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BBC News Jan 26 Bats in Borneo have been found roosting in carnivorous pitcher plants. A new study reveals that the plants benefit from nutrients in the bats' droppings. This unusual living arrangement is apparently beneficial for the bats too as they can shelter unseen inside the...

Woohoo I can honestly say I'm younger (even if it is only a little LOL) :D:D

Dead space 2 came out today - so of course I have just been to Gamestop. See you in a week or so LOL :D:D

LOL I'm glad you said "for the most part" for some reason Paris Hilton popped into my head :D:D

Oooh be careful ...you may get called an old f**t :D:p

While I agree that this does seem a little "trivial" at the moment, it does have some merit. Not that long ago, where I used to live in the UK, a young girl (about 15 years old) was texting and didn't realise that she was drifiting into the road (there was no pavement on this particular...

Reuters Jan 20 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A new species of giant crayfish literally crawled out from under a rock in Tennessee, proving that large new species of animals can be found in highly populated and well-explored places, researchers said on Wednesday. The new crayfish should not have...

Reuters Jan 24 MIAMI (Reuters) – A Florida Republican congressman has sent a proposed bill to Congress seeking to block Cuba's plans to start its first full-scale offshore oil exploration with a deepwater rig located off the Florida Keys. If approved, the draft bill by Congressman Vern...

Telegraph Jan 25 If you want knowledge to stick then it is best to take a nap after absorbing it, claims new research Researchers in Germany showed that the brain is better during sleep than during wakefulness at resisting attempts to scramble or corrupt a recent memory. Their study...

Re: Meet the mini T-rex ..... and others Mail Jan 24 Builders stumble across ice age 'graveyard' filled with fossilised remains of dozens of huge animals Building contractors have unearthed an ice age graveyard containing the fossilised remains of dozens of giant animals that died up to...

Meet and even smaller "mini-T Rex" :p BBC Jan 24 Two-clawed and parrot-sized: new T.rex cousin unveiled A tiny distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered in China with only a single claw on each upper limb. Linhenykus monodactylus weighed no more than a large parrot...

BBC News Jan 24 Wind chill warning are in place across much of east and central Canada as Canadians brave some of the lowest winter temperatures in decades. Quebec City temperatures fell to -25C. Wind chill made it feel more like -40C. Other parts of east and central Canada are...

LOL couple of points .... UK do not have autobahns .... thats Germany :) Chevy is not a car normally seen in the UK, but with that mileage per gallon I bet everyone would want one UK emissions tests are part of the MOT service that has to be done once a year ...very strict on...

Its taken me this long to stop laughing :D I forgot to say 21 yrs twice and a bit...... then half it :D IMO I still do not think some understand the point being made though. Its not our generation or probably the next that is the worry. Like turtle says, "Who knows? One day...

ROFL :D Well I do not consider myself as you describe above, in any way shape or form (and yes I have been 21 yrs twice and a bit more LOL) :p I do like the internet, cell phones and of course my xbox :D But I believe the point that is trying to be made isn't what you are saying in your...

BBC News Jan 24 Breaking News A US appeals court has ruled that President Barack Obama's former chief of staff Rahm Emanuel cannot run to be mayor of Chicago, a report says. Lawyer Burt Odelson said the court had voted 2-1 to overturn a judge's ruling to keep Mr Emanuel's name on the...

Personally I'm not so sure on the Chicken Little theory for this one - anyone ever read Isaac Asimov, Robots & Empire? With more & more "faceless" communication it does make one wonder what the future holds :rolleyes: :p

Mail Jan 23 Online backlash: Facebook and Twitter 'make us less human and isolate us from the real world' They call themselves social networking sites but now it appears that the likes of Twitter and Facebook could be downright anti-social. A leading academic claims that the technology...

Mail Jan 24 It is news to gladden the heart of any metric martyr. Scientists have discovered that the kilogram is struggling with a weight problem. Measurements taken over the past 100 years show that the international prototype – the metal object on which the scientific unit of mass is...

ABC news - updated 4 minutes ago A Washington state sheriff says a shooting at a Walmart has left one person dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded. Kitsap County Sheriff Steve Boyer says the two deputies along with another person are being taken to a Tacoma hospital. He says the incident...