It's not just people who watch their weight. It seems that Australia`s Goby fish do it too and the discovery is providing a whole new insight into the way animals maintain social order. Marine scientists working on the Great Barrier Reef off Lizard Island have found that Goby fish deliberately diet - just to maintain their position in the pecking orders and to ensure they do not antagonise bigger ... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

This was no social call, even though Clinton likes McCain enough to keeps his photo on the wall of her Senate office. The GOP nominee had already chatted with Bill Clinton about the mortgage crisis and wanted to pick the senator’s brain about her new proposal to have the federal government buy up bad mortgages and renegotiate terms more favorable to homeowners on verge of default. picked by ImNotBlue 1 year ago

A new Firefox plugin called Identify makes the task of information-gathering easier, by displaying information and links to someone's blogs and social profiles with just one keypress. picked by Bornbad 7 months ago

For six years, 49-year-old Thomas Prusik-Parkin of Brooklyn disguised himself as his deceased mother so he could collect some $115,000 in Social Security and rent subsidies. He also kept a casket in his living room.

*Follow-up to this post.* picked by suebe 5 months ago

It seems the older crowd—people 25 and older—has given social networks the unmistakable stench of being not cool. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

Malaysia's state-run news agency is urging its readers to avoid homosexual sex and masturbation if they want to remain free of swine flu.
The article states that homosexual sex "caused the body to develop friction heat which in turn, produced acid and made the body hyperacidised." He emphasizing that "normal sexual union between members of the opposite sex was absolutely safe." picked by Bingo 4 months ago

The UK and world media have been delighted by a story from the University’s Treborth Botanic Garden this week. A ‘Century Plant’: so named as it was thought to take 100 years to flower. picked by Turtle 2 years ago

Ari Versluis and stylist Ellie Uyttenbroek, inspired by a shared interest in the striking dress codes of various social groups, have systematically documented numerous identities over the last 13 years. They call their series Exactitudes: a record of people's attempts to distinguish themselves from others by assuming a group identity. picked by queenofhearts 2 years ago

Buried alive because her tribe thought she had no soul. Plucked from the grave at the last moment by her brother. Then forced to live as a social outcast for three long years until sickness and neglect brought her once again to the doorway of death. This is the story of Hakani – whose name means "smile" – one of hundreds of children who are targeted for death each year amongs... read full post picked by TraumaMamma 11 months ago

Followup to
The boss, whose story was published widely in the German and international media last week, said: "He said it was a joke and worth the trouble. He said he's a chain-smoker himself and said he was tired of smokers being hassled so much." picked by bevissimo 2 years ago

Looks like they either need to rethink letting media in the locker room or give the post-game show an X rating. picked by icepigs 12 months ago

A new study suggests that we lose and replace about half of our friends every seven years, and as a result the size of our social network remains the same over time. picked by bornbad 6 months ago

Blu-ray outpaces HD-DVD in U.S.: Home Media Research. picked by punthe 2 years ago

Be recruited into your college of choice and ease the college admissions process! This new, exciting service lets potential college students show that they are more than a test score! picked by drcmoe 2 years ago

Hackers successfully infiltrated Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), one of the nation's leading government-run research facilities. The attackers gained access by sending e-mails infected with trojan horses to ORNL employees. The lab claims that no classified information was retrieved, but admits that the perpetrators managed to acquire a database containing personal information about ORNL visi... read full post picked by leopoldogolba 2 years ago

Social-networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are being targeted so often by cybercrooks and other mischief-makers that half of the information-technology specialists surveyed recently by Intel expressed concern about workers under 30, who disproportionately use such sites. picked by eastcoast1978 11 months ago

Reading, mathematics, strategy, logical thinking, social interaction, group dynamics and ethics. Where do children learn these skills? Why role playing video games of course. New research is finding that quality education can be found in the most unexpected places. picked by equinox 10 months ago

Everything you wanted to know about the night sky. Check out this month's activity in the cosmos. Astronomy for the media generation! "The medium is the massage." picked by Turtle 2 years ago

Water supplies to 200,000 people in eastern China were cut for 40 hours due to groundwater pollution, allegedly from chemical plants, state media reported Wednesday. picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

As Harry Potter's sidekick Hermione Granger, she plays the perfect pupil with a butter-wouldn’t-melt smile. But as these pictures of Emma Watson prove, the 17-year-old is growing up fast. In a photoshoot for Tatler, the young actress swapped her neatly pressed Hogwarts school uniform for Yves Saint Laurent and Chanel dresses, cutting an assured figure But despite stepping out on the cele... read full post picked by smilies32 2 years ago