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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