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Promiscuous Apes Make More Sperm

February 17, 2011

Promiscuous ape species have bigger testicles

Chimpanzees produce 200 times more sperm than gorillas, the world’s largest primates, and 14 times more than orangutans, scientists based in Japan reveal.

Promiscuous ape species have bigger testicles, and the latest discovery finally provides evidence that they also produce more sperm.
Scientists previously proposed that chimps have large testicles because several males mate with a single female, and so have to produce more sperm in order to compete.

For their research, published in the American Journal of Primatology, scientists studied chimpanzees, orangutans and gorillas from zoos in Japan and Indonesia.

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Award Winner, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Human Behavior, People Making a Difference, Record Breaker

World’s Fittest Man Sets 200th World Record

February 17, 2011

Paddy Doyle is the king of one-armed push-ups. He’s set world records for using one arm to perform 400 push-ups in 10 minutes, 1,886 in one hour and 16,723 in one week.

If running a marathon sounds like a daunting feat, try covering 26 miles in freezing February weather through hills, mud and streams — while carrying a 60-pound backpack.

On Monday, that’s just what Paddy Doyle, a former paratrooper and amateur boxer from Birmingham City, U.K., did to achieve his 200th fitness endurance record…

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Analysis, Latest Trend, Spirituality

Membership Declines in Largest U.S. Churches

February 17, 2011

Largest churches in the U.S. see a decline in membership.

Mainline Protestant denominations in the United States continue their decades-long membership decline, while the membership in Pentecostal churches are on the rise, according to new figures compiled by the National Council of Churches.

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Animals, Food, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues

Why Chocolate Is Bad For Dogs

February 17, 2011

Chocolate and dogs do not mix.

To most of us, chocolate is a delicious substance. To dogs, chocolate is also delicious, but potentially lethal. Chocolate contains theobromine, a naturally occurring stimulant found in the cocoa bean. It affects the central nervous system as well as heart muscle.

It’s the theobromine that is poisonous to dogs in sufficient quantities. But it takes, on average, a fairly large amount of theobromine to cause a toxic reaction…

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Big Problems, Business, Internet, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Demand for Mobile Data Overwhelming Cell Networks

February 17, 2011

Popularity of smartphones continues to grow on a global scale.

At the Mobile World Congress, the industry’s largest annual gathering being held here this week, the corporate visionaries of the business agreed that a challenge they all would face was managing the avalanche of demand for mobile data services fueled by the growth in smartphones.

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Economy, Education, Latest Trend, Money Talk

Tennessee College Bucks the Trend by Lowering Tuition

February 17, 2011

Sewanee, a Tennessee liberal arts college.

For those who wonder how college tuition costs manage to keep rising year after year, apparently defying laws of economic gravity, Sewanee, a liberal arts college in Tennessee, has an answer: they can’t. On Wednesday, Sewanee announced that it will cut its $46,000 annual bill for students by 10 percent in the fall.

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Analysis, Business, Corporate Manipulation, Historical Perspectives, Internet, Latest Trend

Drug-Makers Shifting Focus to Mobile Apps

February 17, 2011

Get more drug knowledge on your phone now.

The next great frontier in health care lies not in little blue pills but in information technology, and it seems that big pharmaceutical companies are finally recognizing it…

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Business, Health & Fitness, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Number of Smoke-free Hotels is Growing

February 17, 2011

More than 12,900 lodgings serving the public in the USA are now smoke-free throughout.

Hotels, motels and other lodgings are following the trend of airlines and passenger-train operators by banning smoking throughout their premises. Some are doing it voluntarily, as public awareness about the health dangers of secondhand smoke grows. Others are being forced by a growing number of state and local laws.

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Analysis, Business, Corporate Manipulation, Global Warming, Globalism, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Hot Issues, New Discoveries

Coal Costs US Public Up to $500 Billion Annually: Harvard Study

February 17, 2011

A new look at coal in the US.

It’s well-known that the coal-fired power plants that provide the US with 50% of its electricity also inflict significant damage on the environment and citizens’ health. Coal plants spew particulate emissions that cause asthma and other respiratory woes — and they’re responsible for tens of thousands of deaths every year. And then there’s the environmental damage inflicted during the process of extracting, transporting, and processing the stuff. And then, there’s coal’s contribution to climate change. All told, it costs the nation up to $500 billion a year. That’s the finding of a new Harvard study that, for the first time, examines the true cost of coal throughout its entire life cycle …

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government, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News

Katie’s Law – New DNA Law Has Linked Felons to 40 Unsolved Crimes

February 17, 2011

“Katie’s Law” which was passed in 2009 and created the expanded DNA sampling program.

A law that expanded the number of people who must submit DNA samples has linked crime suspects to 40 unsolved sex assaults, burglaries, arsons and robberies across Colorado, authorities say.

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Harlequin Attempts to Patent the Kiss

February 16, 2011

Diagram a kiss.

Talk about lip service: Harlequin Enterprises, renowned publisher of pulp romance novels, has applied for a patent on the romantic kiss.

The application, if granted, leaves open the possibility that we may one day have to pay a licensing fee to lock lips with the ones we covet…

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