How many of you ever imagined that the innocent fruit smoothies could possibly present a very serious hidden danger? No, it's not a deadly chemical hidden in the ice cream or yogurt that go into the smoothie itself, but rather the effect such drinks have on our teeth. Recent studies conducted in Britain have sho... |
20 May 2008
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Nowadays, many people associate REM with the name of a rock band. But how many of you know that REM is actually an acronym for "rapid eye movement", defining a normal stage of sleep. REM sleep in adult humans normally comprises about one quarter of total sleep, meaning 90-120 minutes. During a normal night's sle... |
31 March 2008
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Indonesia is famous for hosting some of the world's most powerful volcanoes. Krakatoa, located on an island in the Sunda Strait between Java and Sumatra in Indonesia, is well known because of its 1883 eruption, which generated the loudest sound historically reported: it was distinctly heard even in the Australia... |
21 March 2008
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Life is subdued to a continuous development. With each new generation, advantages increase, while disadvantages are removed, and new possibilities are exploited. An ancestral species forms several new species and can disappear, or to survive in its original form adapting to its own niche in the system. The result is ... |
28 January 2008
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1.Have you ever wondered which is the largest fruit in the wild? It grows in the Seychelles Archipelago (in the Indian Ocean) and is produced by a 34 m (113 ft) tall palm tree called sea coconut tree (Lodoicea maldivica), encountered only on two islets: Praslin and Curieuse. The nut has a diameter of 50 cm (1.6 ft) a... |
17 December 2007
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China has now the most rapidly developing economy in the world, but people say it will be surpassed in the near future by India. Cities are packed with people, and the streets suffocated by traffic. The biggest part of the population is using regular bikes to move around, but now more than 40 million people started u... |
12 November 2007
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"You are what you eat." In the sexual domain, that should be taken literally. The right nutrients boost the sex machine in your body. Minerals like zinc, iron, copper and manganese are essential for sexual performances, that's why food that contains them works quite well. But the L-Arginine - an amino acid which... |
13 June 2007
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Many acids result from the combination of a nonmetal oxide with water.Water can be found in nature, the oxides can be dumped by human activity, especially the burning of fossil fuels. This is how acid rains result: rains filled with acids. The main causes are the nitrogen and sulfur oxides, that give nitric and sulfu... |
5 June 2007
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