A study published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association says that smokers with greater amounts of Vitamin B6 may be less likely to develop lung cancer. The findings are preliminary, but have caused a lot of excitement. Behind the promising health news is a great question: Why are vitamins named with various letters and numbers? Does the letter match the name of [...]
June 16, 2010
CALGARY — It had all the makings of a perfect crime. The culprits hid their valuables, from jewelry to electronics, smashed windows and even made faux bad-guy footprints before calling police. Unfortunately, for those who hoped to foil authorities, Const. Charanjit Meharu was among those to arrive at the alleged break-and-enter scene. When the purported [...]
June 14, 2010
It’s not uncommon to view movie stars, basketball players, and models as fashion icons, especially considering that they can easily afford to look their very best. It is, however, quite unusual to bestow the title of ‘fashion icon’ to an authority figure, let alone the world’s most brutal and nonconformist dictator. Yet according to the [...]
May 23, 2010
A Chinese college professor has been jailed for running a sex club, whose members were the first to be convicted of “group licentiousness” in 20 years, media reported on Friday. Ma Yaohai, a 53-year-old computer science professor, was jailed for three and a half years after pleading not guilty to holding orgies and said he [...]
May 12, 2010
The dictionary definition of the word “siphon” has been wrong for nearly a century — even in the ever-authoritative Oxford English Dictionary. Physicist Stephen Hughes of the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia, spotted the mistake while writing an article on the physics of siphoning, reports the Science Blog of British newspaper The Guardian. Australian website news.com.au quotes Hughes: [...]
April 21, 2010
Paul Hutton, 40, was pulled over by police as he drove an electric Barbie car, which moves slower than a mobility scooter, near his home in Essex. Mr Hutton, who has four children, admitted being a ‘complete twit’. Speaking after the hearing at Colchester magistrates court, he said: “You have to be a contortionist to [...]
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