Yesterday was Carl Sagan’s birthday. Watch this clip a remember what a cool guy he was. The world needs more people like him…
According to the Discovery Channel:
Until this week, many veterinarians asserted that it was a myth that house cats could catch the deadly H1N1 flu from their owners.
Those veterinarians, along with other health experts, are revising their views after an Iowa Department of Public Health announcement Wednesday that the virus has been confirmed in an indoor 13-year-old cat, which likely contracted the illness from two flu-sick humans in its home.
Although all of the victims have since recovered, this latest H1N1 animal case puts the focus on humans as the primary carriers of the illness, which experts don’t even want to call “swine” flu anymore.
According to science men should marry younger, smarter women for a lasting relationship.
Scientists analyzed couples who are in a successful relationships to look for patterns on why they worked.
They found that neither should have been divorced in the past, the man should be five or more years older and the woman should have received more education than the man.
According to Discovery News:
broken bone one day, a particular infection a few months later and depression the following year may appear to be separate, medical issues.
However, to a new artificial intelligence program developed by Boston doctors, these are all symptoms of domestic abuse.
The new software can identify abuse victims up to six years before these cases would otherwise be found and could eventually be used to diagnose just about any disease or injury.
“It’s very difficult to detect domestic abuse because it often happens in the privacy of the home,” said Ben Reis, a doctor at Children’s Hospital Boston (CHB) who helped develop the program.
Doctors are often on the front lines of detecting abuse, but so often the doctor is focused on treating the injury, they don’t see the context behind it.”
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on 24 April, 1990. This tool, built as a collaboration between NASA and the European Space Agency, is one of humanity’s most important tools in discovering the Universe. Since its start, it has shown us distant galaxies, nebulae, and has even given us a clear idea of the Earth’s age. It has answered some of the most lingering questions in astronomy, and is helping us discover whether life exists outside our planet. In this video, WatchMojo.com takes a look at some of the Hubble’s most notable and extraordinary discoveries.
According to the Los Angeles Times:
It’s a good thing Pio Pico served as California’s governor long before the age of television — his broad forehead, bulbous nose and protruding jaw prompted the author Gertrude Atherton to observe in 1902 that “an uglier man than Pio Pico rarely had entered this world.”
Now a neurologist believes he knows why Pico was so hard on the eyes: He probably suffered from acromegaly, a metabolic disorder that causes cartilage and soft tissues in the face and extremities to grow grotesquely large.
Dr. Ivan S. Login, a professor at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, began speculating about Pico’s condition six years ago after receiving a postcard from his daughter, who was vacationing in San Diego.
According to Yahoo News:
anadian circus tycoon Guy Laliberte turned space into his big top Wednesday, boarding a Russian rocket and lifting off on a mission that mixes a serious message on water shortages with some clowning around in the cosmos.
Laliberte, an experienced fire-eater and stilt-walker who founded Cirque du Soleil, joined Russian cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and American astronaut Jeffrey Williams aboard a Soyuz craft that soared off the Kazakh steppe and set a course for the International Space Station.The billionaire who calls himself the first clown in space paid a reported $35 million for his nine-day stay at the station, where he plans to publicize the world’s growing shortage of clean water. His space extravaganza will culminate in a satellite linkup with shows in 14 cities across five continents featuring rock band U2 and Colombian pop star Shakira, as well as an appearance by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
Check out WatchMojo’s interview with clown himself.
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The E cigarette looks and feels like a cigarette, but provides no second-hand smoke. This could be a great product for those who are already addicted, but should be avoided by those who don’t smoke.
According to a recent study in Israel, your hand writing doesn’t lie.
The scientists stressed that there research is in its early stages, but feel that it could one day be used to help validate loan applications or even insurance claims.
Psychologists have suggested that handwriting changes when someone is lying because the brain has to work harder to invent facts, which then in turn interfere with the normal writing process.
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