Jason Statham - Stubble beards are in…
Researchers in Britain have found that women are more attracted to men with stubbly chins than those with clean-shaven faces or full beards - in fact, the fair sex prefers them for love, sex and marriage.
According to the researchers, stubbly men offer women the best worlds - not too […]

 
Fishing in the stream of consciousness, researchers now can detect our intentions and predict our choices before we are aware of them ourselves. The brain, they have found, appears to make up its mind 10 seconds before we become conscious of a decision — an eternity at the speed of thought.
 

 
A Dying Breed?
As the birthrate in European countries drops well below the “replacement rate” of 2.1 children born to every woman, to somewhere between 1.1 and 1.4 children — the declining population will first be felt in the playgrounds.

 
Buying time with a rich guy just got more expensive
A Chinese investment fund manager won the chance to have lunch with billionaire Warren Buffett by bidding $2.1 million in the most expensive charity auction ever held on eBay.
Zhao Danyang of the Hong Kong-based Pureheart China Growth Investment Fund won the auction, which ended Friday evening […]

 
People who dump cable TV tend to go out and buy pink chairs
Historically, it’s been a general truth that even lower-end consumers doggedly hang on to their cable TV service in times of economic stress. Even severe economic stress. They routinely cut back on heat and food as they continue to pay for that nightly […]

 
Parents, beware! Guzzling alcohol at home “to escape” from depression or tension could have a negative effect on kids, irrespective of the amount of the drinks, a new study has revealed.

While it looks like an 8-shaped device to ward off cosmic rays, its actually a very effective pain sucker
People suffering from migraine can now heave a sigh of relief - thanks to scientists who’ve developed a portable electronic device that can “zap” away the debilitating pain before it starts.

Make room! The tough guys are back
The female body has always managed to evoke emotions – from wonder to awe, to envy, desire, and even disgust. It makes you wonder: when was the last you salivated over a male body?
We mean, really salivated over a real man? A man you’d love to romance […]

Fact: Every hour of every day, 330 Americans turn 60.
Fact: By 2030, one in five Americans will be older than 65.
Fact: The number of people over 100 doubles every decade.
Fact: As they age, people lose muscle mass and strength, flexibility and bone.
Fact: The resulting frailty leads to a loss of mobility and independence.
The last two […]

 
Wii therapy. Not designed for everyone
Videogames are known to improve hand-eye coordination but can they help someone quit smoking or lose weight?
Hot on the heels of Nintendo’s smash success, ‘Wii Fit’, game makers are introducing new titles with a healthy focus, such as French game publisher Ubisoft’s “Allen Carr’s Easyway to Stop Smoking” that hits […]

EVERY scar tells a story, yet a huge gash on Mars has long proven very hard to read. Now a peek beneath the planet’s surface reveals that the scar is the largest known impact structure in the solar system - gouged out by a collision that reshaped the Red Planet.

These Shoes REALLY Suck!

Vacuums have come along way since the first manually-powered one was invented back in 1868. Judging by the range of innovations for the floor-cleaners in recent years, they have a long way to go too.
The things with devices like the vacuum is that they will always be needed. Not only that, but […]

Pretty soon TV watching will become so all-consuming that we’ll have to do it in our sleep
US Internet users ages 12 and older surveyed in June 2008 spent 6.1 hours daily with video-based entertainment, according to Solutions Research Group’s “Multiplatform Video Report.” They concluded that about four hours per day were spent on […]

 
Those of you who aren’t millionaires yet, perhaps working harder is not the answer
The number of people around the globe with at least $1 million in assets grew 6% last year to 10.1 million, according to the 12th annual World Wealth Report released Tuesday by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini Group, a consulting firm.
That means an […]

 
After all these years, artificial brains are still hard to come by
James Gaskin: “If you define artificial intelligence as self-aware, self-learning, mobile systems, then artificial intelligence has been a huge disappointment. On the other hand, every time you search the Web, get a movie recommendation from NetFlix, or speak to a telephone voice recognition system, […]

Chinese hackers
They’re in our computers, reading our files. The Chinese government, that is, according to two U.S. Congressmen who recently accused Beijing of sending hackers to ferret out secret documents stored on Congressional computers. The Chinese deny any involvement, but if they were lying, would we be able to prove it?
The answer, according to computer […]

 
 Its only a matter of time before OPEC buys up all of our wind rights
GE Energy Financial Services has released a study estimating that the federal production tax credit (PTC) for wind power that is set to expire December 31, 2008 more than pays for itself through tax revenues from the projects’ income, vendors’ profits […]

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Dragon Skin is the most amazing body armour. Even a grenade can’t go through it! Yet the Army still won’t buy it. Details after the jump.

The most complex, mind-boggling crop circle ever
The formation, measuring 150ft in diameter, is apparently a coded image representing the first 10 digits, 3.141592654, of pi.
 

 
 Losing weight ends up being a bizarre state of mind where the rules of physics don’t apply
Want to shed those extra pounds? Well, all you need to do is start eating a big breakfast, according to a new study.
The study, conducted by Dr Daniela Jakubowicz from Virginia Commonwealth University, found that women who eat half […]

 
Abortion rates in the UK have skyrocketed
Pressure to make sex education compulsory in UK schools is likely to mount as latest abortion figures hovered around the 200,000 mark, with a 10 per cent rise in terminations among under-aged girls.
The official survey showed there were 198,500 abortions last year, up by nearly 30,000 in the […]

Some guys have all the great pick-up lines
Scientists have now confirmed what good guys always knew: bad boys get the girls.
Researchers have shown that across cultures it really does pay to have a mean streak - with callous, self-obsessed, deceitful men proving the biggest hit with the opposite sex.

 
If you drink enough tequila, this is what you’ll turn into
Researchers have discovered a new way to make a type of synthetic diamond - from tequila.
Researchers at the University of Nueva Leon near Monterrey in Mexico found that when the Mexican spirit is heated under pressure, it produces diamond structures, which are able to conduct […]

Bella Luna!

The “solstice moon” will be visible tomorrow night. It just might be the biggest thing you’ve seen in quite some time!
There’s no better time to see it. The full Moon of June 18th is a “solstice moon”, coming only two days before the beginning of northern summer. This is significant because the sun and […]

 
A study by psychologist William Szlemko at Colorado State University in Fort Collins that recorded whether people had added seat covers, bumper stickers, special paint jobs, stereos and even plastic dashboard toys to their cars has found a link between road rage and the number of personalized items on or in their vehicle.