Junk News

The captcha system was first introduced to combat spam. It stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. It is in use today on countless websites to prevent the endless spamming of posts and accounts.

Do you hold onto stuff? If you can't bear to throw away those old jeans or broken cell phones you aren't alone. A new survey by Leger Marketing found that eight in 10 Ontarians love their junk too much to trash it.

From every perspective news about pet foods is downright depressing these days. Cats and dogs are dying from their processed diet and rats prefer starvation to giving up junk food.

A study in the journal "Nature Neuroscience" shows binging on high-calorie foods may be as addictive as cocaine, and could also cause compulsive eating and obesity.

Two men chose to make a point about the damage that plastics can do to the marine environment, built a raft and then set sail across the Pacific to Hawaii. Their homemade raft was made from discarded plastic bottles and the remains of a Cessna 310.

After 50 years of space travel, 1,000 city buses worth of space junk are floating around up there in a large and dangerous dump, One day, it's all gonna come falling down. Should we worry?

A Junior High student won 1st prize at a Science Fair. His project? To show how we have become conditioned to being scared by alarmists and junk science. He urged people to sign a petition for very strict control and elimination of "dihydrogen monoxide."

There is over a million pieces of space junk that is orbiting our planet. It began with earth's first satellite that was sent into space in 1957.

During certain times of the day, you can now tune into a UK programme and find there no adverts for junk food.

This is great news. More and more schools are adopting the healthier lifestyle and phasing out the french fries and other junk food.