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Niteshift: June 17, 2008 (Pre-Empted)

This week’s show was pre-empted by WBAI’s day long Bloomsday celebration.

At that hour when all things have repose,
O lonely watcher of the skies,
Do you hear the night wind and the sighs
Of harps playing unto Love to unclose
The pale gates of sunrise?

When all things repose, do you alone
Awake to hear the sweet harps play
To Love before him on his way,
And the night wind answering in antiphon
Till night is overgone?

Play on, invisible harps, unto Love,
Whose way in heaven is aglow
At that hour when soft lights come and go,
Soft sweet music in the air above
And in the earth below.

Hooray for James Joyce.

Trouser Snake

A tourist in Australia is lucky to be alive after being bitten on the penis by one of the world’s most venomous snakes.

The man was having a roadside toilet stop when the deadly brown snake emerged from the bush and lunged at his crotch.

Read the rest at the Telegraph

Physicist Debunks Cellphone Popcorn Viral Videos

YouTube videos that show a group of friends apparently cooking kernels of popcorn with their cellphones have been viewed more than a million times since they were uploaded last week.

Read the rest at Wired.com

Stranded divers had to fight off Komodo dragons to survive

The group, including three Britons, said that they were still coming to terms with how close they came to death in a two-day ordeal in which they were plunged from one life-threatening crisis to another.

Having been swept away and “spun around” for 10 hours in shark-infested waters, they reached the beach of a remote island at nightfall, only to find it was inhabited by Komodo dragons, the world’s largest and most deadly lizards.

Read the rest at the Telegraph

Dolphin deaths: Expert suggests ‘mass suicide’

The dolphins that died after beaching in Cornwall had ingested debris and mud, leading one of the scientists who examined them to compare their deaths to “mass suicide”.

Read the rest at The Guardian

Woman with objects fetish marries Eiffel Tower

Erika La Tour Eiffel, 37, a former soldier who lives in San Francisco, has been in love with objects before. Her first infatuation was with Lance, a bow that helped her to become a world-class archer, she is fond of the Berlin Wall and she claims to have a physical relationship with a piece of fence she keeps in her bedroom.

Read the rest at the Daily Telegraph

Niteshift: June 10, 2008

Mike Sargent is joined by singer/songwriter Jennie Walker.

The right time for women to quit smoking

When it comes to giving up smoking, pick the start date carefully. At certain times in your menstrual cycle, you are twice as likely to succeed at kicking the habit.

Read the rest at Times Online

Vitamins A, C and E are ‘a waste of time and may even shorten your life’

Vitamins taken by around a third of the population do not extend life and may even cause premature death, according to a respected group of international scientists.

Read the rest at Daily Mail

Female flies lose their heads to sing like a male

Female fruit flies have a hidden talent: the ability to sing like a male. All you have to do is switch on one gene – and chop off their heads.

Read the rest at New Scientist