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Saturday, 31 Oct, 2009
People who have a compulsive urge to collect and clutter their homes with junk can partly attribute their problem to genes, according to a British study.
Researchers from King's College London used a twin study to find that genetic predisposition explained a large amount of the risk for compulsive hoarding -- a mental health problem in which people have an overwhelming desire to accumulate items normally considered useless, like old newspapers or junk mail.
Of the more than 5,000 twins in the study, roughly 2 percent showed symptoms of compulsive hoarding and genes appeared to account for half of the variance in
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Friday, 30 Oct, 2009
We all know many things about Winnie the Pooh, so today we are going to meet another Pooh bear, actually his name is Vinni Puh and also called Vinni Pukh. Vinni Puh is the Russian name for Winnie the Pooh and here’s a little history about He has very distinct appearance about him, one that’s completely different from the English version. Vinni Puh is brown, as supposed to the yellow-red appearance given by Milne and Disney. However, many people find Vinni Puh as cute and adorable as they find Winnie the Pooh. Some 40 years after the last Vinni Puh
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Wednesday, 28 Oct, 2009
Software vendors in Beijing are already selling pirated versions of the Windows 7 operating system after its official China release on Oct 23.
Roughly 30 percent of the 20
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Wednesday, 28 Oct, 2009
Michael Jackson fans around the world readied for the singer's last bow Tuesday in a film that captures rehearsals for his aborted concert stand last summer.
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Wednesday, 28 Oct, 2009
More middle-aged American women have heart attacks but the death rate has dropped in the past years, according to studies made by researchers at the University of Southern
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Monday, 26 Oct, 2009
No one was injured after a meteorite fell near a small town in northern Latvia on Sunday, local Latvian media reported.
According to media reports, the meteorite fell near
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Sunday, 25 Oct, 2009
In these times of crisis and economic recession, many Americans are turning to comic books to escape the hard reality. But while for some it might just good
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Sunday, 25 Oct, 2009
NASA needs to return astronauts to the moon under current plans, NASA has picked the wrong destination with the wrong rocket.
A test-flight version of the rocket, the new
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Sunday, 25 Oct, 2009
More than 6,000 people joined happily to have a breakfast on Australia's iconic landmark Sydney Harbour Bridge Friday morning, the largest ever breakfast on a bridge in the
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Saturday, 24 Oct, 2009
Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. But many trick-or-treaters of all ages don't know where this holiday comes from and what it's
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Saturday, 24 Oct, 2009
The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve on Thursday unveiled a set of rules to slash excessive executive compensation in a move to comfort the furor over executive
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Saturday, 24 Oct, 2009
Yes, there are signs of recovery; yes, one individual businessman does see light at the end of the tunnel; no, the loss of jobs is not as serious
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Friday, 23 Oct, 2009
On October 22, Microsoft’s newest Windows 7 hit retail shelves in Latvia and the rest of the world. RBC News had a chance to try the new
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Thursday, 22 Oct, 2009
A real tragedy is happening on the shores of the Black Sea. Dolphins throw themselves out onto the shore almost every day. Local residents are convinced that a
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Wednesday, 21 Oct, 2009
Pokaini forest is located not far from Riga, Latvia. In 1996 Ivar Viks, a scientist from Riga, told journalists about strange meteorological anomalies and mysterious features of local
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Wednesday, 21 Oct, 2009
If you're trying to figure out who to follow on Twitter, you might soon be turning to fellow users for help, rather than the company itself.
Evan Williams, the
