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How Now Brown Cow: Do You Take Milk With That?

How now brown cow: Do you take milk with that? We all know someone with a food disorder, whether it’s Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Celiac Disease (gluten intolerance), wheat intolerance or lactose intolerance.  Lactose intolerance has become far more common in recent times with almost 90-95% of black individuals and 20-25% of white individuals throughout the world showing symptoms for being lactose... 

Pilot Forced To Make An Emergency Landing After Snake Found In Cockpit

A pilot, flying a Beechraft Baron G-58 alone, was forced to make an emergency landing after a snake appeared from the dashboard in cockpit and sat around his leg for all of its flight. Braden Blennerhassett was operating the solo cargo flight of Frontier Air on an aircraft Baron G-58 from Darwin airport. He radioed the tower “I’m going to have to return to Darwin. I’ve got a snake... 

Sex Deprived Male Flies Turn To Alcohol To Meet Physiological Demands

Drosophila melanogaster, a male fruit fly chooses to fulfill its physiological demands through alcohol after being deprived of having sex, the study finds. The findings will help to understand the human behavior and cure this addiction. The study revealed that the mating male flies were not attracted towards alcohol despite being exposed to it where as the deprived ones turned to the fruits mixed with... 

KFC Fined After Girl Finds Metal Screw In A Bean

Worldwide famous food chain KFC found themselves in hot water after a girl found a metal screw in a bean in her meal in Peterborough. The discovery, over a year old got its final verdict only recently. It was April 16, 2011 when the ten year old discovered the screw as she ate the barbecue baked beans at a KFC restaurant on London Road. Peterborough City Council’s environmental health team brought... 

New Specie of Sea Snake Found in Australia

According to findings published in Zootaxaby Associate Professor Bryan Fry from The University of Queensland’s (UQ) School of Sea snakes' venom is used in life-saving medicine Biological Sciences, a new specie of sea snake has been discovered in the Gulf of Carpenteria, northern Australia. The new specie Hydrophis donaldii had been earlier not properly surveyed despite it being potentially... 

CORPUS – See What’s Inside The Human Body

Not corpse, CORPUS is a huge structure (35m high) which is a human body with all major components fitted as they do inside us. Go inside this building and you are essentially traveling in a human body. Climb to see liver, heart, rib cage and all other parts of human body. Quite useful for medical students for anatomy subject. CORPUS is in Netherlands, on A44 highway between Amsterdam and Hague. It... 

McDonald’s To Stop Using Controversial Food Additive In Their Food

McDonald’s has announced it would be no more using “Pink Slime”, a controversial food additive in its burgers. The additive has been rendered harmful by Chef Jamie Oliver in his campaign on TV Show “Food Revolution”. Pink slime is made from spare beef trimmings that are treated with ammonium hydroxide to kill bacteria and make it usable for food use. The additive had been... 

Belgian Fast Food Chain Selling “Darth Vader Burger” & “Jedi Burger”

To celebrate the premiere of the upcoming 3D movie “The Phantom Menace”, Belgian fast food chain “Quick” has announced two strange burgers it would be selling from 31st January. And those burgers are named “Darth Vader Burger” and “Jedi Burger”. Darth Vader Burger This double cheeseburger has a totally black bun. It also has a light salad topping  with... 

Chinese Police Suspect Poisoned Cat Meat The Reason Behind Billionaire’s Murder

Long Liyuan, a Chinese billionaire was found dead after he shared a slow boiled cat meat stew with two people in a business lunch. Now Chinese Meat Stew, but not cat's meat neither poisoned police suspect that the meat he ate might be the reason of his death. One of the men, local official Huang Guang, was arrested by police on Friday on suspicion of poisoning the hotpot with a toxic herb. Police... 

5 Foods That Are Good For Your Skin

Food’s effects aren’t confined only to  your muscles, general health or intelligence. Your skin’s outlook is also dictated by the type of food you take. Here are 5 foods that can help your skin appear glowing:   1. Sweet Potatoes Sweet potatoes are rich in beta-carotene. They get converted to vitamin A when ingested. Vitamin A is a renowned factor in improving skin softness.     2.... 
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