The Green Man Pub in Wellington New Zeland serves the 30ml shots of apple-infused horse semen and apparently it’s going (ahem) down a treat with regulars, especially the ladies.
The “secret sauce” arrives fresh from a Christchurch stallion farm with each shot containing about 300 million individual horse sperm cells, and is served chilled for about $20 USD a pop.
According to pub co-owner Steve Drummond, the drink is very popular with the ladies but guys are having a hard time manning up to gulp the custard like concoction…
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The tuatara, scientists have learned, is in some ways a so-called living fossil…
As a femur-shaped island paradise that snapped away from the Gondwana super-continent some 80 million years ago, New Zealand is famously home to eccentric forms of wildlife that look like pets for a Hobbit…
The animal that may well be New Zealand’s most bizarrely instructive species at first glance looks surprisingly humdrum: the tuatara. A reptile about 16 inches long with bumpy, khaki-colored skin and a lizardly profile, the tuatara could easily be mistaken for an iguana. Appearances in this case are wildly deceptive. The tuatara — whose name comes from the Maori language and means “peaks on the back” — is not an iguana, is not a lizard, is not like any other reptile alive today…
(read more: NY Times)
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Onlookers in Beijing, China, keep a safe distance from a giant sinkhole that opened in the middle of a busy street last Tuesday, swallowing a truck. Several news reports say the sinkhole formed above a tunnel being dug for construction of a subway line.
Mining and construction activities can weaken the subsurface and cause sinkholes to collapse, said Mike Hoyal of the Tennessee Division of Geology. But sinkholes can also form naturally when water-saturated soil becomes too heavy, causing the roofs of existing voids and caves in the ground to collapse.
In addition, acidic rain or groundwater can enlarge a natural fracture in a limestone bedrock layer to form a sinkhole. The water “dissolves out the calcium carbonate in the limestone and forms fractures,” Hoyal said. As the crack gets bigger, the topsoil can gently slump, exposing the sinkhole to the world.
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PVC Tape + Car + Friends talking shit = ^
How we do.
This is one of my favorite charts that I did not make.
Why does the Bible say one thing about infidelity in one place and another in another place? Why do some minor characters appear to die but then resurface? Because the Bible makes mistakes. Here they are, all of them. Skeptic Sam Harris furnished the data; Andy Marlow designed the chart (with inspiration from an earlier chart by Chris Harrison). It ends up looking like the mind of a very fallible god.
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