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We Are a Million and a Half Years Younger than We Thought
2008-03-05 05:33:00 Did early humans interbreed with chimps? A 7 million year old fossil, which was previously considered the earliest member of a human family, now appears to have probably been a human-chimp hybrid. The skull, called “Toumai”, was hailed as one of the most important recent fossil discoveries because it was thought to belong to an ... More About: News , Thought , Years , Million , Half
Men Enjoy Amphetamines More than Women
2008-03-05 05:33:00 Researchers have now shown that amphetamine props males’ brains to release up to 3 times more dopamine, the “pleasure molecule”, than women’ brains. Dopamine is released by the brain’s striatum as a reward for everything from eating chocolate to having sex. This natural drug produced by the brain is also intimately linked with drug use: The ... More About: News , Women , Men , Enjoy
Do We Need a Novel and Modern Definition of ?Family??
2008-03-05 05:33:00 There are certain factors that alter the concept of family in the modern world: there is a decline in marriage, a rise in cohabitation, divorce and re-parenting, there are more births to unmarried parents, there are more and more people who live single and last but not least, as the life span increases, there are ... More About: News , Family , Definition , Modern
How Music Influences Brain Development
2008-03-04 03:13:00 Scientists have discovered that music training has significant influences on the brain development of young children leading to improved memory over the course of a year. The fact that musical training changes the way the brain reacts to music might not be very surprising, but researchers also found that the musically trained children performed better ... More About: News , Music , Development , Brain
Mosuo, One of the Last Matriarchal Societies
2008-03-04 03:12:00 In the Xiaolianghshan Mountains, Yunnan province (South East China), live the Mosuo people, one of the last living matriarchal societies today. They are closely related to Tibetans. In their social system, paternity and marriage are not the same as in our world. The main pillar of the family is the mother. The family units ... More About: News , Societies
Tall Women, Twins and Cows
2008-03-04 03:11:00 A multiple-birth pregnancies specialized obstetrician affirmed that taller women are more likely to have twins. Tall er women have greater levels of an insulin-like growth factor (IGF) that has been linked to height and to the incidence of twins in previous studies. Comparing the heights of twins or triplets mothers with the average height of women in the ... More About: News , Women , Twins , Cows
Where Do Money, Banks and Economic Recessions Come From?
2008-03-04 03:10:00 Money has always had a bad press. It is often portrayed as, more or less, the source of all evil and the presence of money and of financial gains is thought to befoul even the noblest causes. But is money really nothing more but a necessary evil? Imagine a world without money. Suppose that all ... More About: News , Money , Banks , Economic
Female Promiscuity Increases Offspring?s Resistance
2008-03-04 03:08:00 A new study reveals that the healthiest colonies of Hymenoptera (”thin wings”) insects (bees, ants, wasps) are produced by females (” queens”) which indulge in the most promiscuous sexual encounters. Honeybee queens mating with multiple drones produced colonies possessing a wider genetic variation. This variation would result in an increase of their resistance to ... More About: News , Female , Resistance , Offspring , Promiscuity
How to Debate Anything
2008-03-04 03:08:00 Suppose you believe something to be true and somebody else thinks otherwise. How can you debate the issue? What is the common ground or how can you find it? And in what sense debating the existence of global warming differs from debating political issues or from debating the existence of God? Empiric truths are different from ... More About: News , Debate
What Is Anger Good For?
