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Rick Santorum surprised America by dropping out of the Republican race to the presidential election in November, in which he was been losing ground to Mitt Romney. It's almost a law of physics: the more you repeat ‘no’ the closer you are to say ‘yes’. The hardness of moral principles is not enough to make a solid person, no matter how harsh and uncompromising they are, and the chance of losing

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Kepler telescope moves on the Earth’s orbit since 2009 trying to find habitable planets in other solar systems, and it already found around 2300 candidates. Users of iPhone and iPad now have a free available app that allows them to come into contact to these distant worlds. With the extraordinary power of the Internet and social networks, we might expect that now we will know not only whether

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Being conservative has the great advantage of never having the work of creating new ideas and thinking on a new discourse. In his Easter speeches, year after year, the Pope urges countries at war to make peace, in a repetitive clockwork style. Last year was Libya, this year is Syria and Mali, next year will be Israel and Iran, and so on. Reporters love this, as they may use the reports from

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The Dutch have been quite engaged in learning how to fly. After the engineer who’s flown with his grandfather’s wings, now it appeared a car that turns into a helicopter – an extraordinary work, by the way. The manufacturer says it can fly over mountains or water and escape traffic jams, however, the Netherlands have no mountains, so is evidently the water that he’s thinking about. Fact is global

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The U.S. is a huge country, almost as big as Americans think. As it is convenient to travel from New York to California without having to cross any customs, it is unpleasant to lose so much time going through the endless desert in between without having anything interesting to do. Maybe with this in mind, someone followed in the footsteps of the Wright brothers and created a car that turns into a

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True, Homo erectus fooled us around for 300,000 years, but finally he has been uncovered in South Africa by a team of anthropologists from Universities of Toronto and Jerusalem. The researchers arrived at a place where Erectus had been cooking and socializing around the fire, but unfortunately they didn’t arrive in time to catch him red-handed. If he is caught, Homo erectus can take up to

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The state Senate voted to abolish the death penalty, being one step away from becoming the 17th U.S. state without capital punishment. Connecticut executed only one person in the last 50 years, and also fears errors which DNA tests now allow to detect. So, from now on, those convicted in Connecticut have no other choice but to stay alive. Its things like these that make people suspicious about

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The Passover began to celebrate the liberation of Jewish slaves from ancient Egypt, and then the resurrection of Christ, with his devotees decorating eggs, symbols of birth. Among the Protestants this holiday began to celebrate spring as well, and took the name of Easter, joining it a symbol of fertility: the hare. Nobody can explain how did the bunny replace the hare and took over the egg

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German poet Gunter Grass feels the world in danger and wrote a poem that asks both Israel and Iran to drop their pants and let themselves be inspected by nuclear urologists. The Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu didn’t like to see the two countries treated equally and pointed to the small swastika tattooed on Grass, which he showed to the world when he dropped his pants in 2006. We share the

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Major technology developers continue to look in our days for moments in which our brain and senses are not still being consumed by their devices. Google found that when we walk down the street, even with long talks on the mobile phone, we have a lot of spare time. So they invented glasses that make the landscape we have before us look like a desktop wallpaper, as we are constantly receiving

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The President of Hungary, Pal Schmitt resigned after being accused of academic plagiarism. Schmitt decided to resign from office to avoid public controversy about the case, proving he's a weak man and endangering his country. What would happen if all politicians who copied in school were to resign and were replaced by honest students? It would be a tragedy of catastrophic consequences; we all

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François Hollande, the Socialist candidate at the French presidential election on April 22, proposes that those who make 1 million Euros per year should pay 75% in taxes, a proposal that has great popular support. In fact, the world is full of havens for the rich, but lacks a haven for the poor, a place where they feel that there is justice and all are equally poor. As Winston Churchill said: “

