The scientific reasons for Earth’s seasons

The seasons are a powerful force in our lives. They affect the activities we do, the foods we crave, the clothes we wear — and quite often, the moods we are in. The seasons officially change once again on Tuesday, with spring beginning in the Northern Hemisphere and autumn starting in the south.

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French claim to 'greatest lovers' dealt blow

France's claim to being the world's greatest lovers has been dealt a blow by a new study that finds three-quarters of couples have bad sex lives.

With Neighbors Unaware, Toxic Spill at a BP Plant

TEXAS CITY, Tex. — While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery here released huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the air that went unnoticed by residents until many saw their children come down with respiratory problems.

Obama could kill fossil fuels overnight with a nuclear dash for thorium - Telegraph

If Barack Obama were to marshal America's vast scientific and strategic resources behind a new Manhattan Project, he might reasonably hope to reinvent the global energy landscape and sketch an end to our dependence on fossil fuels within three to five years

How your office copier is spying on you in an unbelievable ways, it has a hard disk on-board that stores every page copied

Office copiers keep all documents on a harddrive which most people dont know about.

How Goldman Sachs gambled on starving the world's poor - and won

By now, you probably think your opinion of Goldman Sachs and its swarm of Wall Street allies has rock-bottomed at raw loathing. You're wrong. There's more. It turns out the most destructive of all their recent acts has barely been discussed at all. Here's the rest.

Kinky Sex: When Did BDSM Become So Wildly Popular? | Sex & Relationships | AlterNet

It's just another day at The Armory in San Francisco: A bound and naked woman is laid out on a stylish serving table. Elegantly-dressed people of both sexes gather around—enjoying the view, apparently—and take turns having their way with her.

Libraries of Flesh: The Sorry State of Human Tissue Storage | Magazine

Of all the forms of woe that take root in the human genome, the cancer called Glioblastoma multiforme is one of the most merciless. It can infiltrate the brain's white matter for months before causing any symptoms.

NUGENT: Oil spill is our fault - Washington Times

"When gas prices go up, Americans condemn big oil for making profits.

Herbal Supplements Often Have Contaminants, Study finds - NYTimes.com

Nearly all of the herbal dietary supplements tested in a Congressional investigation contained trace amounts of lead and other contaminants, and some supplement sellers made illegal claims that their products can cure cancer and other diseases, investigators found.

Seattle Area Rape Suspect Deported Nine Times

Jose Lopez Madrigal, an illegal alien was arrested last Sunday and accused of rape. Establishing the identity of Madrigal (a Mexican citizen who has some 30 aliases) was only accomplished when the police ran his fingerprints

U.S. Students Hurting in Foreign Languages | Miller-McCune Online

American public education continues to give short shrift to serious teaching of foreign languages, especially those harder tongues that promise to be prominent in the future.

Lunch-only beer policy prompts Carlsberg strike - Yahoo! News

COPENHAGEN – Scores of Carlsberg workers walked off their jobs in protest Thursday after the Danish brewer tightened laid-back rules on workplace drinking and removed beer coolers from work sites, a company spokesman said.

Love, sex and the male brain - CNN.com

Although women the world over have been doing it for centuries, we can't really blame a guy for being a guy. And this is especially true now that we know that the male and female brains have some profound differences.

Security Watch: Beware the NSA�s Geek-Spy Complex | Magazine

Early this year, the big brains at Google admitted that they had been outsmarted. Along with 33 other companies, the search giant had been the victim of a major hack — an infiltration of international computer networks that even Google couldn't do a thing about.

US Department of Justice Asked to Regulate AIPAC as a Foreign Agent of the Israeli Government - FOXBusiness.com

The US Department of Justice has been formally asked to begin regulating the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the foreign agent of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Nanotech Energy Source Discovered

Could you imagine a laptop battery that lasted for 500 hours? How about an electric car that boasts a range many times that of a gasoline vehicle? For that matter, think about environmental sensors that could be scattered into the air like dust and collect data.

Object large enough to be seen, put into a quantum state of moving and not moving

According to quantum theory, particles act as waves rather than point masses on very small scales.

To Hell in a Handbasket | CommonDreams.org

David Michael Green is a professor of political science at Hofstra University in New York. He comments on the current and future state of the United States due to its poor choices

Scientist jeopardizes career by publishing paper criticizing GM foods

"The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science" Agro-ecologist Don Lotter published a paper titled "The Genetic Engineering of Food and the Failure of Science" in the 2009 edition of the peer-reviewed International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Foo …

Finding the Achilles' heel of cancer | Eureka! Science News

A never-approved drug developed to prevent the death of nerve cells after a stroke can efficiently kill cancer cells while keeping normal cells healthy and intact, an international team led by a Tel Aviv University researcher is reporting in the journal Breast Cancer Research.

Earth's atmosphere came from outer space, find scientists | Eureka! Science News

The gases which formed the Earth's atmosphere - and probably its oceans - did not come from inside the Earth but from outer space, according to a study by University of Manchester and University of Houston scientists.

There's No Such Thing as a Simple Organism | Wired Science | Wired.com

What may be the most thorough study ever of a single organism has produced a beta code for life's essential subroutines, and shown that even the simplest creatures are more complex than scientists suspected.

Ron Paul gains mainstream steam

For Paul and his vibrant grass-roots supporters, the next item on the legislative agenda is to continue pushing the Fed audit measure all the way to the president's desk.

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