The Sensitivities

Afghan women still being punished for ‘moral’ crimes

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 08:00:41 PDT

Afghan women still being punished for ‘moral’ crimes - Hundreds of Afghan women are languishing in prison having been accused or convicted of so-called “moral crimes”, including “running away” and having sex outside marriage, campaign group Human Rights Watch said Wednesday.The report released in Kabul, I Had to Run Away, said that President Hamid Karzai’s Western-backed government had failed to

Your Most Creative Time Of Day Is Not When You Think

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 05:33:39 PST

Your Most Creative Time Of Day Is Not When You Think - A bus company in China has launched a new “safe driving” campaign by suspending bowls of water over their drivers. To avoid getting wet, drivers must drive gently. In today’s technology-obsessed world, this solution is elegantly primitive. You might imagine that this simple yet ingenious idea was conjured by someone functioning at their

Four Easy Ways To Help Your Elementary Child Study

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 06:49:07 PST

Four Easy Ways To Help Your Elementary Child Study - It's the moment you dread: your third-grader walks up to you after school on Monday and hands you a vocabulary list. He has to know it for a test on Friday. What's the best way to help him study? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Yeah, I thought so. If you're a parent of an elementary child, grades 1 – 5, and you're wondering how in

Three-year-old girl mimics NFL prospects

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 06:45:11 PST

Three-year-old girl mimics NFL prospects - If the disappointing drills run by Vontaze Burfict, Cliff Harris and Courtney Upshaw at this year's scouting combine left you with a hollow feeling, we hope that this video will allow you to re-affirm your love of the pre-draft process. Our scouting eyes are all agog, because this kid is a real tiger.National Football League, we would like to introduce

Outrage over Royal Mail plan to offer cheaper stamps to five million claiming benefits

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 06:26:01 PST

Outrage over Royal Mail plan to offer cheaper stamps to five million claiming benefits - Benefit claimants will be able to buy stamps at 2011 prices under plans - Royal mail bringing in April price hikesRoyal Mail came under fire yesterday over a plan to sell cheaper stamps to five million customers on benefits.Since the Penny Black was introduced in 1840, the company has delivered a letter

Pink dolphins are being slaughtered for bait

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:39:10 PST

Pink dolphins are being slaughtered for bait - Pink dolphins in the Amazon river are being killed to be used as bait. The pink dolphin population could collapse, scientists say, if this practice continues.The bright pink color gives them a striking appearance in the muddy jungle waters. That Amazon river dolphins are also gentle and curious makes them easy targets for nets and harpoons as they

Why are so many dolphins beaching themselves on Cape Cod?

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:33:38 PST

Why are so many dolphins beaching themselves on Cape Cod? - In the past month, 177 short-beaked common dolphins have beached themselves on Massachusetts's Cape Cod, and, despite rescue efforts, 124 have died.There's no good spot on Cape Cod for dolphins to continue this winter's massive and unexplained beachings, but a group of 11 has chosen one of the worst.Using a sling, members of an

Goats apparently have accents, report goat experts

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:28:28 PST

Goats apparently have accents, report goat experts - A study of young goats found that the animals' social environment helps shape their calls.Goats don't have their own language, but they do seem able to pick up accents from one another, scientists found in a study of calls made by young goats.Goat kids, like these, appear to pick up accents from one another, a study indicates. Elodie BrieferThe

Rover, is that you? Mars orbiter captures traces of Nasa's retired Martian explorer, gathering (red) dust on the planet surface

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:08:52 PST

Rover, is that you? Mars orbiter captures traces of Nasa's retired Martian explorer, gathering (red) dust on the planet surface - A camera on board Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of the lander from one of Nasa's retired Martian explorers, peaceful on the surface of the Red Planet.It's the orbiter's first colour image of the lander, which helped carry Mars Rover Spirit

A Dissection of Desire Boiled Down to Sex, Romance and Attachment

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:07:36 PST

The Brain in Love - A Dissection of Desire Boiled Down to Sex, Romance and Attachment - No matter what you've heard, you don't love anything with all of your heart. You love from the depths of your ventral tegmental area, your hypothalamus, your nucleus accumbens, and other vital areas of the brain. In the last two decades, scientists have joined the throngs of poets, philosophers, artists and

25 Ways To Say "I Love You" For Valentine's Day

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:56:52 PST

25 Ways To Say "I Love You" For Valentine's Day - It can be difficult for a man to say those three words that mean so much to a woman, especially on Valentine's Day. In the past, I've done everything from mumbling those three words like my mouth was full of hard boiled eggs, to whispering it so quietly, mice were smitten. I've also blurted it out when I didn't mean it.25 Ways To Say "I Love You"

Letting ‘keroncong’ flow

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:59:47 PST

Letting ‘keroncong’ flow - Thousands of spectators crowded the Solo Keroncong Festival 2011 in Ngarsopuro, right in front of the Triwindu Market in Solo.They were mesmerized as Endah Laras, a traditional singer from Solo, presented “Gemes” (Carried away), a song in the langgam or Javanese-style of keroncong, which is long known as Portuguese-tinged Indonesian music.The song, written by Anjar Any

