tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62775811484860705782024-09-27T09:58:35.035+07:00Life And LiveThere is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we canAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.comBlogger151125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-90200817697786143922014-08-31T17:34:00.001+07:002014-08-31T17:34:27.278+07:00Wedding Ring Found After Toilet Flush
Wedding Ring Found After Toilet Flush - An Idaho woman was reunited with her diamond wedding ring just in time for her 25th anniversary. Mechelle Rieger, 44, set her wedding ring on a privacy wall in her bathroom 18 months ago as she stood up to flush the toilet.
"It was slow motion. That ring bounced off, landed in the toilet just as it was flushing down and it just took off," she told ABCAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-62654883578055894842014-08-31T17:29:00.000+07:002014-08-31T17:29:05.554+07:00Swedish Woman Finds Lost Wedding Ring on a Carrot
Swedish Woman Finds Lost Wedding Ring on a Carrot - A Swedish woman got the surprise of a lifetime when she pulled a small carrot out of her garden at home. Fit snugly around the carrot was the wedding ring she had lost 16 years ago. Lena Paahlsson told the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter that she "had given up hope" that she would ever find the ring she had lost in 1995, according to the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-42580967834537782092013-06-27T19:01:00.000+07:002013-06-27T19:11:17.406+07:00Why ‘The Heat’ Is Depressing
Why ‘The Heat’ Is Depressing — It’s the first time that two women are top-lining a
buddy cop movie— and ‘The Heat,’ starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa
McCarthy, is expected to be a huge hit. But don’t expect it to change
Hollywood.
Dozens upon dozens of buddy cop
comedies have come and gone at the box office over the years, mostly
starring gruff straight men cracking wise Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-92067529781925417552013-04-19T19:01:00.005+07:002013-04-19T19:01:59.922+07:00Female Flies Expel Sperm and Eat It
Female Flies Expel Sperm and Eat It - Female Ulidiid flies have a kinky habit: After mating with a male, they expel his sperm and eat it.
The odd behavior may help these lady flies choose which guy flies will father their young, researchers reported online today (April 11) in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.
Studying a species of "picture-winged fly," known as Euxesta Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-293554148558982112013-04-19T18:56:00.001+07:002013-04-19T18:57:12.719+07:00The Happiest Tech Companies
The Happiest Tech Companies — Tech companies are already well known for some of the extra benefits they offer their employees, but several companies stand head and shoulders above others in keeping their workers happy, a new poll has found.
The survey, based on reviews on the site CareerBliss, ranked and rated the happiest tech companies in the United States. Overall, workers at Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-1085804319353923052013-04-19T18:51:00.003+07:002013-04-19T18:51:48.845+07:00A Spleen Gene-and a Ribosomal Surprise
A Spleen Gene-and a Ribosomal Surprise - The spleen is a very unappreciated body part. The Talmud considered it the "organ of laughter," whereas the ancient Greeks equated it with melancholy. Today it's sometimes used to mean anger.
When a spleen bursts, spewing all manner of blood cells, we simply take it out - as happened to Katniss Everdeen in the third installment of The Hunger GamesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-16715412654229777842013-04-19T18:45:00.000+07:002013-04-19T18:45:40.045+07:00Breakfast cereal tied to lower BMI for kids
View PhotoReuters/Reuters - A bag of corn flakes is seen in Bucharest April 23, 2012. REUTERS/Bogdan Cristel
Breakfast cereal tied to lower BMI for kids - Regularly eating cereal for breakfast is tied to healthy
weight for kids, according to a new study that endorses making breakfast cereal accessible to low-income kids to help fight childhood obesity.
One in every fourAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-42808563443124363602013-04-19T18:40:00.004+07:002013-04-19T18:40:41.249+07:00Can Inoculating Newborns with Innocuous Strains of Bacteria Save Them from Deadly Ones?
A Wild Bet: Can Inoculating Newborns with Innocuous Strains of Bacteria Save Them from Deadly Ones?
