A receding hairline can be a good thing, according to US scientists, who say men who go bald by 30 appear to be less likely to develop prostate cancer.
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine studied 2,000 men aged between 40 and 47.
They were able to link high levels of the male hormone testosterone in those who lose their hair earlier with a lower risk of tumours.
The findings are published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology.
A zebra at Zurich Zoo appeared to be staring into the jaws of death when visitors saw it nose to nose with an open-mouthed hippopotamus.
But the hippo had no intention of having the zebra for lunch - it was having its teeth cleaned.
It may not be immediately obvious to everyone, but one family are convinced they can see the face of Jesus on the lid of a jar of Marmite.
Claire Allen, 36, said she was the first to notice the image on the underside of the lid as she was putting the yeast spread on her son's toast.
Her husband Gareth, 37, said he could not believe his eyes when he saw it.
Mr Allen, of Ystrad, Rhondda, said: "The kids are still eating it, but we kept the lid."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
A radar experiment aboard India's Chandrayaan-1 lunar spacecraft has identified thick deposits of water-ice near the Moon's north pole. "Now we can say with a fair degree of confidence that a sustainable human presence on the Moon is possible," said Dr Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston. In February, President Obama cancelled the program designed to return Americans to the Moon by 2020.
And that's the way it is.
Sad that Goatman thinks poetry sucks.
#21 | Posted by L_RContrarian at 2010-03-18 03:58 PM | Reply | Flag: will be among the 90%
Name: Eric R Pianka
E-mail: pianka@mail.utexas.edu
Title: Denton A. Cooley Centennial Professor In Zoology, D.SC
College/Department: Section of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
Office Phone: +1 512 471 7472
+1 512 471 1456
Office Location: PAT 125
PAT 119
Office Address: The University of Texas at Austin
Section of Integrative Biology, College of Natural Sciences
1 University Station C0930
Austin, TX 78712
Campus Mail Code: C0930
Fax: +1 512 471 3878
Home Address: 2401 SPEEDWAY
AUSTIN, TX 78712-1025
In early March 2006 the Texas Academy of Science (TAS) honored University of Texas biologist Eric Pianka as its 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist during its 109th Annual Meeting at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. In a March 3, 2006 lecture at this 109th Annual Meeting, Pianka argued that overpopulation since the onset of industrialisation was destroying the planet[1] and that the Earth would not survive unless its population was reduced to one tenth of the present number. He suggested that the planet would be "better off" if the human population were to crash, and that a mutant strain of Ebola (which has up to a 90% mortality rate) would be the most efficient means. After he finished his address Pianka was given a standing ovation. According to science writer Forrest Mims "some even cheered. Dozens then mobbed the professor at the lectern."[2].
In response to Pianka's speech, Mims states in the Society for Amateur Scientists Ezine The Citizen Scientist that Pianka had "endorsed the elimination of 90 percent of the human population" through a disease such as an airborne strain of the Ebola virus. This report was also covered by Shawn Carlson, also in the The Citizen Scientist,[3] and also widely propagated through blogs including William Dembski's "Uncommon Descent" and "Telic Thoughts" (another pro-intelligent design blog which has since recanted its original report[4]), Drudge Report and the Discovery Institute[5]the hub of the intelligent design movement and at which both Mims and Dembski sit as fellows.[6] Dembski has also said that he has reported Pianka to the United States Department of Homeland Security.[7]
Happy extinction!
"Intelligent design" my ass.
These morons are anything but intelligent.
It wasn't in the Journal, you stupid joke.
It's a lie, like your teaching certification.
Thanks for reminding us why Texas public schools are shit.
"A long-awaited compromise health care bill drafted by top Democrats will cost $940 billion over the next 10 years, according to a preliminary analysis released Thursday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
The bill cuts the deficit by $138 billion during that period of time, the Budget Office report said. It would further reduce the deficit by an additional $1.2 trillion in the following decade, "
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#31 | Posted by L_RContrarian at 2010-03-18 09:18 PM | Reply | Flag: doesn't know a physicist from a herpetologist
Never met him.