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University of Maryland welcomes porn, denounces prayer
Written on 16 Apr, 2009 at 12:07 in Featured, Really? | viewed 273 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Last week, the student Senate of the University of Maryland voted to eliminate prayer from the school’s commencement ceremony. This controversy comes after the school was involved in another controversy; defying the Maryland State Senate by showing a hard-core pornography film outside of an academic class. Full Story : Examiner.com……..
De-Baptism Gains a Following in Britain
Written on 16 Apr, 2009 at 10:08 in Featured, Really? | viewed 162 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
More than 100,000 former Christians have downloaded “certificates of de-baptism” in a bid to publicly renounce the faith, according to the London-based National Secular Society (NSS). Terry Sanderson, the society’s president, says the group started the online de-baptism initiative five years ago to mock the practice of baptizing infants too young to consent to religious rites. Full Story : Time.com…..
Air Conditioned Coffins All the Rage in Serbia
Written on 10 Apr, 2009 at 17:10 in Featured, Really? | viewed 255 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Coffins with an in-built air-conditioning system that claims to keep bodies “fresh” are being snapped up in Serbia. The manufacturer says it is designed to keep bodies “fresh” prior to burial in hot summer months, but Serbians are snapping them up at £4,500 a pop “up in hopes they will have a more comfortable afterlife.” Full Story : Treehugger.com…
Video: radicals beat girl, 17, in Islamic stronghold of Swat, Pakistan
Written on 3 Apr, 2009 at 10:32 in Featured, Really? | viewed 596 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
This grainy footage appears to show a 17-year-old girl being beaten by Islamic radicals in Pakistan’s northwestern region of Swat, where Sharia law was introduced after the government reached a truce with the Taleban in February. Full Story : Timesonline..
Facebook is not for real friends
Written on 31 Mar, 2009 at 13:07 in Featured, Really? | viewed 762 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Social networking sites such as Facebook are not about a person’s actual friends, but a lot of weak-tie relationships that give people access to a lot of resources that they wouldn’t otherwise have, says a US researcher. According to the researcher compulsive Facebook use may be a result of the fact that there’s always something new on the social networking site. Full Story : UPI.com
UFOs Spotted in Google Street View of London Building
Written on 31 Mar, 2009 at 11:11 in Featured, Really? | viewed 598 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A FLEET of UFOs information has been photographed — on Google. The nine silver spheres hover above a row of shops, including a Coral bookies, on the internet giant’s new Street View service. The image is still available in Google street view.
(Continue reading)1 Mind Ministries members charged in death of boy
Written on 30 Mar, 2009 at 23:22 in Featured, Really? | viewed 686 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A former religious cult member pleaded guilty Monday to starving her 1-year-old son to death. One Mind ministry members denied a 16-month-old boy food and water because he did not say “Amen” at mealtimes. After he died, they prayed over his body for days, expecting a resurrection. All four are charged with first-degree murder in the death. Full Story : Religionnewsblog.com…
Obama’s Gift to British PM Ruined by DVD Zone Restrictions
Written on 25 Mar, 2009 at 12:17 in Featured, Really? | viewed 306 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister, paid President Obama a visit, and as a gracious gesture, President Obama gave him a gift set of 25 classic American movies, including the timeless thriller “Psycho.” Arriving back home, PM Brown settled in to watch “Psycho” only to receive a far greater horror than the movie itself could bring — none of his DVDs would play, due to zone restrictions. DVD region codes are a DRM scheme. DVD video discs may be encoded with a region code restricting the area of the world in which they can be played. The commercial DVD player specification requires that a player to be sold in a given place not play discs encoded for a different region. Full Story : DailyTech.com…..
(Continue reading)Quiet Muslim-Only Town in New York
Written on 24 Mar, 2009 at 13:20 in Featured, Really? | viewed 388 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Islamberg is a hamlet in the town of Hancock in Delaware County, New York, United States, within the region of the Catskills. community founded by Imam Al Sheik Mubarik Ali Shah Jilani Hashimi, it is a branch of Muslims of the Americas Inc., a tax-exempt organization formed in 1980 by Pakistani Sufi cleric Sheikh Mubarak Ali Gilani. The hamlet was founded in the late 1980s, when — inspired by the words of the Sufi cleric — a group of primarily black Muslims from Brooklyn left New York City.
Women talk three times as much as men, says study
Written on 24 Mar, 2009 at 12:15 in Featured, Really? | viewed 394 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
Women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man. Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat - and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices, a new book suggests. The study also says that men chat less than their female counterparts and struggle to express their emotions to the same extent. Full Story : Guardian.co.uk……..
