WEIRD IS THE WORLD: STRIKE THREE YOU'RE OUT

HEADLINE: Secret of the Curve Ball Picked World's Best Illusion
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: FOXNews.com 14.5.9
CAPTION: STRIKE THREE YOU'RE OUT

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The three best visual illusions in the world were chosen at a gathering last weekend of neuroscientists and psychologists at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Florida. The winning entry, from a Bucknell University professor, may help explain why curve balls in baseball are so tricky to hit. A properly thrown curve ball spins in a way that makes the air on one side move faster than on the other. This causes the ball to move along a gradual curve. From the point of view of a batter standing on home plate, though, curve balls seem to "break," or move suddenly in a new direction.

HEADLINE: Naughty nurses backfire on web company
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 14.5.9
CAPTION: Naughty Nurses Naughty

A PLOY to attract attention with women dressed as nurses has backfired on an exhibitor at Australia's largest technology trade show. The task of luring customers to stands at trade shows will always get marketing departments working overtime. However the company behind one stand at CeBIT Australia struck the wrong chord with women in the technology industry this week. Web hosting company NetRegistry used women in nurse uniforms and men dressed as doctors to stand out from the crowd at the show. The stunt, which the company said was directed by "women and a gay guy", has been slammed by some women in the industry as demeaning. IT worker Kate Carruthers said NetRegistry's depiction of women at a trade show was unacceptable. "I was there and didn't like what I saw," Ms Carruthers, who is a member of Females in the Information Technology and Telecommunications, told news.com.au.

HEADLINE: 'I was only going to stab her a little bit'
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 13.5.9
CAPTION: A SICK DUDE

ANDREW Norman wanted to eat damper and he expected his girlfriend to cook it. So when she turned her back on him he picked up a knife and stabbed her in the back. She died at Royal Darwin Hospital later that night. ... "I was going to stab her a little bit, only once,'' he said

HEADLINE: Hungry Suspect Caught In Taco Bell Parking Lot
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: CNN.com 13.5.9
CAPTION: Last meal before jail

Officials say a suspected drug dealer who led police on a 90 mph chase in Indiana was arrested after he stopped suddenly at a Taco Bell parking lot. Fort Wayne police Sgt. Mark Walters says 36-year-old Jermaine Askia Cooper told officers he "knew he was going to jail for a while" and wanted to get one last burrito.

HEADLINE: Naked cyclist tackled by judge
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: telegraph.co.uk 12.5.9
CAPTION: No Nudie

Anthony Harris, 54, was twice stopped by police officers wearing nothing but the patch on the Marina in St Leonards, East Sussex.
District Judge Roger Ede, sitting at Hastings Magistrates Court, told Harris that he must not go for his coastside rides unless he covers up with at least a pair of swimming trunks.
Judge Ede imposed a sexual offences prevention order banning Harris, of St Leonards, from appearing anywhere in public without trousers, short trousers or swimming trunks fully covering his genitals and buttocks...

HEADLINE: Rotten Office Fridge Cleanup Sends 7 To Hospital
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: CBSnews.com 12.5.9
CAPTION: Makes You Want To Throw Up

An office worker cleaning a fridge full of rotten food created a smell so noxious that it sent seven co-workers to the hospital and made many others ill. Firefighters had to evacuate the AT&T building in downtown San Jose on Tuesday, after the flagrant fumes prompted someone to call 911. A hazmat team was called in.

HEADLINE: Green snot enzyme a key to heart damage
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 12.5.9
CAPTION: Just Snot

AUSTRALIAN researchers have found a unique way to control the enzyme which causes damage during a heart attack and, less critically, is also responsible for turning snot green.

The enzyme myeloperoxidase goes to work when the immune system encounters foreign bacteria.

HEADLINE: Sorry bimbos, clever women have better sex
SOURCE AND DATE OF CLIP: news.com.au 12.5.9
CAPTION: BRAINS + SEX = ORGASMS

BEAUTY may bag you a man - but brains will bring you more fun in the bedroom.
Women blessed with "emotional intelligence" - the ability to express their feelings and read those of others - have better sex lives, research shows.
Those most in touch with their feelings have twice as many orgasms as inhibited sorts, the study found.
The finding, reports The Daily Mail newspaper in the UK, could lead to new ways of counselling the 40 per cent of women who find it difficult or impossible to enjoy sex fully.
Researcher Tim Spector of King's College London said there were definite advantages to being a touchy-feely type. ...