Archive for April, 2007

Science

70% Of Americans Don’t Know Plastic Is Made With Oil

According to a recent nationwide online survey, 72 percent of the American public does not know that conventional plastic is made from petroleum products, primarily oil. Moreover, 40 percent of the respondents believe that plastic will biodegrade at some point.read more | digg story

Science

Scientist Declares Beer as the Source of Civilization and Technology, Nobody Is Surprised

Beer was responsible for Technology

Life

Surprise! Men DO work as hard as women!

Everyone from economists,sociologists & Oprah knows that women work more than men. Their longer combined hours, at the home and office, stop men from taking naps on the couch and cause fights that end with men sleeping on the couch. According to new study, those longer hours are a myth, because it’s just not true that women carry a heavier load.read more | digg story

Religion

We’d be better off without Religion

In London’s Westminster Central Hall on March 27, some 2,000 people turned out to hear Hitchens, Dawkins and philosopher A.C. Grayling debate a trio of religious authorities on the question “We’d be better off without Religion.” (The motion carried, 1,205 to 778.)read more | digg story

Politics

Bush’s $1 BILLION ‘don’t have sex’ campaign a flop

It’s been a central plank of George Bush’s social policy: to stop teenagers having sex. More than $1bn of federal money has been spent on promoting abstinence since 1998. The trouble is, new research suggests that it hasn’t worked. At all.read more | digg story