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Tiny Laser-scanning Microscope Images Brain Cells In Freely Moving Animals

November 5th, 2009 at 10:14 am » Comments (0)

New data from rats with head-mounted microscopes shed light on how we put the world together seamlessly while we move around.
By building a tiny microscope small enough to be carried around on a rats` head, scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany, have found a way to study the complex [...]



Irish Accent Beats French as World’s Sexiest

November 3rd, 2009 at 8:56 am » Comments (0)

The Irish accent has beaten its French counterpart as the world’s sexiest.
Men with an Emerald Isle brogue came top in a poll of 5,000 women worldwide, while the French accent only came fourth, just ahead of Australian.
Italian was second. In third place was the Scottish burr. English was sixth and Swedish was seventh, with Spanish, [...]



Angry Faces: Facial Structure Linked To Aggressive Tendencies, Study Suggests

November 2nd, 2009 at 10:15 am » Comments (0)

New research finds that a quick glance at someone’s facial structure may be enough for us to predict their tendency towards aggression.
Angry words and gestures are not the only way to get a sense of how temperamental a person is. According to new findings in Psychological Science, a quick glance at someone’s facial structure may [...]



The Six Golden Rules of Sexting

November 1st, 2009 at 7:07 pm » Comments (0)

Message-sent is often different than message-received
Professing your love (or lust) takes just a few seconds of typing in the age of flirtexting, also famously known as sexting. While ‘XOXO’ stands for hugs and kisses, ‘French’ is the new tongue-incheek for French Kiss and ‘IWSN’ (I want sex now) is the best way to tell your [...]



Vatican to Accept Married Priests on Case-by-Case Basis

November 1st, 2009 at 6:29 pm » Comments (0)

The world is indeed changing with the acceptance of married priests
The Vatican said Saturday that married Anglican priests will be admitted to the Catholic priesthood on a case-by-case basis as Rome makes it easier for disillusioned conservative Anglicans to convert.
A surprise Vatican decision, announced 10 days earlier to make it easier for Anglicans to become [...]



Darth Vader Conducting an Orchestra Performing the Imperial March

October 31st, 2009 at 4:04 pm » Comments (0)

Darth Vader did not approve of how the conductor of the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra was leading a performance of The Imperial March, so he stepped in to do the job himself.
In the links, you’ll find a longer video of this event from CNN.



Top 10 Photos of the Week

October 31st, 2009 at 3:37 am » Comments (0)

Baby Tesla’s favorite holiday was always Halloween
The only difference between daytime and night time is sunshine. Well, that and vampires and other creatures of the night that never come out during the daytime because the sunshine will cause their face to melt. Some people would actually look better if they let their face melt, but [...]



Rich Germans Demand Higher Taxes

October 26th, 2009 at 7:15 am » Comments (0)

A group of rich Germans has launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes. The group say they have more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and social programmes to aid Germany’s economic recovery.
Germany could raise 100bn euros (£91bn) if the richest people paid [...]



Interview with Photoshop Genius – Erik Johansson

October 25th, 2009 at 4:27 pm » Comments (0)

Photo Manipulations are always very interesting to watch because – and that’s what is important – they give a realistic view of an unreal picture. Erik Johansson, a 23-year-old computer engineering student, from sweden has a sense for good ideas for manipulations.
1. First of all we would like to thank you for taking the time [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

October 25th, 2009 at 8:09 am » Comments (0)

Somehow judgement day feels different when you’re a highly trained cow
The reason why we spend time putting together this weekly assortment of “life beyond the edge” photos is because creativity is inspiring. Ingenuity has a way of unleashing the inner trolls in each of us and replacing them with the kinder, more gentler turbo-gnomes [...]



Creative New Places to Have Sex

October 24th, 2009 at 6:05 pm » Comments (0)

The secret to your sex life may lie in some exotic new location
If your bedroom boredom has taken a toll on your sex life, all you need is a drastic, yet quick change. How about changing the place in which you are having sex?
Forget the boring kitchen or the bathtubs… think bizarre, out-of-the-box! Try out [...]



New Zealand Town Cancels Kids Rabbit-Carcass-Throwing Contest

October 23rd, 2009 at 7:43 am » Comments (0)


Humans Skulls Recreated in Chocolate Just in Time For El Día de los Muertos

October 23rd, 2009 at 7:26 am » Comments (0)

A Deliciously Creepy Chocolate Confection

To the cultured folks in the crowd these solid chocolate skulls are an example of both confectionary making and art. They are cast from REAL human skulls and come in a choice of chocolate including Fair Trade 80 per cent cocoa. There is also their bone chocolate – blended Belgian milk [...]



