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Between Steve-O battling back problems and Gilles Marini suffering from a separated shoulder, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is just one of several contestants injured during dance rehearsals for the popular American TV show, Dancing with the Stars.As reported by most US publications, the Apple co-founder now has a s... |
16 March 2009
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Ships have evolved a great deal throughout history: they are faster, sturdier and more reliable, but there is one thing that hasn't changed from the early ages of the ship concept, and that's the anchor, the rudimentary system that holds a ship in one place. But the very heavy metal piece which has been aro... |
3 December 2008
04:19 GMT |
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Being called "shorty" is hard to stand as it is. But this is probably the least of concerns: people with shorter arms and legs are more prone to Alzheimer's disease, probably because of a low quality of nutrition in childhood, as revealed by a new study published in the Neurology journal. "Arm span and knee heig... |
7 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Bipedalism is a term coming from "walking on two feet" in Latin. Humans are practically the only bipedal mammals. Kangaroos and many rodent species hop on two feet but they cannot walk. When walking, they do it on all four. Other species, like apes, monkeys and bears, may attempt walking on two feet, but they do it o... |
17 April 2008
08:53 GMT |
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What you saw in "Total Recall" is beaten by reality. A study published in "Dermatology Online Journal" describes the bizarre case of a 22-year-old woman with a nipple in her sole! At least, the third breast of the mutant woman in the movie was on her chest...The woman went to the doctors for a lesion in the plantar r... |
29 February 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Disability or the secret for a high velocity? This Chinese waitress has not accepted a disability pension even if she was born with feet facing the other side. Wang Fang, 27, is a resident of Chongqing (western China) and says she has been able to live a normal life despite her condition, and she is perfectly capable... |
28 February 2008
14:11 GMT |
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In the end, the first ape to walk on two feet was not the human, nor the Australopithecus, but a primate that lived 10 Ma ago. And not in Africa! Oreopithecus bamboli lived during the Miocene in an island on the current territories of Sardinia and Tuscany (Italy). Oreopithecus is believed to have evolved from Dryopit... |
21 February 2008
08:47 GMT |
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Yeti, also called the "abominable snowman", represents the most fascinating legend of the Himalaya. Stories tell about a huge ape-like creature, bipedal (walking on two feet), with small ears and long red hair. And the stories do not originate from the territory of Himalaya, but they also come from the mountains of ... |
3 December 2007
02:56 GMT |
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Nature is well ahead man in what concerns the best technological patterns. That's why researchers are mimicking natural models to improve technologies. Inspired by the microstructures of beetle feet, a team from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) in Stuttgart, Germany, and Case Western Reserve in Cleveland, US, has ... |
6 November 2007
03:02 GMT |
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We look at a chimp and we imagine this is how our ancestors looked like and walked. But many researches show that the common chimp-human ancestor was more human-like. And now it appears that this ancestor was bipedal (it walked on two feet), not being a knuckle dragger. The concept of the humans as "upright apes" is ... |
10 October 2007
04:29 GMT |
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Two-headed reptiles appear from time to time. But this two-headed turtle discovered by a turtle collector is an extremely rare example of a conjoined-twin birth. "The turtle would have likely died in the wild because it swims awkwardly and would be an easy target for predators," said Jay Jacoby, manager of Big Al... |
8 October 2007
15:36 GMT |
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Humans and apes have the same number of bones in their feet: 26. These bones are connected to one another by ligaments, connected to muscles by tendons which interact at 33 joints. But the moment we chose bipedalism (walking on two feet), our problems started. Just a wrong trip or jump and we sprain our ankles or hip... |
1 August 2007
04:13 GMT |
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When humans stopped using their hands for walking, everything they did was better, from foraging to sex. But what a new research shows is that they did it because walking on two feet is less exhausting than "knuckle-walking" on all four, like chimps and gorillas do. Humans walking on two legs waste just a quarter of ... |
17 July 2007
06:49 GMT |
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