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A gene in Asian monkeys that may have evolved as a defence against lentiviruses, the group that includes HIV, has been identified by Harvard Medical School researchers.
The gene, TRIM5-CypA, is a hybrid of two existing genes, TRIM5 and CypA. The combination produces a single protein capable of blocking infection by viruses closely related to [...]
Several thousand guests have solemnized an elaborate Hindu wedding ceremony between two monkeys in India’s eastern Orissa state.
At the ceremony Jhumri, the two-year old monkey ‘bride’ sported a crimson red sari, a tiara of flowers and had her forehead smeared with sandalwood paste whilst Manu the ‘groom’ was his swashbuckling self, sporting only a chain [...]
You may have noticed the slight skeleton fetish here at ROTD…well, here’s one more story I came across a little belatedly…
India has long been the world’s primary source of bones used in medical study, renowned for producing specimens scrubbed to a pristine white patina and fitted with high-quality connecting hardware. In 1985, however, the Indian [...]
Well, if you grew up in Delhi this has to come as a big blow. No more bumper cars. No more dragon roller coaster. No more room with the funny mirrors. No more cotton candy and popcorn and thumbs up. No more dangerous ferris wheels. No more spinning tea-cups. And most importantly, no more Bhoot [...]
or this is what his doctors suspected…actually he just misplaced his nuts…and this is why I have limited faith in the medical profession…I was once sent in for a full brain scan just because I had a few headaches…after fantasizing about a brain tumor for two days my doc suggested I just take some aspirin [...]
(no they’re not humping- mr frog is saving mr mouse during the Lucknow Monsoon Floods of 2006! Still I think there’s an interspecies S and M Beatrix Potter book in the making.) image from link
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AHMADABAD, India (AP) — In India, death is a part of life - and, at one restaurant in western India, a part of lunch. The bustling New Lucky Restaurant in Ahmadabad is famous for its milky tea, its buttery rolls, and the graves between the tables.
It’s a spot where old men page [...]
I shit therefore I am.
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India’s sanitation specialist Sulabh International, led by its visionary founder Bindeshwar Pathak, has succeeded in developing a strong raw material out of human waste and Mexico-based designers Santiago Sierra and Mariana David have designed doors out it.
The doors have been put on display at the Lisson Art Gallery [...]
“(CNN) In April 2006, Louis, a solid-state physicist at Mahatma Gandhi University, published a paper in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Astrophysics and Space Science in which he hypothesizes that the samples — water taken from the mysterious blood-colored showers that fell sporadically across Louis’s home state of Kerala in the summer of 2001 — contain [...]
BANGALORE, India — Revered by some in her village as the reincarnation of a Hindu goddess, a 2-year-old girl born with four arms and four legs was undergoing surgery Tuesday that will hopefully leave her with a normal body.
The girl named Lakshmi is joined at the pelvis to a “parasitic twin” that stopped developing [...]
even the street kids speak more languages than I do! We may have more poor kids on the street than in many other countries but we have the smartest damn street kids you’ll find anywhere…these kids have style.
A man has married a female dog to make up for stoning two other animals to death.The 33-year-old Indian married the sari-draped dog after an astrologer said it was the only way to cure him of a disability.Selvakumar told the Hindustan Times he had been suffering since he stoned two dogs to death and strung [...]
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October 23, 2007
EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE
MANGALORE: Carnivorous trees grabbing humans and cattle and gobbling them up is not just village folklore.
Residents of Padrame near Kokkoda in Uppinangady forest range sighted one such carnivorous tree trying to dine on a cow last Thursday. According to reports, the cow owned by Anand Gowda had been left [...]
I kid you not. This happened in May, 2001
Residents of the Indian capital, Delhi, are reported to be panicking after a series of attacks by mysterious creatures, described as “man-monkeys”.At least one person is said to have died and 35 others have been injured in attacks in recent days or while attempting to flee in [...]
well that certainly sounds like more fun for the parents than for the babies…
MyFoxNY.com — One by one they went. A priest in India hurled babies over the edge of a balcony to a blanket below.
What probably seems shocking to you is actually a centuries-old tradition.
Superstitious moms and dads flock to the temple [...]