Denver Weekly Paper Seeks Ganja Savy Critic

October 22nd, 2009 at 7:38 am » Comments (0)

Do YOU have what it takes?

“Do you have a medical condition that necessitates marijuana? Do you have a way with words? If so, Westword wants you to join the ranks as our freelance marijuana-dispensary reviewer.”
The local “burgeoning medical marijuana scene” in Denver, Colorado, is growing and the weekly publication Westword wants to be on the [...]



China Hoping Chinese Literature Goes Global

October 19th, 2009 at 9:56 am » Comments (0)

Sanwei Bookshop in central Beijing
China has excelled in recent years at producing Olympic gold medalists, skilled factory workers and more billionaires than any country other than the United States. But authors are another story. The influence of China’s novelists and other writers has long been stunted by the country’s history of censorship and custom of [...]



Juggling Enhances Connections In The Brain

October 19th, 2009 at 9:12 am » Comments (0)

Man juggling several small balls.
Learning to juggle leads to changes in the white matter of the brain, an Oxford University study has shown.



Top 10 Photos of the Week

October 18th, 2009 at 8:54 am » Comments (0)

Cows are both the cause and the victims of today’s obesity problem
Last week we started down a different path, but somehow we ended up on the path we were meant to be on anyway. So we’ve concluded that there are no different paths. Every “new” path is merely our destiny wrapped in new clothing, secretly [...]



Berlin ‘Green’ Brothel Offers Discounts to Cyclists

October 17th, 2009 at 5:25 pm » Comments (0)

Bike To  Berlin Brothel For Bangin Benefits!

A brothel in Berlin has leapt on the “green” bandwagon by offering discounts to clients who can prove they arrived by public transport or bicycle.
“Everyone’s a winner,” explained Regina Goetz, a former prostitute who runs the “Maison d’envie” (House of Desire) brothel in Berlin’s Prenzlauer Berg, a district in [...]



Absent Pheromones Turn Male Flies Into Lusty Lotharios

October 15th, 2009 at 8:45 am » Comments (0)

Fruit flies.
When Professor Joel Levine’s team genetically tweaked fruit flies so that they didn’t produce certain pheromones, they triggered a sexual tsunami in their University of Toronto Mississauga laboratory. In fact, they produced bugs so irresistible that normal male fruit flies attempted to mate with pheromone-free males and even females from a different species-generally a [...]



Finland Makes Broadband a Legal Right For Citizens

October 15th, 2009 at 7:51 am » Comments (0)

Finland’s Ministry of Transport and Communications has declared that access to 1MB broadband is a legal right. This is significant as it recognizes that much of what we do in today’s world requires the net, from renewal of government documents like driving licenses to education to access to health services to engagement in the civic [...]



First Spider Known To Science That Feeds Mainly On Plant Food

October 14th, 2009 at 9:33 am » Comments (0)

Adult female Bagheera kiplingi eats Beltian body harvested from ant-acacia.
There are approximately 40,000 species of spiders in the world, all of which have been thought to be strict predators that feed on insects or other animals. Now, scientists have found that a small Central American jumping spider has a uniquely different diet: the species Bagheera [...]



‘No Toilet, No Bride’ Campaign – New Seat Of Power For Women In India

October 12th, 2009 at 7:46 am » Comments (0)

“Show your loo before you woo”
An ideal groom in this dusty farming village is a vegetarian, does not drink, has good prospects for a stable job and promises his bride-to-be an amenity in high demand: a toilet.  In rural India, many young women are refusing to marry unless the suitor furnishes their future home with [...]



Top 10 Photos of the Week

October 11th, 2009 at 7:43 am » Comments (0)

The pit crew worked furiously to get Bossy ready to roll again,
but as everyone knew, cow repair was not an exact science

Andy Warhol once said, “Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there – I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I [...]



Micro Pigs Latest UK Pet Trend

October 8th, 2009 at 7:26 am » Comments (0)

These micro piglets may be tiny enough to fit in a teacup, but at $1100 their price tag is anything but small. The pets, which grow to be just 14in tall, have become so popular that they are now almost impossible to get hold of in Britain.
“Demand for micro pigs is soaring and we are [...]



Italian Scientist Figure Out Way to Reproduce Shroud of Turin

October 8th, 2009 at 4:35 am » Comments (0)

An Italian scientist says he has reproduced the Shroud of Turin, a feat that he says proves definitively that the linen some Christians revere as Jesus Christ’s burial cloth is a medieval fake.
The shroud, measuring 14 feet, 4 inches by 3 feet, 7 inches bears the image, eerily reversed like a photographic negative, of a [...]