Good
morning to you, today is Thursday, January 12, 2012, and I am your humble host,
the sultan of sarcasm, the purveyor of non-pertinent information, the troublemaker
extraordinaire and I are coming to you recorded from the Eagle’s nest here at
wake up central with news you can’t use here on the Thursday edition of The
Morning Wake Up Call.
Big Bang Wish –
Huffington Post
Like most seven-year-old boys, Maxwell
Hinton enjoys explosions. Unlike most seven-year-old boys, he was able to set
one into motion himself. Through the Make-A-Wish Foundation, the organization
that grants wishes to young people with life-threatening diseases, Hinton
pushed the button that set a series of detonations, which took down an enormous
ConAgra grain mill in Huron, Ohio, reports Fox Toledo. (Although such an event is often
referred to as an implosion, the term is "actually a misnomer because that
would require an inverse explosion," according toThe Daily Mail.)
Hinton, who lives in Fresno, CA,
gained his passion for explosions through television. "I watch
'MythBusters' and they inspired me to blow a building up," he explained.
The boy suffers from neuro-blastoma, a malignant cancerous tumor that that commonly affects young children. The Daily Mail reports that Hinton "has undergone
treatment and is now recovering from the condition." The mill needed to be
razed in order to make room for a long-planned riverfront development project.
Grain silos, also attached to the structure, will be knocked down in the coming
weeks.
30,000-40,000 people turned out for the
event. ABC-7 reports that
after the dust had settled, and the applause died down, Maxwell simply said,
"I had a great time."
Sex Study in an MRI
Machine – ABC News
Kayt Sukel was
an undergraduate research assistant in a neuroscience lab at Harvard University
before she decided to jump right into science -- literally.
She crawled inside a functional MRI
machine, where she was tethered with a mesh net harness to hold her head still,
and sexually stimulated herself to climax in that awkward setting -- not just
once, but twice, so researchers could measure
her brain activity.
It was a scene even she admits felt
straight out of a porno film, but Sukel said she knew she was contributing to
the scientific understanding ofwhat happens to the brain during orgasm. And it made great fodder for a book.
"I did it," she writes.
"I now had a great story if anyone ever asked me to name the strangest
place I'd had an orgasm. And I had helped science while doing it. Triumph for
all parties concerned!"
Sukel, 37, writes about that and much
more in her new book, "Dirty Minds: How Our Brains Influence Love, Sex, and
Relationships," which
examines how neurobiology shapes how we love and bond with others.
Other books have been written about
"the nether regions and what is going on downstairs," but this
well-researched book helps readers find out "what's going on
upstairs."
"Sex is between your ears,"
Sukel said. "Our brain is really an important part of orgasm."
Deer and Birth Control
The
National Park Service is considering sharpshooting and euthanasia to reduce
Rock Creek Park’s growing deer population. White-tailed deer are overgrazing on the
park’s tree seedlings and native plants, keeping the forest from regenerating,
the officials said. The National Park Service released the latest version of its deer
control plan on
Tuesday. In
addition to sharpshooting and euthanasia, birth control is an alternative Though they have yet to officially
decide, park officials prefer a combination of lethal and non-lethal options
instead of a single method, the report said.
The National Park Service plans to donate the resulting deer meat to
local food banks. A Montgomery County deer sharpshooting programdonated about 17,500 pounds of food to the Capital Area Food Bank last
November.
Breastfeeding on Sesame Street – Time
What’s not to like about lovable furry old Grover and his pals
Elmo, Zoe and Oscar the Grouch? If you’re a member of the robust movement
that saucily refers to itself as NIP — “nursing in public,” natch — the answer
is plenty.
Coming on the heels of a well-attended national “nurse-in”
that sought to normalize breast-feeding in Target stores, NIPers are now
lowering the boom on Sesame Street. Apparently a generation ago, the kiddie
show incorporated tasteful shots of nursing mothers who explained that
“lots of mothers feed their babies this way” and that breast milk was “warm and
natural.” More recently, however, when a baby gets fed on “The Street,” it
seems to be courtesy of a bottle. Not that there’s anything wrong with
bottle-feeding, the NIP moms are quick to point out. But bottle-feeding to the
exclusion of breast-feeding, especially at a time when even the U.S. Surgeon
General has called for more support for
breast-feeding mothers?
“You’re My Baby” from a 1980s segment of Sesame Street, which
includes a mother breast feeding
That doesn’t
make for particularly sunny days. And it’s prompted more than 5,600 people to
sign a petition to
“bring breastfeeding back to Sesame Street.”
http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/12/group-petitions-to-bring-breastfeeding-back-to-sesame-street/#ixzz1jFo3KWAS
http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/12/group-petitions-to-bring-breastfeeding-back-to-sesame-street/#ixzz1jFo3KWAS
Quote of the Day
He who is void of
virtuous Attachments in private Life, is, or very soon will be void of all
Regard for his Country. – Samuel Adams
Useless Facts
"101 Dalmations" and "Peter
Pan" are the only two Disney cartoon features with both parents that are
present and don't die during the movie
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