Kaziranga National Park is a story of success when it comes to conservation of rhinos – but what they’ve done to achieve it is allowing its workers to shoot and even kill potential poachers. So far, the park has killed 50 people. Rhinos are safe there – a century ago, there was only a handful
Empathetic people are known to be great healers. They can feel other people’s emotional energies because of their own heightened sense of perception. This ability to feel “too much” is seen as a gift by others; however, this gift does not always bring joy to empaths. Empathy is certainly a great quality to have, but it does not always
The Catholic Church has passed the buck on their pedophile priests. Women priests are being blamed for pedophilia in the Catholic Church due to their ‘feminizing’ of the profession. Cardinal Raymond Burke said the influx of female priests has discouraged ‘manly’ men from partaking in the profession. He told the group The New Emangelization that “Young boys don’t
The United Nations has passed the first ever treaty which imposes a worldwide nuclear weapons ban and the decision couldn’t be more timely. In a press briefing the U.N. conference president Elayne Whyte Gomez said: “We are on the verge of adopting the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons. This will be a historic moment and it will
A chemical produced when food is cooked at high temperatures may actually contribute to cancer when eaten. The chemical, called acrylamide, is a known potential toxin and carcinogen in it’s industrial form, but when it is produced from cooking the carcinogenic response is less documented. The first time acrylamide was found to be dangerous was 20 years
From the common barn swallow to the exotic giraffe, thousands of animal species are in precipitous decline, a sign that an irreversible era of mass extinction is underway, new research finds. The study, published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, calls the current decline in animal populations a “global epidemic” and
We all know that the deep sea is full of some seriously strange-looking critters, many of which wouldn’t look out of place in your darkest nightmares. Well a recent Australian expedition run by CSIRO on the research vessel Investigator did not disappoint. During their voyage from Tasmania to the Coral Sea, the scientists trawled the depths of the ocean
Optical illusions aren’t just good for giving you a headache and fuzzy eyes. Researchers from the University of Glasgow and the University of York in the UK have carried out research that indicates regular exposure to a certain optical illusion helps enhance people’s ability to read small text. The study was published in Psychological Science. “We discovered