German Sleepwalker Steps Out of 4th-Floor Window Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
A German teenager accidentally climbed out of a fourth-floor window and fell 10 meters to the ground where he kept on sleeping, albeit with a broken arm and leg.
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Sleep With The... Flies? Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
After a long day spent socializing or learning who to flirt with, scientists say fruit flies need to sleep longer, shedding light on what sleep may actually do for humans. Sleep remains a mystery. To delve into why people need to sleep, neurogeneticist Indrani Ganguly-Fitzgerald at the Neurosciences Institute in San Diego, Calif., and her colleagues Paul Shaw and Jeff Donlea at Washington University in St. Louis experimented with fruit fly genetics and behavior.
"Flies do most things that humans do—they eat, they sleep, they fight, they mate, they forage for food," Ganguly-Fitzgerald told LiveScience. Just as is often the case with humans, flies sleep a lot as young ones, sleep little as they get older, and "stay awake more after being fed caffeine and become sleepy in response to anti-histamine compounds," she said.
One idea scientists have about sleep is that our brains require it to process what we experienced during the day. The researchers found normal fruit flies that were allowed to socialize took hour-long daytime naps, compared to 15-minute catnaps taken by the isolated insects.
Their need for sleep grew with the size of the group they socialized with.
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English Nazi Slogans Are Legal, German Court Rules Posted: 3 months ago by Bingo
Is a Nazi slogan still a Nazi slogan if it is uttered in English instead of German? Not necessarily -- at least according to Germany's Federal Court of Justice.
Using Nazi symbols and slogans is a punishable crime in Germany. But now neo-Nazis may have more leeway after a federal German court ruled that slogans are not illegal if they are translated into another language.
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German teenager escapes prison in suitcase Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A 19-year-old German woman has escaped from prison by hiding in a friend's suitcase. The fugitive hid inside the large case when her 17-year-old fellow inmate was released from the youth prison in northwest Germany on Friday.
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German beer lover goes down the drain Posted: 5 months ago by Bornbad
A German beer drinker ended up in an awkward situation after he failed to spot an open drain and fell inside.
*klub?*
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German blows hands off trying 'molecular gastronomy' Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
AN experimental German cook accidentally blew off both his hands attempting to concoct a "molecular gastronomy" dish with liquid nitrogen.
The 24-year-old man from Stahnsdorf near Berlin somehow obtained some of the dangerous chemical and was poised to try out a new recipe from the school of molecular cooking, which aims to apply scientific processes to gastronomy.
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Drunken German joyrider kills 300 chickens Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Three hundred chickens died in panic early on Sunday when a drunken German teenager on a joyride crashed a van into their shed.
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Neglected German Shepherd is nursed back to life from brink of death Posted: 11 months ago by AutumnLotus
Covered in mange, suffering from severe malnutrition and with claws so long he couldn't walk Hobo was given just three days to live. Weighing 40lb, the neglected German Shepherd was in such a bad condition vets could only guess what breed he was.
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Sleeping Chinese Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A German photographer has spent six years taking photographs of Chinese people sleeping in any position and situation.
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WW I Dogfight Artifact returned to German pilot's family after 89 years. Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
American, Walter Avery battled his opponent, Karl Menckhoff in one of the last dogfights of the first world war. After shooting the German down, he landed and cut a piece of the aircraft's cloth insignia from the side. It sat in a trunk for nearly 9 decades before it was discovered and returned to the German pilot's family.
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Exeter University Beginners' German Posted: 2 years ago by mahler87
A great free resource for learning German! Includes grammar exercises and an audio German pronunciation guide.
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Funny German Commercial Posted: 2 years ago by mahler87
You don't really need to understand German to get it. I dunno, it made me laugh.
Themepic has absolutely nothing to do with this.
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Tree suits! German cops' secret weapon Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
German police have gone to new lengths to nab a serial burglar – dressing up in tree suits and waiting in a forest for eight hours.
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Jewish forced workers due pensions says German court Posted: 6 months ago by bingo
A German federal court ruled that two Jews who were forced by the Nazis to work in ghettos have a right to a pension for their labor, setting the stage for thousands of others to receive payments.
The Federal Social Affairs Court ruled that the two qualified for pensions because, although they did not receive financial compensation for their work, they received food and other items - meaning the German government was responsible for them.
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Mysterious Blonde Appears Nude In German Shop Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A mysterious blonde paid a visit to a petrol station shop in the small eastern German town of Doemitz on Sunday -- wearing nothing but a pair of golden stilettos and a thin gold bracelet.
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Swiss Seek to Evict German Hermit Living in Woods Posted: 10 months ago by suebe
A German woman missing for 12 years and recently discovered in a Swiss forest was asked Tuesday by authorities to leave the umbrella-and-tarpaulin shelter she has made her home for the last year.
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German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated.
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Historian finds oldest recipe for German bratwurst Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A hobby historian has discovered the oldest known recipe for German sausage, a list of ingredients for Thuringian bratwurst nearly 600 years old.
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Gammelfleischparty is German youth word of year Posted: 11 months ago by Bornbad
German is famous for its long words—and today's youth are just as adept at creating new ones as their predecessors, to judge by a poll released Wednesday by the publishers of Langenscheidt dictionaries.
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German flasher does it again - in court Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A German flasher stunned lawyers during his appeal hearing on a flashing conviction by stripping off in court.
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Train drags German mooner half naked along tracks Posted: 2 months ago by ruthstark
A German man mooning at railway staff in a departing train got his trousers caught in a carriage door and ended up being dragged half naked along the platform, out of the station and onto the tracks.
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