Dr. Marc Abecassis, who does two to four hymen restorations a week, with a 23-year-old patient.
Virginity tests merely tell us, as Blank puts it, whether a particular woman “conforms to what people of her time and place believe to be true of virgins.” The most common tests look for evidence only “as experienced and reported […]

Legislators waved their arms in a snow-angel salute Wednesday to celebrate North Dakota recapturing a world record for those whimsical works of winter.

Radical Government reforms to improve patient access to NHS dentists have failed, it was claimed today.

Smokers take an additional eight days of sick leave a year and are more likely to perform poorly in the workplace compared with non-smokers, according to two new studies published today.

Scientists at the MIT Media Lab have invented a way to reversibly silence brain cells using pulses of yellow light, offering the prospect of controlling the haywire neuron activity that occurs in diseases such as epilepsy and Parkinson’s disease.

According to new figures from Nielsen SoundScan, so far in 2007 digital singles are outselling digital albums at a rate of 19 to 1.

India has again banned satellite television channel Fashion TV (FTV), this time for two months, because its programmes were "against good taste" and could affect public morality, the government said on Thursday.

By any measure, the online travel market has been a huge success, a bellwether sector of the Internet industry.  However….

Tattoos 4 Toddlers is a new tattoo studio specializing in tattooing children!

Even ladder climbing, globe trotting, time strapped corporate executives need to stop and take a break when Mother Nature calls, right? Not anymore. With the Gotta Go Briefcase, executives with an eye for the top don’t need to waste time tending to their bottoms:

The first clothing-free workout session at a Dutch gym went ahead
as planned in Heteren, eastern Netherlands, Sunday March 4, 2007, and participants and observers said it met expectations.
Around a dozen middle-aged and elderly men braved the glare of nearly twice that number of journalists at Fitworld Gym,
including reporters, photographers, and at least five television crews, […]

"Mrs. Wang, Did Sparky Have a Prescription?"
A male dog in Chengdu, Sichuan, had to receive an intravenous drip in hospital after being given Viagra and made to mate with three female dogs on a single day.

The brains behind the Fab Tree Hab have designed a house that will grow from a few seedlings into a two-story, water-recycling, energy-efficient abode. The Fab Tree Hab, a mix of ancient and ultramodern technology, isn’t merely environmentally friendly. It is the environment.

‘TIL DEATH DO US MEET?
A single male in Nanjing recently posted an online message looking for a woman with whom to share his tomb after death.

The documentary film The Great Global Warming Swindle aired earlier this month on British
television’s Channel 4. Director Martin Durkin’s 75-minute production combines
interviews with distinguished scientists, a sober narrative, and damning graphs
and statistics to challenge the core claims of global warming theory. The film
also alleges that government funding for climate change research is perverting
science and fueling […]

Fire-fighters in Chengdu, Sichuan, made history last Friday by extinguishing a fire with urine.

Nikolai Sutyagin, a one-time gangster, built what is believed to be the world’s tallest fire hazard … er, log cabin: 13 floors and 144 feet tall!

While traversing the world over five years and eight months, this man ran across 30 countries on six continents, covering more than 30,000 miles.

Just the gentle pressure of a beam of light is enough to bend and direct streams of a special liquid, according to a study to be published this week.

A new sexuality survey has confirmed what women know and some men fear - single females have far more luck achieving orgasm than those partnered off.

Jacek Marczyk: Complexity management is not just a fancy way of looking at risk. It is a gateway technology for the future. Without serious complexity management no civilization can survive. Once the peak of development is reached decline begins. More and more things we rely on will progressively start to fail. (with self-testing link)

The theory that short men end up as more aggressive than taller ones has been dismissed by a scientific study. The University of Central Lancashire research for the BBC found taller men were more likely to lose their temper.

Sprint has announced the launch city lineup for their upcoming 4G WiMax rollout, so pay attention. If you live in one of the following cities, you’ll be enjoying fast, wireless access by April of next year:

A cane toad the size of a small dog has been caught by a pest eradication group in the Northern Territory of Australia. (w/pic)

A decade ago, women earned 75.7 cents for each dollar paid to a man. Now it’s 74.7 cents.