January 25th, 2010
The pope urged priests to use all multimedia tools to preach the Gospel and communicate with people of other religions and cultures.
In a message released by the Vatican, Benedict said that they should use modern technologies to express themselves and lead their communities. The message suggests possibilities as images, videos, animated features, blogs, and websites.
Many priests and top prelates already interact with the faithful online. One of Benedict’s advisers, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, the archbishop of Naples, has his own Facebook profile.
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January 11th, 2010
On Sunday, 10th January 2010, Egypt’s chief archaeologist said that new tombs were found on the Giza plateau on the western edge of Cairo. The new discovery support the view that Great Pyramids were built by free workers, not slaves as widely believed. Films and media have long depicted slaves working to death to build the pyramids.
The newly discovered tombs were built beside the King’s pyramid, and it indicates that the people buried there were not slaves at all. Slaves would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king’s.
There is another sign that the people were not slaves. There are Graffiti on the walls made by the workers, calling themselves “friends of Khufu”.
Tags: Archaeologist, Cairo, Egypt, Giza, Graffiti, Great Pyramids, Khufu, Pyramids, Slaves
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December 24th, 2009
A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men.
Researchers are not sure why woman have a greater variety of bacteria than men, but it may have to so with the acidity of the skin. Men are generally has more acidic skin than women. Other possibilities are differences in sweat and oil gland production, frequency of moisturizer and cosmetics applications, skin thickness, and hormone production.
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Tags: Bacteria, Hands, Hormone, Men, Women
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December 23rd, 2009
Scientists have just figured out how bleach kills germs. The active ingredient in bleach called Hypochlorous acid attacks proteins in bacteria and causing them to clump up like an egg that has been boiled.
The discovery was reported in the journal Cell by a team at the University of Michigan.
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December 22nd, 2009
Researchers from University of Maryland, who surveyed more than 30,000 Americans from 1975 to 2006, found that people who watched about 19 hours of TV a week were happiest, and people who watched 25 hours per week were most unhappy.
They say that the results were true, regardless the subject was married or not, wealthy or poor.
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Tags: Americans, Happiness, Television, University of Maryland
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December 21st, 2009
According to Bird Strike Committee USA, more than 200 people have been killed as a result of bird strikes since 1988.
The incidents are serious when the birds are sucked into a jet engine and strike an engine fan blade. The impact displaces the blade and causes the blade to strike another blade and a cascade can occur, resulting in engine failure.
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December 20th, 2009
Researchers have discovered a compound in dark chocolate that fights fast-growing cancers. The compound requires the activity of Kinase enzyme, which causes cancerous cells to die but leaves normal cells alone. The darkest variety of chocolate offers the greatest benefit.
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Tags: Cancer, Dark Chocolate, Kinase enzyme
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December 19th, 2009
Physicists are announcing a startling discovery: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of one of their fingers.
Actually, more than 50 years ago, some Russian scientists reported evidence of X-rays from peeling sticky tape off glass. But the new work demonstrates that you can get a lot of X-rays.
“We were very surprised,” said Juan Escobar. “The power you could get from just peeling tape was enormous.”
Escobar, a graduate student at the University of California, reports the work with UCLA colleagues in Thursday’s issue of the journal Nature.
He suggests that with some refinements, the process might be harnessed for making inexpensive X-ray machines for paramedics or for places where electricity is expensive or scarce.
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Tags: Nature, Scotch tape, UCLA, University of California, X-rays
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