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Culture Buzz An outbreak of flesh-eating disease in Los Angeles and New York has been linked to cocaine that's been cut with levamisole, a veterinary medicine used to deworm livestock. Levamisole is known to rot off human skin, especially—as these photos illustrate—around the ears and nose. The Russians don't get to have all the flesh-eating narcotics fun. More at ABC News. WARNING: Gross.
Science Buzz A low-fi wonder of technology. Eh? What's that? Speak up young man!
This dude in Georgia (the country) can pull a minivan with his bizarrely super-strong ears. Those babies can also lift 120 pounds, which is, like, a dozen babies (if you, like moi, use infants as your go-to units of measurement).
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A Chinese woman went partially deaf after her boyfriend kissed her so passionately on the ear that it ruptured her eardrum. Not an uncommon ailment, other cases like this one have existed in the past. The suction from the kiss actually has the power to rupture your eardrum. Just a lesson to keep your nuzzling under control. Someone could get hurt!
