What percentage of your ancestors were men? If you guessed 50% you would be wrong. While it’s true that about half of all the people who ever lived were men, the typical male was much more likely than the typical woman to die without reproducing. Today’s human population may be descended from twice as many women as men. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Two space rocks in our solar system's outer asteroid belt might contain mineral evidence for a new class of asteroids or long eroded mini-worlds. The asteroids, (7472) Kumakiri and (10537) 1991 RY16, were found to contain basalt, a grey-black mineral that forms much of the crust on Earth and the other inner planets. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

Dr. Ariel Shamir demonstrates at SIGGRAPH an application that resizes images in such a way that the content of the image is preserved intelligently. When you resize the image, it will keep the key elements of the photo in sensible places while filling in less important areas. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

This is a really great program and is one of the great reasons why Sony's console stands out from every other console out there. picked by punthe 1 year ago

What’s interesting is how the aspects of religion, politics and science merge into the picture, providing a seemingly endless display of both subjective and objective opinions. People want to be beautiful and seek always to alter the status quo; but at what price? picked by neilharvey 1 year ago

A higher concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere let dragonflies sometimes grow to the size of hawks, and some millipede-like bugs reached some six feet (two meters) in length, a new study suggests. picked by neilharvey 1 year ago

Scientists in the Netherlands are endowing a robotic cat with a set of logical rules for emotions. They believe that by introducing emotional variables to the decision-making process, they should be able to create more-natural human and computer interactions picked by neilharvey 1 year ago

Americans are living longer than ever, but not as long as people in 41 other countries. For decades, the United States has been slipping in international rankings of life expectancy, as other countries improve health care, nutrition and lifestyles. picked by AutumnLotus 1 year ago

"Hurdy Gurdy Man" and...
"Mellow Yellow" picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

This is the greatest idea for a softie gallery show - these are all knitted houses of female murderers or the houses of their victims! picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Got milk? picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

The intromittent organ of male seed beetles is armed with sharp spines that puncture the genital tract of females during copulation. (try the links) picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

I made the mistake of listening to this for about 10 minutes straight when I first found it a year ago, and I offer you this advice; do NOT listen to this song for 10 minutes straight and expect to get it out of your head for the next week. picked by Mershaullk 1 year ago

"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers." picked by misswinkle 1 year ago

There are a variety of scratch removal devices for CDs and DVDs, but whoever thought of using a banana? Watch the video to see how to render your videos suddenly watchable, using banana goo and the banana's waxy peel to miraculously fix that Netflix disc that arrived at your house looking like a skating rink. picked by 2manyusernames 1 year ago

Blue, red, yellow, blue, green, red.

It comes from the building materials used for the first incarnation of the web crawler that indexes the internet.

Bornbad's post here made me think of this. picked by pocksucket 1 year ago

Football isn’t always the Beautiful Game. Sometimes it can get ugly. Really, really, ugly. And nobody has done more to bring the threat of menace or the whiff of danger to our sport than the following merchants of mayhem... this is European football, where they actually use their feet. Not American football. picked by neilharvey 1 year ago

Check out the slideshow on the top 10 most intrepid explorers of all time picked by neilharvey 1 year ago

Our annual bottom-10 list, in which we salute the men and women who do what no salary can adequately reward...
whale faeces researcher, Forensic Entomologist, Olympic Drug Tester and more picked by neilharvey 1 year ago

8 hollywood films with inaccurate representation of the law. picked by neilharvey 1 year ago

The difference between male and female sexual behaviour may be explained, in mice at least, by a tiny organ in the nose rather than gender-specific brain circuitry. picked by neilharvey 1 year ago

Nectar-feeding bats burn energy faster than any other mammal or bird on Earth, and three times faster than human athletes. picked by neilharvey 1 year ago

No one knows what causes it, if it’s contagious, or even how to treat it. Most doctors don't even believe it exists because the symptoms don’t fit anything listed in the most recent medical textbooks: Growth of tiny hairs and delusions of parasites, among others. picked by deepchill 1 year ago

An image exhibiting the Droste effect depicts a smaller version of itself in a place where a similar picture would realistically be expected to appear. This smaller version then depicts an even smaller version of itself in the same place, and so on. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago

Now the entire Second Life economy--which could affect more than 8.5 million players--is in trouble. picked by Bornbad 1 year ago