After a storm destroyed their home, Tha Sophat's parents left their native Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Tha Sophat stayed with his grandfather, a farmer who struggled to keep the boy healthy. One day, the grandfather found little Tha clinging to the udder of a cow. The motherless 1-year-old was suckling.
Look at this cow making a break for it! This cow ran away from a slaughterhouse in Queens on Wednesday! This cow is running down a street called "Liberty Avenue," no joke! Run, cow, run!
Unlike a chocolate chip cookie, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus does not taste better in milk. But a new strain of that superbug, aka MRSA, is exactly what British scientists have discovered in milk samples. This news comes on the same day that a "mutant" strain of E. coli was fingered as the source of a severe food poisoning epidemic currently gripping Europe.
Fish labeling! Dog drinking! Disease eradicating! Anorexia theorizing! Contaminated fishing! Radiation sexing! Distant-object spotting! Caffeine surviving! And whatever new thing they say about heart disease today! It's your Friday Science Watch, where we watch science—indiscriminately!
Regina always wanted a horse to ride but her family could not afford it. So she did the next best thing and taught her cow Luna to jump like a show horse.
In your Thursday edition of, "Today, I learned..." we have this: did you know that cows apparently really enjoy music, and—more specifically—the sound of an accordion? Well, if this video is any proof, they do. They really do.
Rampant "dogging" at the Hog's Back "lay-by" (or, public fucking at a rest stop) near Puttenham, England has officially grossed out the locals. So the county council has proposed filling the field with cattle to keep people from boning there.
It's an age old question. What happens when an unstoppable train meets an innocent cow? This video—featuring a speeding train and a cow waiting around on the tracks—will attempt to answer that question.
The Way We Live Now: Breaking astounding barriers of the mind and soul! Money scientists have discovered who has it worst in this recession: the poor. That's right, the poor. Surprise. It is the fault of cows—girl cows.
The Way We Live Now: Illiquidly. Forget "banks" or "cash." The government has nothing. It's everyone for themselves now. Even the Gotti family is dumping its worldly goods and stockpiling sweet, sweet cows.
The only Chik-fil-A restaurant in the New York metropolitan area is located in the NYU food court. And today only, Chik-fil-A will give a free meal to "any customer who isn't 'too chicken' to visit any of the chain's nearly 1,400 participating restaurants fully dressed as a cow." NYU kids, we urge you to participate so that you can be exploited by the company and mocked by us (privately). The prize is a Chik-fil-A meal. [via Ad Age]
