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Independent Jan 17 Ancient weather records, including details gleaned from monks' diaries, are helping scientists work out how and why climates have changed over the past 500 years. Researchers found the historic data, from the likes of weather station archives and harvest records...

AOL Waterproof Notepad Helps You Record Ideas in the Shower (E.L.) or ......something else to do instead of changing the shower head :D Some people do their best scrubbing in the shower; others do their best thinking. Just ask Mark Knudsen, a Michigan-based, self-professed "shower...

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Shorty to Cleveland OH yesterday - waiting for that load to take us South so we can go home for a little break - been out since November :D

Telegraph Jan 17 A cat has been summoned to do jury service, even after his owners told the court he was "unable to speak and understand English". Anna Esposito, wrote to Suffolk Court in Boston, US, to explain that a mistake had been made, but a jury commissioner replied saying the...

BBC News Jan 17 Researchers in the United States say they have uncovered tentative evidence of a genetic component to friendship. Using data from two independent studies, they found carriers of one gene associated with alcoholism tended to stick together. However, people with another...

BBC News Jan 17 The husband of US Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot in the head in an attack in Tucson, Arizona, says she is making good progress. Mark Kelly told US network ABC his wife had insisted on giving him a neck massage from her hospital bed. On Sunday, hospital...

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Now before anyone lynches me :eek: ........this was a survey done by 47 UK specialists, with the analysis written by Iwan Morgan (Director of the United States Presidency Centre) I thought you might find it interesting or just good for a laugh :p A New Survey of US Presidents...

Not so my friend ... Neanderthals evolved from early Homo along a path similar to Homo sapiens, both deriving from a chimp-like ancestor between five and 10 million years ago. Like H. sapiens, Neanderthals are related to Australopithecus, Homo habilis, and Homo ergaster; the exact descent...

BBC News Jan 17 Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak - a key minister of the coalition government - is resigning from the Labour party to form his own faction, Labor officials say. Mr Barak is leading a breakaway group including four other Labor parliamentarians, reports say. It remains...

Austin Aitken sued NBC for $2.5 million. He claimed that an episode of “Fear Factor” caused him “suffering, injury, and great pain.” He said that watching the contestants eat rats on television made him dizzy and light-headed, causing him to vomit and run into a doorway. The judge said the...

The characteristic broad foreheads and large noses of Neanderthals did not give them any special advantage in the cold arctic conditions of the last ice age, according to new research that has raised new questions about the habitats our prehistoric relatives lived in and why they died out...

Phantom Lovers of Dismal Swamp A Virginia Ghost Story retold by S. E. Schlosser He couldn't believe it when she fell ill just a few short weeks before their marriage. His betrothed was beautiful, strong, and healthy, but she just faded away before his eyes. He held her in his arms as...

Hickory, North Carolina, cops were able to solve in record time the mystery of the two cash registers purloined from the Captain's Galley restaurant. Their big break came when they discovered a trail of white register tape. They followed it 50 yards to an apartment, where, they say...

This from the BBC Jan 16 How does the US view Tunisia's revolt? When 26-year-old Tunisian Mohamed Bouazizi lost hope in the future and set himself on fire on 17 December, no-one expected it would be the undoing of the 23-year-long rule of Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali - including Washington...

BBC News Jan 16 Chinese President Hu Jintao has said the international currency system dominated by the US dollar is a "product of the past". Mr Hu also said China was taking steps to replace it with the yuan, its own currency, but acknowledged that would be a "fairly long process"...

AP Jan 16 WASHINGTON – As lawmakers shaken by the shooting of a colleague return to the health care debate, an Associated Press-GfK poll finds raw feelings over President Barack Obama's overhaul have subsided. Ahead of a vote on repeal in the GOP-led House this week, strong opposition to...