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Days ago, the Internet almost went ablaze when a photo of baseball pro Sammy Sosa emerged, showing him with obviously much lighter skin tone. Speculation of him bleaching his skin to appear “whiter” immediately started to make the rounds but, strangely enough, no matter how intense the rumors go... |
12 November 2009
10:15 GMT |
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Just recently, an Australian television show with a tradition of many years was singled out for allowing a group of white entertainers to perform a skit in blackface. Shortly after, the French Vogue also came under serious fire, as it had a model do the same for an entire spread. Now, it’s Tyra Banks’ tur... |
30 October 2009
09:28 GMT |
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This week, Rachel Christie became the first black Miss England in history. In doing so, she proved to the world that beauty pageants are not all about girls who can only think of shoes and diamonds, while proving to herself that she could attain her goal no matter the color of her skin. In a brand-new interview with ... |
25 July 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Next year's early April will have NASA host the 16th yearly Great Moonbuggy Race, just the same as it did since 1994. This competition is addressed to high school and college teams (separately) that want to test how their technology skills would fare on the Moon. The winning condition is that a vehicle is the fi... |
1 December 2008
07:25 GMT |
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Cartoon Network Racing is the creation of Cartoon Network Interactive, Eutechnyx and The Game Factory. It was developed for the PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo DS. There is one driver on each kart. In the DS version, there are 20 characters and the Powerpuff Girls have separate karts. Their karts are similar to their... |
8 October 2008
16:41 GMT |
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The number of people who address the matter of whether we're good or bad as a race increases by the day, especially in later times, when issues such as global warming, resource depletion, pollution, urbanization or wars are believed to eventually threaten the planet's equilibrium up to some point.Of course,... |
2 October 2008
11:07 GMT |
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Apparently, there is no doubt about the winner of the Rocket Racing League's first race, since the competition that took place on Tuesday saw only one rocket plane in the sky, namely that of the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave. The Armadillo rocket plane did not receive the flight approval from the Federal Aviation Adm... |
30 July 2008
09:48 GMT |
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Two of the most promising concepts in the quest to establish a future commercial space flight service, the Armadillo and the XCOR rocket planes, designed and built by the Armadillo Aerospace of Mesquite, Texas and by the XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, California, are scheduled to flight a head-to-head race next week, as p... |
23 July 2008
09:51 GMT |
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While studying the human remains found in two ancient Danish burial sites dated as far back as the iron age researchers from the University of Copenhagen discovered the remains of a man that appears to be of Arabian origin, meaning that during the iron age humans were much more mobile than previously though and that ... |
10 June 2008
03:43 GMT |
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You surely have heard about the Tasmanian devil. You understand why devil, but what do you know about the island of Tasmania?It is a land located between 40o 38' and 43o 39' S, off southeastern Australia, being slightly larger than the island of Ireland (with a similar clime, too). The wet cool temperate cl... |
14 March 2008
17:46 GMT |
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One of the most primitive human groups on Earth were the native inhabitants of the Tierra del Fuego ("Land of Fire") island, at the southern tip of South America, a stormy, cold and inhospitable area, discovered by Magellan in 1520. The weather is cloudy almost all year long and violent storms are accompanied by trem... |
11 March 2008
16:51 GMT |
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What's behind the racial mix we call Polynesians and Micronesians (and think about from Hawaiians to Maori)? A new research carried out by a team led by Jonathan Friedlaender points that the race of the Pacific islanders could be the result of East Asians who quickly island-hopped through Melanesia (New Guinea,... |
21 January 2008
03:48 GMT |
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The Australian Aborigines form together with the Bushmen and pygmies one of the oldest human race. They are one of the first human groups to have moved out of Africa perhaps 60,000 years ago. This group formed a race later known as Black Asians. 12,000 years ago, they were the main inhabitants of India, Indochina, In... |
5 January 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Pygmies make the smallest human race, but they are not dwarfs. Amongst those of pure blood, men have an average height of just 1.45 m (4 ft 10 in) and women of 1.33 m (4 ft, 1in), still they do not represent a dwarf variant of the Black Africans. Their body proportions are the same with those of other humans, that�... |
