Bastards, Breasts, and Base

Fun facts of the day. All found in the Nov. 2005 issue of Discover Magazine during my lunch break: DNA testing has proven that one in 25 men unknowningly raise another man’s child. One in 25?? Pharmacologists have studied Italy’s river Po in hopes of evaluating drug use. The river carries the sewage of 5 million Italians; basically the world’s largest drug test. They’ve found that 8.8 pounds of cocaine flow downstream every day. Of the 100 trillion bacteria foundRead more