Archive for the ‘Science Facts’ Category
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Geneticallymodified foods have become a more common staple in US households than mostwould care to imagine. There are a lot of people who may be unaware of thisfact. A big reason for this is that most of the foods that may containgenetically modified plant products in various forms are not being labeledproperly to inform the buying public. This, after several decades of GM plantsbeing cultivated, harvested and proc...
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Geneticallymodified foods have already been around since 1996 when it was first introducedand approved for commercial use. It was the time when GM corn and soy wereintroduced for use in commercial farming. They found their way into consumersby way of the many products that use soy and corn as ingredients.Read full story »...
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Arecent outbreak of a relatively new strain of the E. coli virus is threateninga number of nations in Europe. The food-borne intestinal virus has currentlyaffected around 8 European countries, the hardest hit so far of which isGermany. The severity and the rate that the E. coli outbreak spread throughoutEurope have perplexed many experts.Read full story »...02.09.12
E. Coli Outbreak Threatens Europe
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Thedebate over GM food still remains unsettled as ever. It has been going on forseveral years now. Both sides have their own strong points and why they standfirm on that. But while the debate has been going on through various avenues,probably one of the most tightly contested battlegrounds remains to be on thepolitical front. Those for and against GM food have long battling it out inorder to influence Washington an...02.05.12
The Politics Over GM Food
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Did you know that parrots can be trained to say up to 200 words and shortphrases. In fact their ability to mimic human language is so well known thatmany parrot owners initially purchase the bird for this reason alone.Read full story »...01.24.12
Birds That Can Talk
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We all know that deserts are one of the driest places in the world but didyou know that the Atacama desert in Chile is the driest. To understand whatthat really means let’s take as an example the Sahara desert (the worldslargest hot desert) and note that it receives a meager 2mm of rain eachyear.Read full story »...01.23.12
Atacama Desert Facts
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When you hear the word Google the first image that comes to mind has to bethe famous internet search engine but does the word actually mean anything ?Well the answer is a firm yes because it comes from the term “Googol” whichrepresents a number (written as a 1 followed by 100 zeros) so large that it’sactually larger than the total number of atoms in the known universe.Read full story »...01.17.12
What’s A Google ?
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Now despite science coming forward in leaps and bounds the simple questionof how much the Earth weighs isn’t as straightforward as you might think.Certainly placing the earth onto a massive set of weighing scales isn’t anoption. So how do we measure the total weight of the earth ?Read full story »...01.16.12
How Heavy Is The Earth ?
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At just 5cm long and 2g in weight the smallest bird in the world is noneother than the Bee Hummingbird. Found mainly in Cuba and also holding therecord for the smallest egg in the world these guys are tiny.Read full story »...01.15.12
Smallest Bird In The World ?
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Despite the visual similarities between the two both are actually members ofdistinct families. Spiders are members of the Arachnid family whilst insectsbelong to the Insect family. So what makes the two families different ?Read full story »...