Weird News

"Everyday I see news items that strike me as weird or facinating. I love learning new things but some of the stuff, really! Today's National Post has a picture of a pig that glows. It seems scientists in Taiwan have added jellyfish protein to the cells of pig embryos and voila! they glow. Did anyone ask the pigs if they want to glow at night, it might disrupt their sleep!

Then there was the story of the mouse that got it's revenge. Seems a man in New Mexico caught a mouse, decided to get rid of it by throwing it in a fire he had going in his back yard. The mouse caught on fire and then ran back inside the house and burned it down. Way to go mouse. Bet that man doesn't try burning mice again!

Moving from the weird to the interesting, at least to me, is the story on filed teeth found in viking graves 1000 years old in Sweden. It seems they may have visited the New World way back when and learned how to do this from our native peoples. First time this has been found in Europe.

And then for all you golfers out there, it appears that the scots didn't invent this game, the Chinese did, like so many other things. It will be interesting to see if this claim is refuted or proven by other researchers. I wonder what the people of Scotland think?"' I whisper.

Are you listening?