Daylight time arrives 3 weeks earlier

Heck, I almost overslept today. I already knew that time was going to spring forward early this morning but I forgot to setup my clock before going to bed and I ended up oversleeping today. I bet there are many others who had the same problem. So what is the deal with the early coming [...]

Guess who turns 50 today!

The most wanted terrorist (according to the FBI) will be turning 50 today assuming that he is still alive. Osama (or is it Usama) bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda was born this day in 1957. The man is responsible for a number of terrorist attacks against U.S. targets that have caused the deaths [...]

Innovative straw makes drinking milk fun for kids

Milk may never be the same. A new invention, already part of McDonalds’s Restaurants’ push into healthier menu items elsewhere, is set to hit store shelves worldwide in the next few months.
Lisa Kable, a spokeswoman for Unistraw International Pty Ltd, says the Sipahh milk flavoring straw will arrive in 90 countries by late 2007. The [...]

Improve your speed

Need a speed boost? Doing uphill and downhill sprinting in the same workout increases your flatland speed. Researchers at the University of Athens put athletes through a 6-week training program over slopping and flat ground-they ran uphill, downhill, over flat ground, or an uphill-downhill combination.
The combo runners increased their sprint speed by 3.5 percent; others [...]

If you see this sign, run!

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is introducing a new symbol to warn people of radiation dangers. The IAEA has found that the old symbol (see below) was not clear enough and resulted in too large a number of people getting exposed to deadly dosage of radiation. The new symbol is more descriptive of the [...]

Life in numbers

34 percent the number of people who walk to work (Transportation Research Board)
5 the number of times Martin Scorsese was nominated for an Oscar and lost until wining one for The Departed in his sixth nomination.
1.12 liters per hour the average man sweats during intense exercise (Journal of strength and conditioning research)
12 billion kilometers and [...]

Treat your hangover with this herbal supplement

Tulane University students have one more reason to party: Researchers there recently discovered that an herbal supplement may lessen the hell of a hangover. A hangover that is the result of excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages lasts from 12 to 36 hours. The most common reported characteristics of a hangover are headache, nausea, lethargy, sensitivity [...]

Eat this tasty but ugly tomato

Tired of those perfect-on-the-outside tomatoes that have the taste and texture of MDF? Splurge on an UglyRipe tomato.
Ripened on the vine in Florida and then carefully coddled for the trip to the grocery store, the wrinkled tomatoes were developed from a French heirloom called Maramondo. The UglyRipe tomato was the innovation of Mr. Joe [...]

Bat infects Alberta man with rabies

An Alberta, Canada, man is in serious condition at the hospital several months after being bitten by a rabies infected bat. This is the first case of rabies in the Canadian province in 22 years.
The unfortunate man was bitten by the infected bat while sleeping in August 2006. The first flu-like symptoms of the [...]

Girl soldiers

“Once you put an AK-47 in their hands, child soldiers can mutilate, kill. I’ve seen a 14-year old commanding 30 or 40 kids.”
-Retired Lieutenant General Romeo Dallaire talking about the ‘value’ of girl soldiers in a Maclean’s Magazine interview, Januray, 2007.

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