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A survey of a British website revealed the terrible truth: almost all of us are miserable unhappy. The study, by revealing that the age of 33 is the one in which people are happy, had a devastating impact on people of any other ages who thought they were happy. And if the younger ones may still have some hope, those who have already passed that age may even commit mass suicide, now that they

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A 30 year old man was pronounced dead after he crashed his Porsche in Melbourne, Australia. So far so good, but the unusual was that the man, despite being officially dead, started moving under the sheet. A trucker saw this, but as a good citizen, remained silent. But the man was still warm after been dead for more than one hour, and then they found he had a weak pulse. In addition to

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Nobody knows George W. Bush present whereabouts. His absence has been particularly noticed at Mitt Romney‘s campaign for Republican nomination, especially after the candidate been endorsed by Jeff Bush and George H. Bush. Apparently noticed with joy, since George W. remains unpopular and is still seen as responsible for the state of the economy, and therefore his support would eventually

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The Dukes of Cambridge, recently married, went to live in Wales, near the Newborough beach. A beautiful beach, frequented by nudists and for which they wish an official status. People in the area expect nudists, although having no pockets, will benefit the region's economy. But the local councillor is against the idea, not so much because of the nudists, but because of “people who go and watch

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On the last Saturday of March it was celebrated the Earth Hour, during which lights were turned off throughout the world, to draw attention to climate change. The initiative was born in Sydney in 2007 and now reaches 147 countries, including China, which is now the world's biggest polluter ahead of the United States. As a smart and observing people, Chinese have already learned that these

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The victory of the National League for Democracy in a by-election to parliament of Burma (or Myanmar) is a sign that people want a political change. Not that it makes any difference to the military regime that runs the country, which in 1990 overturned the victory of Suu Kyi and placed her under house arrest. But we hope this can be a starting point in a path of a normal political evolution,

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It is believed that April Fool’s Day has its origin in France in the XVI century, when the new year was celebrated in the beginning of spring, during a week that ended on April 1. When the Gregorian calendar was adopted, in 1582, the French began to celebrate the year on January 1, and those who maintained the former habit became a pretext for jokes and lies. So every year on April 1,

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It’s true that spending half of the time playing with your dog, taking him to walk and talking about him reduces stress on the workers, but on the other hand greatly increases the stress on the boss, who will be paying for all this fun. Sure, having fun at work reduces stress; we didn’t need someone at the Journal of Workplace Health Management, where the study was published, to stop playing with

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Finally, something simultaneously extraordinary and true happened in California. The world's smallest dog, smaller than a hamster, a little puppy named Beyonce was born. In addition to the extraordinary size, she has a remarkable story of survival. Her mother was abandoned and was scheduled to to be put down, but gave birth to five puppies, the last of which was the little Beyonce, who only began

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About a year ago, Dominique Strauss-Kahn was the powerful head of the International Monetary Fund and front runner at the French presidential election which takes place next month. Once already forgiven for having straussed an official of the IMF, he eventually stepped down from his post after been accused of kahning a hotel maid. Since then, every week in France some innocent girl appears

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Robert Biggs, 69, was walking through the mountains in California when he was attacked by a lion, but he was lucky to be saved by a bear that was nearby, with her cubs. Biggs was not accompanied by any other person, so it was he who went to tell this story to journalists. And they published everything as if it were true, when actually it was all made up for Biggs to explian his wife the scratches

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Researchers at the University of California at San Diego came to a startling conclusion: chocolate not only isn’t fattening, but it makes people thinner. It is suspected that the same chemicals that make chocolate prevent heart disease prevents their fats to have their natural effect. But this is a modest effect, so if you really want to lose weight, our advice is you should eat tons of

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An helpless couple was surprised by the unexpected visit of Queen Elisabeth II during their wedding in Manchester town hall, that was being visited by the monarch during the celebrations of the 60th anniversary of her coronation. Just to be polite, they came at the door to shake the Queen’s glove, and then, as educated people, lied to reporters, saying they had found the episode amusing.

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