2008-03-04 03:06:00 Anger is usually seen as a destructive emotion, one that is also hard to control and which makes people do irrational things. Moreover, anger seems to spring more from our biology than from our education. Although, as we shall see, this isn’t entirely correct, the biological side of the story is in need of an ... More About: News , Anger , Good
The Chameleon in a Mirrored Box
2008-03-04 03:06:00 The biologist Stewart Brand posed this riddle to a fellow biologist in 1970s: What color would a chameleon take when placed on a mirror? The riddle is in a certain sense more interesting as a metaphor than as an actual biological question about that lizard. The actual lizard changes its color depending on how it ... More About: Chameleon , Mirrored
The ?Giraffe? Women of the Neck Rings
2008-03-04 03:05:00 In the border mountains between Burma and Thailand live the Kayan (known also as Padaung) people, related to the Burmeses and Tibetans. These are not to be confused with the Malayan people with the same name from Borneo, related to Dayaks. Today, their tribe numbers around 40,000 souls. Visitors to their villages are amazed by ... More About: News , Women , Rings , Neck
Discoveries in Naked Mole Rats Challenge the Theory of Aging
2008-03-04 03:04:00 The naked mole-rats (Heterocephalus glaber) are very unusual burrowing rodents from Eastern Africa. Mole rats live in underground colonies of 20 to 300 animals, and are unique amongst vertebrates with their social system similar with that find in some insects (like ants, bees or termites). Only one female (the queen) and one to three males ... More About: News , Theory , Challenge , Aging , Discoveries
Westerners' Brains and East Asians' Brains Function Differently!
2008-02-26 07:33:00 Being East Asian is more than the almond eye, yellowish skin, sushi, rice, soy sauce and the weird glyphs. The brain works differently! A new MIT research published in “Psychological Science” shows how the Westerners and the East Asian people use their brains differently when facing the same visual perceptual issue. In American culture, the individual ... More About: Health News , Brains , Function
Eat Dirt for a Better Health!
2008-02-26 07:33:00 Chimps are not quite gentle when eating. And besides being messy during the dinner time, they even engulf dirt while doing this. It may seem fulsome, but our closest living relatives are not stupid: eating soil appears to improve their health and their ability to fight infections. This is the result of a new research ... More About: Health , Health News , Dirt
Aggression, Found to be More Rewarding Than Sex, Food and Drugs!
2008-02-26 07:33:00 In the case of some individuals, it seems that their brain is made by only one neuron for aggression. But this new research carried out at the Vanderbilt University and published in the journal Psychopharmacology has really surprising results: aggression can be more rewarding than sex, food and drugs, explaining the industry of millions of ... More About: Food , Drugs , Health News
Sperm Art: He Paints Using His Semen!
2008-02-26 07:33:00 Art is meant to represent the impossible beyond our imagination. This is beyond the way our imagination regards art, but maybe, in fact, we are conservative and obsolete… The British Jordan McKenzie, 40, involves in epic auto-sexual orgies for creating a new exhibition, which is the result of his masturbating and ejaculating over the canvas. The artist ... More About: Health News , Paints , Sperm
Expensive Wines Trigger More Pleasure in the Brain
2008-02-26 07:33:00 A $150 pair of jeans is much better than a $30 one or is it just an illusion? You are paying in fact for the brand, but no matter what, you%26#039;ll always think that more expensive stuff is better. This has got scientific support with a new research published in the online edition ... More About: Health News , Brain , Wines , Pleasure , The Brain
HIV Art: He Paints Using a HIV Positive Blood
2008-02-26 07:33:00 If some people immortalize their own semen in their paintings, others go deeper into the morbid side. Artist Robert Sherer, from Georgia, makes his painting using HIV positive and negative blood, to trigger a warning signal on the HIV epidemic. Last week, Sherer opened an exhibition featuring his masterworks made of blood, which will be ... More About: Health News , Blood , Paints , Positive
Myths About Bisexual Women, Debunked by a New Research
2008-02-26 07:33:00 Apparently, “homosexuality” and “heterosexuality” have increasingly become two artificial terms defined by a human society obsessed with order. People say homosexuality is not natural, but this is nonsense: if we look anywhere in nature, we will detect animal homosexuality all around… Sexual orientation variation not matching the gender could be genetically normal. Human traits can be ... More About: Women , Research , Health News , Bisexual , Myths
When Do Latino Women Start Their Sex Life?
