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POPSFemale Mosquitoes: Out for Blood Many people don't believe me when I say that it's only the female mosquitoes- not the males- that will bite you and suck your blood. But here Wikipedia, the most reputable of sources, proves me to be correct.
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POPS19th-Century Painter Van Gogh Died Of Self-Inflicted Gunshot 29 July 1890 * Born: 30 March 1853 * Birthplace: Groot Zundert, Holland * Died: 29 July 1890 (self-inflicted gunshot) * Best Known As: The marvelous painter who cut off his own earlobe A 19th-century painter, Van Gogh is almost as famous for his mental instability as for his vivid paintings. His career as an artist lasted only 10 years and coincided with frequent bouts of depression and anguish Among his favorite painters at this time were Jean François Millet, Rembrandt, Honoré Daumier; among his favorite authors, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, and Harriet Beecher Stowe - all of them interested in the poor and dispossessed. Complementing Van Gogh's dismal subject matter of this time were his colors, dark brownish and greenish tones. The masterpiece of the Dutch period is the Potato Eaters (1885), a night scene in which peasants sit at their meal around a table.
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POPSAlmonds boost weight loss According to Wien, “The weight-loss benefits of eating almonds came as something of a surprise, since the study was originally designed to evaluate the cholesterol-lowering effects of almonds. As it turned out, the dieters who ate almonds lost more weight than would be expected if they were taking prescription diet pills.”
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POPSKorowai Tribe - The Real Life Cannibals Their numbers are very roughly estimated at about 3,000. Only a few of them have become literate thus far. They are one of the few surviving tribes in the world that are thought to possibly still engage in cannibalism.
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POPSComfort Foods Humans are not as lucky as monkeys in one way. Female humans report they eat high calorie foods to make themselves feel better when stressed but they don't actually feel better after eating them. Instead, because they are restrained eaters, they feel guilt and actually feel worse. Female monkeys don't have that cognative baggage. Only monkeys, it seems, find comfort in comfort foods."
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POPS100 YEAR WAR OF THE SLUMS THIS 100 YEAR WAR McCAIN IS TALKING ABOUT DOES NOT INVOLVE IRAQ AS SOME SUGGESTED IT IS A WAR THAT WILL BE WAGED WORLDWIDE AGAINST THE SLUMS OR GHETTOS OF THE WORLD..USELESS EATERS BEWARE
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POPSNew Meat Eating Dinosaur Unveiled "The first remains of Carcharodontosaurus were found in the 1920s, but they only consisted of two teeth which have since been lost," said Brusatte. "Other bits of Carcharodontosaurus were found in Egypt and described in the 1930s, but these were destroyed when Munich was bombed in 1944. "Since then a skull of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus turned up in the Moroccan Sahara, and was described a decade ago. So as you can see, evidence for this dinosaur is very rare."
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