Before meeting with Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of a consumer gene-testing service called 23andMe, I know just three things about her: she’s pregnant, she’s married to Google’s Sergey Brin, and she went to Yale. But after an hour chatting with her in the small office she shares with co-founder Linda Avey at 23andMe’s headquarters in Mountain View,...

[ad#half-banner] Wiki Says Mehndi is the application of Henna as a temporary form of skin decoration, in South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Somalia as well as expatriate communities from these areas. Mehndi decorations became fashionable in the West in the late 1990s, where they are sometimes called henna tattoos. In Kerala henna is known as mylanchi and widely...

[ad#half-banner] Daily Mail reports…While most cats are renowned for having nine lives, these moggies are clearly living on a wing and a prayer. The cute little devils began sprouting bumps on their backs, which later turned into wing-like growths, during a recent spell of hot weather in China’s Sichuan province. Cat owner Feng says her Tom cat grew wings...

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[ad#linksx4-no-home] I felt a sudden urge to google the phase ‘Who Owns the Internet?’ and this is the best reply I found out there…I am sure few of you will be interested. No one actually owns the Internet, and no single person or organization controls the Internet in its entirety. More of a concept than an actual tangible entity, the Internet relies...

[ad] 1. Nadia Comaneci (Montreal 1976): Not many athletes get to force changes in their sport through the sheer weight of their individual brilliance, but that is what Comaneci achieved. In a sport reliant on the often questionable subjective views of judges, Comaneci achieved on the uneven bars what no one believed was possible – perfection. In fact, so unlikely...

Entertainer Charlie Chaplin was probably the most well-known actor of the early 20th century. After adopting his trademark Little Tramp costume, consisting of baggy pants, bamboo cane, bowler hat, and over-sized shoes, Chaplin became a Hollywood icon. He was the most popular draw in the early days of silent film and, even to this day, when a list of early movie comedians...

[ad#half-banner] There are always two choices: start something, or get good at something that is already there. I opted for the latter. And I can’t say that I regret even for one second that I spent the past five years building myself up to the point where I can make a NYC living wage doing something that is ridiculously fun and, at times, easy. I mean, I even have an...

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Heath Ledger (died in 2008) Overdose of drugs prescribed 7 months before the premiere of “The Dark Knight”. Hits: 1404

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Please be patient for the first minute…It gets really creative after that… Hits: 65

When Roger Kusch helped Bettina Schardt kill herself at home on Saturday, the grim, carefully choreographed ritual was like that in many cases of assisted suicide, with one exception. Hits: 91

The Internet Vs. The Care of Your Soul 1. No laptop in bed. 2. No internet for at least 30 minutes before you got to sleep. 3. Nothing on your feed reader that posts more than X times per Y. 4. Being bored does not mean you have to check your email. 5. Don’t only read websites related to subjects you know inside and out. 6. For every X feeds that you add to your reader,...

Look closely: this is history in the making. These are the clearest pictures ever taken of what is the starting point of every human life: ovulation occurring inside a woman’s body. Hits: 230

This article has been sourced from www.lifeinthefastlane.ca Popularly known by their names of color as much as their historical designations — the ancient Blue City known as Jodhpur, neighboring Jaipur known as the Pink City, its former capital the Amber City, and Morocco’s Red City of Marrakech — are as much astonishingly beautiful as they are remarkably unusual. Hits:...

Further Rare Picture and Commentry by Mr. Gates at “Gates without Microsoft – FORTUNE Magazine” Hits: 67

Thirty miles west of the Taj Mahal, on the road to the pink city of Jaipur, tourists on buses pass a sight that the guide books rarely mention. A mile beyond the town of Bharatpur in Rajasthan, where the highway is being widened to four lanes, traffic slows down for roadworks. But the workmen who lounge by their bulldozers have their eyes on something else – a cluster...

1. “Watch out for scare tactics. Admonitions like ‘I wouldn’t drive this another mile’ should be viewed with suspicion.” 2. “Check for ASE [National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence] or AAA [American Automobile Association] certification, as well as a state license. Reputable shops are proud to display them.” 3. “Ask,...

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