Smart People Really Do Think Faster
Written on 24 Mar, 2009 at 12:10 in Featured, Really? | viewed 407 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The smarter the person, the faster information zips around the brain, a UCLA study finds. And this ability to think quickly apparently is inherited. The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, looked at the brains and intelligence of 92 people. All the participants took standard IQ tests. Then the researchers studied their brains using a technique called diffusion tensor imaging, or DTI. Full Story : npr.org
(Continue reading)British Ministry of Defence briefed on UFO sighting
Written on 22 Mar, 2009 at 13:20 in Featured, Really? | viewed 236 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
BRITAIN’S defence ministry was so alarmed by reports of a UFO sighting nearly 20 years ago, it took the unusual step of briefing ministers, according to secret files released today. The MoD was handed negatives of photographs - showing a large diamond-shaped object hanging in mid-air for around 10 minutes before ascending upwards at high speed - taken on August 4, 1990, by two members of the public. Full Story : News.com.au……
In 2007 U.S. had most new babies in history
Written on 20 Mar, 2009 at 11:15 in Featured, Really? | viewed 252 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
More U.S. babies entered the world in 2007 than any other year in the nation’s history, even surpassing the number of deliveries during the height of the baby boom that followed World War II, according to federal data released Wednesday. Full Story : MSN.com
(Continue reading)Happiness is contagious, research finds
Written on 19 Mar, 2009 at 11:58 in Featured, Really? | viewed 371 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A study of the relationships of nearly 5,000 people tracked for decades in the Framingham Heart Study shows that good cheer spreads through social networks of nearby family, friends and neighbors. Knowing someone who is happy makes you 15.3% more likely to be happy yourself, the study found. A happy friend of a friend increases your odds of happiness by 9.8%, and even your neighbor’s sister’s friend can give you a 5.6% boost. The research is part of a growing trend to measure well-being as a crucial component of public health. Full Story : LAtimes.com…..
Pope claims condoms could make African Aids crisis worse
Written on 19 Mar, 2009 at 9:44 in Featured, Really? | viewed 217 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
As the world leader of the Catholic Church gets ready to make his first trip to Africa, Pope Benedict XVI has said something that the only end result is going to be the needless death of many, many people. Speaking about HIV/AIDS, Pope Benedict XVI said “AIDS is a tragedy that cannot be overcome by money alone, and that cannot be overcome through the distribution of condoms, which even aggravates the problems.” The timing of his remarks outraged health agencies trying to halt the spread of HIV and Aids in sub-Saharan Africa, where an estimated 22 million people are infected.
The World’s Languages are rapidly disappearing
Written on 18 Mar, 2009 at 11:04 in Featured, Really? | viewed 248 views times and users have made 1 comment so far
Around a quarter of the world’s population speaks just three languages: Mandarin, English and Spanish. But out of the 6,700 of the world’s identified languages, nearly 2,500 are deemed at risk according to UNESCO, the UN’s cultural body. Full Story : Economist.com
Religious people less anxious, brain activity shows
Written on 18 Mar, 2009 at 8:49 in Featured, Really? | viewed 189 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
If the deeply devout seem less self-doubting than others, perhaps it’s because religion helps them shrug off mistakes. So say researchers who found religious people exhibit lower activity than non-believers in a brain region linked to anxiety when erring on a simple test. Full Story : Newscientist.com
New Zealand judge allows papers served via Facebook
Written on 16 Mar, 2009 at 12:50 in Featured, Really? | viewed 208 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
New Zealand High Court Associate Justice David Glendall approved the delivery of court papers via Facebook to a man being sued over business dealings. This is believed to be the first time Facebook had been used by New Zealand in this way. Full Story : TGdaily
European Parliament ban ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’
Written on 16 Mar, 2009 at 12:25 in Featured, Really? | viewed 278 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
The European Parliament has banned the terms ‘Miss’ and ‘Mrs’ in case they offend female MEPs. Officials have also ordered that ’sportsmen’ be called ‘athletes’, ’statesmen’ be referred to as ‘political leaders’ and even that ’synthetic’ or ‘artificial’ be used instead of ‘man-made’. Full Story : Telegraph.co.uk
High IQ Linked To Reduced Risk Of Death
Written on 13 Mar, 2009 at 9:45 in Featured, Really? | viewed 371 views times and users have made 0 comments so far
A study of one million Swedish men has revealed a strong link between cognitive ability and the risk of death. The study found that a lower IQ was strongly associated with a higher risk of death from causes such as accidents, coronary heart disease and suicide. The researchers say the link between IQ and mortality could be partially attributed to the healthier behaviours displayed by those who score higher on IQ tests. Full Story : Sciencedaily.com
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