News of the Weird: The Week That Was
News of the Weird: The Week That Was
Extinct men. China. Ketamine lollipops. Feral goldfish. Gigantic koi. Cloud seeding. Welcome to the new world.
We will just immediately jump into the weird with disturbing news Richard read.
Say what?🚫🤷♂️
Apparently so. Good news? It will be a few million years before it happens so none of us will be around to see whatever that new sex is. But men may go by the way of dinosaurs. Hmm.
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If you missed Suzi's story on China, drug clinical trials and the FDA, you may want to check it out. Something to put on your radar. 🇨🇳
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Have you been keeping up with celebrity sagas? We don't usually but we dipped into J.Lo and Ben Affleck's marriage troubles and the Matthew Perry drug deal saga for a minute when we weren't investigating corruption.
Suzi learned that something called “ketamine lollipops” existed. As a staunch anti-drug person, (no one offered her pot until she was 30 because apparently her friends thought she would turn them in) Suzi thought wtf is a “ketamine lollipop”? 🍭
A study in Pub Med by Japanese doctors notes:
That was enough for Suzi.
We missed this last month. It has nothing to do with Arkansas— yet — but we wonder if our rivers, lakes and ponds have one.
Koi is Japanese word for carp, and the fish is an invasive species. “Commonly bought for small decorative ponds or aquariums, sometimes they just get too big and owners dump them in lakes,” the article notes.
But there's more.
Suzi then learned about … feral goldfish.
FFS. Truth. Some of you may have known about these things. Suzi did not.
Apparently Jonesboro — Arkansas!!! — had such a thing. Ten years ago!!!
Moving on from… 🎣
Life is such a sci-fi movie these days. Check this story.
The April flood in Dubai got Suzi wondering about cloud seeding in Arkansas. There once was an old man in Cleveland County who messed with cloud seeding using silver iodide. She's investigating that lore further. 🌧
This entire edition of News of the Weird reminds us of this 1980s punk song. 🎸
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