Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time

This is just sick and/or weird. http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/Top/experiments.
Here's the list - you've gotta go read it for yourself to get the details.
#1: Elephants on Acid
#2: Obedience
#3: Demikhov’s Two-Headed Dogs
#4: The Initiation of Heterosexual Behavior in a Homosexual Male
#5: The Isolated Head of a Dog [poor dogs!]
#6: Human-Ape Hybrid
#7: The Stanford Prison Experiment
#8: Facial expressions while decapitating a rat
#9: The Vomit-Drinking Doctor
#10: Beneficial Brainwashing
#11: Monkey-Head Transplant
#12: The Remote-Controlled Bull
#13: The Ape and the Child
#14: “My Fingernails Taste Terribly Bitter”
#15: The Electrification of Human Corpses
#16: Seeing Through Cat’s Eyes
#17: Stimuli Eliciting Sexual Behavior in Turkeys
#18: “Would You Go To Bed With Me Tonight?”
#19: Shock the Puppy
#20: Heartbeat At Death

Thankfully, we now have the internet to keep us occupied, so we don't have to come up with strange and horrific experiments (though I'm sure it still happens all the time).

August 18, 2007 - Heard on the Street

"I mean, you could train a dog to go pick up a slipper."
"A little pain is alllll good."
-8th Street SE, between E and G Streets SE

July 29, 2007 - Heard on the Street

OK, it was on a beach...

"Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes."
-Chatham Bar and Inn Beach, Chatham, MA

July 26, 2006 - Seen on the Street

P Street at Logan Circle - Umm, isn't the flatbed for the disabled vehicle?!

Today I witnessed an oddity that inspired me to start a new version of "on the Street." I was returning to work after lunching at home, and I saw a flatbed tow truck come down the street. On the bed of the truck was not a vehicle, as one might expect, but 12-15 people in business casual attire. People!! A few were standing, and the rest were sitting. I couldn't help but think, "That looks phenomenally dangerous!" (Seriously, those exact words.) Funny, I always thought those flatbeds were to put the broken down car (or bus as it may have been in this case) on, not the people who wind up stranded. You learn something new everyday!

July 23, 2007 - Heard on the Street

"I got women on lay away, on will call..."
-Logan Circle

July 20, 2007 - Heard on the Street

"You ever ridden the bus? Mood's not gonna get much better."
-Reagan National Airport, Gate 35A

[If you've ever flown US Airways Express out of DC, you know exactly what this means.]

Newsflash: Minority Does Not Equal Poor

For work today, I spent the day at a forum held by the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Health and Human Services, on marketing and childhood obesity. It's been well established that there are higher rates of childhood obesity in minority communities such as Hispanics and African Americans. Toward the end of the forum, during a question and answer session, and audience member asked what will be done to address this disparity. Great question. So one panelist (from a somewhat radical organization that I tend to disagree with, which shall remain nameless) in her response immediately started to talk about "blacks and low income communities." What? The question didn't ask about low income communities. It asked about minorities. Why did she feel it was OK to make that leap, or to equate the two? This is not new...I've heard it done, unfortunately, many times before in political debates and talks of policy. It's really sad, in my opinion. Since when are all minorities poor, and all poor people minorities?