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After 27 Years on the Run, Escaped Prisoner Busted on Public Urination Charge

By Ben MuessigJan 28th 2011 – 7:30AM
Florida Department of Corrections

Florida Department of Corrections

He blew his cover with a leak. After being on the lam for 27 years, a convicted robber who escaped from a Florida work-release center in 1983 was arrested by police Jan. 21 when an officer reportedly spotted him urinating in public. In the middle of a five-year prison sentence for robbery, Edward Nathan Jr. walked out of...

Sega Brings Gaming to the Bathroom With Urine-Controlled Video Game

By Ben MuessigJan 10th 2011 – 7:08AM
Sega

Sega

Some people say wasting time on video games is a way to flush your life down the toilet. In Japan, those people would be right. Sega has just broken the seal on a new style of gaming that brings the action to the bathroom. The gaming company is planning to install above public urinals Toylets that allow restroom users to...

Jelly Belly Inventor Creates Anatomically Correct Gummy Heart

By David MoyeJan 4th 2011 – 7:19AM
Courtesy Roxanne Klein

Courtesy Roxanne Klein

David Klein's name should be on everyone's lips. Certainly, his greatest invention is. Back in 1976, Klein created Jelly Belly jelly beans, a product that revolutionized the candy industry by putting a gourmet spin on the lowly jelly bean. "Before me, jelly beans were just eaten at Easter," Klein told AOL News. "They all...

Harvard: Urine on Gay Books Was Accident, Not Hate Crime

By Deborah HastingsDec 14th 2010 – 2:47PM

(Dec. 14) -- Those gay-themed books that were soaked with urine at a Harvard College library were not a hate crime after all, the school says, but a simple accident caused by a staffer who spilled a bottle of liquid waste on 36 tomes. Why a bottle of urine was sitting on a library shelf in the first place has yet to be...

An Inconvenient Whizz? Urine of Ancient Species Proves Useful in Climate Research

By Dave ThierOct 12th 2010 – 11:55AM

(Oct. 12) -- Researchers have used many resources to study historical and future climate change, from larval fish at the bottom of Lake Michigan to ice cores thousands of years old. But nobody has ever published an extensive study examining fossilized animal urine. Until now. An international team of researchers have...

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Background on Urine

Urine (from Latin Urina, ae, f.) is a typically sterile liquid by-product of the body secreted by the kidneys through a process called urination and excreted through the urethra.

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