Those Sirens Aren’t Mermaids, Just Voices in Your Head

More from the Book of Duh: Again from the BBC, citing the US National Ocean Service: There are no such things as mermaids. Or, as the report more scientifically stated: “No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found.” The wonders of scientific progress continue. Sailors can breathe more easily. Next up: Zombies and Vampires.

Pot Plants, Stunt Growth

From the big Book of Duh: BBC reports on a scientific study presented at the Society for Experimental Biology during their meeting in Salzburg, Austria that a researcher with the unlikely name of Hendrik Poorter has used Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) to discover the following startling truth: Plants in bigger pots grow bigger than plants …