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

Is there anything you can believe from Fox news When they reported the anti Health Care protests in Washington they switched the footage of low numbers of people protesting with footage from September of larger numbers of protesters Its easy to

Camera technology has finally reached a watershed moment, a $500 Canon produces prints indistinguishable by most people from a $40,000 Hasselblad Talent is now the defining attribute, not money spent In fact it was the H2 system's narrower d

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

The laconic Captan Slow, James May, from Top Gear was once fired from Autocar when he inserted a secret message in the text of an article Funny In an interview with Richard Allinson on BBC Radio 2,[ May confessed that he was fired in 1992 from

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

So this elk thinks its alone and has a really good time splashing in a puddle Animals have fun when no one is watching [flash=640x505]http://wwwyoutubecom/v/rgNR-9dLclE&hl=en_US&fs=1&[/flash]

Two Cambridge mates say they may turn their unusual method of trimming hedges into a business, after they suspended a ride-on mower from a crane to do the job [quote]This is how the Waikato boys mow a hedge," the ride-on mower operator told the

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

For years now we have heard about the radicalization of Muslims and the move to believing in a violent Islam Well this great article looks at some who have realized that this is wrong, and have renounced the violent belief structures as being

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 real history of Spartacus, an excellent video series on the times and the slave revolt Spartacus c 109 BCE-71 BCE, according to Roman historians, was a slave and a gladiator who became a leader or possibly one of several leaders in the m

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