Science on the Cutting Edge

[Arvon]

The latest technologies and sophisticated biomechanical gaugings are being used to design brassieres to liberate women from the discomfort of which most complain (and especially buxom women, since a D-cup bra normally carries breasts weighing from 15 to 23 pounds). Leading work (according to a November Wall Street Journal report) is being done in China by engineers for Top Form Inc. (suppliers to Victoria's Secret, Playtex and Maidenform) and by biomechanist Deirdre McGhee at the University of Wollongong in Australia. A British professor, David Morris, teaches "bra studies" at De Montfort University in Leicester, and Hong Kong's Polytechnic University recently created a degree program in bra studies. [Discover magazine, November 2005; Wall Street Journal, 11-9-05]

[Sir Degrader]

Ahh Homer Simpson says, let your children roam free. I dunno what that has to do with it, so here's what I was thinking: A lack of wearing Bra's, like in the case of Ms. Chokesondick is bad, bu a lack of bras like in the case of Jenna Jameson is good.

[Arvon]

And on the animal front...

Animals Being Animals: (1) The Harbor Commission of Newport Harbor, Calif., met in emergency session in September after news that 18 200- to 800-pound sea lions had jumped onto a 37-foot sailboat and sunk it. (Elsewhere on the coast, sea lions eat boogie boards, vomit on docks and bark cacophonously, and efforts to disperse them are ineffective because they are protected by a 1972 federal law.) (2) In September, an exceptionally rare American veery (a thrush-like songbird) landed in Britain's Shetland Islands and briefly excited the country's birdwatchers, but just as word was circulating, according to Scotland's Daily Record, a local cat ate it. [Los Angeles Times, 9-14-05] [Daily Record (Glasgow), 10-4-05]

[Sir Degrader]

Damn sea lions. This is pretext for war!

[robertthebard]

Surely all the ones that were protected are dead by now?

[Madman-Rogovich]

Originally posted by robertthebard: Surely all the ones that were protected are dead by now?

Well I'm tryin man but they keep comin back with more numbers

[Sir Degrader]

Better call Gunther and the Sunshine girls, looks like you could use the manpower of a dirty swede and his bevy of bathing beauties.

[johnny]

Originally posted by Sir Degrader: Ahh Homer Simpson says, let your children roam free. I dunno what that has to do with it, so here's what I was thinking: A lack of wearing Bra's, like in the case of Ms. Chokesondick is bad, bu a lack of bras like in the case of Jenna Jameson is good.

No way...please let Jenna and her crew keep their bras on, those gigantic misshaped boobs are giving me nightmares.

[Sir Degrader]

Ok, what about Heidi Klum?

[Madman-Rogovich]

Originally posted by Sir Degrader: Ok, what about Heidi Klum?

Well you just cant compare them man, they is 2 completely different chicks (morally speaking) Klum could wear a 1/2 a kilo of lard and still be gorgeous