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The Power of Indoctrinating Young Children into Junk Food: McDonald's Carrots Taste Better!

This is one of the most shameful mental addictions induced in children. A new research shows that anything bearing the McDonald's mark tastes better for children, a vivid example of the way advertising can fool the taste buds even in young children.Comparing food from McDonald's to that in plain wrappers, M...

8 August 2007
04:10 GMT

Junk Food Fed Gulls Become Sterile!

The fact that obese people have fertility problems is a well-known fact. Obesity raises the risk for C-Section, impedes breastfeeding, while these children are more prone to high birth weight and childhood obesity and chronic disease. More than half of the overweight and obese women get excessive weight during pregna...

23 July 2007
06:17 GMT

Watch Out! Astronauts Will Throw Fridges at Us from the ISS

It's true, the three members of the crew on the International Space Station will have some nasty work to do during a spacewalk scheduled for July 23, because NASA realized it was time for a bit of cleaning, so they're getting rid of more than 730 kg (1600 pounds) of obsolete gear in and around the station....

20 July 2007
09:05 GMT

Junk DNA Is the Engine of Our Evolution

We know that DNA is the hereditary molecule from which the genes are made of. But not all DNA represents genes. The non-gene coding and DNA patches with unobvious role have been regarded by scientists for long as junk and useless, a sort of evolutionary ballast. But a new research showed that this tiny, jumping DNA ...

26 April 2007
09:29 GMT

Microsoft Will Be the Death of Junk Websites

Microsoft has pointed a finger at Internet advertisers for fueling and funding junk websites. A group of Microsoft researchers has published a paper entitled "Spam Double-Funnel: Connecting Web Spammers with Advertisers" in which they outline the problem of search engine spam. Junk websites and web pages are an integ...

21 March 2007
07:14 GMT

Europeans Are Taller Than Americans!

Now it is official: Americans have lost their first place as the tallest people on Earth. This place has been taken by the Europeans, nations like the Dutch, Norwegians, Danish and Germans presenting much higher average values.The United States have detained the height primacy for the last 200 years, as signaled by t...

14 March 2007
09:43 GMT




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