In the end

An interesting piece from the National Geographic News. Bold is my emphasis.
Sprawling Angkor Brought Down By Overpopulation, Study Suggests
Ever since the late 16th century, when Portuguese traders spied the towers of the monument poking through a dense canopy of trees, people have puzzled over the demise of the Angkor civilization. Now a […]

Male circumcision cuts AIDS risk

Male circumcision reduces the risk that men will contract HIV through intercourse with infected women by about 70 percent, according to a study reported in The Wall Street Journal.
After discovering the dramatic results, French and South African researchers halted the study about nine months in order to offer the uncircumcised men the opportunity to undergo […]

Very expensive fuild!

So what’s more expensive than oil? Well, lots apparently, and at the top of this list is.. HP printer ink.

- via Gizmodo.

Put away the bow and arrows

Citizens of York are being asked to sign a treaty promising never to shoot Scots with a bow and arrow. Under an ancient by-law, which has never been repealed, York people can “legally” shoot Scotsmen with a bow and arrow within the city walls.
York’s peace offer to Scots

“How are ya?”

When you bump into your neighbor on your way out and say, “How are ya?”you’re engaging in phatic communion. The idea is not to inquire yourneighbor’s state of affairs but simply to create a feeling of sharedgoodwill.  Later, at work, when you discuss weather with someone atthe water cooler, it’s the same idea.
Learned something new […]

Humpback Whales

I find this really interesting.
Scientists have new evidence that humpback whales don’t just sing–they sing grammatically, combining sounds into phrases, and phrases into songs, according to complex rules called a “hierarchical syntax.” It’s similar to our ability to combine words into clauses and clauses into sentences.
The study, which squares with research dating back to 1971, […]

No Longer Ticking After 250 Years

This is pretty amazing..

A giant aldabra tortoise thought to be around 250 years old has died in the Kolkata zoo of liver failure, Indian authorities said on Thursday.
The tortoise had been the pet of Robert Clive, the famous British military officer in colonial India around the middle of the 18th century, a local minister in […]

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