Batteries and sockets could become a thing of the past after scientists devised a way of recharging mobile phones and laptops without the need for cables. Electrical engineers used mainly magnetic waves to operate a light bulb from a power source seven feet away. They envisage a future in which portable electronic gadgets and even […]
Akamai Gives Free Peek at Internet What does the Internet look like? A free new Web service from Akamai Technologies Inc. offers a peek, providing a sort of Internet weather report on global traffic tie-ups, cyberattacks and spikes in activity. Akamai, which says it delivers 15 to 20 percent of Internet traffic on any given […]
US scientists have devised a drug that can switch on a gene to burn body fat, offering hope of an exercise pill. Mice given the drug burned off fat, even when they did not exercise, and were resistant to weight gain despite a high-fat diet. The ultimate use would be to treat people at risk […]
Scientists working in Germany and the US say they have found a “fidget” molecule and if you have it in your genes you are less likely to be fat. Mice with the molecule are more likely to be primed athletic beasts, while those without laze around getting fat. It is the second time in recent […]
Killer banana rumour grips China Producers say the rumour has caused big financial losses A rumour spread by text message has badly hit the price of bananas from China’s Hainan island, state media say. The messages claim the fruit contains viruses similar to Sars, the severe respiratory illness which has killed hundreds of people […]
Your vitamin likely is from China SHIJIAZHUANG, China If you pop a vitamin C tablet in your mouth, it’s a good bet it came from China. Indeed, many of the world’s vitamins are now made in China. In less than a decade, China has captured 90 percent of the U.S. market for vitamin C, driving […]
Publisher aims to teach kids right from left A Torrance executive says he sees too many children’s books with liberal views. His titles aim to tilt the shelves the other way. PUBLISHING executive Eric Jackson’s first foray into children’s books was a cartoon tale of two brothers and a lemonade stand. Hoping to earn […]
When in Doubt — Go After That Teletubby Again! See my Rant of May 28th 2007 Tinky Winky… Dipsy…. Lala… Po… The song goes through my head, over and over again. My oldest son watched the Teletubbies and loved them. Still loves them, I found out recently. I should say, (He) has learned to appreciate […]
According to a just-reported study by Carola Frydman of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Raven E. Saks at the Federal Reserve, thirty to forty years ago, the CEOs of major companies earned 80 percent more, on average, than the third-highest-paid executives. By the early part of the twenty-first century, however, the gap between the […]
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Ethanol boom may fuel shortage of tequila Mexican farmers burning agave fields and replanting them with corn MEXICO CITY – Mexican farmers are setting ablaze fields of blue agave, the cactus-like plant used to make the fiery spirit tequila, and resowing the land with corn as soaring U.S. ethanol demand pushes up prices. The switch […]
Over in Thailand every package of cigarettes must carry something stronger than a written ‘finger wag’. On both sides of the pack the Thai government requires a graphic image of what smoking does to your body. Though there about a dozen available images to choose from… I like the toothy smile (**). These L&M Menthol […]
Or.. Is This Proof That We Humans Don’t Have a Monopoly on Warfare?
Photos of the dirtiest cities of the world. Example of how people do not protect the surrounding nature.
Return of the Fallen PENTAGON RELEASES HUNDREDS MORE WAR CASUALTY HOMECOMING IMAGES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT FORCES OPENING OF 360 NEW PHOTOS CONFIRMS WAR CASUALTY HONOR CEREMONY IMAGES BELONG IN PUBLIC
Light Posts today… Having the AC down in AZ at this time of year is considered an emergency situation!
For every generation in this country there has been a war. And with wars come millions of records that can shed light on family history, detailing everything from the color of soldiers’ eyes to what their neighbors may have said about them.On Thursday, Ancestry.com unveils more than 90 million U.S. war records from the first […]
An artist has offered to donate his own head to an Oxford museum – if a collection of shrunken heads has to be returned to South America. Ted Dewan’s own impression of how he might look after shrinking Ted Dewan has written to Oxford University’s Pitt Rivers Museum to offer his own head for […]
Swarms of Cicadas Emerging in Midwest Midwest Braces for Billions of Cicadas to Emerge After Spending 17 Years Underground
Happy Graduation! Enjoy Your New Nose Plastic Surgeons See More Teens Getting Work Done at Milestones Like Graduation Cheryl and her husband, Darryl Kushner, both had nose jobs in their 20s. About two decades later, their 15-year-old daughter, Robin, was unhappy with her similarly shaped family nose and knew rhinoplasty was in her future. “We […]
FREE ONE-TIME SECURE WEB MESSAGING SERVICE Welcome to WILL SELF-DESTRUCT. This site enables you to create a one-time secure web page for a recipient. You can create a secure anonymous email message to a friend or colleague by entering their e-mail address and the message, i.e. sending a password or other sensitive information that you […]
Life without numbers in a unique Amazon tribe 1+1=2. Mathematics doesn’t get any more basic than this, but even 1+1 would stump the brightest minds among the Piraha tribe of the Amazon. A study appearing today in the journal Science reports that the hunter-gatherers seem to be the only group of humans known to have […]
The Reverend Falwell’s Heavenly Timing By Frank Rich The New York Times Sunday 20 May 2007 Hard as it is to believe now, Jerry Falwell came in second only to Ronald Reagan in a 1983 Good Housekeeping poll anointing “the most admired man in America.” By September 2001, even the Bush administration was looking for […]
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