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En el encuentro de escritores en que participo en Granada bulle la molestia contra los alcaldes “gilipollas” y “fachas” del Partido Popular ¿A quién se le ocurre borrarle el nombre de Pablo Neruda a una calle? Se le ocurrió al dentista Juan Antonio Callejas Cano, flamante alcalde del PP de Villamayor de Calatrava, comuna de 665 habitantes situada en el corazón de España. De un plumazo borró también los nombres de la calle Pablo Iglesias, insigne fundador del Partido Socialista español, y Enrique Tierno Galván, respetado intelectual y alcalde de Madrid en la transición a la democracia.
Por "desconocido" quitan el nombre de Pablo Neruda a calle española
Different Parts of Your Tongue Detect Different Tastes. Lots of people think different parts of the tongue are fine-tuned to detect different tastes. The tip of the tongue is where you get your cupcake on, the sides are where the salty taste really hits home, bitter's in the back, and in between is the sour zone. This "fact" was the prevailing notion for a very long time. It has persisted in spite of millions of kids in health class insisting that the wooden spoon just tastes like wooden spoon, no matter how they lick it. More recently, however, we've found out that the whole zones theory was pretty much bologna.
10 Completely False ‘Facts’ Everyone Knows"
Invisible cars no longer a thing of the future | Tech Chronicles
When driving, seeing less seems like the opposite of what you would want. But researchers from Keio University aren’t increasing the size of your blind spot, they’re trying to make car interiors invisible to give drivers an unobstructed view of what’s behind the car. With the device in place, it would feel like the driver was in a glass car — with a transparent back — and would provide a better view even than video dashboards display.EVOLUTION has changed our bodies and faces over thousands of years — and it’s still happening. Here’s how leading anatomical experts predict our descendants will differ physically from us in 1,000 years from now. - We’ll be TALLER at 6-7ft because of improved nutrition and medical science. Osteopath Garry Trainer, from north London, says: “The average American is about one inch taller than in 1960.” - Our INTESTINES will get shorter so we don’t absorb as much fat and sugar — a natural way of avoiding obesity, says dentist Dr Philip Stemmer.
You’ll have smaller brains, more wrinkles and fewer teeth | The Sun |Features
Almohada inspirada en avestruces permite dormir en cualquier lugar y momento
Imagen: Studio-kg.com Cuando tenemos una larga jornada laboral o clases después de una noche de fiesta, el sueño de todos es poder continuar durmiendo cuando suena el despertador. Esto ahora es posible gracias a un bizarro invento británico. Esta extraña creación implica que el usuario puede dormir cuando lo necesite, ya sea en el metro, un bus e inclusive en un escritorio, según publicó el Daily Mail .Representative Todd Akin of Missouri made two mistakes when he said recently about pregnancy resulting from rape.... “From what I understand from doctors, it’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut the whole thing down.” His first mistake was linguistic. The term “legitimate rape” is an oxymoron.
Why Are Rape Victims More—Not Less—Likely To Become Pregnant?
La playa más rara del mundo: Paradisíaco balneario con agua salada y olas se ubica en medio de prado
La playa más rara del mundo: Paradisíaco balneario con agua salada y olas se ubica en medio de prado Imagen: Ramon Díaz (CC) Un paradisíaco lugar ubicado en la localidad de Llanes, en el norte de España, deja boquiabiertos a los visitantes.
6 Terrifying New Creatures Science Just Discovered
Nature is just one big arms race. You evolve thicker skin, they evolve bigger teeth. So while we at Cracked like to regularly terrify our readers with tales of all the frightening creatures we share the planet with, we should always keep one thing in mind:We spend a lot of time here at Cracked pointing out horrors of nature that slither on the land and lurch through the sea. But staying under the radar in nature's landscape of nightmares is the twisted carnival of things that grow out of the ground.
10 Creepy Plants That Shouldn't Exist
From my perspective, there haven't been enough big sci-fi plots with polyglots in them, and why should there be?
Learning an Alien's Language
Let me start by admitting a persistent befuddlement in the face of many of life's presumably easily answered questions. The one that has mystified me the longest is - why, if we're constantly replacing the cells in our bodies, do we retain scars? Get wrinkles as we age?
Are We Ourselves?
Imagen: Cebra | Wikipedia (CC)
Revelan la insólita razón de por qué las cebras tienen rayas
Imagen: Jason Russell | Allvoices.com El director del video viral en YouTube “Kony2012″, que busca crear conciencia para dar caza al criminal de guerra ugandés Joseph Kony, sufría una “psicosis reactiva breve” cuando se masturbó desnudo en una calle en San Diego, sur de California, informó su familia. “Quisiéramos aclarar nuevamente que el accidente de Jason (Russell) no fue resultado de drogas o alcohol.
Director de video viral “Kony 2012″ fue hospitalizado por trastorno psicótico
[FOTO] En China los urinarios se burlan de los japoneses
Polémica desataron en China los urinarios de un hotel de Harbin, los cuales tienen la forma de soldados japoneses de rodillas y con la boca abierta.My Hero Diogenes the Cynic
Diogenes of Sinope or Diogenes the Cynic (c. 412-323 BCE) was a contemporary of Socrates' pupil Plato, whom Plato described as ‘a Socrates gone mad'. Like Socrates and, to a lesser extent, Plato, Diogenes favoured direct verbal interaction over the written account. When a man called Hegesias asked to be lent one of his writing tablets, he replied, ‘You are a simpleton, Hegesias; you do not choose painted figs, but real ones; and yet you pass over the true training and would apply yourself to written rules.'Bizarre