Found this great sign on the road between Kopu and Thames. What an enterprising young man, says Tony.
Naked for questionable cause in science
In 1995 it came out in the media that between the 1940s and 1970s Ivy League colleges in the US would take a photo of all their incoming first-year students in the nude. Thousands and thousands of pictures were taken including such notable names as George Bush, Diane Sawyer, Meryl Streep and Hillary Clinton. The unusual photo sessions were part of a larger project run by psychologist William Herbert Sheldon, who conducted them in co-operation with the universities. The photos were meant for the use of studying posture-related deficiencies, but it's believed they were actually being used to research something rather more sinister - using the students to study the correlation between a person's body shape and their intelligence. (Source: messynessychic.com)
Cuddles for the needy
The Snuggle House in Madison, Wisconsin, was scheduled to open on November 15 to provide in-bed, pyjama-clad "intimate, non-sexual touch[ing]" for $60 an hour. "So many people," said assistant manager Emily Noon, "don't have a significant other in their lives" and "just need to be held" (including, she said, the elderly and hospice patients, who are part of the target clientele). The city's delay, a spokesman said, was to ensure that Snuggle House had protocols for dealing with "risky" situations in which a customer refuses to take "no sex" for an answer. (Snuggle House has prominent surveillance cameras and panic buttons for the staff.) (Source: News of the Weird)
