Merrell Barefoot Running Shoes Inspired by a love of running and the outdoors, Merrell shoes joins the minimalist running shoe craze. In collaboration with Vibram, the world leader in advanced sole design, Merrell launches the Merrell Barefoot Collection. Pairing the perfect balance of barefoot essential insight with a fit and feel that’s purely [Read More]
Simon Cowell: The truth – Cheryl Cole wasn’t ‘sacked’ from The X Factor and I’m no monster Simon Cowell: The truth – Cheryl Cole wasn’t ‘sacked’ from The X Factor and I’m no monster Simon Cowell believes Cheryl is a star Simon Cowell still considers himself a good friend of Cheryl [Read More]
Gwyneth Paltrow’s Kids Love Their Aunt Beyonce Gwyneth Paltrow’s Kids Love Their Aunt Beyonce Hollywood makes for unusual friendships. Among them: Gwyneth Paltrow and Beyonce Knowles. The movie star and her husband, Coldplay front man Chris Martin were two of the very select group of 100 people invited to Beyonce and Jay-Z’s wedding, and [Read More]
McIlroy moving on from Masters disappointment The first time Rory McIlroy recalls watching the Masters on TV was in 1996. And like any other 6-year-old already smitten with the game, he no doubt dreamed of being on that stage himself one day. Sure enough, he was. Only McIlroy didn’t play the role of his golfing [Read More]
Stay on top of the latest beauty and hair trends straight from the runway. Find the prettiest makeup and hairstyle ideas that will work for you! You have a classic round face if the width of your face at your cheekbones is roughly the same distance as the length of your face. You likely have [Read More]
Fashion, a term toss around a lot to mean a lot of things. Fashion in it’s finest sense means the particular style of the dress or garments worn that depict the certain culture of a group of people. Fashion can be equivalent to culture, but in today’s modern way of life, fashion changes rapidly from [Read More]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Lady Gaga says she did not write her latest hit song, “Born This Way,” but rather the late British fashion designer Alexander McQueen did so when he channeled it through her from beyond the grave. Gaga told Harper’s Bazaar magazine that McQueen, who committed suicide by hanging on February 11, 2010, [Read More]
Voyager Makes an Interstellar Discovery The solar system is passing through an interstellar cloud that physics says should not exist (voyager). In the Dec. 24th issue of Nature, a team of scientists reveal how NASA’s Voyager spacecraft have solved the mystery. “Using data from Voyager, we have discovered a strong magnetic field just [Read More]
Prehistoric Human Brain Found Pickled in Bog A brain in near-perfect condition is found in a skull of a person who was decapitated over 2,600 years ago. A human skull dated to about 2,684 years ago with an “exceptionally preserved” human brain still inside of it was recently discovered in a waterlogged U.K. pit, according [Read More]
Visionary scientists grow proto-eye Japanese scientists believe they are getting closer to growing a human eye. New research being published today in the journal Nature explains how they have managed to grow a mouse eye from stem cells, with the hope it will lead to treatments for human blindness. Professor Andrew Elefanty from the Monash [Read More]
Harmful Health Effects Of Smoking Cigarettes The harmful health effects of smoking cigarettes presented in the list below only begin to convey the long term side effects of smoking. Quitting makes sense for many reasons but simply put: smoking is bad for health. Harmful Effects of Smoking Every year hundreds of thousands of people around [Read More]
Soy Not a Risk for Breast Cancer Survivors, Study Says So read to know about breast cancer…… After years of controversy and confusion about whether breast cancer survivors should eat soy, scientists have concluded that soy food does not increase the risk of cancer recurrence or death among breast cancer survivors, according to a large [Read More]
Many Women Would Trade 1 Year of Life to Be Thin Almost one-third of young women would trade at least a year of their lives to have a perfect body, according to a new survey of British undergraduates. The survey found that 16 percent of young women queried said they’d trade a year of life [Read More]
Using Fusion to Propel an Interstellar Probe Guest contributor Richard Obousy describes how a starship might harness the awesome power of nuclear fusion to travel to interstellar destinations. Project Icarus is an ambitious five-year study into launching an unmanned spacecraft to an interstellar destination (fusion). Headed by the Tau Zero [Read More]
Sir Richard Branson Launches Virgin Oceanic, Will Explore the Deepest Depths of Every Ocean When Sir Richard Branson unveiled the Virgin Oceanic submarine, he noted that “More men have been to the moon than have been down further than 20,000 feet. ” To that end, he and an explorer pal will take the submarine [Read More]
Earth is shaped like a lumpy potato A sleek satellite orbiting Earth has confirmed that the planet is not the simple squashed sphere we often imagine it to be. It (earth) is, in fact, more like a lumpy potato. Nearly a year’s worth of gravitational measurements from the European Space Agency’s Gravity Field and Steady-State [Read More]
