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We share 50% of our DNA with bananas…
It's true. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. Apparently Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College, London is credited with stating this information. Kind of freaky when you think about it. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is what makes us all different, but the difference between us and the next species or even a fruit isn't as significant as you would think.
However, according to Penn State University, a human DNA sequence, if it were a half an inch of a twine, would stretch from New York to the the west coast of California. That makes that 50% seem all the more distant when you think of the whole number/complexity that the percent refers to.
Other DNA facts you don't need to know:
- A parent and child share 99.5% of the same DNA.
- We share 40-50% of our DNA with cabbages.
- Humans share 98% of their DNA with chimpanzees.
- Every human on earth shares 99% of their DNA with every other human.
- Identical twins share the exact same DNA - meaning their DNA is 100% identical.
- We share 60% of our DNA with a fruit fly.
- Researchers at Cambridge University are convinced that the mud worms not only share DNA with humans but that they are also our closest invertabrae relatives.
Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 percent of Americans - those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 - receiving their largest share of national income since 1928, analysis of newly released tax data shows.
The top 10 percent, roughly those earning more than $100,000, also reached a level of income share not seen since before the Depression.
While total reported income in the United States increased almost 9 percent in 2005, the most recent year for which such data is available, average incomes for those in the bottom 90 percent dipped slightly compared with the year before, dropping $172, or 0.6 percent.
The gains went largely to the top 1 percent, whose incomes rose to an average of more than $1.1 million each, an increase of more than $139,000, or about 14 percent.
The new data also shows that the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans. Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980.
The analysis by the two professors showed that the top 10 percent of Americans collected 48.5 percent of all reported income in 2005.
That is an increase of more than 2 percentage points over the previous year and up from roughly 33 percent in the late 1970s. The peak for this group was 49.3 percent in 1928.
The top 1 percent received 21.8 percent of all reported income in 2005, up significantly from 19.8 percent the year before and more than double their share of income in 1980. The peak was in 1928, when the top 1 percent reported 23.9 percent of all income.
The top tenth of a percent and top one-hundredth of a percent recorded even bigger gains in 2005 over the previous year. Their incomes soared by about a fifth in one year, largely because of the rising stock market and increased business profits.
The top tenth of a percent reported an average income of $5.6 million, up $908,000, while the top one-hundredth of a percent had an average income of $25.7 million, up nearly $4.4 million in one year.
Thus, a total of 11 tankers were required for only two Vulcans, a massive logistical effort, given that both the tankers and bombers had to use the same strip. The attack yielded only a single hit on the runway. - Falkland War
The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest creature on the planet in its hunting dive, the stoop, in which it soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds in excess of 320 km/h (200mph) into either wing of its prey, so as not to harm itself on impact. In its stoop, the Peregrine Falcon attains the highest speed of any animal. The fastest speed recorded is 390 km/h (242.3 mph). At this speed, the air intake is powerful enough to burst the lungs of the bird but the curved cones around its nose divert enough air from the lungs to keep the bird from being injured.
If you were able to unravel the DNA in just one human cell and stretch it out, it would be two metres long. However as DNA is so thin, you would not be able to see it without an incredibly powerful microscope.
he United Nations Development Program Report places Burkina Faso as the most illiterate country in the world, with only a 12.8% literacy rate. (See List of countries by literacy rate.)
The Cure for Insomnia, directed by John Henry Timmis IV, is officially the world's longest movie, according to Guinness World Records, as of its release in 1987. Running 5220 minutes (87 hours) in length, the movie has no plot, instead consisting of artist L. D. Groban reading his lengthy poem "A Cure for Insomnia" over the course of three and a half days, spliced with occasional clips from heavy metal and pornographic videos.
It was first played in its entirety at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois from January 31 to February 3, 1987 in one continuous showing. It is not clear whether or not the movie has been shown since then. Considering that a DVD can only hold up to five hours of video at mild quality, The Cure for Insomnia would fill around 18 discs.
