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...Anyone Tell You Cow Brain Is Bush Tucker As an Australian, I'm happy to forgive Jeff for calling the cattle ranch the Outback. After shoving Mick Dundee and the Crocodile Hunter down your throats, we deserve it. But I really can't find it in my heart to excuse CBS for Episode 2's immunity challenge, in which the contestants must eat "true Aboriginal food, what they call bush tucker." The mangrove worm, the wichity grub, the bug and the shellfish are all fair enough, says Ian Lilley, of the University of Queensland's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander...
...follow them home," Lilley says. "They'll usually be in a hollow tree, and what Aboriginal people did was cut or dip into the nest, using a cloth made from plant material, stick it in the honey to soak it up and then squeeze it into your mouth." Beats cow brains...
...with the prevalence of the health risk itself. Only three people in continental Europe are known to have died from the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic...
...Massachusetts scientists injected a human nucleus into a cow egg. The resulting embryo, destroyed early, appeared to be producing human protein, but we have no idea what kind of grotesque hybrid entity would come out of such a marriage. Last October, the first primate containing genes from another species--a monkey with a jellyfish gene--was born. Monkeys today. Tomorrow humans...
...with the prevalence of the health risk itself. Only three people in continental Europe are known to have died from the human variant of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the last decade. Despite the recent rise in the number of bovine cases, the chances of encountering a mad cow on the Continent are tiny: since 1990 the incidence of bse in cows in Europe is fewer than 2,000, compared to 180,000 in Britain. And yet across Europe, beef consumption has plunged 27% in the last three months; in Germany it has been cut in half. This is an epidemic...