Calling all Texans! Texas lawmakers want to hear from you! Texas lawmakers are fed up with all their bad ideas so they are asking the public to pitch in some help. The Texas Red Tape Challenge is an effort to get Texas citizens input on better ways to do things. The [...More...]
Last year, two Louisiana residents died from a single-celled organism that thrives in warm, freshwater after using tap water for flushing their sinuses. The amoeba, known as Naegleria fowleri, can cause primary amoebic meningoecephalitis (PAM), which is fatal in 99 per cent of cases. Both victims, a 51-year-old woman and a 28-year-old man, had [...More...]
The results of two studies in the August 15 issue of JAMA report on the psychological status of workers at the Fukushima nuclear power plants in Japan several months after the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, and the amount of internal radiation exposure among residents of a city north of the power plant that [...More...]
From deformed infants to grandparents with cancer, families near Vietnam's Danang Airbase have long blamed the toxic legacy of war for their ills. Now after a decades-long wait, a historic "Agent Orange" clean-up is finally beginning. The base was a key site in the US defoliant program during the Vietnam War, and much of the [...More...]
Learn how to be a gladiator at the Roman Gladiator School. Master the basics of hand-to-hand combat at a genuine gladiator school on the ancient Appian Way. You'll discover the secrets of Imperial Rome's gladiator games, get hands-on with ancient Roman history and have the best fun you can imagine! Highlights Two-hour Roman [...More...]