The movie is shot entirely on video, and its intended purpose actually was to help cure insomnia. It is therefore disputed as to whether or not The Cure for Insomnia should even be considered as a candidate for the world's longest film.
he Online Journalism Review reports on Jakob Nielsen's use of an eye-tracker to look at how different people read the Web -- particularly news. There are lots of interesting findings, but the best is the revelation that men fixate on any visible genital areas in photos -- even animals' crotches come in for a good eyeballing.
Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed.
This image of George Brett was part of a larger page with his biographical information. All users tested looked the image, but there was a distinct difference in focus between men and women.
Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.
pro-israeli lobbies in the US donated $52.8 million between 1994-2004 to parties and political candidates, while pro-arab lobbies donated $788,000
there are 30 jewish congressman, and 13 jewish senators in the US Congress
Ron Jeremy was ranked the number one porn star by AVN (Adult Video News) Magazine. His notoriety came from his ability to, um, pleasure himself orally. He is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Most Appearances in Adult Films," over 1900 so far.
13 percent of new teachers left public schools by the end of their second year, and 22 percent left by end of their fourth year during the 1990’s.
. In sum, 32 percent of all teachers leave after the first seven years of teaching
Sam Waterston has starred on "Law & Order" since 1994.
The transitional government is the 14th attempt at establishing effective central rule in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation, which has been plagued by civil war and warlord rule for some 16 years
sh33p has 15% human cells
March 22, 2007 5:52 p.m. EST
Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Appearing on an episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews, the former GOP House Majority Leader Tom DeLay denied calling former colleague Dick Armey "drunk with ambition" in his book, "No Retreat, No Surrender."
During the interview, Matthews asked DeLay why he called Armey, who is a frequent guest on the MSNBC show, "drunk with ambition," and the former Congressman denied saying it, adding he called fellow Texan "blinded by ambition."
Matthews asks, "You said he was 'drunk with ambition?'" To which DeLay explains, "Actually, that's not what I said. What I said was he's blinded by ambition... drunk with ambition is a quote of a cliche." A puzzled Matthews then pulls out a copy of the book, saying, "well, why would I underline it in the book?"
Matthews then found the quote, adding "It's right here in your book, you got to read it. I'm sorry Tom, it's there." DeLay only shrugged it off, laughing and saying "I don't have my glasses on, up here it says blinded."
According to Wikipedia (which sites 3 sources), if you're a woman and you have unprotected sex with a man who has HIV, you have a 1 in 1,000 chance of getting it. If the roles are reversed, the odds are about 1 in 2,000. Now, remember, this is if the person is 100% HIV positive and you are unprotected. Let's go with the female number: You have a 1 in 1,000 chance of contracting a virus that will eventually kill you several years in the future. In Russian Roulette you have approximately a 1 in 6 chance of dying right there on the spot. Hmmm... someone's metaphors don't really work.
Google bombing is so last year, says PromotionWorld. Google has updated its search engine to make it less open to Google bombing campaigns, such as the one that brought up the White House home page when searching for "miserable failure
Sino-Roman relations started first on an indirect basis during the 2nd century BC. China and Rome progressively inched closer with the embassies of Zhang Qian in 130 BC and the military expeditions of China to Central Asia, until general Ban Chao attempted to send an envoy to Rome around 100 AD. Several alleged Roman embassies to China were recorded by a number of ancient Chinese historians. The first one on record, supposedly from either the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius or the later emperor Marcus Aurelius, arrived in 166 AD.
(more automobiles will be produced in the next twenty years then were previously produced in the entire history of automobile manufacturing),
James Arness (originally Aurness) (born May 26, 1923 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke for 20 years, a record length for a character on a single prime time show (though the length of time in a role is shared with Kelsey Grammer’s portrayal of Dr. Frasier Crane, Grammer played the same role on three different programs, Cheers, Frasier, and Wings).
