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- Swedish Company Rents Out People with Dwarfism for Corporate Parties and Private Events
- Enterprising Chinese College Student Sells Girls’ Used Quilts to Their Male Admirers
- Real-Life Dr. Frankenstein Who Has Completed Over 1,000 Head Transplants on Mice Hopes to One Day Do Them on Humans
| Swedish Company Rents Out People with Dwarfism for Corporate Parties and Private Events Posted: 10 Jun 2015 12:39 AM PDT Swedish start-up dvarg.se is attracting criticism for renting out people with dwarfism to corporate events and private parties, for entertainment purposes. Some of the controversial services include 'dwarf-boxing' and 'dwarf-bartenders', priced at 4,000 kronor each, and 'dwarf-bodyguards' priced at 5,000 kronor per dwarf. Clients can also hire dwarves for customized services, at 1,000 kronor per hour. The ethics of such services are obviously questionable, and the company has been accused of setting a bad example to the nation's youth. But dvarg.se CEO and founder Johannes Erikkson insists that there's nothing wrong with what his company is offering. "We cater for everything from nightclubs to bachelor parties," he said. "Last weekend we had a request for some of our employees to kidnap a guy at a bachelor party." However, the company did remove a service called 'dwarf-tossing' from the website, after it was reported in the national media.
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| Enterprising Chinese College Student Sells Girls’ Used Quilts to Their Male Admirers Posted: 09 Jun 2015 11:55 PM PDT Chinese student Long Yi recently made a small fortune selling quilts used by female students to their male admirers on campus. The idea sounds creepy, but Long said that he was inspired by a female graduate who sold her own quilt within minutes of posting it online. He quickly did the math and realised that the market was potentially worth thousands of yuan. So he spent his savings on dozens of old quilts belonging to female students who are graduating this year from Qinghua University, where Long is a junior. Next, Long posted all the quilts online, and managed to sell a major chunk of them in just one day, raking in a whopping 10,000 yuan (US $1,600). In fact, the demand is so high that he has set up a live stall on campus to complement his online sales. Believe it or not, lovestruck young men are lining up for the chance to cuddle with quilts that once belonged to the women of their dreams.
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| Posted: 09 Jun 2015 11:27 PM PDT In 2013, Chinese surgeon Xiaoping Ren conducted a historic surgery: he basically sliced the head off one mouse and attached it to the body of another. Believe it or not, the grotesque creature he had created actually survived for a few minutes – it opened its eyes, and even managed to breathe on its own. The operation was hailed a success, and since then, the eccentric doctor and his team have conducted head transplants on over 1,000 mice! With each operation, Dr. Ren has tried to perfect his procedure by using tiny tubes to carry oxygenated blood from the mice’s brains to their new bodies. After over 1,000 transplants, the results are not very encouraging – after the procedure, the mice open their eyes, breathe on their own and even show signs of movement, but so far, every one of them has died within a day. That sounds scary and even unethical, but Dr. Ren is so motivated by his modest success that he wants to continue experimenting on other creatures. According to a Wall Street Journal report, he’s planning to conduct head transplants on monkeys next, hoping to create the first head-transplanted primate that can live and breathe on its own, ‘at least for a little while’.
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