Children Biased Towards Skin Color

“A white child looks at a picture of a black child and says she’s bad because she’s black. A black child says a white child is ugly because he’s white. A white child says a black child is dumb because she has dark skin. This isn’t a schoolyard fight that takes a racial turn, not a vestige of the “Jim Crow” South; these are American schoolchildren in 2010. Nearly 60 years after American schools were desegregated by the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling, and more than a year after the election of the country’s first black president, white children have an overwhelming white bias, and black children also have a bias toward white, according to a new study commissioned by CNN.”

VIA: -UNIQUE DAILY-

Strange History of the Sunflower

What is there to know about the sunflower? The plant is virtually everywhere, but it has a rather strange history and is more of a globe trotter than you may imagine. Its story has the historical and continental sweep of a Hollywood epic. Here is the tale of the peripatetic sunflower, accompanied by some stunning photography.

Resurrect Dead On Planet Jupiter

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Something is wrong in Jupiter. Astronomer Anthony Wesley’s photos show that one of its two dark stripes is gone. Maybe Sir Arthur C. Clarke was right and the gas giant will turn into a star to jumpstart life in Europa.

But no, even while it’s 2010, the process has happened before. It’s a phenomenon called South Equatorial Belt Disturbance, and it happens every three to fifteen years. The dark reddish brown—caused by sulfur and phosphorous mixed with ammonia crystals at 108 degrees below zero—fades away. At the same time, the Great Red Spot—a fiery anticyclonic storm that can reach 40,000 kilometers in diameter—gets darker.

SEE ALSO: -HEY JUPITER!-

Size Matters: Eavesdropping on Sexual Signals

Adult male produce loud song to attract females, but the song, which permeates the environment, can be overheard also by unintended receivers – such as young males unable to produce song due to a mutation they carry.

Until now researchers have not understood how non-singing male crickets use the song of singing males to modify their behavior or physical attributes to their advantage.

Now biologists at the University of California, Riverside have shed light on this mystery.

Telescope spots “truly empty” hole in space

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The Herschel Space Observatory has made a major finding – a hole in space. This story is front page news on a variety of websites today…

Although, this was already reported back in 2007 but is again making the rounds…

And what’s that? Here’s a “Hole Discovered in Space” article from 1999! Breaking news y’all!!!