Just think, for example, what will take place should McCain do something similar to what he did on Feb. 17, 2000, in South Carolina. That was when, in discussing the sadistic North Vietnamese soldiers who tortured him and his fellow POWs, McCain said he "hated the gooks, and I will hate them as long as I live."
45 million abortions since 1973 in america
At the end of Zahir Shah's reign only 50 kilometers of asphalt road existed in the whole of Afghanistan and the economy was in crisis- 1973 afganastan
mice share around 85% of their genes with humans. Yeast shares 46%. Those tiny annoying fruit flies that descend on overripe bananas share 60%. Oh, and the banana itself shares about 50%.
Mar 23, 1:48 AM ET
MANILA (AFP) - Almost 70 percent of all electronic mail from Asia is "spam", or unsolicited advertisements, an anti-virus firm said Friday.
The Philippines had the worst record with spam making up 88 percent of all emails, Symantec Corp. said in excerpts of its Internet Threat Security Report released here.
The average percentage of emails sent from the Asia-Pacific region that were spam was 69 percent, the report added.
Although the Philippines had the highest proportion of spam, China was the largest source of spam by sheer volume, the report said.
Thirty-seven percent of all spam detected from Asia-Pacific originated from China.
Symantec said in a statement that it could not provide the total number of e-mails monitored but that the results was based on data from over two million "decoy accounts" attracting email from 20 different countries.
It also uses a statistical sampling of networks used by Symantec's customers, the statement said.
God has created people with approximately 3 billion base pairs (or
"letters") of DNA in all of our 75 trillion cells - excluding mature red
blood cells which are without a nucleus. Let's say for the moment that there
is a two percent difference between people and chimps.
It's true. Humans share 50% of their DNA with bananas. Apparently Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at University College, London is credited with stating this information. Kind of freaky when you think about it. DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is what makes us all different, but the difference between us and the next species or even a fruit isn't as significant as you would think.
However, according to Penn State University, a human DNA sequence, if it were a half an inch of a twine, would stretch from New York to the the west coast of California. That makes that 50% seem all the more distant when you think of the whole number/complexity that the percent refers to.
Other DNA facts you don't need to know:
- A parent and child share 99.5% of the same DNA.
- We share 40-50% of our DNA with cabbages.
- Humans share 98% of their DNA with chimpanzees.
- Every human on earth shares 99% of their DNA with every other human.
- Identical twins share the exact same DNA - meaning their DNA is 100% identical.
- We share 60% of our DNA with a fruit fly.
- Researchers at Cambridge University are convinced that the mud worms not only share DNA with humans but that they are also our closest invertabrae relatives.
Income inequality grew significantly in 2005, with the top 1 percent of Americans - those with incomes that year of more than $348,000 - receiving their largest share of national income since 1928, analysis of newly released tax data shows.
The top 10 percent, roughly those earning more than $100,000, also reached a level of income share not seen since before the Depression.
While total reported income in the United States increased almost 9 percent in 2005, the most recent year for which such data is available, average incomes for those in the bottom 90 percent dipped slightly compared with the year before, dropping $172, or 0.6 percent.
The gains went largely to the top 1 percent, whose incomes rose to an average of more than $1.1 million each, an increase of more than $139,000, or about 14 percent.
The new data also shows that the top 300,000 Americans collectively enjoyed almost as much income as the bottom 150 million Americans. Per person, the top group received 440 times as much as the average person in the bottom half earned, nearly doubling the gap from 1980.
The analysis by the two professors showed that the top 10 percent of Americans collected 48.5 percent of all reported income in 2005.
That is an increase of more than 2 percentage points over the previous year and up from roughly 33 percent in the late 1970s. The peak for this group was 49.3 percent in 1928.
The top 1 percent received 21.8 percent of all reported income in 2005, up significantly from 19.8 percent the year before and more than double their share of income in 1980. The peak was in 1928, when the top 1 percent reported 23.9 percent of all income.
The top tenth of a percent and top one-hundredth of a percent recorded even bigger gains in 2005 over the previous year. Their incomes soared by about a fifth in one year, largely because of the rising stock market and increased business profits.
