An explorer once found a compound, calanolide A, in certain trees in the Malaysian rainforest. Researchers found out that it has anti-HIV properties, but they couldn’t find another sample for nine years as almost all the tree of that species had been cut down for firewood and building material. Calanolide A is an experimental non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase […]
Do you hate Rats? well i do hate them but see how many abilities they have. The average adult body weight is 350 grams (12 oz) in males and about 250 grams (8.8 oz) in females. The adult rat can squeeze through holes or gaps the size of a quarter (0.955 inches (24.3 mm), jump a horizontal distance of up […]
The Bloodbath of B-R5RB or the Battle of B-R5RB was a massive-scale virtual battle Gaming fought in the MMORPG space gameing Eve Online, and was possibly the largest player versus player battle in history. Pitting the Clusterfuck Coalition and Russian alliances against N3 and Pandemic Legion (N3/PL), the 21-hour-long conflict involved over 7,548 player characters […]
Franklin D. Roosevelt founded an organization to find a cure for polio, and believed that if everyone gave only a dime, polio would be eradicated. Because of this motto, after his death in 1945, FDR’s face was put on the dime, and his organization was renamed “The March of Dimes.” The March of Dimes Foundation […]
Alcohol is ranked higher than almost all drugs in terms of harm it causes. Ethanol is thought to cause harm partly as a result of direct damage to DNA caused by its metabolites. Most significant of the possible long-term effects of ethanol. In addition, in pregnant women it may cause fetal alcohol syndrome. Ethanol’s toxicity […]
Daniel Norris family has owned a bicycle shop in Johnson City, Tennessee, for more than 80 years. In the offseason, Norris lives by choice in a 1978 Volkswagen Westfalia van, nicknamed “Shaggy”. His unconventional lifestyle can be described as nonconformist and minimalist, and has raised eyebrows in MLB. Prior to the 2015 season, Tony LaCava, […]