admin | March 9, 2010
Dogs understand the meaning of different growls, from a rumble that says “back off” to playful snarls made in a tug-of-war game. via Grrr… whats Step away from the bone in dog? – life – 08 March 2010 – New Scientist. No sh*t, Sherlock!
admin | March 8, 2010
According to a story on the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8550506.stm), the number of men applying for teacher training has risen sharply because of the recession, says the body responsible for training teachers. There was a 52% rise in the number of men wanting to be primary school teachers – more than 4,700 in 2009/10, up about 1,500 [...]
admin | March 5, 2010
“The emerging field of ‘nutrigenomics’ looks at how food interacts with genes. It has long been known that people react to certain nutrients differently according to their genetic makeup. Lactose intolerance, for example, is more common among Asians and Africans than of people of North European descent.” The story is at BBC News – DNA test [...]
admin | March 4, 2010
“Publishers should have more balls, they should have more confidence about what they’re doing,” is how Rob Grimshaw, managing director of FT.com put it. “If they put their mind to it then they can produce compelling products online which people will pay for.” via BBC – dot.Rory: FT to papers: Readers will pay for quality [...]
admin | March 4, 2010
“In the UK, to be married to more than one person at a time is illegal. But the Zulu ethnic group, of which Mr Zuma is part, practises polygamy by tradition.” Raed more @ BBC News – How do Zulus explain polygamy?. I would respectively put foward that the imposition of one’s values on those [...]
admin | March 3, 2010
The Australian federal government has identified a remote cattle station north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory as a likely site to build Australia’s first nuclear waste dump. The identified site is on tribal land and is causing contreversy within the community. The government assures the community that the nuclear dump would not be built [...]
admin | March 3, 2010
A US couple has spent the first night of married life in separate prison cells after the bride attacked the grooms former lover after the wedding. via BBC News – Newly-weds spend honeymoon night in prison. Fills you with confidence that this is a marriage made in heaven, don’t it? Obviously birds of a feather [...]
admin | March 1, 2010
A new Zimbabwean law that forces foreign-owned companies to sell a majority stake in their businesses to indigenous people has come into effect. read more BBC News – Zimbabwe forces foreign firms to give up majority stake. One has to wonder how many ‘indigenous people’ after the years of hyper inflation will have the resources to [...]
