Red Chicken Contacts.

A long time ago, Chicken was considered a delicacy, well.. not any more.

Science has managed to create the superchicken: chickens that grow extremely quickly to a much larger size and produce a greater number of eggs, But this came at a cost, the chickens become more aggressive Of course, an aggressive chicken turns around and kills other chickens which in turn lowers the farmer's profits.


Thankfully, long ago, during the 1950's, the farmers realized that chickens raised under red lights tended to be less aggressive and therefore, consumed less food. An added bonus was that they produced even more Eggs then normal Chickens.
Unfortunately, the workers couldn't see what they were doing under the red lights, so an alternative approach was needed.

In the early 1960's there was a man named Irvin Wise who managed a chicken farm in Northern California. One day, a salesman mentioned to him that there was a farm where chickens afflicted with cataracts behaved better than those with normal sight.

He decided that altering the vision of Chicken's somehow was a good thing to do, blinding was out of the question, not only inhumane, it may complicate things further.

So mister Irvin decided to make contact lenses for Chickens!

Unfortunately, the lenses did what he didn't want them to do, they blinded the chickens.

The technology just didn't exist at the time to make a perfect set of chicken contact lenses.

Irvin Wise gave up, however his son Randall E. Wise...

Randall went to college and later founded a successful computer software business in Boston.

After eight years in business, he sold the company for several million dollars to pursue his boyhood dream, continuing in his father's footsteps and making Contact Lenses... for Chickens.

After going through hundreds and hundreds of designs, Randall finally found a working type.

Unfortunately they were somewhat hard to apply and although they were suppose to stay on for life, they fell off from time to time.

However, in the flocks that have successfully used the lenses, the costs of producing a single egg has been reducing by a an amazing, unbelievable amount of! 1/3 of one penny... However, if you consider that the larger egg farms produce half a million eggs per day, those red contact lenses have the potential of saving millions of dollars per year.

Smoking a few less known health effects.

Everyone knows what smoking does to you, lung cancer, oral cancer...
But with some research, I found some stuff that may not be common knowledge.

Smoking reduces Impotence, not only does it damage sperm quality, but it also apparently affects sex behavior.


Smoking can cause you to heal injuries slower.

By restricting the flow of Oxygen and nutrients by constricting blood vessels by about 25% of their diameter, it slows down the healing of your body by requiring the body to require more ingredients to form more blood cells.

Popeye and Spinach

Everyone knows about Popeye the Sailorman [maybe not everyone...]
and how he gains superhuman strength by gulping down a giant can of spinach, many people think that it was inspired by the faulty information of spinach's iron content.

In 1870 E. von Wolf, a german scientist misplaced a decimal point, a mistake which led people to think that spinach had ten times more iron then it actually had! It took about sixty years for people to notice this mistake and fix it.

Other sources however believe that Popeye's spinach was inspired by the high vitamin A content, whatever it is, Spinach can't be bad for you, or can it?

Spinach is said to be one of the most heavily pesticide contaiminated vegetables.

It would seem like Organic is the best to go.

On Nintendium

Nintendium is an internet joke about Nintendo, the famous Video Game console manufacturing company in Japan, it is about how the consoles are created out of a mythical metal that is tougher and harder then any other known material, this joke probably came in existance thanks to the some-what famous Gulf War Gameboy.It had survived when the barracks it was in was bombed, and amazingly, still worked...

Contributing to it is the fact that nintendo software is generally -really- -really- hard to break, my father and I had tried to break apart a old Nintendo Gamecube once, using a hammer and chisel to try and break it in half, half an hour later, all we could do is break the lid off, and break the vents... it stood up to every single of our powerful pounds.

Whatever nintendo does... they make their stuff tough.

While Nintendium may not be real and be a complete joke [funny in my opinion.] one could call it a somewhat truth-based joke seeing how insanely durable those things seem to be.