The top tenth of a percent reported an average income of $5.6 million, up $908,000, while the top one-hundredth of a percent had an average income of $25.7 million, up nearly $4.4 million in one year.
Thus, a total of 11 tankers were required for only two Vulcans, a massive logistical effort, given that both the tankers and bombers had to use the same strip. The attack yielded only a single hit on the runway. - Falkland War
The Peregrine Falcon is the fastest creature on the planet in its hunting dive, the stoop, in which it soars to a great height, then dives steeply at speeds in excess of 320 km/h (200mph) into either wing of its prey, so as not to harm itself on impact. In its stoop, the Peregrine Falcon attains the highest speed of any animal. The fastest speed recorded is 390 km/h (242.3 mph). At this speed, the air intake is powerful enough to burst the lungs of the bird but the curved cones around its nose divert enough air from the lungs to keep the bird from being injured.
If you were able to unravel the DNA in just one human cell and stretch it out, it would be two metres long. However as DNA is so thin, you would not be able to see it without an incredibly powerful microscope.
he United Nations Development Program Report places Burkina Faso as the most illiterate country in the world, with only a 12.8% literacy rate. (See List of countries by literacy rate.)
The Cure for Insomnia, directed by John Henry Timmis IV, is officially the world's longest movie, according to Guinness World Records, as of its release in 1987. Running 5220 minutes (87 hours) in length, the movie has no plot, instead consisting of artist L. D. Groban reading his lengthy poem "A Cure for Insomnia" over the course of three and a half days, spliced with occasional clips from heavy metal and pornographic videos.
It was first played in its entirety at The School of the Art Institute in Chicago, Illinois from January 31 to February 3, 1987 in one continuous showing. It is not clear whether or not the movie has been shown since then. Considering that a DVD can only hold up to five hours of video at mild quality, The Cure for Insomnia would fill around 18 discs.
The movie is shot entirely on video, and its intended purpose actually was to help cure insomnia. It is therefore disputed as to whether or not The Cure for Insomnia should even be considered as a candidate for the world's longest film.
he Online Journalism Review reports on Jakob Nielsen's use of an eye-tracker to look at how different people read the Web -- particularly news. There are lots of interesting findings, but the best is the revelation that men fixate on any visible genital areas in photos -- even animals' crotches come in for a good eyeballing.
Although both men and women look at the image of George Brett when directed to find out information about his sport and position, men tend to focus on private anatomy as well as the face. For the women, the face is the only place they viewed.
This image of George Brett was part of a larger page with his biographical information. All users tested looked the image, but there was a distinct difference in focus between men and women.
Coyne adds that this difference doesn’t just occur with images of people. Men tend to fixate more on areas of private anatomy on animals as well, as evidenced when users were directed to browse the American Kennel Club site.
pro-israeli lobbies in the US donated $52.8 million between 1994-2004 to parties and political candidates, while pro-arab lobbies donated $788,000
there are 30 jewish congressman, and 13 jewish senators in the US Congress
Ron Jeremy was ranked the number one porn star by AVN (Adult Video News) Magazine. His notoriety came from his ability to, um, pleasure himself orally. He is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for "Most Appearances in Adult Films," over 1900 so far.
13 percent of new teachers left public schools by the end of their second year, and 22 percent left by end of their fourth year during the 1990’s.
. In sum, 32 percent of all teachers leave after the first seven years of teaching
Sam Waterston has starred on "Law & Order" since 1994.
The transitional government is the 14th attempt at establishing effective central rule in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation, which has been plagued by civil war and warlord rule for some 16 years
sh33p has 15% human cells
March 22, 2007 5:52 p.m. EST
Matthew Borghese - All Headline News Staff Writer
Washington, D.C. (AHN) - Appearing on an episode of Hardball with Chris Matthews, the former GOP House Majority Leader Tom DeLay denied calling former colleague Dick Armey "drunk with ambition" in his book, "No Retreat, No Surrender."
