China has 32 million more young men than young women - a dangerous (and growing) gender imbalance - because parents facing strict birth limits abort female fetuses to have a son, a study released this morning says.
Friday, April 10, 2009
Camera catches fish's amazing changes
The "chameleon of the sea" cuttlefish shows off its special trick on tape.
Fish's amazing changes
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It's A Blond thing ...
A brunette goes to the doctor and says, "Everywhere I touch it hurts, what's wrong with me ?"
He asks "What do you mean ?"
So she showed him what she meant
She touched her knee and said, "Ouch!"
Then she touched her chest and said, "Ouch!"
Then her shoulder, "Ouch!"
The doctor looks at her and asks, "You're really blond aren't you?"
She replies, "Yes, as a matter of fact I am, How did you guess?"
"Your finger is broken"
He asks "What do you mean ?"
So she showed him what she meant
She touched her knee and said, "Ouch!"
Then she touched her chest and said, "Ouch!"
Then her shoulder, "Ouch!"
The doctor looks at her and asks, "You're really blond aren't you?"
She replies, "Yes, as a matter of fact I am, How did you guess?"
"Your finger is broken"
$2.7 Million Lawsuit as White Woman's Body Cremated Instead of Black Man's
From the "Oh, no they didn't" Department:
Well, I'll have to admit that it's easy to mix up a white woman's body with a black man's body, isn't it?
Right?!
Dad angry over costly texts smashes cell phone to bits
You ran up a phone bill of HOW MUCH, young lady!?!
A cell phone used by a Wyoming 13-year-old to run up a nearly $5,000 phone bill will text no more thanks to her angry father and his hammer.
Pilgrims tracing the last steps of Jesus have been going the wrong way
From the "Oops!" Department:
For the best part of 2,000 years, pilgrims have flocked to Jerusalem to retrace Jesus's final steps. And going the wrong way!
Early land visitors were borrowers
Some of the earliest creatures to crawl out of the ocean onto land half a billion years ago behaved like hermit crabs, tracks reveal.
Early land visitors borrowed shells for protection
The battle for Turkey's soul
A Turkish science magazine's pulling of a cover story on Darwin could be a taste of struggles to come – but it may also be a good sign.
Turkey's soul
Matters Astronomical
Astronomers toast the cosmos with dazzling images
A round up the best images released in celebration of the International Year of Astronomy.
Also in Matters Astronomical:
Is dark energy getting weaker?
Blasts from the past sketch a picture of a universe whose runaway expansion may finally be slowing
Donald Duck - What's My Line?
Clarence C. Nash, the original voice of Donald Duck, is a guest on What's My Line.
The episode originally aired on December 12, 1954.
The episode originally aired on December 12, 1954.
Signs of earliest Scots unearthed
From BBC-Science:
 The flints were found in a ploughed field near Biggar |
Archaeologists have discovered the earliest evidence of human beings ever found in Scotland.
The flints were unearthed in a ploughed field near Biggar in South Lanarkshire.
They are similar to tools known to have been used in the Netherlands and northern Germany 14,000 years ago, or 12,000 BC.
Read the rest here.
Listen to what the Archaeologists have to say here.
Retreating glaciers foretells global water woes
Although, Bolivia accounts for a only tiny fraction of global greenhouse gas emissions. - it will soon be paying a disproportionately high price as a major consequence of global warming: the rapid loss of glaciers and a subsequent decline in its vital water supplies.
Liars and Fools
Liars and Fools for the day so far ...
Karl Rove calls Vice President Joe Biden a 'blowhard' and 'liar'
Coming from a Blowhard and a Liar ... Don't you just love it when they speak into the mirror.
Karl Rove calls Vice President Joe Biden a 'blowhard' and 'liar'
Coming from a Blowhard and a Liar ... Don't you just love it when they speak into the mirror.
Captain's escape foiled by pirates
Richard Phillips jumped into the water during the night and tried to swim towards the nearby US destroyer.
Daring escape foiled
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Surprising health food imposters
Welcome New Readers
We welcome our readers in our 163rd country - Jersey.
Yes, it is a real country!
Click on the flag above to find out about the country of Jersey.
Yes, it is a real country!
Click on the flag above to find out about the country of Jersey.
Apartment Used During Break-In For Sale
Want new digs in the D.C. area? Then we have got a deal for you!
The apartment 310 at Watergate West has two bedrooms, two bathrooms and overlooks Virginia Avenue.
Its real estate value, including an underground parking space, was appraised at $515,000 in April 2006.
It has been refurbished but retains its original, historical condition.
Its real estate value, including an underground parking space, was appraised at $515,000 in April 2006.
It has been refurbished but retains its original, historical condition.
Still evolving
We're not finished yet. Even today, scientists say that human beings are continuing to evolve as our genes respond to rapid changes in the world around us.
In fact, the pressures of modern life may be speeding up the pace of human evolution, some anthropologists think.
Their view contradicts the widespread 20th-century assumption that modern medical practice, antibiotics, better diet and other advances would protect people from the perils and stresses that drive evolutionary change.
Nowadays, the idea that "human evolution is a continuing process is widely accepted among anthropologists,'' said Robert Wald SussmanRead more here.
Of course, some are devolving - they're known as repugicans.
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San Juan, Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico
Seremban, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia
Eeklo, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
Viana Do Castelo, Viana Do Castelo, Portugal
London, England, United Kingdom
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Wurzburg, Bayern, Germany
New Delhi, Delhi, India
Tabriz, Azarby Jan-E Bakhtari, Iran
Tongji, Sichuan, China
Enter, Overijssel, Netherlands
Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
as well as Sebria & Montenegro, Scotland and the United States
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Saint Helier, Jersey
Daily Horoscope
Today's horoscope says:
Your recent bold behavior has gotten you noticed by a couple people, lately -- and they are the people you want to get on your good side. The good news is that they are loving your brashness -- they see it as a breath of fresh air. So keep it up!
You got it.
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