Human hair is a simple thing made of keratin and dead skin cells. Its function is to prevent heat loss from a person’s head, yet it also causes women to weep, men to buy Porsches and people to spend billions each year on its upkeep. So check out these 5 things you didn’t know about human hair.
“Snow seems simple, but it’s extraordinarily complex,” Dr. Adams said. “If I set a box of snow in the refrigerator and come back in an hour, it’s changed significantly. It’s almost always in a constant state of motion, and studying it is a moving target.”
The European Commission was preparing an appeal on Friday to wealthy countries — and to the United States in particular — to adopt carbon trading to curb greenhouse gas emissions.
President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday that Moscow is ready to help stabilize the situation in Afghanistan by allowing the United States and others to allow cargo for coalition forces there to be shipped across Russia.
Major new clues regarding J.J. Abrams’s new “Star Trek” movie emerged Wednesday with the publication of Star Trek: Countdown’s first issue, an IDW funnybook (billed as an official prequel to the Abrams movie) which swells my withered Trekkie heart.
A sleek new European Space Agency satellite set to launch this year, perhaps as early as February, aims to map out the planet’s gravitational field in unprecedented detail. The Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) will gather data useful for research in oceanography, solid Earth physics, and climate change.
GigaOM writer Stacey Higginbotham blogged yesterday that “Mobile Computing Is Killing the Desktop PC.” But that’s not what’s happening. Not exactly. If anything, the “mobile computing” concept itself is likely to be killed off as we move to everywhere and anywhere computing.
Take a man. Add eye work (unisex glasses if eye wear is needed) and Botox. Mix in a bad haircut or unfashionably long hair–if possible a dye job. And there you have it: The winning formula to become a man who looks like an old lesbian.
Burger King and Wendy’s are facing a number of rogue users on Twitter, who are registering accounts like WhopperVirgins, theBKlounge and 3conomics, and impersonating popular fast-food ad campaigns. And we get to witness the hilarity.
While Apple may currently be cooler than a Slush Puppy cocktail in an ice hotel, it hasn’t always been that way. Not all that glitters was gold for Apple, especially in the 1990s
