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steveSteve Higgins is a psychology graduate student at an online university. He hopes that the three weeks and $29.95 that he is spending on his Ph.D. will get him a job at a Tier 1 research university. Do online universities have postdocs? Ok...just kidding, Steve is a real graduate student at a real school.


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Worlds tallest man saves dolphins

Category: BiologyPlanet EarthWeird
Posted on: December 14, 2006 12:20 PM, by Steve Higgins

Very very strange- this was so out of the ordinary I felt the need to post it here :)

The world's tallest man has saved two dolphins by using his long arms to reach into their stomachs and pull out dangerous plastic shards.

Mongolian herdsman Bao Xishun was called in after the dolphins swallowed plastic used around their pool at an aquarium in Fushun, north-east China.

Attempts to use instruments failed as the dolphins contracted their stomachs.

Guinness World Records list Mr Bao, 54, as the world's tallest living man at 2.36m (7ft 8.95in).


Here's the original story
Thanks for the heads up Eamon!
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And here's another larger image of the guy

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