The female orgasm is apparently a subject of great mystery and bewilderment for many men and women alike. But after you break through the old myths, taboos, and prudishness, it’s not quite as complicated as the glossy gossip magazines and hearsay makes out. A new study by sexual health experts at Indiana University looked into […]
“WE’RE JUST SO FAR OFF TRACK, IT’S REALLY DISCOURAGING.” Next month, world leaders will meet at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) to assess the climate crisis. And it sounds like the summit is likely to take an even more urgent tone after the UN dropped two reports that send a clear message: nations simply […]
Mount Aso, a volcano located on the island of Kyushu in southern Japan, erupted on Wednesday, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, spewing volcanic ash 3,500 meters high. The eruption occurred around 11:43 am (local time). The meteorological agency raised the alert level of the volcano to level 3 on a scale of 5, telling people […]
“YOU’RE NEVER GOING TO BRING BACK AN EXTINCT CREATURE.” IT HAS BEEN MORE THAN 10,000 years since the last fur-covered woolly mammoth feet lumbered across the Arctic tundra. Once a keystone species of these frozen ecosystems, the legacy of mammoths now has to be painstakingly recovered from layers of ice and permafrost by anorak-clad scientists. […]
IN EUROPE THE cost of electricity is soaring. Prices had been rising steadily this year, as economic recoveries got under way. But they have spiked in the past few weeks. Since the start of September, wholesale power prices in Germany and France have climbed by 36% and 48%, respectively. They are now hovering at around […]
Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park, based on the eponymous book by Michael Crichton, is something of a moral fable about the dangers of human manipulation of technology, humanity’s failure thereby, technology’s influence on the human condition, and scientific advances that go wrong. Crichton’s work, a pioneer in the modern genre called techno-thriller, has always been to […]