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Secret Sex Lives of Female Chimps

chimpsFemale chimpanzees desire to have sex with as many males as possible. They keep their mouths shut about it, to increases their chances of luring the top chimps. Scientists at the University of St Andrews explored what the copulation calls of female chimpanzees mean. They have concluded that female chimps sometimes keep quiet during sex to prevent other females from intruding, so other female rivals don’t know what they’ve been up to.

Female Chimps produce more copulation calls when high-ranking males were around to attract them. By having sex with more males causes confusion among the male chimpanzees as to which one sired the offspring. Therefore, the males are less likely to kill any babies that might be theirs.

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US Man Had A Baby Girl

pregnant manA man who was born female has given a birth to a girl. He underwent gender reassignment; had breasts removed; taken male hormones to get facial hair; but has kept female reproductive organs to carry a baby. His name is Thomas Beatie 34, he and his daughter are reported to be doing well in a hospital in Bend, Oregon.

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Multiple Personality When You Speak Different Language

bicultureAccording to a research study published in the in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who are bi-cultural and speak two different languages can shift their personalities when they switch one language to another. In the study researchers  found significant changes in one’s self perception called “frame-shifting”  in bi-cultural participants who speak Spanish and English. Bi-cultural people switch frames more quickly and easily than those who are bilingual monoculturals. In the research women who came from Spanish background  perceived themselves as more assertive when they spoke Spanish than when they spoke English.

In one of the studies,  participants saw the ads in one language and in six months later, they saw the same ads in the other language. The participants  saw an ad’s main character as a risk-taking, independent woman in the Spanish version and  hopeless, lonely, confused woman in the English version.

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Seals’ Navigation aid: Stars

SealSeals can orient themselves and navigate to some degree using the stars as a guide,according to a research by University of Southern Denmark. Researchers have discovered that seals have the ability to recognize stars and groups of stars inside a modified planetarium. Humans used star navigation for centuries when sailing across the vast oceans. Bees use earth’s magnetic filed to navigate by.

Happy Canada Day !!

canadian flgCanada Day is a Canada’s national holiday established by statute in 1879, under the name Dominion Day. Canadians celebrate this holiday on July 1 annually.

A royal proclamation was signed by the Governor General, Lord Monck on June 20, 1868, to join Canadians to celebrate the anniversary of the confederation.

Wish all Canadians a very Happy Canada Day !!

What Was Popular last month?

One of the drawbacks of delivering information in blogging format is earlier posts get buried deeper with time. I thought it would be useful to bring the most viewed news to the top one more time each month. Here is a recap of the most popular pieces from June.

  1. Turn Off the Play Station.
  2. Women think about Shopping as Men think about Sex.
  3. Gandhi’s 10 principles to change the world.
  4. Tornadoes on the sun.
  5. Christian dior launches cell-phone.
  6. Laptop for developing world by dell.
  7. Driver break point 450 per gallon.
  8. How-to.
  9. Toyota Yaris green car of the year.
  10. Other species can learn foreign language.
  11. Nazi Dr.death still alive.
  12. Facebook rejected google.
  13. Hillary ready for vp.
  14. Breaking the brains code.

Factors Related to Homosexuality

homosexualityHomosexuality is mostly influenced by both genetics and environmental factors. According to researchers from Queen Mary’s School and Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, genetics and environmental factors which are specific to an individual (biological processes such as different hormone exposure in the womb) are the important determinants of homosexuality. Finding a single ‘gay gene’/ gene for heterosexual behaviour is influenced by a mixture of genetic and environmental factors, therefore it is very complicated.

The overall study proved that genetics accounted for around 35% of the differences between men in homosexual behaviour and other individual-specific environmental factors are accounted for 64%.

One in Four Canadians don’t believe in God.

Almighty GodA new Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey reveals ,fewer than three-quarters of Canadians believe in a god. 72 per cent of poll participants said they believed in a god, while 23 per cent said they did not believe in any god. Compared to men(67 percent) more women(76 percent) believe in God. Also Canadians over the age of 50 (82 per cent) were far more likely than those under the age of 25 (60 per cent) to say they believed in a god. Belief in a god is higher in rural Canada (76 per cent) than in urban Canada (69 per cent). In one Harris Interactive study in the United States, conducted in 2007, the number who said they were non-believers was only eight per cent which is three times lower than Canada.

US Life Expectancy Reaches 78.

US FlagUS life expectancy has surpassed 78 years for the first time. But there are 30 other countries that have higher estimated life span than US. Japan is No. 1 on the list, with a life expectancy of 83. U.S. life expectancy has been steadily rising, usually by about two to three months from year to year. White women continue to have the highest life expectancy (81 years), followed by black women (about 77 years), white men (76) and black men (70). Swaziland has the lowest life expectancy with 32.63 years.

Magic Of Hearing Silent Objects

blindfoldA new study suggests that people can hear objects based on reflected and ambient sound. This study further explains how blind individuals are able to find doorways and objects without seeing or touching them. It may help to understand the echolocation, the technique used by animals, like bats.

In this research participants were blindfolded and transported around a basic campus classroom consisting of a linoleum floor, sheet rock walls, a tile ceiling, two white boards and large windows covered with plastic blinds. These participants were able use the sound of their own voices to determine what part of the room they were in. They were always accurate.