NASA’s Spitzer Discovers Time-Delayed Jets Around Young Star. The astronomy team is currently analyzing other jets imaged by Spitzer, looking for more evidence of time delays. Astronomers have discovered that two symmetrical jets shooting away from opposite sides of a blossoming star are experiencing a time delay: knots of gas and dust from [Read More]
Stroke risks fade when women stop taking estrogen The women in the new study were in their 60s on average, nearly a decade past the age when most women enter menopause. Strokes and other health problems linked with estrogen pills appear to fade when women quit taking them after menopause, the first long-term follow-up of [Read More]
Black-Market Trinkets From Space Ebay and other Web sites pulse with hundreds of sales pitches (black market). “The pieces below have an exceptional patina,” a site called Star-bits.com said of 10 pictured fragments (black market). The ads are for chunks of meteorites, bits of asteroids that have fallen from the sky and are as prized [Read More]
Multitude of Species Face Climate Threat Over the past 540 million years, life on Earth has passed through five great mass extinctions (climate). In each of those catastrophes, an estimated 75 percent or more of all species disappeared in a few million years or less (climate). For decades, scientists have warned that humans may be [Read More]
Heavy Beer Drinking, Genetics May Raise Risk of Stomach Cancer Heavy beer drinkers who carry a gene mutation involved in the metabolism of alcohol may face a higher risk than others of developing stomach cancer, new European research suggests. Having a certain genetic variant and drinking roughly three 12-ounce cans or more of beer a [Read More]
Company planning biggest rocket since man on moon WASHINGTON – A high-tech entrepreneur unveiled plans Tuesday to launch the world’s most powerful rocket since man went to the moon. Space Exploration Technology has already sent the first private rocket and capsule into Earth’s orbit as a commercial venture. It is now planning a [Read More]
US-Russian crew blasts off for orbiting station (into space) Tuesday’s launch was seven days shy of anniversaries of two space milestones: Gagarin’s flight into orbit in 1961 from the same launch pad and the first flight of the U.S. space shuttle 20 years later. BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan – A U.S. astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts [Read More]
Less Than 7 Hours Sleep May Hike Cancer Risk in Women You must get adequate sleep on a regular basis. Though more study is needed to understand the relationship between sleep and cancer, it is well established that adequate sleep is generally important to health for everyone — men, women and children. Regular physical activity [Read More]
Asthma Associated With Increased Risk Of Diabetes, Heart Disease One can hypothesize that there may be an inverse relationship between asthma and these proinflammatory conditions. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that asthma affects approximately 24.6 million people in the United States. But are asthmatics more likely [Read More]
Half a million die from smoking yearly in U.S. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Smoking causes half a million deaths each year in the U.S., killing slightly more men than women, new statistics show. The rates of smoking-related deaths in men were comparable to what’s been found in other recent analyses. The numbers for the [Read More]
Hulu Plus Will Hit 1 Million Subscribers Soon Hulu CEO Jason Kilar Says In Blog Post That Hulu’s Paid Service On Pace To Get 1 Million Sign-ups Looking At Doubling Their Revenue(hulu) Hulu is great and in my opinion, so is Hulu Plus. It’s a paid service on the video website that provides greater access [Read More]
TomTom Brings Out VIA 1405 and VIA 1435 Models New Model TomTom GPS Systems Bring Variety Of Features To Help You Get Around TomTom Brings Out VIA 1405 and VIA 1435 Models I am still very fond of my TomTom GPS. Been using it for a couple years now and it’s helped get me out [Read More]
Health Benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar Apple cider vinegar, or cider vinegar, is one of the most popular alternative health remedies in use today. Apple cider vinegar has been used since ancient times as a remedy for many different ailments. Hippocrates is said to have used it as an antibiotic. Most of the health benefits [Read More]
KRISTAL Audio Engine DESCRIPTION KRISTAL Audio Engine is a powerful multi-track recorder, audio sequencer and mixer – ideal for anyone wanting to get started with recording, mixing and mastering digital audio. Kristal audio engine is designed as a modular system. The main application provides a mixing console, while the audio sequencer, live [Read More]
Linux MultiMedia Studio (lmms) News 2010-12-15: LMMS 0.4.9 has been released! It’s available for both Linux and Windows – download and enjoy now. More information about releases 2010-09-02: LMMS 0.4.8 has been released! 2010-08-06: LMMS Sharing Platform is back! After the server crashes at our hoster, a basic version of LSP is back and [Read More]
