Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say. “Many people have heard of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” said Kara Lavender Law, an oceanographer at the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. (See pictures of the Pacific [...]
December 3, 2009
Scientists who tried to launch an indepth study of pornography ran into trouble when they couldn’t find any men in their twenties who hadn’t watched x-rated material. University of Montreal researchers wanted to compare the attitudes of non-porn watchers to regular viewers. But researcher Professor Simon Louis Lajeunesse told the Daily Telegraph they simply couldn’t find any. “We [...]
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A photo allegedly showing an overweight passenger on an American Airlines flight has raised the uncomfortable question: How fat is too fat to fly? The image, first posted on airline blog Flightglobal.com, shows a man seated in the center row of an aircraft who appears to be so large that he takes up not only his seat but [...]
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December 8, 2009 marks 29 years since the death of John Lennon. Many of us still “wanna change the world” but unfortunately, we’ve yet to “give peace a chance.” Maybe this year, on the sad anniversary of John’s murder, we can begin taking steps to recall his message and the radical time period that helped [...]
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With the so-called 3D revolution picking up steam, we are bound to see countless products boasting the technology in the coming months, and a wave of manufacturers hoping users will upgrade their existing displays. It remains to be seen how consumers in general react to this movement, but LG wants to be the one leading the charge [...]
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A little-noticed letter from Yahoo! to the US Marshals Service offers troubling insight into the surveillance policies of one of the Internet’s largest email providers.In response to a Freedom of Information Act request seeking details of Yahoo’s! policies allowing the Justice Department to request wiretaps of its users and the amount they charge US taxpayers [...]
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