Wonder why the world is so dangerous for women Give me a child and I will give you the man Incidents of violence against women on mainstream US television has increased by 120% in the past five years, with the depiction of teen girls as vict

The armed forces are said to have carried out "war games" in which nuclear missiles were fired and troops practiced an amphibious landing on the country's coast One day this will become real As Europe increasingly demilitarizes itself it be

Amalgam dental fillings – which contain the highly toxic metal mercury – pose a health risk, the Food and Drug Administration declared After years of insisting the fillings are safe, the US government's Food and Drug Administration FDA has is

XKCD is a wonderful online comic which is creative, entertaining, and challenging In this case he has made a timeline of the characters in selected movies and how they interact I never knew such a system existed before I feel inspired to make one

A MONSTER predator lurking off the Queensland coast is so big it was nearly able to bite this 3m white pointer shark in half The massive chunks were probably taken out by a giant white pointer that could easily be more than 5m long, based on the

If you can pronounce correctly every word in this poem, you will be speaking English better than 90% of the native English speakers in the world After trying the verses, a Frenchman said he'd prefer six months of hard labour to reading six lines

The European Research project aims to get a better understanding of the critical conditions that give rise to explosions in fireworks in transport and storage To better understand the process they decide to blow stuff up Lots of stuff In

A VW Tuareg is stopped on a small road due to construction works Behind it stops a Tesla Nobody was seriously hurt Proving truth is indeed stranger than fiction, this actually happened in Denmark on October 9th It is likely the only accid

Top security sources have said offices of private TV channels, the National Press Club in Islamabad, other press clubs across the country and offices of the print media are likely to be the next target of terrorists Looks like the media are in t

A senior serving soldier reveals how the Afghan policemen in Helmand are often a danger to the British forces they work with We went out to Helmand to mentor the Afghan National Police without understanding the level they were at We thought we w

Scientists are now seeing signals that the Sahara desert and surrounding regions are greening due to increasing rainfall If sustained, these rains could revitalize drought-ravaged regions, reclaiming them for farming communities My thought is i

A Swedish tank is hit with a RBS 57 BILL Anti-Tank missile The secondary explosions are spectacular This was during a demonstration movie The Tank was empty The missile's shaped charge warhead shoots a high speed rod of molten metal through

The body of Russian Pilot Sergeant Lazarev was recently found preserved in a bog, still in his crashed Hurricane fighter February, 21st, 1943 From the Soviet military air base in Chupa two P-40 fighters and five Hurricanes took flight in an ope

The Russian navy has declassified its records of encounters with unidentified objects technologically surpassing anything humanity ever built, reports Svobodnaya Pressa news website I wonder just how many were alien encounters and how many were

Download the latest October 2009 issue of Popular Mechanics, apparently it no longer for sale off the shelf If the link no longer works I have a copy I can post as well http://omploaderorg/vMmo0cA/Popular%20Mechanics%202009-10pdf Fro

Google unveiled a revolutionary GPS guidance unit for smart phones running Google's Android operating system Its super advanced, and best of all its free How can other GPS sectors compete I want one This led to the pummeling of GPS makers Ga