How climate change, urbanization are changing disaster aid

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 02:58:13 PST

A girl walks in a World Food Programme (WFP) hot-food distribution centre in Mogadishu August 4, 2011, in this handout released by the African Union-United Nations Information Support Team to Reuters on August 5, 2011. REUTERS/African Union-United Nations Information Support Team/Stuart Price/HandoutHow climate change, urbanization are changing disaster aid - a terrible drought forces you to

Megaupload founder denies piracy, demands release

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:45:46 PST

Megaupload founder denies piracy, demands release - Megaupload's detained founder Monday denied wrongdoing after US authorities shut down his file-sharing website, as new details emerged of a rock-star life featuring "fast cars" and "hot girls".Appearing in a New Zealand court, Kim Dotcom demanded to be freed from police custody and denied doing anything illegal, rejecting US claims that he had

La Nina 'linked' to flu pandemics

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 05:21:09 PST

La Nina 'linked' to flu pandemics - La Nina events may make flu pandemics more likely, research suggests.US-based scientists found that the last four pandemics all occurred after La Nina events, which bring cool waters to the surface of the eastern Pacific.In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), they say that flu-carrying birds may change migratory patterns during La Nina

Family members may benefit from behavioral therapy for obesity

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:28:31 PST

Family members may benefit from behavioral therapy for obesity - Obese people using behavior therapy to lose weight might notice something as they trim their waistlines -- their family members may be slimming down as well.A recent study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Assn. found there could be a ripple effect when an obese family member uses cognitive behavioral therapy to lose weight,

Facebook to launch mobile ads in 2012

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:04:27 PST

Facebook to launch mobile ads in 2012 - Facebook Inc plans its first push into mobile advertising by the end of March, giving the company a fresh source of revenue ahead of a possible initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said.An idea being considered is putting Facebook's Sponsored Stories ads, which feature friends' interactions with brands, within the mobile News

Male bonding on silver screen

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 05:50:11 PST

Male bonding on silver screen - "Oh I love what you are wearing, but this isn't the colour of the season"... these words when uttered by a woman secretly mean I could kill you for looking so good."But hey, are you going to work after marriage? No? Oh poor thing," pat comes the reply from the other side. This could hurt a few people but experts have it that there is an underlying tension in

Give as good as you get

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:35:53 PST

Give as good as you get -- Kathryn's story: "Hey!" My 11-year-old daughter bounded out of the kitchen, swinging a miniature pocket watch from a chain. "What's this? Whose is it?" It was hers, and I told her so, but not that it was intended for her Christmas stocking. I had bought it between errands, then dropped it into the groceries, which I had asked her to unload and put away, having

8 dumb mistakes men make with women

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 05:29:20 PST

Nothing sends a woman running like a desperate man. If you're trying too hard you'll drive her away8 dumb mistakes men make with women -- Men get all kinds of dating advice -- some smart, some stupid. If you're a guy, it's hard to know who to believe when it comes to us women.Honestly, as women, sometimes we're not even sure what we want half the time, but you knew that already. In any case,

Climategate controversy erupts again as new e-mails leaked

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:19:40 PST

Climategate controversy erupts again as new e-mails leaked - The British university whose stolen e-mails caused a global climate science controversy in 2009 says those behind the breach have apparently released a second and potentially far larger batch of old messages.University of East Anglia spokesman Simon Dunford said that while academics didn’t yet have the chance to examine all the roughly

Why are Apple, Google, and Facebook eradicating a linchpin of user interface design?

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 03:07:14 PST

Save the Scrollbar! - Why are Apple, Google, and Facebook eradicating a linchpin of user interface design?When I noticed the scrollbars were missing on my smartphone, I didn’t care all that much. When I’m reading an article on a tiny screen, I don’t want anything to distract me from the text. User interface experts refer to all this extra material—the operating system’s borders, menus, and

Sorting through the confusion on “extreme weather events

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:09:06 PST

How Much Can We Blame on Global Warming? - Sorting through the confusion on “extreme weather events.”In the aftermath of hurricane Katrina in 2005, a vigorous debate raged as to whether it was a "normal" natural disaster or a consequence of global warming. Al Gore depicted the devastation of New Orleans in his movie An Inconvenient Truth and linked it to climate change. I became involved during a

Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:51:21 PST

Skeptic finds he now agrees global warming is real — A prominent physicist and skeptic of global warming spent two years trying to find out if mainstream climate scientists were wrong. In the end, he determined they were right: Temperatures really are rising rapidly.The study of the world's surface temperatures by Richard Muller was partially bankrolled by a foundation connected to global warming

Is Global Warming Making Birds Bigger?

noreply@blogger.com (naknik) — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 02:40:00 PST

Is Global Warming Making Birds Bigger? - As if we needed more reasons to cool it on the greenhouse gases, researchers in California are now hypothesizing that global warming could be causing the state's birds to grow significantly larger than they were even 25 years ago.According to a study published in Global Change Biology, robins have grown by about an eighth of an inch in wing length and