2008-02-26 07:33:00 Chicas latinas son realmente calientes. In the Latino music, that%26#039;s only sensuality and passion. How does this translate in the sex life of these women? A new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health and carried on at the University of Chicago Medical Center shows that the sense of personal control over sex life strongly ... More About: Women , Life , Health News , Start
This Man Has the Largest Penis in the World: 13.5 in (34.29 cm) Erect!
2008-02-26 07:33:00 We may not be so impressive as other species with our physical abilities: powerful muscles or weaponry like fangs, claws, horns and so on. But we have evolved to excel in one issue: sex. Not regarding sexual activity - as it has been shown that the bonobo (which is also wrongly named “dwarf chimpanzee”) has ... More About: World , Health News , The World , Penis , Largest
Which is the Formula for Mr. Right?
2008-02-26 07:33:00 How is the perfect man in the eyes of a woman? You may have heard many opinions, but this time it turned scientific: Ukdating.com has made a research on 40,000 women to find how Mr. Right should be. Most of the findings are not surprising: he must be clean-shaven, good-looking and drive a silver Mercedes, ... More About: Formula , Health News
How Does the World's Largest Hurricane Simulator Work?
2008-02-18 09:22:00 Wind tunnels are research tools developed to assist with studying the effects of air moving over or around solid objects. The fastest wind tunnels are called hypersonic wind tunnels and are designed to generate a hypersonic flow field in the working section. The speed of these tunnels vary from Mach 5 to 15. The world%26#039;s ... More About: World , How To , Work , Simulator , Largest
How to Build the Tallest Building in the World
2008-02-18 09:22:00 Building the world%26#039;s tallest buildings seems to have become a fierce competition in the last decades. Owning it is a matter of great pride, not only for the builders Related PostHow to Build an Incendiary Bomb More Powerful Than NapalmHow to Build an Invisible, Shoot-Through, Self-Healing ShieldHow Does the Smartest Bomb in the World Work?How ... More About: Building , How To , The World , Build
How Would New Plasma-Powered Spaceships Work?
2008-02-18 09:21:00 A new plasma rocket design underwent thorough testing and eventually broke the endurance record for its class, and could provide the next generation of propulsion systems for future space missions. Plasma propulsion engines use accelerated plasma for propulsion. Though far less powerful than conventional atmospheric rocket engines, plasma engines are able to operate at higher ... More About: How To , Work
How to Shoot the World's Most Powerful Sniper Rifle
2008-02-18 09:21:00 “One shot, one kill” is the sniper motto, and this can only be accomplished with the help of heavily modified rifles, with hollow wood or fiberglass handles, upgraded trigger mechanisms and high-power optical telescopes. But what is the most powerful sniper rifle in the world? Without a doubt, it%26#039;s the Barrett M107 Sniper Rifle , the ... More About: World , How To , Shoot
How to Drive the World's Fastest Motorcycle
2008-02-18 09:21:00 Wanna know what%26#039;s the fastest motorbike? Well, it%26#039;s the Dodge Tomahawk, a prototype with an unusual design, featuring the 500 hp (373 kW) 8.3 L V10 engine from the Dodge Viper. The motorcycle has two front wheels and two rear wheels to aid in turning and stability at highest rate of speed. There%26#039;s only ... More About: World , How To , Motorcycle , Drive
How Do Armor Piercing Bullets Work?
2008-02-18 09:21:00 What is an armor-piercing bullet? Of course, a bullet that (almost) no armor or bulletproof vest can withstand. And by the way, bulletproof vests don%26#039;t exist. What you see in the movies are bullet-resistant vests, a more accurate term for modern body armor. The degree of resistance of an armor depends on the materials used, ... More About: How To , Work , Bullets , Armor , Piercing
How to Drive the $3.8 Million Rolls Royce
More articles from this author:2008-02-18 09:21:00 In a world where the threat of terrorism is almost everywhere, the richest and most powerful people need to feel safe when traveling in a car. Civilian armored cars are either factory produced, such as the BMW 7 Series High Security and the armored Audi A6 and A8 cars, or retrofitted versions of series ... More About: How To , Drive , Rolls Royce , Million , Royce 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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