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MacFamilyTree 5.4.0 Adds Context Charts on Every Person

Synium Software has updated MacFamilyTree, a powerful genealogy application for Mac OS X. MacFamilyTree 5.4.0 is now available for free download for existing users, and as a demo for new users.According to the release notes for MacFamilyTree 5.4.0, the genealogy program adds Web Page Export. The app now displays a Co...

5 March 2009
06:44 GMT

Independent Adults Still Rely on Parents for Cash

It’s hard for a young person to get a good start in life from a financial point of view. This is precisely why parents take it upon themselves to support the child until they’re on their own – as it happens, this rarely, if ever, occurs, as a new survey points out. One in five adults think they&rsqu...

24 February 2009
15:41 GMT

Families Ask Doctors to Tell Them the Bad News Up Front

A new research, published on December 16th, 2008, in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, shows that most families of critically-ill patients would rather find out their loved ones' real medical conditions, than be deceived by doctors with more optimistic prognosis and life expectancy. The study, conducted b...

16 December 2008
05:50 GMT

How Vesuvius Buried a Pompeian Family

A team of Italian volcanologists from the University of Naples Federico II, comprised of Claudio Scarpati, Giuseppe Luongo and Annamaria Perrotta, have managed to use the latest techniques in order to render a pretty accurate image of the final hours in the life of a Pompeii-based house during the eruption of mount V...

12 December 2008
15:51 GMT

MacFamilyTree 5.3.6 Improves GEDCOM Importer

Swinging from one tree topic to another, Synium Software has updated MacFamilyTree, its genealogy application, to version 5.3.6, improving the generation and rendering performance of the virtual tree, but also enhancing the alignment in the virtual tree and the MobileFamilyTree sync, for the iPhone version of the app...

12 December 2008
10:09 GMT

Christmas Time Is Not Just About the Shopping Stress

It's somehow disheartening to notice that winter holidays have turned, over the years, into a big shopping spree against the clock, thus into the cause for a huge amount of stress. There's no need to put aside the joy of such a celebration by having to worry about presents, family lists, acquaintances lists...

2 December 2008
04:45 GMT

Earliest Case of Nuclear Families Discovered

As indicated in a previous article, the remains of an ancient family have recently been unearthed in Germany, close to the city of Eulau. This has also been demonstrated to be the earliest ever genetic evidence of a nuclear family discovered. The impressive batch of Stone Age graves also provided clues to the fact th...

19 November 2008
06:34 GMT

About Stepparents

We are all well familiar with the story of Snow White and Cinderella so that we have already formed an opinion about stepparents. For many, the word "mother" revokes the image of the natural mother and no other woman can come to replace her. How do things really stand when it comes to stepparents? Is the new mom or d...

12 May 2008
09:08 GMT

Johnny Depp Is the Sexiest Dad Ever!

Johnny Depp is one of the few actors out there who manage to prove to us time and again that if a celebrity really wants to keep their private life... well, private, it can be done. The extremely talented yet very reclusive father of two recently sat down with In Touch and gave a rather vague but nevertheless sweet i...

21 February 2008
10:51 GMT

Human Polyandry: One Wife, Several Husbands

Too many males can cost, in biological terms, the female. Females 'going' from one male to another are more exposed to injury, sexually transmitted diseases and predators, not to mention the wasted energy. In the polyandrous species, the female mates with more males.Polyandry is widespread in nature. In 1 %...

2 February 2008
06:02 GMT

Bringing Master Chief Home to Meet the Folks - Video

It would be something, wouldn't it? To bring Master Chief home to meet your folks, your nerdy brother and.. the dog. This HERE funny video shows your regular American family with the daughter's boyfriend attending the family dinner. The only thing wrong with the whole scenario isn't even the fact that ...

7 January 2008
07:52 GMT

Monkey See, Monkey Do: Paris Hilton Wants a Baby

That "monkey" reference in the title of this article wasn't an accident, y'all. I'm talking about Paris Hilton here, so you see, the connection is pretty much obvious. Plus, it's the truth: some monkeys function on that principle, and I'm totally being metaphorical here. The whole thought pro...

29 November 2007
10:43 GMT

A Stable Family and Low Body Weight Mean Later Puberty Onset for Girls

You may say that, in a stable family, children are less exposed to sex imagery and these more protected girls are less prone to early sex. But a new research, published in "Child Development", shows they really turn later from little girls into little women. The research team at the University of Arizona and the Univ...

16 November 2007
06:27 GMT

Renée Zellweger Likes Being Single, Hates Sex Scenes

Renée Zellweger recently stated that she likes being single and would even be happy to stay single forever. The "Bridget Jones' Diary" star was married to country singer Kenny Chesney, but their marriage was annulled just four months after taking place. And now, as a reaction to all the speculation about her being...

23 October 2007
09:56 GMT

Gibbons: 5 Unknown Issues

1. Gibbons are the smallest living apes. They are restricted to the southeastern Asia (Indochina, and three big islands of Indonesia: Borneo, Sumatra and Java). Gibbons split from the line that evolved towards humans over 10 million years ago. Experts say that all living gibbons evolved from one species, 2 million ye...

22 October 2007
14:06 GMT

New Software for the Best Divorce Solution!

Where the heck is the angel you loved so much? The sweetheart turned in time into a f**king monster. And the most genuine love became the strongest hate. Lucky him/her you don't have a gun license. Yes, there is no sweet divorce, but a new software is developed to make it less bitter. The computer program mixes ...

1 August 2007
05:45 GMT

Dream Chronicles

Not too long ago, I saw a Japanese animation that had the human dream world as the main theme. Well, I won't start to tell you what that was all about, nor give details that are not important. The question is: What's that got to do with a game? Well, it's simple: dreams and slumber are the themes of th...

29 June 2007
10:04 GMT


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