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Cows that are given names produce more milk than those that are not, says a new study out of England.
The study, conducted by Catherine Douglas and Peter Rowlinson at Newcastle University in Newcastle upon Tyne, discovered that more affectionate treatment of cattle — including giving cows names — can increase milk production by more than 68 gallons annually. An average cow produces about 2,000 gallons of milk a year.
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Naming cows isn’t udder nonsense
An Oklahoma man plans to try and set a world record for inflating a meteorological weather balloon.
London’s Viaduct Tavern will be busy tonight with Halloween revelers in search of spooks.
“Sometimes, early in the morning, you feel somebody’s watching you, but you’re alone,” Bubpathong, 37, swears. “It’s very eerie when you’re here by yourself. Things just don’t seem right.” Read more…
A New Hampshire team that narrowly lost a year ago returned to Sunday River Ski Resort to win the ninth annual North American Wife-Carrying Championship.
Ri Fahnestock and Sarah Silverberg, friends from Dover, N.H., claimed victory Saturday and were awarded Silverberg’s weight in beer: five cases.
A couple in rural Cambodia has terminated their 18-year marriage with a divorce settlement that entailed sawing in two the wooden house they once shared, villagers said Friday.
The husband, 42-year-old Moeun Sarim, has taken away with him all the bits and pieces of his half a house, said his 35-year-old wife, Vat Navy. The other half is still standing.
“Very strange, but this is what my husband wanted,” she said by phone from a village about 62 miles east of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. She said they ended their marriage last month.
A defendant had a hard time facing the music.
Andrew Vactor was facing a $150 fine for playing rap music too loudly on his car stereo in July. But a judge offered to reduce that to $35 if Vactor spent 20 hours listening to classical music by the likes of Bach, Beethoven and Chopin.
Vactor, 24, lasted only about 15 minutes, a probation officer said.
It wasn’t the music, Vactor said, he just needed to be at practice with the rest of the Urbana University basketball team.
“I didn’t have the time to deal with that,” he said. “I just decided to pay the fine.”
More than 370 penguins that mysteriously washed up on Brazil’s equatorial beaches were flown south on an air force jet and released closer to the frigid waters they call home, environmentalists said Monday.
Onlookers cheered as the young Magellanic penguins waddled into the ocean at a beach in southern Brazil, the International Fund for Animal Welfare said in a statement. It called the penguin release the largest ever in South America.
The penguins, which had been kept at an animal rehabilitation center in the northeastern city of Salvador, were flown on an air force plane to southern Brazil and set free on Saturday.
Along with wild salmon and steelhead trout, the Pacific Northwest soon may have another endangered species — the driveway carwash.
Washing your car or boat in the driveway or street is a residential ritual as American as backyard barbecues. But the state of Washington is telling its local governments they must prohibit home car washing unless residents divert the wash water away from storm drains, where they say it causes water pollution.
“I understand this is something people have done for a long time,” says Bill Moore, water quality specialist with the Washington state Department of Ecology, which is requiring the ban. “It’s not something we should be doing any longer.”
TOKYO - One after the other, the models strutted across the stage to bouncy ’80s dance tunes, all showing off designs of the same article of clothing — adult diapers.
Japan has one of the world’s most rapidly aging societies, and the fashion show Thursday proved the country’s diaper producers are intent on keeping the elderly clean and dry.
The Nikkei, Japan’s leading business newspaper, conducted a survey this week that showed sales of adult diapers have more than doubled over the past decade, reaching an estimated 52.5 billion yen ($500 million) this year.
Andrew Dewberry might have been better off building a liquor store. When his pirate ship tree house ran afoul of city bylaws, he found out the city meant business. Needless to say, the front yard of his house in a tony British Columbia neighborhood is a little less welcoming for pirates now.
Dewberry and a crew of friends spent Saturday dismantling the pirate ship tree house he’s had in his Vancouver yard for two years. He said he had no choice after a court ordered it to be removed for not complying with city bylaws.
Dewberry’s 9 year old son Jack stated “We wanted to sleep in it over the summer one time, but we didn’t get around to it and now we can’t.”
