

The woman's family proudly
tacked up a photograph of the
tumor in the hospital room, but
according to the Guinness Book,
the world record is (147 kg) 328
pounds, removed from a woman in
Galveston, Texas, in 1905.

Among the grants this year
from the Royal Swedish Academy
of Sciences, taken from Torsten

NEWS OF THE
WEIRD

Compiled by A-P. MeCredie

Amund Amundsson's 1940 legacy
to study homosexuality, was about
$6,300 to examine whether homo-
sexual behavior in fruit flies is
genetic in origin.

Writing last summer in the
journal Animal Behaviour, two
rescarchers from England's
University of Manchester hypoth-
esized that a man’s between-coitus
masturbation improves — his
chances of inseminating his mate,
even though it reduces ihe number

of speroe that reach in epg.

They found that masturbation
after several celibate: divs releases
“red” sperm, moving more vigor:
ous spera up the queue.

Ina companion paper in the
sane issue, the researchers posited
that females use orgasm to attempt
to regulate conception: More
sperm is accepted from a mate
with whont she bus an orgasm.

The Philadelphia lnquirer
reported in June on the allegedly
successful traumatic-memory
treatment which consists of vigor-
ously wagging fingers in the
pitient’s face, similar to Ue
Motion moue by an angry school
teacher or parent.

“Kye movement desensitization
and reprocessing” is believed to
pul patients in a better inood by
inducing rapid eye movement to
“unclog™ brain patierns,

In March, doctors in England
reported that people who grow up
in clean homes may be more like-
ly to become ill later in life.

In clean homes, the researchers
surmised, inhabitants are robbed
of the small doses of bacterta that
might immunize them against
many illnesses, such as Crohn's
disease and ulcerative colitis.

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