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Undercover restorers fix Paris landmark's clock | Special reports | Guardian Unlimited

eric — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 22:10:48 GMT

This is amazing! "Cultural guerillas" sneaking into famous French landmarks to restore them. Their most recent coup is breaking into the Pantheon and fixing the gigantic clock. I would have loved to have seen the movie theater under the Seine.

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Hot Library Smut

eric — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:44:11 GMT

Beautiful library porn - for book lovers.

Quoted: the nonist, now searching recorded history for some semblance of truth.

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Seed: I Can't Believe It's Science: 6/30 - 7/6

eric — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 16:50:46 GMT

From the " no duh" scientific branch. Men are willing to accept more pain from a woman than from another man.

Quoted: In order to avoid pains of the heart, men will suffer pains of pretty much every other body part. A new study out of Scotland's University of Stirling reports that men will withstand more pain without complaint when they are being tortured by a woman rather than a man. In the experimental setup, a 21-year-old woman dressed in a skirt and high heels put pressure on the chests of college males. The boys reported much higher pain thresholds than they did when a male researcher turned up the pressure. The researchers say the males may have been trying to appear macho in front of the woman. They also allow for the possibility that the men were just distracted from their suffering by a hot chick in skimpy clothing. The results worry the researchers, who said they are concerned male hospital patients may underreport their pain to female doctors and nurses.

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