Archive for the 'Science' Category
One of the best links I came across this month: mailinator.com
Have you ever gone to a website that asks for your email address? (haven’t we all). You know that the moment you type it in, it is streaming across the net on its way to every spam database in the world. You simply can’t be […]
Chicken-Egg Question Cracked! Finally, an answer!
10 Comments Published by Pixelfreak May 26th, 2006.Which came first, the chicken or the egg? According to a scientist, a philosopher and a chicken farmer, it was the egg! Since genetic material does not change throughout an animal’s life, the first bird that evolved into a chicken must have initially existed as an embryo inside an egg.
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How much sleep do we really need? the 8 hour myth
16 Comments Published by Pixelfreak May 25th, 2006.The eight-hours mantra has no more scientific basis than the tooth fairy, says Neil Stanley, head of sleep research at the Human Psychopharmacology Research Unit at the University of Surrey in Britain. He believes that everyone has their own individual sleep need which can be anywhere between three and 11 hours.
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You can help research diseases by simply running a piece of software on your computer!
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