Into every life a little rain must fall, but some observers of the global economic turmoil are beginning to say that even this cloud has a silver lining. Although you and I aren’t likely to find zillions in government bailout money in our mailbox any time soon, students of language are having a field day [...]
A West African fruit may hold the key to helping overweight people lose weight and drop their cholesterol, a new study suggests.
Researchers are investigating the properties of the extract from African mango, a fruit commonly eaten in West Africa, is also known as Irvingia gabonensis. Lab research has shown that extracts from the plant’s seed [...]
Directly or indirectly, each of us has felt the impact of recent economic change, and some of us feel it more than others. Layoffs, tighter budgets, hiring freezes—they’re all adding to increased on-the-job tension.
An American Psychological Association survey in 2008 found that eight out of 10 people have “major stress” due to the current economic [...]
Do camels spit? No, they don’t—it’s more like projectile vomiting! Camels bring up the contents of their stomachs, along with saliva, and hurl it out in order to surprise, distract, or bother whatever threat they’re facing.
People’s spit, however, contains bacteria that’s consistent in human mouths around the world. Researchers are salivating over this little gem [...]
Times are getting tough for teenagers in Texas. Lawmakers are proposing a bill to make it harder for Texas teens to climb onto a tanning bed, and they’re comparing it with legislation against the tobacco industry.
“In the United States and Texas, we don’t allow our teens to purchase cigarettes until after they are 18 because [...]
With the economy tanking the way it is, does planning to live on a pension make any sense at all? Stop kidding yourself.
Invest! In your kids!
Young people who learn to manage money early in life can avoid the financial woes that their parents face in today’s troubled financial world. And schools and community groups [...]
“The state has no business in the nation’s bedrooms,” said Canada’s Prime Minister in 1967, Pierre Trudeau. But what business does the state have in the nation’s bikini bottoms?
In what may be a delicate step, the New Jersey state Board of Cosmetology and Hairstyling is moving toward banning, well, pube waxing. Recently, two women on [...]
March is Peanut Month.
In the 1800s, American scientist, educator, and inventor George Washington Carver used the peanut to revolutionize agriculture in the Southern United States. Through his efforts, peanuts became both a source of food and a source of products to improve the quality of life for impoverished farmers. He created or influenced the development [...]
Ladies, are you tempted to start flirting online? Wondering how to reply to email from a certain someone you might fancy? Well, now you can stop scratching your head over what to do.
Here are 10 tips to unleashing that Cyber-Flirt Superstar you know you really are:
1. The KISSS Principle
Flirting is like fishing; some guys like [...]
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite was all set to launch. Its mission: find Earth’s missing carbon dioxide—our main greenhouse gas that vanishes each year. NASA’s $285-million US satellite got off the ground OK last month. But OCO didn’t make it into orbit.
Meanwhile, CanX, a microsatellite that does what OCO was supposed to do, chugs [...]