Ireland topped the Good Country Index’s overall rankings and ranked highest for prosperity and equality The UK was ranked highest for its science and technology contributions, which includes Nobel prizes and patents Iceland topped the planet and climate list, making no hazardous waste exports, and Belgium was most cultural Libya was the worst performing country in the index overall, behind Vietnam, Iraq and Azerbaijan A total of 125 countries were […]

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Is this how Stonehenge and the pyramids were made?  This Michigan man uses simple levers and stones to move massive blocks weighing as much as 21,000 pounds. Please follow and like us:

What is PTSD? Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a disorder in which a person, following or witnessing an extremely traumatic, tragic, or terrifying event continues to have persistent and debilitating thoughts and memories of the event well after. Not every person that has witnessed or experienced a traumatic event develops PTSD. People with PTSD usually have persistent frightening thoughts and memories of their ordeal and may feel emotionally numb or […]

Women should not worry about using sperm from older donors as the success rate is the same as using a younger man’s sperm, researchers say. The average age of donors has risen in the UK since the right to anonymity was removed in 2005. Doctors said there was concern about the impact on the odds of a pregnancy. Experts said only older men with the best sperm could donate, so […]

Security researchers discovered the flaw in Android’s KeyStore KeyStore protects encrypted data used to gain secure access to apps Attackers could use the flaw to get hold of keys used by banking apps It could also reveal PIN codes and patterns used to unlock devices Google has released a fix for Android 4.4 KitKat devices But the vulnerability still affects devices running 4.3 Jelly Bean or older Android users running […]

Scientists asked people to read sentences that had taste-based words While the participants were reading, their brain activity was recorded Each taste-related word was then swapped with a literal counterpart The researchers found that the sentences containing words that invoked taste activated areas connected with emotion, such as the amygdala Using these words could amplify the impact of a sentence, study claims A kind gesture may be ‘sweet’, and a […]

Walnut is an edible kernel of the fruit from trees belonging to Juglandaceae family, in the genus: Juglan. Apart from walnuts, this tree nut family includes Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts (filberts), macadamia nuts, pecans, pine nuts, and pistachios. Black and white walnuts are native to North America, specifically the Central Mississippi Valley and Appalachian area. They played an important role in the diets and lifestyles of both the Native American […]

Over the years I’ve learned dozens of little tricks and insights for making life more fulfilling. They’ve added up to a significant improvement in the ease and quality of my day-to-day life. But the major breakthroughs have come from a handful of insights that completely rocked my world and redefined reality forever. The world now seems to be a completely different one than the one I lived in about ten […]

Pepper spray isn’t enough in India. Anti-rape jeans, footwear and innerwear are the new security devices women are coming up with to counter India’s growing problem of crime against women.  On Friday, two such designs- sandals that deliver electric shocks and jeans that have an inbuilt SOS button – were unveiled by college girls in Uttar Pradesh, a state in the news almost every day for incidents of rape and […]