A Wild Bet: Can Inoculating Newborns with Innocuous Strains of Bacteria Save Them from Deadly Ones? - Recently, one of Paul Cezanne's missing paintings was rediscovered. The painting shows Paulin Paulet, a gardener on Cezanne's family estate, looking at his poker cards. Cezanne Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-44505235396846000872013-04-19T18:34:00.001+07:002013-04-19T18:34:11.323+07:00Big Brain Projects Highlight Drug Research Gaps
A laboratory assistant holds one hemisphere of a healthy brain in the Morphological unit of psychopathology in the Neuropsychiatry division of the Belle Idee University Hospital in Chene-Bourg near Geneva in this March 14, 2011 file photo. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/Files
An undated image of the human brain taken through scanning technology. REUTERS/Sage Center for Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-87668574948071800442013-04-19T18:24:00.001+07:002013-04-19T18:24:05.429+07:00Scientists Link Alzheimer's to Overactive Enzyme
Scientists Link Alzheimer's to Overactive Enzyme - California researchers have solved one important mystery regarding how Alzheimer's disease operates. Their discovery of a link between the illness and an overactive enzyme could eventually lead to a way to prevent the disease.
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) in California have established a connection between Alzheimer's Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-49997673927531615262013-04-19T18:19:00.001+07:002013-04-19T18:19:33.449+07:00Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself?
Could Life Be Older Than Earth Itself? - Applying a maxim from computer science to biology raises the intriguing possibility that life existed before Earth did and may have originated outside our solar system, scientists say.
Moore's Law is the observation that computers increase exponentially in complexity, at a rate of about double the transistors per integrated circuit every two years. If Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-61322582014999626352013-04-12T20:27:00.004+07:002013-04-12T20:27:51.906+07:00Great White Sharks Gorge on Dead Whale Blubber
Great White Sharks Gorge on Dead Whale Blubber - Great white sharks feast together on dead whales, which are important food resources for the normally solitary predators, a new study finds.
Drawn by wind-blown slicks of chemicals from decomposing flesh, great white sharks measuring up to 16 feet (5 meters) long gathered at floating carcasses near South Africa's Seal Island, gorging on blubberAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-86668933478543575422013-04-12T20:17:00.002+07:002013-04-12T20:17:50.220+07:00Moon Base Over Asteroid? Lawmakers Push for Lunar Landing by 2022
Moon Base Over Asteroid? Lawmakers Push for Lunar Landing by 2022 - While NASA's proposed budget for 2014 unveiled this week reaffirms the space agency's ambitious plan to send astronauts to an asteroid, some members of Congress are pushing for a more familiar goal: a moon base by 2022.
President Barack Obama's federal budget request for 2014, released Wednesday (April 10), gives NASA $105 Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-55894881573538056582013-03-28T19:09:00.000+07:002013-03-28T19:09:04.019+07:00New Ways to Lower Cholesterol with Diet
New Ways to Lower Cholesterol with Diet - If you're among the 14 percent of American adults with high cholesterol, you've no doubt received the standard diet advice: lose weight; limit your intake of cholesterol-rich foods like eggs, butter, cheese, red meat and shellfish; and lower your intake of saturated fats from animal foods and hydrogenated plant oils.
This standard advice is Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-10701666813951029242013-03-28T19:01:00.002+07:002013-03-28T19:02:16.310+07:00Western environmentalists oppose wolf delisting
Western environmentalists oppose wolf delisting - Environmentalists oppose push to end federal wolf protections to prevent expanded range -- Western environmental groups say they're alarmed that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering a plan to end federal protections for gray wolves in vast areas where the animals no longer exist.
The groups say ending federal protections would Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-64660972577814318392013-03-16T11:39:00.000+07:002013-03-16T11:39:01.365+07:00How Much Exercise Do Kids Really Need?
How Much Exercise Do Kids Really Need? - After soccer practice this weekend, my three-and-a-half year old son and his buddies hit the playground for a good hour of running and climbing. A gallon of water and a hamburger later, my husband and I were ready to call it a day, but he had a different idea - how about we go to the park and use the climbing wall?
