Hey didn’t they steal this idea from Jaws
Growing up on the beach in Florida, I’ve had my little run-ins with these eating machines.
The most notable of these encounters happened when I was in high school. Summer in Florida demands multiple visits to the beach. In this instance I was body surfing. I [...]

Youtube isn’t just a site for pointless videos anymore
 
An engineer in Cornwall delivered his baby son after watching an instructional video on YouTube.
Marc Stephens watched the videos as a precaution when his wife Jo started to feel some discomfort.
Four hours later, his wife went into labour and started giving birth before an ambulance could arrive [...]

North Korean soldiers walk in an early morning mist with
their rifles and spades along the North Korean-Chinese border
News stories about North Korea have been quite frequent recently, with their test launch of a rocket over Japan, withdrawal from nuclear disarmament talks coupled with a threat to restart their nuclear program, reports that their nuclear attack [...]

The sculpture named Kryptos 
The most celebrated inscription at the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters in Langley, Virginia, used to be the biblical phrase chiseled into marble in the main lobby: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” But in recent years, another text has been the subject of intense scrutiny [...]

The testosterone injection works by reducing levels of two regulatory brain chemicals, which then disrupt sperm production
A male contraceptive injection has proved highly effective in a large study of more than 1,000 men.

 
Children who watch adult content tv may become sexually active earlier in life
Early onset of sexual activity among teens may relate to the amount of adult content children were exposed to during their childhood, according to a new study released by Children’s Hospital Boston. Based on a longitudinal study tracking children from age six to [...]

Anger is down to genes 
Do you often get angry? Well, then, blame your genes, says a new study.

Better air dynamics

A company called Leviathan Energy has come up with a clever way to improve the efficiency of wind turbines, without making any modifications to the turbines or propellers themselves. Using aerodynamic modeling, Leviathan designed a special plastic and metal skirt structure that wraps around the base of the wind turbine and directs the [...]

Plastic Bags are Bad, Mkay?

Today’s the day. The day when the state of South Australia officially bans single use plastic shopping bags. Perhaps you heard, at the start of the year, retailers will be fined if they provide customers with plastic, or even so called ‘degradable’ bags. All they can offer instead are truly compostable [...]

Beauty can be found in death… but not in this story

 
A Modesto woman had to move out of her apartment when something horrible happened to her neighbour. Her upstairs neighbour died and no one knew for days… until she experienced it firsthand.
“It’s been a total nightmare,” says Sylvia Pena, Modesto resident. “I was sleeping on [...]