During the interview, Matthews asked DeLay why he called Armey, who is a frequent guest on the MSNBC show, "drunk with ambition," and the former Congressman denied saying it, adding he called fellow Texan "blinded by ambition."
Matthews asks, "You said he was 'drunk with ambition?'" To which DeLay explains, "Actually, that's not what I said. What I said was he's blinded by ambition... drunk with ambition is a quote of a cliche." A puzzled Matthews then pulls out a copy of the book, saying, "well, why would I underline it in the book?"
Matthews then found the quote, adding "It's right here in your book, you got to read it. I'm sorry Tom, it's there." DeLay only shrugged it off, laughing and saying "I don't have my glasses on, up here it says blinded."
According to Wikipedia (which sites 3 sources), if you're a woman and you have unprotected sex with a man who has HIV, you have a 1 in 1,000 chance of getting it. If the roles are reversed, the odds are about 1 in 2,000. Now, remember, this is if the person is 100% HIV positive and you are unprotected. Let's go with the female number: You have a 1 in 1,000 chance of contracting a virus that will eventually kill you several years in the future. In Russian Roulette you have approximately a 1 in 6 chance of dying right there on the spot. Hmmm... someone's metaphors don't really work.
Google bombing is so last year, says PromotionWorld. Google has updated its search engine to make it less open to Google bombing campaigns, such as the one that brought up the White House home page when searching for "miserable failure
Sino-Roman relations started first on an indirect basis during the 2nd century BC. China and Rome progressively inched closer with the embassies of Zhang Qian in 130 BC and the military expeditions of China to Central Asia, until general Ban Chao attempted to send an envoy to Rome around 100 AD. Several alleged Roman embassies to China were recorded by a number of ancient Chinese historians. The first one on record, supposedly from either the Roman emperor Antoninus Pius or the later emperor Marcus Aurelius, arrived in 166 AD.
(more automobiles will be produced in the next twenty years then were previously produced in the entire history of automobile manufacturing),
James Arness (originally Aurness) (born May 26, 1923 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an actor best known for portraying Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke for 20 years, a record length for a character on a single prime time show (though the length of time in a role is shared with Kelsey Grammer’s portrayal of Dr. Frasier Crane, Grammer played the same role on three different programs, Cheers, Frasier, and Wings).
Just think, for example, what will take place should McCain do something similar to what he did on Feb. 17, 2000, in South Carolina. That was when, in discussing the sadistic North Vietnamese soldiers who tortured him and his fellow POWs, McCain said he "hated the gooks, and I will hate them as long as I live."
45 million abortions since 1973 in america
At the end of Zahir Shah's reign only 50 kilometers of asphalt road existed in the whole of Afghanistan and the economy was in crisis- 1973 afganastan
mice share around 85% of their genes with humans. Yeast shares 46%. Those tiny annoying fruit flies that descend on overripe bananas share 60%. Oh, and the banana itself shares about 50%.
Mar 23, 1:48 AM ET
MANILA (AFP) - Almost 70 percent of all electronic mail from Asia is "spam", or unsolicited advertisements, an anti-virus firm said Friday.
The Philippines had the worst record with spam making up 88 percent of all emails, Symantec Corp. said in excerpts of its Internet Threat Security Report released here.
The average percentage of emails sent from the Asia-Pacific region that were spam was 69 percent, the report added.
Although the Philippines had the highest proportion of spam, China was the largest source of spam by sheer volume, the report said.
Thirty-seven percent of all spam detected from Asia-Pacific originated from China.
Symantec said in a statement that it could not provide the total number of e-mails monitored but that the results was based on data from over two million "decoy accounts" attracting email from 20 different countries.
It also uses a statistical sampling of networks used by Symantec's customers, the statement said.
God has created people with approximately 3 billion base pairs (or
"letters") of DNA in all of our 75 trillion cells - excluding mature red
blood cells which are without a nucleus. Let's say for the moment that there
is a two percent difference between people and chimps.