Hearing affected by iPods
It seems that just by taking a quick look around during the rush hour, the amount of people using an iPods and of course other Mp3 players runs into thousands and yet it has been found that many of these people could be damaging their hearing permanently.
An EU scientific committee has found through their research [...]
Baldness gene found
With a third of all men suffering from male pattern baldness by the time that they reach the age of forty five, there are many people who would be thinking that it is about time that something should be done about it, and so there has by Researchers at McGill University, King’s College London and [...]
October 9, 2008Surprising uses for bacon
Bacon has to be the downfall of many vegetarians, of it is the aroma that really hits the spot for most people, followed by the flavour in many cases, but bacon is not just for breakfast or sandwiches as it has many other uses, such as:
Maple-Bacon Lollipops
Chocolate-Covered Bacon
Bacon Chocolate-Chip Cookies
Bacon-and-Egg Ice Cream
Chicken-Fried Bacon
Bacon Vodka
Bacon-Wrapped Tofu
Fool’s [...]
The £2,000 cab fare
This must be a cabbies dream come true, imagine being stopped by a fare who asks take me to Munich! However, this is true a true story even though the cabbie at first thought that the customer was playing a joke on him.
Portsmouth cabbie, Mike Hogan was sitting at the rank when his next [...]
Yachts with added security
How things have changed since the early days of the sailing dingy where the well-heeled people would take to the water in their wooden yachts and have a fun days messing about on the water.
However the influx of the super rich appear to be escaping the horrors of the credit crunch and are able to [...]
Flexitarianism is the new vegetarian
There is growing movement within the vegetarian people that means maybe they are not totally veggie after all, many vegetarians crave some of those meaty treats, especially those items that have an aroma that is just too good to miss.
The top cravings are bacon and their mothers Sunday roast dinner, this is where they are [...]
Tidal turbines for Scotland
If planning permission is granted to Scottish Power Renewable’s, within three years they could be providing power to around forty thousand homes with no carbon dioxide emissions either.
The turbines which have already been tested will be around ninety eight feet long and are designed to move fast enough to produce the energy required, but at [...]
Simpsons in their 20th season
This may not seem to be anything spectacular but twenty seasons is something special when it comes to long running series in the US and surprisingly not many programmes have actually made it that far either.
The last long running series to attain this accolade was the western series “Gunsmoke” for anyone who can actually remember [...]
The hotel room, which costs £13,000 a night
Spending £13,000 per night on a hotel room may seem a little extreme especially as most people would not even contemplate spending that sort of money on an entire years worth of holidays.
However, clearly, this is no ordinary hotel and probably the guests are not going to be that ordinary either at the Atlantis [...]
Boy makes new solar cell
This is the type of news that we like to hear, it’s about a twelve year old boy named, William Yuan from Beaverton, Oregon in the States, nothing spectacular about that until you know what he has been able to make.
He has developed a new type of solar cell; yes, this is a twelve year [...]