Are you a tokophobic? The women who are too terrified to give birth
Six months ago, when I was suffering dizzy spells and nausea, my doctor tested me for a number of possible causes including diabetes, inner ear trouble and pregnancy. I was utterly terrified and knew Id rather deal with diabetes than being pregnant.
Finally confirmed: An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs.
A team of American and European researchers have confirmed that the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction ��� the event that wiped out roughly 75% of the planets species, including almost every dinosaur ��� was caused by an asteroid impact in Mexico 66 million years ago. The Cretaceous���Paleogene extinction was the last great extinction event to occur on Earth, and is most notable for causing the diversification of mammals that eventually resulted in Homo sapiens.
Bunnies Taking Toll On Cars Wiring At Denver Airport Parking Lots; Mechanics.
. theres another way to stop the damage that can cost thousands of dollars to repair. http://tinyurl.com/awjoyne. Mechanics say coating the wires with fox or coyote urine can rob the rabbits of their appetite. Fox urine can be purchased at many.
Putting Time In Perspective - UPDATED | Wait But Why
Putting massive amounts of time in perspective is incredibly hard for humans, so we made this graphic.. Bob, Given the enormity of space; the vast number of species on this planet; and the historical conditions and lack of conveniences in the past ��� the odds of a given spark of life occurring such that it experiences air conditioning; electricity; readily available.. You forgot to include the 17 major event-times when aliens arrived and interacted with the planet and the life forms on it.
The Global Elite Are Preparing For Total Collapse �� The.
If the human race does not do a complete 180 on many fronts, including the complete cessation of global climate engineering, there will be no escape for anyone anywhere from what is coming. Though many are. Earth is in the sixth great extinction right now, this is a statistical fact. Never in.. Absent such changes, more like restoration than change actually, Life on Earth is destined for decimation with many if not most species facing certain extinction. The longer it��.
HE is the coward for mocking victims of friendly fire: Families of dead.
The families of soldiers killed by friendly fire in Iraq have reacted with fury after a firebrand preacher taunted them over the deaths of their loved ones. Anjem Chourdary added insult to the injury caused by Islamic extremists hate-filled protest.
Jury shown video of home invasion killers nine-year-old daughter in hopes.
Dearington also noted that those sentenced to death spend many years on death row and asked Burry about the last execution, which was in 2005 and was the only one since 1960 in Connecticut. Komisarjevsky, speaking for the first time in his trial other.
RealClimate: James Lovelocks Gloomy Vision
A weak version of the Gaia hypothesis would state that the geochemistry of the biosphere is regulated by negative feedback mechanisms, many of which include the effects of life on Earth as integral components.. Its called the Sixth Extinction. Global warming can only add to the catastrophe for many species through sea level rise and shifts northward and upward of available habitat until temperate zone conditions disappear. Many vegetative species cannot��.
What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs? | Answers in.
Adam and Eve were also made on Day 6���so dinosaurs lived at the same time as people, not separated by eons of time.. Representatives of all the kinds of air-breathing land animals, including the dinosaur kinds, went aboard Noahs Ark. All those left outside the Ark died in the cataclysmic circumstances of the Flood, and many of their remains. Post-Flood climatic change, lack of food, disease, and mans activities caused many types of animals to become extinct.
���Gill slits��� by any other name��� | Playing Chess with Pigeons
Here are several prime examples, the first being from Drs. Elisabeth and Tommy Mitchell who are from the young Earth creationist organization Answers in Genesis and are both ostensibly medical doctors (one is even supposed to be an obstetrician):.. That is, they are technically correct as far as normal mammal development goes, however this is not the case with all non-���fish��� vertebrates, nor is it always the case with mammals including humans. In most normal��.
Research ties megavolcanoes to pre-dinosaur mass.
Along sea cliffs in southern England, geologist Paul Olsen of Columbia Universitys Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory samples rocks from near the 201,564,000-year Triassic extinction boundary. Credit: Kevin Krajick/Earth��.
Death cap mushrooms: New Years Eve dinner party attendees die from.
. in an adult. The identities of the two people who have died have yet to be revealed by authorities, but it is known that a 52-year-old woman and two men aged 38 and 51 were flown to hospital in a critical condition.. This false recovery period.
Will We Meet ET Microbes On Mars? Why We Should Care.
Id like to suggest that we care as much about the possibility of microbes on Mars and elsewhere in our solar system becoming extinct through human activities... Other differences between Mars and Earth include.. There would surely be at least some minute differences, no matter how similar the lifeforms are, for instance, we have many variant species of Chroococcidiopsis and of Halobacteria on the Earth with slightly different capabilities, e.g. better tolerance to��.
