Characteristics of Suspected Human Trafficking Incidents, 2007-08

This is not PR these are statistics that the Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics put out annually. The statistics are just as important as a story of Human Sex Trafficking. Be the story about a rescue or arrest...

A Visit to the Past in My Own City

This was written with a tinge of nostalgia for some of the 'forgotten' areas of Karachi. The city of my birth, where I have lived almost all my life, is a huge sprawling city. At times one can spend a lifetime...

NASA Announces Next Mars Mission

""Today, NASA announced their final selection for the Mars Scout 2013 mission: Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN. MAVEN will provide the first direct measurements ever taken to address key scientific questions about Mars's evolution by measuring characteristics of its...

The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn

Popular tales do far more than entertain, however. Psychologists and neuroscientists have recently become fascinated by the human predilection for storytelling. Why does our brain seem to be wired to enjoy stories? And how do the emotional and cognitive effects of a narrative...

Gay Men's Brain Same as Straight Women

" LONDON (Reuters) - Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain responsible for emotion, mood and anxiety, researchers said on Monday in a study...

Gay Men = Straight Women & Lesbians = Straight Men

According to a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences gay men are girly and lesbians are manly. Well, this is the case until they do further research anyways." Gay men and straight women share some characteristics in the area of the brain...

Japan to start counting crow`s feet

Before you will be able to get any cigarettes out of the vending machines in Japan, you better make sure you have plenty of wrinkles, crow`s feet, and skin sags so that the machine can tell if you are old enough...

Platypus is found to have a cocktail of genomes

The Platypus is one of nature's strangest animals. It has a bill like a duck, fur like a mammal, and venom like a snake. But scientists in Australia say they have now mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus,...

World's Strangest Creature? Part Mammal, Part Reptile

The platypus is really considered the strangest creature on the Earth........""The platypus is a very ancient offshoot of the mammal tree, so it was 166 million years ago that we last shared a common ancestor with...

Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with Wiki

Create the Perfect Presidential Candidate with WikiWhat do you want in a presidential candidate?  Does the present slate of candidates lack all of your needs as a part of the electorate?  Well create...

Computer viruses hit one million

UPDATE with how to protect your computer from viruses. Computer viruses has reached the one million mark from the first day they were born. So far, my computer has been infected by 28 of them. How's about yours?...

Bluetooth Gets Faster

Bluetooth will be speeding up by creeping into W-Fi frequency.The good: Faster transfer rates: send along that drunken self-portrait in a snap.The bad: Greater power consumption, so your battery will go flat more...

Two Largest Papers in SC Endorses Obama

Two of the Largest Papers in South Carolina Endorse Obama  "2nd Big SC Paper Endorses Obama Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Wednesday picked up the endorsement of The Greenville News,...

Psychological Profiling Gift: Season's Greetings

Tis the season for sending greetings and giving gifts.  To all of my readers, I wish you and your family a happy holiday and a prosperous new year.  And... I have a little gift for each and everyone of...

10-million-year-old ape found

This story is sure to get Christian Fundalmentalists tongues wagging.   Of course perhaps these photos from the old Red Rose Tea commercials from the 1950's and 1960's will shed some light on what...

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