Am I very good looking? A collection of photos of animals and mirrors. (Pics)

Close up of a melting glacier
A runaway spurt of global warming 55 million years ago turned Earth into a hothouse but how this happened remains worryingly unclear, scientists said.
 

Modified insects could soon be joining rescue workers in the search for survivors
IF YOU’RE trapped under rubble after an earthquake, wondering if you’ll see daylight again, the last thing you need is an insect buzzing around your face. But that insect could save your life, if a scheme funded by the Pentagon comes off.
 

Live-in couples end up having an unhealthy marriage
Couples who live together before they are engaged are more likely to get divorced than those who wait until they are married to live together or at least wait until they are engaged, according to a new study.

Plantagon
Lots of cities have farmers markets, but most — if not all — of the produce comes from rural farmers that use oil-intensive methods of transportation to cart around their food. With 80% of all people on the planet projected to live in cities by 2050, food production will have to move into cities if [...]

Nixing Night Time Nookie

India intends to harness the passion-killing properties of late-night television to help to control a potentially catastrophic population explosion.
Ghulam Nabi Azad, the Health and Family Welfare Minister, has called for the country to redouble its efforts to bring electricity to all of its huge rural population.
The introduction of the electric light and [...]

Large Volume Waste Composting Equipment

The water toilet is truly one of the greatest miracles of modern life, a frothy disappearing act; now you see it… now you don’t. But washing human waste away requires huge sewage treatment infrastructures in cities, and extensive home septic systems for rural dwellers. Compost toilets, though in their essence as old [...]

Wii CPR: Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham test a Wii CPR program.

Heartening or horrifying news, depending on your outlook — the American Heart Association has pledged $50,000 in funding for a student project to develop a CPR teaching program for Nintendo’s motion-controlled Wii.
A biomedical engineering professor at the University of Alabama at [...]