Nov 23, 2009 -
Who's your favourite? Pixie, Alesha or Kelly?
Hot young celebrities Pixie Lott, Alesha Dixon, Kelly Rowland and super boy band Kid British have teamed up with high street store River Island this season, launching a fabulous new range of celebrity t-shirts!
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Jan 15, 2008 -
Striped tank: Alternative Apparel
Charcoal grey cardi: JCrew
Jeans: Marc by Marc Jacobs
Flats: Nine West
Brown hat: The Girl and the Gorilla
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Jun 15, 2009 -
A prominent South Carolina Republican killed his Facebook page Sunday after being caught likening the First Lady to an escaped gorilla.
Commenting on a report posted to Facebook about a gorilla escape at a zoo in Columbia, S.C., Friday, longtime GOP activist Rusty DePass wrote, "I'm sure it's just one of Michelle's ancestors - probably harmless."
Busted by South Carolina political blogger Will Folks on his FITNEWS blog, DePass told WIS-TV in Columbia, "I am as sorry as I can be if I offended anyone.
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Oct 01, 2009 -
Scientists today announced the discovery of the oldest fossil skeleton of a human ancestor. The find reveals that our forebears underwent a previously unknown stage of evolution more than a million years before Lucy, the iconic early human ancestor specimen that walked the Earth 3.2 million years ago.
The centerpiece of a treasure trove of new fossils, the skeleton—assigned to a species called Ardipithecus ramidus—belonged to a small-brained, 110-pound (50-kilogram) female nicknamed "Ardi."
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Sep 14, 2009 -
I thought Dowd had and interesting view worthy of discussion in it's own thread. Thanks for the link, Steph! :hug:
Boy, Oh, Boy
By MAUREEN DOWD
The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind.
Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t.
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Aug 03, 2009 -
WASHINGTON – A new strain of the virus that causes AIDS has been discovered in a woman from the African nation of Cameroon. It differs from the three known strains of human immunodeficiency virus and appears to be closely related to a form of simian virus recently discovered in wild gorillas, researchers report in Monday's edition of the journal Nature Medicine.
The finding "highlights the continuing need to watch closely for the emergence for new HIV variants, particularly in western central Africa," said the researchers, led by Jean-Christophe Plantier of the University of Rouen, France.
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Oct 17, 2006 -
Paula Deen's recipe from FoodNetwork.com
I make this all the time... it's so simple and SO GOOD.
1/2 cup granulated sugar
3 teaspoons cinnamon
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 cup packed brown sugar
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese
2 (12-ounce) cans refrigerated biscuits (10 count)
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
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Jun 12, 2009 -
Move over Ida—you're last month's news. There's a new (purported) "missing link" in town. An 11.9-million-year-old fossil ape species with an unusually flat, "surprisingly human" face has been found in Spain.
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May 19, 2009 -
A discovery of a 47 million-year-old fossil primate that is said to be a human ancestor was announced and unveiled Tuesday at a press conference in New York City. Known as "Ida," the nearly complete transitional fossil is 20 times older than most fossils that provide evidence for human evolution.
It shows characteristics from the very primitive non-human evolutionary line (prosimians, such as lemurs), but is more related to the human evolutionary line (anthropoids, such as monkeys, apes and humans), said Norwegian paleontologist Jørn Hurum of the University of Oslo Natural History Museum.
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Jan 17, 2009 -
Don’t Punish Public for Blundering Constables
Criminals didn’t do anything right just because the cops did something wrong.
By Jonah Goldberg
Bennie Dean Herring was “no stranger to law enforcement,” according to Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts. That’s Roberts’s understated way of saying that when Herring walks into a room, reasonable people could be forgiven for hearing the theme music to Cops in their heads.
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