The Bird’s Head region in Papua may be the most biologically diverse in all the oceans, say scientists from Conservation International (CI).

Here are some pictures.

Getting “egged” can cause serious damage, according to research.

A Liverpool-based study found that being pelted by a raw egg may result in eye injury – and could even lead to blindness.

Researchers from Royal Liverpool University Hospital looked at the records of 18,651 patients who had attended an eye unit over a 14-month period.

They discovered that 13 people had been the victims of an egg attack.

Many of these cases were clustered around Halloween, and 12 of the patients were men.

Eight had serious injuries to their eyes, including detachment of the retina, macular damage and raised internal pressure, which can lead to a permanent loss of eyesight.

While most recovered, one of the patients, who had been hit from an egg thrown from a passing car, suffered permanent damage to his eye.

Ataturk passed away on this day in 1938. At 9:05am everything stops – even traffic in Turkey. People get out of their cars and have a moment of silence. I’m working on getting a video of this (there is one somewhere online I saw a few months ago).

As I am retarded at expressing myself through a keyboard, you’ll have to educate yourselves on what this man, the founder of modern Turkey was able to accomplish.

Least of which was a stable, democratic, secular republic that exists today. He gave women the right to vote (before France and Switzerland), raised the literacy rate from 20% to 90% in the course of a few years, and forged peace treaties with many nations around the world.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap. My people are going to learn the principles of democracy, the dictates of truth and the teachings of science. Superstition must go. Let them worship as they will; every man can follow his own conscience, provided it does not interfere with sane reason or bid him against the liberty of his fellow-men.