I’ve long heard stories of how Chinese families, with a government-imposed limit to how many children they are allowed to bear, would kill their newborn daughters in hopes of having another shot and bearing a son, who could then continue the family name. Now, I can’t be sure of whether or not that is true,

I found this article in the B2B showguide: Be very afraid If mankind has just four emotions – happiness, sadness anger and fear – serial entrepreneur and burgeoning TV star Simon Woodroffe knows which one inhibits and engenders success. Fear. Not that Simon is afraid of much. Charming, confident, polite, sensitive to the feelings of

Google, the other Supreme Being who’s name begins with “Go”, is making the Internet even more free.

I’ve recently created this glossy brochure site for Worldwide Sales & Marketing! It sports an interactive Flash world map which is incredibly easy to use, but it nearly made my brain bleed.

“Adopt a wild animal for yourself or a friend, and help the WWF safeguard the future of these species and tackle some of the biggest conservation challenges facing our world today. Our six animals are all real wild animals – located in a project area funded or run by WWF, not a sanctuary or zoo.

News24: Nobel Prize-winning author JM Coetzee has likened controversial new anti-terrorism laws proposed by Australia’s government to apartheid-era human rights abuses in his native South Africa, The Australian newspaper reported on Monday. Coetzee, who moved to Australia in 2002, “launched a thinly veiled attack” on the legislation due to go to parliament next week during

“A spectacular 10 cm (4″) long male G. goliatus (wild collected in Cameroon). This beetle weighs 42 grams, and is a perfect example of what makes this species so sought after by beetle breeding hobbyists!” via enschede a/zee

National Geographic: (photo) Live and dead dogs and cats are being used as shark bait by amateur fishers on the French-controlled island of Réunion, according to animal-welfare organizations and local authorities. The small volcanic island off Africa’s east coast is bursting with stray dogs – upward of 150,000, says Reha Hutin, president of the Paris-based

After spending at least an hour choosing the right one for me, I bought my first Tarot card deck today – the beautifully illustrated “TAROT of the Old Path”, absolutely packed with symbolic imagery. and I’ve just found a wonderful online course to learn how to properly use and read them: LearnTarot.com – its a

An enormous pink bunny has been erected on an Italian mountainside of the Colletto Fava mountain in northern Italy’s Piedmont region where it will stay till 2025. Wanna see more pictures? The Viennese art group Gelatin designed the giant soft toy and say it was “knitted by dozens of grannies out of pink wool”. They