Most little kids have boundless Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-20173906289471451892013-01-08T18:29:00.003+07:002013-01-08T18:29:54.328+07:00How we got off the pedestrian path
The Crisis in American Walking - How we got off the pedestrian path. The speaker was Michael Ronkin, a French-born, Swiss-raised, Oregon-based transportation planner whose firm, as his website notes, “specializes in creating walkable and bikeable streets.” Ronkin began with a simple observation that has stayed with me since. Taking stock of the event—one of the few focused on walking, which getsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-23716783459356232122013-01-08T18:21:00.004+07:002013-01-08T18:24:04.788+07:00Obesity in Young Is Seen as Falling in Several Cities
Obesity in Young Is Seen as Falling in Several Cities — After decades of rising childhood obesity rates, several American cities are reporting their first declines.
A fifth-grader ate salad for lunch at William H. Ziegler Elementary School in North Philadelphia.
The trend has emerged in big cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as smaller places like Anchorage, Alaska, and Kearney,Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-63395686135354252592012-09-11T19:20:00.001+07:002012-09-11T19:22:47.792+07:00Leaving your baby to cry does no harmLeaving your baby to cry does no harm, scientists find - A study has found that 'behavioural sleep techniques,' such as leaving a baby to cry for a certain amount of time, does them no harm.Many parents instinctively want to rush to their baby’s side when they hear it crying, but new research suggests they would be better off leaving it for a bit.Allowing an infant to settle itself does it no Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-61965577246309238602012-08-25T19:24:00.002+07:002012-08-25T19:27:41.253+07:00Demand for Horn Fuels Record-High Rhino PoachingDemand for Horn Fuels Record-High Rhino Poaching - A rhino poaching crisis in South Africa is fed by an insatiable demand in Vietnam for the large animals' horns, which are believed to promote health, cure hangovers and even cancer, according to a new report.In South Africa, more and more rhinos are being killed illegally. In 2007, 13 rhinos were poached, this number rose steadily to a record 448Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-36745840261450424452012-07-12T20:40:00.002+07:002012-07-12T20:43:13.837+07:00TV’s most powerful moments: 9/11, Katrina, O.J., Nielsen study findsTV’s most powerful moments: 9/11, Katrina, O.J., Nielsen study finds - The Sept. 11 tragedy was the most powerful event in television history, according to a new study released Wednesday by Sony Electronics and Nielsen.According to Nielsen's survey of 1,077 American adults, 9/11 was the most "universally impactful" televised moment of the last 50 years, followed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-81441565361530286432012-06-20T14:33:00.002+07:002012-06-20T14:37:32.846+07:00Study Ties Secondhand Smoke to Bladder Irritation in KidsStudy Ties Secondhand Smoke to Bladder Irritation in Kids - Parents who smoke may put their children at greater risk for bladder irritation, according to a small new study.Young children between the ages of 4 and 10 were at particular risk from exposure to secondhand smoke.Bladder irritation involves the urge to urinate, urinating more frequently and incontinence. The study revealed that Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-49541174627508565732012-06-06T19:23:00.003+07:002012-06-06T19:29:02.180+07:00Cotswold Olimpicks: Britain's other gamesCotswold Olimpicks: Britain's other games - Christopher Middleton celebrates 400 years of Britain's alternative games, the Cotswold Olimpicks.A brisk Saturday morning in Gloucestershire, and stonemasons Graham and Ben Greenall are putting the finishing touches to their castle.They’ve done the two towers, and are now starting on the front gateway and battlements. The whole structure has got to be Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-30453598660069143352012-04-05T21:04:00.002+07:002012-04-05T21:06:56.734+07:00Focusing on Fukushima's beautyFocusing on Fukushima's beauty -- Since last year's Tohoku earthquake, the scenes of devastation and Daiichi nuclear disaster immediately come to mind when people hear "Fukushima."Few see the beauty of Fukushima's landscape, both before the quake and how it now remains.Two photographers, Frances Tong and Katsumi Omori, respectively from Hong Kong and from Japan, are determined to offer artistic Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6277581148486070578.post-69772098032853053222012-03-29T18:23:00.003+07:002012-03-29T18:41:22.119+07:00Indonesia to ban mini-skirts 'because they make men do things'Indonesia to ban mini-skirts 'because they make men do things' - Indonesia is preparing to ban the mini-skirt under its tough anti-pornography laws 'because they make men do things'.The Muslim country's powerful religious affairs minister said that one of the considerations in its review of what could be considered pornographic would be 'when someone wears a skirt above the knee'.Minister Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17291227594454162695noreply@blogger.com0