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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Happy Valentine’s Day

Internet porn is all pervasive

The Web gives and it takes away. A new study to be published in the journal of Pediatrics found that 42 percent of Internet user aged 10 to 17 had seen online porn over the past year, and two-thirds of that exposure was unwanted. “It’s beyond the wild west out there. You have really taken [...]

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