The German Medical Association has recommended a new course of treatment which it says should be used more by German doctors: giving out more placebos. In what could certainly be perceived as an unorthodox recommendation, the organization says that doctors in the country should increase their use of placebos. They also green-lighted the practice of [...]
US President Barack Obama revealed at an address in Georgetown University in Washington on Wednesday what he called a new goal for the country’s energy policy. The president said that the US should cut its oil imports by a third by 2025 in an effort to mitigate the effects of instability in oil producing regions [...]
The unfolding nuclear crisis in Japan has led to a call from France of a review of worldwide nuclear standards during this year. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, also the chairman of the Group of Twenty, voiced France’s suggestion which was supported by Japan. France is the world’s most nuclear-dependent state. “In order to avoid recurrence [...]
The long wait is over. Internet giant Google Inc. has revealed that it has chosen Kansas City, Kansas and the first recipient of its planned super-fast broadband internet network. The planned network is more than 100 times faster than current connections offered by internet service providers in the US. Google plans to make these networks [...]
After finding message in a bottle more than nearly two and a half decades ago, a Russian boy met the German who wrote and floated the message 24 years ago, a Russian tabloid reported. According to a Wednesday report from the Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid, 13-year-old Daniil Korotkikh found the beer bottle with the message in [...]
Let’s just give it to the boy. Yes, Justin Bieber is again gaining more admirers as he chose to display pieces of hair cut from his head in an effort to raise money that will be used as relief efforts for the tsunami, earthquake and radiation crisis of people in Japan. The pop singer’s hair [...]
Yes, Jennifer Aniston shall be a busy lady as she steps out to work on a short movie tackling breast cancer. The said film shall be aired as part of Project Five, a series at Lifetime TV. Accordingly, the actress will be the director and not the main protagonist this time. Aniston will also be [...]
A significant number of men undergo prostate cancer screenings. The same applies even to the elderly when in fact, according to a recent study; there is no evidence to prove that the said test will be beneficial. In fact, the dreaded cancer, when discovered, will not reduce their lifespan. In contrast, discovering the cancer will [...]
Want to buy an aircraft carrier? The British Royal Navy has one up for sale. The U.K.’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) has put up The Royal Navy aircraft carrier Ark Royal, once the flagship of the Royal Navy, on www.edisposals.com, a report from Reuters say. The website is run by an arm of the MoD. [...]
Japanese nuclear safety officials revealed Wednesday that the level of radioactive iodine in seawater near the stricken Dai-ichi power plant has risen to 3,355 times of the allowed levels, a report from The Associated Press reveals. The same report quotes, however, an official the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency saying that the said level “does [...]
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