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell splits from wife after denying affair
Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell is to split from his high-powered wife, it was announced today. Mr Rendell, 67, who famously lost 60 pounds while battling rumours he was having an affair with a blonde beauty pageant winner, made the .
Call a Rabbit a Smeerp - TV Tropes
The Call a Rabbit a Smeerp trope as used in popular culture. Were in space, so regular old Earth flora and fauna just wont do. Solution: Introduce ���
The Intriguing Problem Of The Younger Dryas���What Does.
The change in their production rates means that the Younger Dryas was associated with changes in the amount of radiation entering the Earths atmosphere, leading to the intriguing possibility that the YD was caused by solar fluctuations... only to the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary layer that marks the extinctions of the dinosaurs 65 million YA was only the worst of many annual cluster airburst events of varying intensity over a period that lasted for many millennia.
Dina Wilson Has To Wear Colander On Head To Protect Her From Seagull Attacks
Wilson has been dive-bombed by a bird nesting in her roof repeatedly whenever she goes into her garden. Shes now asking town councilors in Herne Bay to consider steps that would prevent people from feeding the gulls and would also require.
Indian virtuoso musician Ravi Shankar - the man who introduced The Beatles to.
Labelled the godfather of world music by Harrison, Shankar helped millions of classical, jazz and rock lovers discover the centuries-old traditions of Indian music through the sitar, the long-necked stringed instrument that resembles a giant lute.
Orion Magazine | Dark Ecology
Hunter-gatherers living during the Paleolithic period, between 30,000 and 9,000 BCE, were on average taller���and thus, by implication, healthier���than any people since, including people living in late twentieth-century America.. B. Species extinction, which we have caused more than any other predator, as you put it well, is not a happy time for the species going under. We are adaptable... We seem to be grieving our loss, in all the phases Kubler Ross identified.
The little girls who reach puberty as young as six: Could junk food, plastic.
Studies across the world show the age that girls are physically maturing is falling all the time. Now doctors are revising their opinions of what is normal. And a startling number of children in Britain are beginning puberty at a shockingly early age.
Where and when did language begin? A remarkable new.
The origin of spoken language has stumped linguistics dating as far back as the Twenty-sixth dynasty in Egypt and the first recorded language experiment conducted by a Pharaoh named Psammetichus I. While it is widely��.
The Oil Drum | Thoughts on a Sustainable Human Ecosystem
This pattern does not imply that there are no longer fish in the rivers or offshore, but that the number of fish and their size is much smaller than before, and that a large portion of species have ceased to exist or are dying out.. species of large animals. In fact, some say that the sixth mass extinction began 100,000 years ago... Japan has over four times as many people per acre of arable land as India and 1.6 times the people per acre of arable lan as Bangladesh.
Biodiversity, extinction and climate change | My view on.
I think like so many tied up in the eco-sciences you have blended too many causes and effects together to attribute the micro-warming to anything damaging to the ecosystem. (���) my point is... But many species will encounter human-created barriers: large expanses of urban or agricultural landscapes that did not exist when there were previous rapid shifts in temperatures in the Earths past. Jeff Id appears.. FWIW, thats about the size of the Indian city New Delhi.
McKibben: Red, White, Blue and Gold(man Sachs)
The irony comes from the fact that the divestment campaign will result (succeed) in a colossal injection of money shifting over to the very portfolios heavily invested, thus dependent upon, the intense commodification and privatization of Earths last.
Orion Magazine | State of the Species
Nonetheless, most researchers believe that in that flicker of time, favorable mutations swept through our species, transforming anatomically modern humans into behaviorally modern humans... to be the root dilemma we face as a species in the 21st century ��� consciously choosing to change the trajectory of our modern/Industrial form of civilization or unconsciously continuing to commit to a path that over time leads to the extinction of many more species, likely including our own.
Research ties megavolcanoes to pre-dinosaur mass extinction, says sudden.
Scientists examining evidence across the world from New Jersey to North Africa say they have linked the abrupt disappearance of half of earths species 200 million years ago to a precisely dated set of gigantic volcanic eruptions. The eruptions may.
Leading Scientists Explain How Climate Change Is Worsening Californias Drought
As climatologist James Hansen, who co-authored one of the earliest studies on this subject back in 1990, told me this week, ���Increasingly intense droughts in California, all of the Southwest, and even into the Midwest have everything to do with human.
On the Great Filter, existential threats, and griefers - Antipope!
For example, if the resource extraction and energy demands of establishing self-sufficient off-world habitats exceed some critical threshold that topples Earths biosphere into a runaway Greenhouse effect or pancakes some low-level but essential.. Still, its very tiresome and kind of scary that many people prefer the imminent extinction of our species to the idea that well be stuck here living a fairly good approximation of sustainably for a very long time to come.