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The most typical face on the planet
National Geographic Magazine released a video clip, below, showing the most “typical” human face on the planet as part of its series on the human race called “Population 7 billion.”
The researchers conclude that a male, 28-year-old Han Chinese man is the most typical person on the planet. There are 9 million of them.
The image above is a composite of nearly 200,000 photos of...
Hesperia Teen May Have Run Away to Avoid Arranged Marriage in Pakistan
Police raided the Benders’ home Tuesday night.
Jessie Bender flyers were still displayed in Hesperia Wednesday night, hours after San Bernardino County Sheriff’s confirmed they found the 13-year-old girl safe in an Apple Valley hotel, missing for eight days.
Authorities believe she was trying to dodge an arranged marriage in her stepfather’s homeland of Pakistan, contrary to her...
U.S. State Department: Israel is not a tolerant society
Report claims Israel discriminates against Muslims, Reform Jews, Christians, women and Bedouin.
Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.
Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of all holy sites, Israel falls short in tolerance toward minorities, equal treatment of ethnic groups, openness toward various...
Experiment: Microwaved Water Kills Plants
It is time to come with a follow up story to further prove that the Microwave oven is seriously dangerous to people and not only.
It is claimed by Microwave oven producers and even scientists that the Microwave oven is not only ok to use but it is actually even recommended. Some go as far as claiming that it makes the food more healthy.
Cancerhelp.co.uk says for example that “microwaving can...
Majority of Americans believe US government encourages illegal immigration
Americans believe U.S. Government helps illegal immigration instead of curbing it.
According to a Rasmussen Reports survey, 57% of likely voters think that government policies spur illegal immigration. 21% believe the federal government does not encourage illegal immigration, and 22% are not certain either way. The poll was conducted February 2-3 and included 1,000 likely voters and has a +/- 3 % margin...
HPV Affects Half Of U.S. Men
A study out yesterday in The Lancet by Moffitt Cancer Center researcher Anna Giuliano, Ph.D., and her colleagues finds that 50 percent of men ages 18 to 70 in Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. have genital infection with human papillomavirus, or HPV. HPV is the virus that causes cervical cancer in women. It also causes warts and cancer of the genitals and anus in both men and women. Over the past several...
New Zealand death toll climbs to 147
Joanne Fagan-Oslawskyj weeps as she attends a church service at St. Barnabas with her son eight-year-old Jamie in Christchurch, New Zealand, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2011.
Parishioners came together Sunday in parks and on the lawns of churches broken in New Zealand’s earthquake to pray for the dead and missing. They sought togetherness and an answer to the question on everyone’s mind: Why?
“The...
Singer Shakira: Latinos in US will have 'justice'
Shakira, Colombian born Grammy-winning singer and songwriter, holds the plaque naming her the Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year, which was presented to her by Harvard Foundation Director Allen Counter, left, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass.
Colombian singer Shakira was honored Saturday by Harvard University for her artistic and humanitarian work. She later said some U.S. states’...
Ten Reasons to Throw out your Microwave Oven
From the conclusions of the Swiss, Russian and German scientific clinical studies, we can no longer ignore the microwave oven sitting in our kitchens. Based on this research, we will conclude this article with the following:
1. Continually eating food processed from a microwave oven causes long term – permanent – brain damage by “shorting out” electrical impulses in the brain...
US Earthquake Weapon Test Fails Again, Destroys New Zealand City
A grim report prepared for Prime Minister Putin by Russian Space Forces Command (VKS) states that the catastrophic 6.3 magnitude earthquake that destroyed New Zealand’s second largest city of Christchurch on 22 February was another “failed test” of a United States “earthquake weapon” similar to the one that destroyed the Caribbean island nation of Haiti last January (2010) killing over 500,000...
New Zealand earthquake strikes Christchurch, killing at least 65 people
Earthquake topples Christchurch Cathedral's spire, one of many collapsed buildings across New Zealand's second largest city.
Country’s second largest city hit by 6.3-magnitude quake on busy weekday afternoon, its second major quake in five months.
At least 65 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck the southern New Zealand city of Christchurch, collapsing buildings, burying...
Scientist finds Gulf bottom still oily, dead
This Dec. 1, 2010 photo provided by the University of Georgia, made from the submarine Alvin, shows a dead crab with oil residue near it on a still-damaged sea floor about 10 miles north of the BP oil rig accident.
Oil from the BP spill remains stuck on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, according to a top scientist’s video and slides that she says demonstrate the oil isn’t degrading as...
Diet soda linked to heart attacks, strokes
Chugging a Diet Coke or two every day could cause you to have a heart attack, stroke, or other major heart event, suggests new research recently presented at the American Stroke Association’s International Stroke Conference in Los Angeles. A team from the University of Miami (UM) Miller School of Medicine found that people who regularly drink diet sodas are 61 percent more likely than others to...
30,000 pupils branded as bigots in Britain
Penalised: Primary school pupils are being labelled as bigots over minor squabbles in the playground and so-called hate crimes involving words including 'gaylord' and 'white trash'.
More than 10,000 primary school pupils in a single year have been labelled racist or homophobic over minor squabbles.
Even toddlers in nursery classes are being penalised for so-called hate crimes such as...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs diagnosed with Cancer, has just 6 weeks to live
Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs has terminal pancreatic cancer and may live for just six more weeks, a media report said Thursday.
The 55-year-old Jobs in January announced that at his request, the board of directors granted him a medical leave of absence so that he could focus on his health.
Since then, employees have said Jobs can still be seen at the company’s headquarters in California...