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The Elbow-Lick Of Death

The Elbow-Lick Of Death

Jun 28 2014 | comment(s)

ZOOLOGISTS ANNOUNCED THE discovery of a tiny, super-cute new primate which can kill a human by licking its elbow. I am not making this up. 

The new species of loris found in the Philippines has a poison gland at its elbow, says the American Journal of Primatology. If the creature feels threatened, it attempts to grabs a slurp of poison before biting the attacker.

Apple Wars: How The News Media Are Getting It Backwards

Apple Wars: How The News Media Are Getting It Backwards

Jun 28 2014 | comment(s)

YOU’VE SEEN THE REPORTS a thousand times. Samsung is now ahead of Apple in the smartphone wars, the media says.

I’m looking at BBC news while writing this, and there we have the same story, freshly posted: “Apple accounted for 18.8 per cent of all sales and Samsung 29.7 per cent.”