Super-rich American investor Warren Buffet will be giving away 85% of his $44 billion estate to charities, most of it going to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This will be the largest single gift in history!
Warren Buffet is the owner of Birkshire Hathaway. He made his fortune through astute investing. Despite his astounding wealth, he lives a relatively modest life. He takes an annual salary of $100 000 and lives in the same house he has since 1958.
According to a new study vegetables are good for the heart. Millions of kids out there are now going to realize that they should all their veggies…..or not. Either way, eat your vegetables.
“After 16 weeks the researchers found that the mice who had vegetables in their diets had 38% less build-up of fatty deposits in their arteries.”
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In an article in the Times Online, Midwife Katrina Caslake reports on her experience achieving orgasm during childbirth. She says that the keys to achieving pain-free, even orgasmic births is for the woman to relax and allow herself to feel sexy. She has science to back up her claims, too: The same hormones that are involved in love and sex are also involved in childbirth.
The practise of midwifery lost popularity in the 18th and 19th centuries, when male doctors were too embarrassed to allow women to feel sexy during childbirth. Since the middle of the last century, midwifery has grown in popularity.
Wired has a nice article on a environmentally-friendly car competition called the Bibendum Challenge. Wired also has a photo gallery of some of the competitors.
“A group of researchers from the Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany developed this car prototype that can travel 63 miles on a battery charge and has a top speed of 81 mph. I was able to take it up to 63 mph before security stopped me for driving on the test track unaccompanied.”