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- itenerantsurf voted up Drugs reveal another possible cause of aging 3 years ago
Early but intriguing research on mice suggests a new mechanism of aging, and possibly a way to stall it. Drugs designed to target one aspect of aging also seem to help repair DNA damage and... more
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- itenerantsurf voted up Zimbabweans 'can't afford school' 3 years ago
The number of children going to school regularly in Zimbabwe has fallen dramatically from 90% to 20%, a senior UN relief official says. Catherine Bragg said many teachers were not being paid... more
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- itenerantsurf voted up Kiss and get robbed 3 years ago
Prostitutes knock out their clients by smearing sedatives like chloroform on their breasts. They then encourage the unsuspecting clients to lick their breasts and in the process pass out, after...
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- itenerantsurf voted up Britain set to overtake US as world termination capital 3 years ago
Britain's termination rate is already the highest in Western Europe, and if trends continue it will bypass the U.S. within a decade as the place where the greatest proportion of births are... more
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- itenerantsurf voted up Washington state teen turns in $10,000 he found at store 3 years ago
"A 17-year-old grocery bagger was ready to wash his hands in the bathroom at the Federal Way supermarket where he works when he saw a brown canvas money bag on the floor. Moisei Baraniuc... more
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- itenerantsurf voted up Hemp could be the next biofuel feedstock 3 years ago
Farmers in the U.S could be growing hemp as a biomass crop, if a federal court rules in favor of two farmers trying to get a ban on the marijuana-related plant lifted.
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- itenerantsurf voted up 2,700-year-old marijuana stash found 3 years ago
Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China. The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly... more
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- itenerantsurf voted up British MP arrested under Official Secrets Act 3 years ago
For the first time ever a British MP has been arrested for attempting to breach the Official Secrets Act. Damian Green, a Conservative Party shadow immigration minister and MP for Ashford in South... more
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- itenerantsurf voted up Obama hands out food, visits school on South Side Chicago 3 years ago
What did you do on Thanksgiving Day? President-elect Barack Obama and his family spent an hour handing out chickens, potatoes, bread and other Thanksgiving food to poor families on... more
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- itenerantsurf voted up Indian army reclaims Mumbai hotel 3 years ago
One of the luxury hotels taken over by gunmen in Mumbai is back under the control of the authorities, India's elite commando chief says. JK Dutt said commandos had killed two militants at... more
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