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Star-crossed lovers from Hollywood to Bollywood it’s one big saga
Every single woman’s worst nightmare is to be pressurised to go out with someone she doesn’t know in order to save face. Now imagine if that was done live on air and to top it all off you’re a high-profile celebrity so there’s literally nowhere to hide. That’s exactly what’s happened to Mila Kunis. The […]
Posted in: love is in the air
Chimp recognises distorted speech
July 12, 2011
The notion that language evolved only in the human lineage has long been attributed to the linguist, Noam Chomsky. He argued that mankind had a special “language organ” unique to us which did not exist in any other animal. This idea has been challenged over the years by a number of researchers who argue that […]
Posted in: would you believe?!
Every hack wants a piece of the breaking news action
July 7, 2011
At quarter past five this afternoon a statement was released by James Murdoch that Sunday would be the last issue of the tabloid paper News of the World. Killed off after a hundred and sixty-eight years, potentially costing News International many millions of pounds and leaving hundreds of hacks jobless – today’s decision was the […]
Posted in: How is this possible?
Snap happy monkeys discover photography
July 6, 2011
The Infinite Monkey Theorem suggests that if you put an infinite number of monkeys at typewriters, eventually after hitting random keys one will eventually bash out the complete script of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Some scientists believe this theory is flawed following research that was carried out in 2003, but mathematicians say the theorem is a metaphor. The probability […]
Posted in: Say cheese
Roll up, roll up, place your vote to ban wild animal circuses
June 23, 2011
The idea of a circus leaves me cold for two reasons. The first is a very personal experience and the second, is due to my role as someone who is beginning to appreciate the value and importance of conservation and wildlife. My experience sadly wasn’t a private memory, nope, in true reporter style it was […]
Posted in: A new beginning.....
Primal instinct
June 18, 2011
When an explosion at a chemical plant in Louisiana happened on Tuesday, thousands of primates housed just a mile away at the New Iberia Research Centre had nowhere to go. There are more than 7,000 primates (monkeys and chimps) on site. These animals however were one step ahead of their human relatives and knew instinctively […]
Posted in: Captivity
Baby killers of the monkey world
June 15, 2011
Cannibalism and infanticide are disturbingly common in nature and in one species of non human primate the females are the worst offenders. But what makes these revelations all the more shocking is that female moustached tamarins are not killing their competitors’ offspring, but their own. The moustached tamarin (Saguinus mystax) can be found in the […]
Posted in: South America
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July 13, 2011
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