Scientists Prove Which Came First — The Chicken or the Egg

Which came first – the chicken or the egg?

One of the most puzzling and famous life questions has stumped people for generations. It’s the question of which came first: the chicken or the egg? In order for there to be an egg, a chicken would have had to lay it. In order for there to be a chicken, it would have had to hatch from an egg. It seems as though either answer could be the correct answer; until now

Mullets and Spikes Banned In Iran

Ponytails are out but side-partings and Elvis quiffs are in. Not the latest fashion 

advice from a celebrity magazine, but a list of acceptable male hairstyles issued by 

the Iranian government.

Iran does not want decadent Western hair styles to corrupt their wholesome culture.

Photo of the Only Atomic Bomb Ever Detonated in Space

Exploding nuke in space.

Since we’re coming up on the Fourth of July, and towns everywhere are preparing their better-than-ever fireworks spectaculars, we would like to offer this humbling bit of history. Back in the summer of 1962, the U.S. blew up a hydrogen bomb in outer space, some 250 miles above the Pacific Ocean. It was a weapons test, but one that created a man-made light show that has never been equaled — and hopefully never will.

How Women Are About To Change the World

Now that women dominate the US workforce, will they become our new robot overlords? Nope. According to current labor statistics, they’ll be the new working class. Here are three ways a female working class could change the world.

 

Women now dominate the U.S. workforce.

The Girl Who Must Eat Every 15 Minutes To Stay Alive

An American girl, who suffers from a rare and undiagnosed syndrome that prevents her from putting on weight, has to eat every 15 minutes in order to stay alive.

Lizzie Velasquez, 21, from Austin, Texas, who is a communications student, weighs just four stone and has almost zero percent body fat, but she is not anorexic.

How Much Are Your Body Organs Worth?

How much are my organs worth? A lot, but is it worth the risk? Each year in the U.S roughly 7000 people die waiting for an organ transplant. This may be reason enough for those in need of a transplant to try and purchase one elsewhere. Perhaps unsurprisingly, organ trafficking is on the rise. Here are some facts and figures surrounding this bloody trade…

What’s the Difference Between Viruses, Trojans, Worms, and Other Malware?

How much do you really know about viruses, spyware, scareware, trojans, and worms? Here’s a helpful guide to understanding all the different types of malware.
The point of today’s lesson, of course, is to help you teach your friends and family more about the different types of malware, and debunk a few of the common myths about viruses. Who knows, maybe you’ll learn a thing or two as well…

World’s Oldest Leather Shoe Found

Three years ago, a 3,000-year old shoe was found. It was then thought to be the oldest ever found. Now archaeologists have found one about 5,500-years old in a cave in Armenia:

Is The Sun About To Destroy Every Single Piece Of Electronics You Own?

Is The Sun About To Change Our Lives Again?

We, and by “we” I mean all life on Planet Earth, owe our very existence to the Sun. It’s nothing more than a typical star, really, but without it, this planet would be as barren as the day is long. (CG: Your home for old-timey phrases.) With that in mind, here’s what could become a pretty important story as we move forward…

Spacecraft To Test Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity

Does E really equal mc squared?

In what is billed to be the largest scientific instrument ever built, scientists plan to use three spacecraft flying three million miles apart to fire laser beams at each other across the emptiness of space in a bid to finally prove whether a theory proposed by Albert Einstein is correct.

Is Yawning Uncontrollable and Contagious?

Several years ago, I took a remarkable psychology class from a professor whose interest in the field seemed to be motivated, at least in part, by a desire to unearth new tricks for beguiling the opposite sex. Ethical implications aside, his lectures were generously garnished with anecdotes that held his wide-eyed freshmen audience in rapt attention. Among the tips he shared was a psychologically based method for casually gauging just who might be checking you out in a crowded place: yawning. The theory goes that if you yawn, anyone who’s surreptitiously watching you won’t be able to resist yawning too, giving themselves away (and marking them as a susceptible target for wooing).

11 Cellphones that Emit the Highest Radiation Levels

Do cellphones cause brain cancer, dementia or have other side effects? Though there have been numerous studies on this, the verdict remains unclear. For, some studies reveal long-term side effects of cellphone usage, others term them as mere hype
However, it is largely certain that cellphones do emit radiation. In fact, some analysts are now of the view that all cellphones should compulsorily display their radiation levels. US-based environmental group EWG recently published a list of phones with high levels of RF radiation. The list, which appeared on CNET, includes some of the most popular smartphone models from companies like LG, Motorola, Blackberry and Samsung.

Extraordinary Scans Reveal What Being Fat Does to Your Body

Carrying extra pounds may not look attractive from the outside, but it’s been difficult to understand precisely the havoc it wreaks on your insides – until now.  Here, in a pair of astonishing pictures, we can see exactly what being overweight does to the organs, bones and muscles. These images of two women were taken by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRIRI) scanner and reveal in horrifying detail the obesity effect.

Earthquake in Tibet – Amazing Photo Gallery

On April 14th, residents of China’s remote Yushu County, located on the Tibetan plateau, were awoken by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake. In the sparsely populated villages and the larger town of Gyegu, thousands of wood-earth buildings collapsed and many larger structured heavily damaged or destroyed. The region is difficult to reach for the response teams of the Chinese government outside aid groups – lying at an elevation of 3,700m (12,000 ft) and connected by few roads, most of which were damaged in the quake. Chinese state media now says the death toll has risen to 1,144. Rescuers continue to search for survivors as homeless residents work to recover what they can and set up shelter from the freezing overnight temperatures.

Women Can Be ‘Blinded’ By Jealousy

The study found that women who were made to feel jealous were so distracted by unpleasant emotional images they became unable to spot targets they were trying to find.  The researchers suggest that their results reveal something profound about social relationships and perception.

300,000 iPads Sold on Opening Day

Apple today said it sold more iPads on Saturday than it sold first-generation iPhones in 2007 over a two-day period, including one to the deranged idiot in this video.
The 300,000 number that Apple touted included deliveries of pre-ordered iPads, sales at Apple’s retail stores and shipments to its partners, the company said. The only other retail outlet selling iPads on Saturday was Best Buy.

The World’s Top 10 Most Expensive Foods

If you’re looking to expand your horizons into the world of excess culinary expense, then you could do worse than starting with a few items on this list of the most outlandish, outrageous and, above all, the most expensive foods in the world.

New Human Species Discovered

An international team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig has sequenced ancient mitochondrial DNA from a finger bone of a female found in southern Siberia. She comes from a previously unknown human species, which lived about 48,000 to 30,000 years ago in the Altai Mountains in Central Asia.

Pulling Power Points the Way to World’s Strongest Insect — A Dung Beetle

Following months of gruelling tests and trials, scientists now reveal the World’s strongest insect to be a species of dung beetle called Onthophagus taurus.

Scientists Try to Unravel the Secrets Behind Nightmares

Losing a loved one, being chased by a monster or running hopelessly late for a vital appointment – it’s all the stuff of nightmares.  And for some of us, it’s a show of horrors that unfolds most times we go to sleep.  Others claim never to be troubled by dreams of any sort.