THE Obama administration’s appeal on Plan B has been denied by the judge, who slammed President Obama and Secretary Sebelius’s obvious political stunt to appease political conservatives in both parties. The judge called Secretary Sebelius out for ignoring the science of Plan B, writing she “lacks any medical or scientific expertise,” which applies to President [...]
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Old Mars Rover Phallic “Drawing” Goes Viral
Some Mars maniacs just won’t grow up: A picture of the track patterns left behind by the Mars rovers’ standard turning maneuver has drawn giggles and gasps — merely because it looks like a penis scrawled on the Red Planet. “The rude drawing has emerged in a series of images taken by one of its [...]
Celebrate Earth Day with a Quiz, Plant Something
HAPPY EARTH Day. Take some time to watch birds. Plant something… Take a walk and appreciate this planet. You can also take CNN’s quiz, answers to the questions below at the link, to see how savvy you are about our planet and its problems, which we humans have caused. 4. About 70% of the Earth [...]
NBC News Reports: PNAS Study Reveals Penis Size “Does Affect Attractiveness”
The human male possesses the Italian designer faucet of penises. They’re pretty big, the biggest of any primate’s relative to body size. And they’re showy, too, right out there, front and center on our upright bodies (i.e., they don’t retract), as if they were meant to be seen as part of the décor. Why? A [...]
News Desk: Scientists at CERN Say They’ve Found Proof of “God Particle”
Scientists at the CERN’s Large Hadron Collider are now certain they have found a Higgs boson particle. Known as “The God Particle,” the once theoretical Higgs boson is the mechanism that gives mass to elementary objects, meaning that its existence helps explain the existence of virtually everything else. For years, scientists at the European Organization [...]
News Desk: Asteroid Whizzing Past Earth, Hits Russia [AFP - NASA] *Updated*
UPDATE: Meteorite hits central Russia, more than 500 people hurt Asteroid to whiz past Earth (via AFP) NASA is closely tracking an asteroid large enough to destroy a city that is set to whiz past Earth on Friday in what the US space agency says is the closest flyby ever predicted for such a large [...]
News Desk: First “Disposable Penis” that Can Be Regrown
THE BBC has a very interesting report on a sea slug found in the Pacific Ocean.. A sea slug that is able to detach, re-grow and then re-use its penis has surprised scientists. … They believe this is the first creature known that can repeatedly copulate with what they describe as a “disposable penis”. – [...]
Biggest Losers for 2012: Republicans
Nothing on taxes. Nothing on gun control. Nothing on climate change. Nothing on gay marriage. Nothing on immigration reform (or an incremental, piece-by-piece approach, which will result in nothing). It’s a very odd situation when the losing party is the party refusing to negotiate. It may be how you disrupt, but it is not how [...]
It’s Christmastime. Find Joy and Heal. [Obama's Full Remarks - Video]
“I want to talk to the White House. I know that they can’t give me an answer tonight, but I want to know what they’re going to do. I need to know what they’re going to do.” – Rep. Carolyn McCarthy GOD HAD nothing to do with the Connecticut school massacre and religion wouldn’t have [...]
Most Famous Wolf in the World Shot Dead Outside Yellowstone
This year’s hunting season in the northern Rockies has been especially controversial because of the high numbers of popular wolves and wolves fitted with research collars that have been killed just outside Yellowstone in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. – ‘Famous’ Wolf Is Killed Outside Yellowstone THE NEEDLESS slaughter of wolves has now claimed something of [...]
News Desk: Arafat Body ‘To be Exhumed Tuesday’ for Poison Tests
Arafat body ‘to be exhumed Tuesday’ for poison tests (via AFP) Palestinian officials said Saturday they would exhume the body of their leader Yasser Arafat next week to see if Israel poisoned him with a radioactive isotope. The controversial announcement came as a group of international experts arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah [...]
New Light Shed On The Role Of Dinosaurs’ In The Evolution Of Bird Flight
New Light Shed On The Role Of Dinosaurs’ In The Evolution Of Bird Flight (via Planetsave) New insight into the evolution of flight has been gained thanks to research on the structures of feathers found on bird-like dinosaurs. Researchers at the Universities of Bristol, Yale and Calgary have found that a considerably simpler version of [...]
What’s Next for BP After Felonious Gulf Coast Catastrophe?
BLOOMBERG BUSINESS has a blaring headline and article reporting that the 103-year-old British oil company, founded as an Anglo-Persian venture in 1909, is now seen as a takeover target. A.G. Holder announced BP’s guilty plea to 14 criminal charges and the responsibility of the deaths of 11 crew members last Thursday. Today, in U.S. District [...]
Top Story — U.N. Report Declares Contraception an International Human Rights Issue
Additional Investments in Family Planning Would Save Developing Countries More Than $11 Billion a Year — Access to family planning is an essential human right that unlocks unprecedented rewards for economic development, says new UNFPA report. – UNFPA REPORT TAKE A BOW Secretary Clinton, who began this push in 1995 as first lady when she [...]
The Power, the Protégé and the Dutiful Wife
Yet more studies with sweat have explored the strongest isolated candidate so far for a human pheromone, known as androstadienone, which derives from the male hormone testosterone. The presence of this compound has been reported to make women feel more relaxed. Wysocki and his colleagues are currently seeking National Institutes of Health grants to find [...]
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