12 December 2007
02:52 GMT |
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Europeans regarded them as part of myths for long, the old Egyptian and Greek texts mentioned the existence of very short people in Africa. Ancient Greeks spoke about "Pugmaeus" ("foot" as a measure unit). But in 1874, a German explorer met the first pygmies ever seen by a European in the current Congo republic. Sti... |
30 November 2007
13:21 GMT |
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Being bald or boasting a "leonine mane", having straight or curled hair, blond or black… it's all in the genes. And while you're admiring the silky hair of the East Asian girls, you should know one fact: their hair fibers are 30% larger than those of Africans and 50% than those of the Europeans.A new resear... |
5 November 2007
05:37 GMT |
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For the Europeans, which are generally unaccustomed to seeing people of other races, Asians and Blacks look all the same at first. This is due to the fact that, amongst Europeans, there is a huge variation inside the same population when it comes to eye/hair/skin color, while they see just black haired brown eyed peo... |
24 October 2007
14:06 GMT |
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"FIA World Rally Championship" will be available from now on at a global scale, bringing car racing fun to handsets everywhere. I-play will try to bring the intense racing feeling on mobile phones through this officially licensed WRC mobile game.Millions of fans take part in World Rally Championship events every year... |
3 October 2007
06:19 GMT |
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People that are both black and gay could be seen as having a tough life. Rejection from all sides. But a research made at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health among lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations, blacks and Latinos did not find them to have more mental issues than their white counterpar... |
3 October 2007
06:11 GMT |
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About 200,000 years ago, in Eastern Africa a Homo group started the evolution towards Homo sapiens, the modern human. About 100,000 years ago, modern humans entered South Asia and by 70,000 years ago they were present in southern China. 40,000 years ago, they entered Europe and this ancestral type was called "Cro-Mag... |
21 September 2007
14:31 GMT |
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It was long believed for a long time that the Amerindians met by the Europeans in the 15th century in the Americas were the first inhabitants of the New World and that 12,000 years ago, three waves of Proto-Mongoloid migratory people crossed the Behring area to the Americas. But new and not so new discoveries reveale... |
31 August 2007
14:46 GMT |
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THQ Wireless will bring the fourth game in the series of MotoGP titles for mobile handsets under the name of MotoGP 07. This will bring out the racer in all mobile gamers, with some highly realistic and intense moto sports challenges.Mobile games have really taken a turn for the better since developers have seen the ... |
30 August 2007
04:57 GMT |
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On the second biggest island in the world, there lives one of the oldest human populations: the Papuans. Today, the island has about 6.9 million inhabitants. New Guinea has mountains up to 5,030 m high (16,700 ft) which display glaciers in an equatorial area, and the vegetation goes from coastal mangroves and marshes... |
18 August 2007
07:45 GMT |
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It is a well known fact that for a Westerner, all the Chinese or Japanese faces look the same. The fact may have some triviality in it, but it can lead from embarrassment or social castigation to eye-witness misidentifications, which is already a severer effect. But what induces the cross-race effect is still a scien... |
15 August 2007
06:26 GMT |
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Africa may have been the cradle of the human evolution, but it scarcely shared its human populations with the chilly Europe. The first species of Homo entering Europe appears to have come rather from Asia, than Africa. An international research team has found that Asians played a more important role in the settlement... |
7 August 2007
02:59 GMT |
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Africa is a continent of the extremes. And the cradle of humankind. This is where the shortest people, the pygmies, appeared and still live. Amongst those of pure blood, men have an average height of just 1.45 m (4.34 ft) and women of 1.33 m (4 ft)! But pygmies are not a dwarf variant of the Black Africans. Their hea... |
26 July 2007
15:06 GMT |
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This is really ambitious: a project attempting to track down all human language to a common oldest language ever, "alive" 50,000 years ago. It is then when Homo sapiens, who had emerged at least 150,000 years before, suddenly changed behavior. Until then, Homo sapiens was not very different from the Neanderthals. Bot... |
23 July 2007
05:51 GMT |
