July 2010
175 posts
Aimee L. Sword Sentenced To Prison Term For Sex... →
On Monday, the Oakland County Circuit Court sentenced a Michigan woman named Aimee L. Sword a 9 to 30 years in prison for pleading guilty of having sex with her biological son. The lady pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree criminal sexual conduct in a deal with the prosecutors. She was originally charged with four counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
A Detroit-area resident,...
Belly-buttons key to success in sport →
What’s important is not whether an athlete has an innie or an outie but where his or her navel is in relation to the rest of the body, says the study published in the International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics.
The navel is the centre of gravity of the body, and given two runners or swimmers of the same height, one black and one white, “what matters is not total height...
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txtsfrmlstnght:
(352): Dude, dont worry about the lamb fetus in the fridge. (1-352): What? (352): Just dont open the beer drawer.
I’m going to murder the friend who submitted this to txtfrmlstnght - this was an insanely personal issue and might get me into trouble with law enforcement. It was a “special” lamb fetus. More to come later once experiments have been completed...
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NY TIMES: GlaxoSmithKline, maker of a major... →
abcsoupdot:
inothernews:
In the fall of 1999, the drug giant SmithKline Beecham secretly began a study to find out if its diabetes medicine, Avandia, was safer for the heart than a competing pill, Actos, made by Takeda.
Avandia’s success was crucial to SmithKline, whose labs were otherwise all but barren of new products. But the study’s results, completed that same year, were...
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“In America, we hate “elitists,” but we love rich people. What’s the difference?...”
– No More Mister Nice Blog (via clingtomymouth) (via adailyriot)
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Google App Inventor: Now Anyone Can Create an... →
Google is launching a new tool on Monday that lets anyone create an app for Android phones.
Google App Inventor claims to enable non-coders to develop complete, working Android () apps by connecting a series of “blocks”. Google () has been testing App Inventor in schools for a year, reports the NYTimes. At the time of writing, App Inventor is only available to those who apply via a form.
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Michael Jackson wanted surgeons to make pet chimp... →
MICHAEL Jackson spent thousands of dollars trying to get throat specialists to make his chimp Bubbles speak, The News of the World reported.
The singer, who died in June last year aged 50, pestered surgeons for four years for advice on how he could achieve his dream of having a conversation with his primate friend.
Of course he did. Of course. [/not surprised by anything anymore]
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Why women really do love self-obsessed psychopaths... →
starsandboulevards:
faykejayke:
I think this is a rather silly study, because the answers are obviously self-selecting. People with less emotional investment already tend to prefer greater sexual promiscuity with less emotional investment, and those interested in more intimacy already tend to prefer less promiscuity and more emotional investment. They basically took things we already knew,...
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@Technipol - Your Idea Has Become Reality →
Dubbed ‘Open Spot,’ this bloody brilliant Android (2.0 and up) application enables motorists to search for unclaimed spaces that have been reported by other Open Spot users, and once they head elsewhere, it allows them to mark their spot as open and available.
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