Archive for 'International' Category

Eggstinct – But Scientists Hope For DNA Clues

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: 2:13pm UK, Wednesday March 10, 2010 Andy Jack, Sky News Online Scientists are hopeful of finding out more about ancient birds and why they died out after extracting DNA from a huge fossilised elephant bird egg. [...]

Religion Among the Millennials

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Religion Among the Millennials Less Religiously Active Than Older Americans, But Fairly Traditional In Other Ways By some key measures, Americans ages 18 to 29 are considerably less religious than older Americans. Fewer young adults belong to any particular faith than older people do today. They also [...]

Porsche unveils ‘green’ supercar for petrol-heads

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: [/caption] Porsche unveiled a futuristic hybrid supercar this week that it claims can hit 100km/h in just 3.2 seconds while emitting just a tiny fraction of the carbon put out by most sports cars. The 918 Spyder prototype is the German carmaker’s offering [...]

Golden Plates goes on Display

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The world’s oldest multiple-page book – in the lost Etruscan language – has gone on display in Bulgaria’s National History Museum in Sofia. It contains six bound sheets of 24 carat gold, with illustrations of a horse-rider, a mermaid, a harp and soldiers. [...]

Climategate U-turn as scientist at centre of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: Climategate U-turn as scientist at center of row admits: There has been no global warming since 1995 The academic at the centre of the ‘Climategate’ affair, whose raw data is crucial to the theory of climate change, has admitted that he has trouble ‘keeping track’ of the information. [...]

The Bankrupt PIGS of Europe – Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The Bankrupt PIGS of Europe by  [...]

The World’s Most Beautiful Garages

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Returning to Church after the Quake – Haiti

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: M E R I D I A N     M A G A Z I N E Haiti: Returning to Church after the Quake By Maurine Proctor Photography by Scot Facer [...]

Passengers left stunned after Muslim bus driver pulls over and begins praying in the aisle

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: [/caption] By Daily Mail Reporter A Muslim bus driver stunned passengers by pulling over mid-route and beginning to pray in the aisle. The driver stopped the bus without warning before removing his shoes and, using a fluorescent jacket as [...]

The Kopp-Etchells effect? Never heard of it? Check it out!

Archived; click post to view. Excerpt: The Kopp-Etchells effect [/caption] Have you heard anything about the Kopp-Etchells effect?  In fact, the Kopp-Etchells effect is a new name. Reporter and former Green Beret Michael Yon took a series of intriguing photos of glowing rotor blades as a helicopter lands in [...]