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In two centuries' time, the suicide blond will no longer exist. Scientists say that in 200 years the mix of races will make natural blond hair become a rarity. Researchers cited by the French publication "Le Monde" say that the number of natural blond people will decrease significantly in the following decades. ... |
17 July 2007
15:06 GMT |
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Sprint Nextel has launched a promotion that can make you win no less than 1 million dollars. The promotion is called "The SprintSpeed Million", it is presented by Motorola and it has to do with car racing. It doesn't matter if you're a big race fan or you hardly know anything about racing. If you feel luck... |
16 July 2007
08:32 GMT |
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Europeans like to believe they have evolved on their own continent. That's nonsense. All European populations came from Asia (all current racial types) or Africa (just the Cro-Magnon), but always via Asia. In fact, the famous Cro-Magnon people were by no means white but very black (not exactly the African Black... |
9 May 2007
03:21 GMT |
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I-play has announced the launch of "4 Wheel Xtreme", from Xendex. The game has "action" as its main defining feature: it's meant to entertain its players in an intense, overwhelming way as they race, jump, nitro-boost, fly over different obstacles along the car competition."4 Wheel Xtreme" offers the player an i... |
26 April 2007
06:46 GMT |
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Water is a cooling factor for the heated body of a runner. This old concept was adopted by the sportsmen believing that drinking large water amounts will maintain their body's temperature down, improving performance. But a new research made at University of Exeter by a team led by Dr. Chris Byrne revealed that ... |
24 April 2007
09:38 GMT |
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Older parents are considered selfish and conservative, adoptive parents as people with no "biological" connection to the children, and interracial couples ignore the challenges that a mixed-bred child faces. A new research proves that at least in the last case, this is wrong. Parents of different races, like white f... |
24 April 2007
04:41 GMT |
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Recent researches linked a higher and more dangerous incidence of breast cancer in Black women compared to White women, and this difference seemed to be connected to genetic factors. Now, a new research reveals a similar difference between Hispanic women and non-Hispanic women in US, also linked more to biological fa... |
10 April 2007
09:37 GMT |
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Even if the old Egyptian and Greek texts mentioned the existence of very short people inside the heart of Africa, for a long time this was considered just a fiction. "Pygmaeus" in ancient Greek means feet. This was considered so till 1874, when a German explorer encountered the first pygmies ever seen by an European ... |
30 March 2007
11:45 GMT |
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Activision could have been better off without this title underneath their protective wing. A great brand doesn't make a good game and I guess that there are few people in the world that haven't heard about Harley-Davidson and their great bikes. I'm not very passionate when it comes to motorcycles, engi... |
23 March 2007
07:47 GMT |
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It may seem strange but even if in women, breast cancer is the second most deadly cancer type after lung cancer, this condition also affects men, as the breast is composed of the same tissues in both man and woman. Less than 1% of breast cancers occur in men but the condition is more severe in men than in women. Men... |
17 March 2007
07:46 GMT |
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Our parasites are so intimately attached to us that they share not only their life with us, but also their evolution, a phenomenon called co-evolution. That's why the way we evolved can be traced in the way our bugs evolved. A new research made at New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) comes with surpr... |
16 March 2007
09:56 GMT |
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Pigs are not just for ham; indigenous pigs can trace the origin of the people that raise them. DNA analysis of wild and domestic pigs has made archaeologists change the ideas of where the Malayo-Polynesian colonists originated and which their migration routes were so that they reached the remote Pacific islands.Resea... |
13 March 2007
06:17 GMT |
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A new British research found a very different pattern amongst races and the possibility of complications during labor, whether before, during or after giving birth.South Asian women are at a higher risk of delivering babies prone to perinatal mortality (death before, during or shortly after birth) compared to black o... |
6 March 2007
10:23 GMT |
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Anthropologists have noticed that most primitive tribes name themselves by the word that in their name means "people". But many others are known by the names other people gave to them. Sometimes, these names are not in conformity with the reality, in other situations they are. Let's see the roots of some names. ... |
2 March 2007
09:49 GMT |
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