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Tuesday 12 February 2008

Archive for the 'interesting' Category

Historians Unlock U.S. Seal’s Secrets

Tuesday 12 February 2008 @ 2:33 pm

WASHINGTON (Feb. 11) - Conspiracy theorists take note: The myths surrounding one of America’s oldest and most enduring national symbols are about to be debunked … if you believe the government, that is.

Comments (0) | Posted in interesting

Pilots may benefit from anti-impotence pill

Thursday 7 February 2008 @ 12:44 pm

A drug used to treat impotence could help Israeli fighter pilots operate at high altitude.

Comments (0) | Posted in biology, interesting, newswax

A fight with your spouse could be good for health: study

Wednesday 23 January 2008 @ 11:21 pm

CHICAGO (AFP) - A good fight with your spouse could be good for the health, a new study has found.

Comments (0) | Posted in human nature, interesting, men + women, newswax, psychology, sex and metropolis

BOYS VS. GIRLS

Monday 14 January 2008 @ 10:02 pm

That men and women behave differently is well known. The idea that there are fundamental differences in the brains between the sexes is something many people assume to be true. Thousands of articles and hundreds of books on the subject have appeared. But there are far fewer differences and far less evidence than popular culture would have you believe.

Comments (0) | Posted in biology, human nature, interesting, sex science

World’s ‘oldest’ person dies aged 116 after putting his long life down to never marrying

Tuesday 18 December 2007 @ 1:09 pm

Born, according to family documents, on 15 March 1891, Mr Nestor, a former farm labourer, put his long life down to the fact that he never married.

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Home Invaders No Match For BB Gun-Toting Dad

Tuesday 4 December 2007 @ 2:43 pm

MESA, Ariz. — A Mesa father armed with a BB gun confronted two home invaders, one of them brandishing an AK-47 assault rifle, after they grabbed his daughter by the hair at gunpoint, police said.

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Big Bang or Big Goof? Astronomer Challenges ‘Seeds’ Proof

Sunday 18 November 2007 @ 5:11 pm

Most astronomers say that world-famous images from the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite show structures of the early universe. But a lone radio astronomer is claiming that the pictures depict nearby hydrogen gas clouds in our own galaxy, calling a key theory into question.

Comments (0) | Posted in interesting, science and nature, weird science

Laid-Back Surfer Dude May Be Next Einstein

Friday 16 November 2007 @ 5:33 pm

A surfer dude with no fixed address may be this century’s Einstein. A. Garrett Lisi, a physicist who divides his time between surfing in Maui and teaching snowboarding in Lake Tahoe, has come up with what may be the Grand Unified Theory.

Comments (0) | Posted in interesting, science and nature

Illiberal Statism

Wednesday 7 November 2007 @ 11:15 am

For years, conservatives have been claiming that conservatism is dying in America. That isn’t true. Actually, liberalism is dying in America. But, unfortunately, it is being replaced by another ideology far more dangerous than liberalism. After you consider the following issues, I hope you will join me in an act of self-censorship that will culminate in a lifetime commitment to refrain from calling Democrats “liberals.” Instead, I would urge the use of the more appropriate term “statist.”

Comments (0) | Posted in government, interesting, sex and metropolis

Economist Handicaps Politics and Religion in America

Thursday 1 November 2007 @ 3:31 pm

The next level up is intelligent design—the notion that evolution does not explain everything, so there must be an intelligent creator. Much of this is refashioned creationism: believers still trying to prove that man might be descended from angels not apes. Intelligent design is now taught in some Turkish schools—thanks in large part to Adnan Oktar, a preacher who set up the Bilim Arastirma Vakfi (Scientific Research Foundation). He claims to have 4.5m followers, and his “Atlas of Creation” has been distributed around the Muslim world and Europe. His organisation also sees links between Darwin and terrorism, fascism and communism.

Comments (1) | Posted in Intelligent Design, interesting, religion, society