The New Scientist reports on this latest Artificial Island. This is a growing trend and I think it's great. But then I always enjoy being around water.
Yahoo! News - World Plants Near Extinction Close to 50 Pct.-Study
Although I tend to be extremely skeptical of these types of figures, I could believe this one. I read that there are 22,000 varieties of edible fruits in the world, most in the tropical rainforests. Too bad that our diet only consists of about a dozen.... But even moreso, too bad about what is going on there...
They are detonating a 2,600 pound explosion
Funny to see when a major company like Yahoo has a regular feature, then "forgets" it exists and leaves it in a shambles. I stumbled across their Web Celeb feature. Last time it was updated Was March 2000 with the last celeb mentioned :Leelee Sobieski. Some of their pages have missing images like Pamela Anderson. I would have thought they would make sure to have a system for their archives if they decided to archive it so that images don't get lost and also to have a little page saying they decided to end this feature...funny.
I'm too old to know what Dragon Ball Z is. But apparently it's very popular. So many of you will be pleased to know that you can buy Dragon Ball Z Halloween costumes here.
They've come up with a safe method of breast augmentation. A device will suck on your breasts until they grow. Apparently, The size of the average breast implant is 200 - 300cc vs. 100cc offered by the device. Which I think is a good thing because some people seem to take augmentation too far.
Good news in the battle against HIV in Africa, High speed condom to fight Aids. They have developed an applicator to speed up the process of putting on a condom.
It is unbelievable what is going on there and how little the world cares or does anything about it. According to the government 1 out of every 4 people is HIV positive. That number is just astounding.