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 Columnist: Stephane Wuttunee |
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 H1N1: to jab or not to jab ?
Posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2009| 10:17 | Comments: 34
Stephane Wuttunee: "It is not good to test fate" or so the saying goes. And yet that is exactly what I intend to do in the next few weeks as fears and concerns regarding the H1N1 flu vaccine reach a fevering pitch. In other words, despite my questions about the vaccine and its potential side effects, I may eventually allow a complete stranger to inject a foreign substance into my body – a substance, I may add, that actually contains trace amounts of the very disease I wish to avoid.
And this is where the dilemma starts.
I do not trust main...
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Space and Astronomy |
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 Exploding star from 13 billion years ago
Posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2009| 10:15 | Comments: 38
A new world record has been set for the most distant astronomical object ever observed, astronomers have viewed light from a star that exploded 13 billion years ago, just 640 million years after the Big Bang occured....
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The UFO Phenomenon |
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 Triangular UFO spotted over Russia
Posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2009| 10:12 | Comments: 4
Earlier this month residents of Saint Petersburg sighted a triangular object hovering over apartment buildings, the object had three glowing neon lights, appearing and disappearing to the surprise and intrigue of onlookers.
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Natural World |
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 Whales are polite conversationalists
Posted on Thursday, 29 October, 2009| 6:50 | Comments: 0
A group of marine biologists have developed a new tool that can detect and identify the sounds made by individual whales communicating with one another in an ocean filled with marine animal chatter....
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The UFO Phenomenon |
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 Latvian meteor is revealed as a hoax
Posted on Wednesday, 28 October, 2009| 8:01 | Comments: 5
The strange object that allegedly fell over Latvia this week has been revealed as a hoax staged by a mobile operator, a representative stated that the purpose of the hoax was to make the Latvian population believe in themselves....
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Palaeontology |
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 Earliest apelike human ancestor disproved?
Posted on Wednesday, 28 October, 2009| 7:49 | Comments: 20
A fossil of the 50-million-year-old Algeripithecus long believed to be the strongest evidence that apes and humans originated in Africa is now believed to be nothing like an ape at all and is in fact from a different group entirely....
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Space and Astronomy |
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 Robot armies 'will explore alien worlds'
Posted on Wednesday, 28 October, 2009| 7:42 | Comments: 6
Scientists have said that in the future an army of robotic airships and satellites will visit distant worlds and command armies of rovers and robot boats allowing us to expore a plethora of far off planets and moons....
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Columnist: Patrick Bernauw |
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 Demonic dolls and puppets
Posted on Tuesday, 27 October, 2009| 6:39 | Comments: 0
Patrick Bernauw: Dolls of Death, manufactured to avenge a broken heart or to have an enemy dying in great torment; the mystery of a doll that grew old in the attic, the stuff Hollywood horror films are made of; how a young student was possessed by a demon raised by the famous magician Cornelius Agrippa and went wandering through Louvain like a puppet on a string; and a story about the Golem of the Old Prague… Meet some Demonic Dolls and Puppets now!
It is said that a French lady was once playing a little serenade for her lover in this most haun...
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Natural World |
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 10ft shark mauled by 20ft behemoth
Posted on Tuesday, 27 October, 2009| 6:34 | Comments: 44
Officials in Queensland have alerted swimmers to keep out of the water after a giant shark was found almost bitten in two by what is estimated to be a 20ft monster great white almost as large as the shark from the movie Jaws....
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Palaeontology |
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 Modern man had sex with neanderthals
Posted on Tuesday, 27 October, 2009| 6:29 | Comments: 48
A leading geneticist has stated that neanderthals would have mated with modern man, even though it wasn't clear whether or not such couplings would have been capable of producing offspring....
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