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Penis Theifs Imprisoned
It’s still there
Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men’s penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
“I’m tempted to say it’s one huge joke,” Oleko said.
“But when you try to tell the victims that their penises are still there, they tell you that it’s become tiny or that they’ve become impotent. To that I tell them, ‘How do you know if you haven’t gone home and tried it’,” he said.
Perhaps they could regain their mojo by joining the Japanese Fertility Festival
Ice in the Desert: A Fridge without Electricity
New idea used very old technology
According to the Bible, you can make ice in the desert.
The process is not an act of faith but actually one of physics . It is the result of heat transfer that takes place during evaporation.
if one dug a shallow hole, lined the cavity with straw and placed a ceramic pan with a thin layer of water into the straw-lined nest, then there would be minimum conduction, little or no convection, and radiant heat transfer to outer space would control. Since outer space has an equivalent temperature of minus 400 degrees F, and radiation is governed by the difference between the absolute temperatures to the fourth power, you can make ice in the desert. - Jerry Roach
This principial has now been used to invent a fridge which doesn’t use electricity.
Here’s how it works. You take a smaller pot and put it inside a larger pot. Fill the space in between them with wet sand, and cover the top with a wet cloth. When the water evaporates, it pulls the heat out with it, making the inside cold. It’s a natural, cheap, easy-to-make refrigerator.
The inventor, Mohammed Bah Abba, comes from northern Nigeria, where over 90% of the villages have no electricity.
The invention won him a $10,000 Rolex award for Enterprise.
Geldof and Bush: Diary From the Road
A bright mark on a black record.
In Time magazine, Bob Geldof gives an insightful account of his trip to Africa with GW.
I gave the President my book. He raised an eyebrow. “Who wrote this for ya, Geldof?” he said without looking up from the cover. Very dry. “Who will you get to read it for you, Mr. President?” I replied. No response.
The Most Powerful Man in the World studied the front cover. Geldof in Africa — ” ‘The international best seller.’ You write that bit yourself?”
“That’s right. It’s called marketing. Something you obviously have no clue about or else I wouldn’t have to be here telling people your Africa story.”
