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‘Stressed men make odd sexual decisions’, study suggests
Mar 10th
Opposites really do attract in people, according to scientists who researched the psychology of sexual attraction.
Researchers in Germany discovered that stressed men made unconventional choices in sexual preferences.
Scientists at the University of Trier found that young men who were under pressure preferred erotic pictures of female nudes who were had the opposite facial expressions to themselves.
The study, reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, also found that other participants who were more relaxed were attracted to females who had similar features.
Miss me yet? George Bush advertising board stirs US public debate
Mar 10th
A billboard with a picture of former President George W Bush and a caption asking “Miss me yet?” that mysteriously appeared at an American roadside has stirred public debate in the US.
The sign, which was first dismissed as an internet hoax, occupies a prominent spot by the I-35 motorway in Wyoming, Minnesota.
The sign was erected early last month and since then speculation has been mounting as to its provenance.
Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni ‘both having affairs’
Mar 10th
Rumours that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy are both having affairs are gaining momentum in France.
The suggestion that the couple were both committing adultery first emerged onTwitter, the microblogging website. It was followed by a report in the Sunday newspaper le Journal du Dimanche.
Rare ’solar corona’ caught on camera
Mar 10th
The elusive ’solar corona’ – a plasma gas atmosphere around the sun where temperatures reach two million degrees – visible only during a total eclipse, has been captured on camera.
The pictures were taken during an eclipse over the isolated Marshall Islands, near Papua New Guinea in the Pacific Ocean.
Ten times as dense as the centre of the sun, the corona only produces about one-millionth as much light – meaning that it can only be seen when ‘lit up’ during an eclipse.
Romanian street sign warns drivers of ‘drunk pedestrians’
Mar 9th
Street signs warning Romanian drivers to be careful of drunken pedestrians lying on roads were erected by road safety chiefs worried about the “despairing” levels of accidents.
Officials in Pecica, a village town about 13 miles from the Hungarian border in the country’s west, ordered the bright red signs, complete with the phrase “Attention – Drunks”.
The 10 road signs, which also show a person crawling on their knees while clutching a glass in one hand, were erected in popular nightspot areas close to the city’s bars and restaurants.
Bottled ‘ghosts’ fetch £1300 at New Zealand auction
Mar 9th
Two bottled “ghosts” have sold for NZ2830 (£1305) in an online auction in New Zealand.
The ghosts, supposedly trapped inside two glass vials, were put up for bidding by Avie Woodbury from the southern city of Christchurch. She said they were captured in her house during an exorcism.
The spirits were trapped inside the vials with stoppers and then dipped in holy water, which she says “dulls the spirits’ energy.”
She said they were the spirits of an old man who lived in the house during the 1920s, and a powerful, disruptive little girl who turned up after a session with a spirit-calling Ouija board.
Bomb disposal expert held for trying to kill wife and son
Mar 9th
The husband of a pregnant woman was remanded in custody today charged with attempting to murder her and her eight-year-old son after a car blast in a village.
Former bomb disposal expert Nicholas Fabian, 32, of Highview, Vigo, near Meopham, Kent, also faced a charge of unlawful possession of ammunition.
His wife, Victoria Fabian, also 32, was transferred to a London hospital for specialist treatment after suffering terrible leg injuries in the explosion in a residents’ car park.
Games disguised as Excel and Word prove a hit with office workers
Mar 9th
The game Leadership involves directing a space ship between lines on a graph
Computer games disguised as Excel and Word documents which allow office workers to waste time without attracting the attention of their bosses are taking off on the web.
The suite of “hidden” games draw strong inspiration from early arcade and PC titles but are played against the backdrop of what appear to be genuine office applications.
In one game, called Leadership, the player must direct a space ship between two lines of a graph.
Another involves destroying blocks of the same colour before a wall of bar charts fills the screen, like the cult puzzle game Tetris.
A lotto brotherly love as winner shares €3m jackpot with sister
Mar 9th
THERE is honour among Lotto winners, one man proved yesterday, as he split his multi-million euro jackpot with his sister — just because he said he would.
Mark Furlong, from Morrisson’s Avenue,Waterford shared his €2,835,221 win with his sister, Michelle Sinnott, because the pair had always promised each other that if either of them ever won the lottery, they would split it between them.
And yesterday, both of them said their lives would not change dramatically as a result of their windfall.
Nut Crackers: Squirrels Go Mad For Coconuts
Mar 8th
A pair of squirrels have taken their love of coconuts to a different level – by getting stuck into their favourite snacks.
They love them so much that they dive right inside the shells to get the last tasty bit.
The squirrels are regular visitors to Jane Roberts’ garden in Fareham, Hampshire.
They often used to steal the food put out for the birds but now they are just crazy about coconuts.