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An 80-year-old Iranian man has been tagged as the world's dirtiest man. It is claimed that the man who lives in isolation hasn't taken a bath in six decades, according to Huffington Post. Amou Haji is also known to eat rotten porcupine meat with relish and smoking animal poop. The old man claims he started living away from society after he went through emotional setbacks when he was young man. The man living in southern Iran is scared of taking a bath as he thinks it might make him ill, Huffington Post says. He seems to have broken the world...

BOSTON - Megan Dickerson always loved the rich colors and melodic scores of the film "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory." But she also longed to experience the sweet scents of chocolate and schnozberries. A self-proclaimed multisensory artist, Dickerson is now trying to revive "Smellovision." She's staged outdoor showings of "Willy Wonka" for hundreds of people and used oscillating fans and artificially scented oils to distribute aromas of blueberry pie and banana taffy during the film. With help from local art houses and the Boston Children's Museum, she plans to bring other films for sniffing to theaters this fall. "There's...

Within a decade the net will be able to deliver smells as fast as it does data, predicts a report.The forecast came in a wide-ranging survey produced by the South Korean government to find out what consumers will want from future technologies. It also predicted that by 2012 batteries in mobile phones will last perhaps two months between recharges. The experts taking part in the survey said that by 2018 robots will be routinely carrying out surgery. The long-range predictions in the survey came from interviews carried out with about 3,500 technology experts in South Korea. The country has long...

Susan Saranwrap on C-SPAN right now at anti-war rally with a podiumfull of fifth-column Muslim Students Association members. Halloween is early.