2017-07-07 02:00
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2017-07-06 02:00
Sitting up straight is not the best position for office workers, a study has suggested.Scottish and Canadian researchers used a new form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to show it plac… Read More
2017-07-05 02:00
New research suggests that common facial expressions — expressing things like happiness, sadness, disappointment, and achievement — may be innate, not learned. But managi… Read More
2017-07-04 15:15
In 1958, a New York man named Robert Lane decided to call his baby son Winner. The Lanes, who lived in a housing project in Harlem, already had several children, each with a fairly t… Read More
2017-06-23 14:00
People who prefer to work and play at night may have evolved to possess the so-called "Dark Triad" of psychological traits — psychopathy, narcissism, and manipulativeness, a ne… Read More
2017-06-22 14:00
Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He developed the theory of relativity, one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside quantum mechanics). Einstein's wor… Read More
2017-06-18 02:00
Pretty soon not even your dreams may be private anymore. Japanese scientists have learned how to interpret what you're dreaming about by measuring your brain activity while you sleep… Read More
2017-06-17 02:00
If there’s one thing that most of us can agree on, it’s that we’ve lost touch with nature. At the very least, I know we should be spending more time outdoors, and t… Read More
2017-06-16 02:00
For that you'll first have to understand what happens when we breathe. Normally, when you breathe in, you inhale oxygen and your body uses it up. The body makes a waste product calle… Read More
2017-06-15 02:00
It's a truth universally acknowledged that the act of physically sleeping together does not always equal relationship harmony. What with snoring and 3am tussles over who gets the duv… Read More
2017-06-14 02:00
A study has found that people rated as attractive tend to seek out equally attractive people in social situations. And attractive women were most likely of all to be found at the cen… Read More
2017-06-13 02:00
A team of sleep researchers at the University of California, Riverside, led by psychology professor Sara C. Mednick, has found that the autonomic nervous system, which is responsible… Read More
2017-06-12 02:00
It can be argued that music is a core function in our brain. Our brains are wired from the beginning to process and understand music. Yet music has always been sort of a mystery, esp… Read More
2017-06-11 02:00
Contrary to popular belief, rope jumping is not just for professional boxers and young kids in the schoolyard. Rope jumping is an excellent choice for exercisers of all fitness level… Read More
2017-06-10 02:00
If you find yourself picking up phrases from your partner, and have even noticed your personality changing, there's good news - you're probably very committed to your relationship. R… Read More
2017-06-09 02:43
Next time your guy gets on your case about cuddle time—he says he's too hot, needs his space, doesn't feel like relaxing—present the evidence. Research suggests that ther… Read More
2017-05-31 02:00
Ever wondered why the plane passenger next to you, hiding behind sunglasses and nursing a vodka tonic, wasn’t very chatty?It could be because they were DEAD.The bizarre te… Read More
2017-05-29 02:00
Children in North Korea are reportedly to be taught that Kim Jong-un learned to drive at the age of three, as part of a new school subject entirely dedicated to his life and “r… Read More
2017-05-28 02:00
Wolves begin breeding between 2 and 3 years of age and are believed to mate for life. Once sexually mature, most wolves leave their birth pack to search for a new territory or to joi… Read More
2017-05-27 02:00
Those that like their chap consistent to the point of regimentation may be best served to head to China to pick up the man of their homogeneous dreams – because the coppers ove… Read More
2017-05-26 02:00
The Consumerist has reported that two separate readers have sent in accounts of being refused computer repair service due to the presence of damage related to smoking. The readers we… Read More
2017-05-25 02:00
In contrast to other sports, basketball has a clear origin. It is not the evolution from an ancient game or another sport and the inventor is well known: Dr. James Naismith.Naismith… Read More
2017-05-24 05:10
When Chris Reynolds got an email regarding his PayPal account last Friday, he was stunned to see a 17-digit balance. The mind-boggling amount — $92,233,720,368,547,800 —… Read More
2017-05-20 05:00
Hearing voices in your head is so common that it is normal, psychologists believe.Dutch findings suggest one in 25 people regularly hears voices.Contrary to traditional belief, heari… Read More
2017-05-19 17:00
If you are looking to spice up your love life, head to the kitchen for these 5 foods that make you horny. Since ancient times, certain foods have been said to have aphrodisiac qualit… Read More
2017-05-19 17:00
You drifted off to sleep easily enough. But all of a sudden, it’s 4 a.m. and you’re wide awake. What gives?To an extent, this phenomenon — called middle insomnia, o… Read More
2017-05-19 05:00
Crying is the shedding of tears (or welling of tears in the eyes) in response to an emotional state. This could be: anger, happiness, or sadness. The act of crying has been defined a… Read More
2017-05-18 17:00
The world's oldest recorded joke has been traced back to 1900 BC and suggests that toilet humour was as popular with the ancients as it is today.It is a saying of the Sumerians, who… Read More
2017-05-18 05:00
If you were of a mind to forgive good-looking people for their freakishly good genetic makeup because you figure you got better brains than they did, don’t. A new study sugges… Read More
2017-05-17 17:00
Everything we do throughout the day, including sleep and rest, burns calories. Laughing burns calories by causing your heart rate to rise by 10 to 20 percent. As your heart rate rise… Read More
2017-05-15 17:00
Whenever you talk about the body's response to stress, it is best to start with the HPA axis. That's hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, or master glands of stress and how they rule the b… Read More
2017-05-15 05:00
Shouldn’t you announce your goals, so friends can support you?Isn’t it good networking to tell people about your upcoming projects?Doesn’t the “law of attract… Read More
2017-05-13 05:00
Pineapple is one of the most pungent fruits to snack on. Sure, lemons probably have them beat in the bitter and tart categories, but pineapples are the cause of sore tongues and lips… Read More
2017-05-13 05:00
The human digestive system evolved without the appropriate enzymes to digest certain foods, for example Legumes (beans) in general and cabbage-like vegetables like Cabbage, Broccoli… Read More
2017-05-12 17:00
Research has shown that people are reluctant to lie when speaking to someone else - perhaps because they feared they would be more easily caught out, either by their body language or… Read More
2017-05-12 17:00
Kanchō (カンチョー?) is a Japanese prank performed by clasping the hands together in the shape of an imaginary gun and attempting to poke an unsusp… Read More
2017-05-12 05:00
Sweden is so good at recycling that, for several years, it has imported rubbish from other countries to keep its recycling plants going. Less than 1 per cent of Swedish household was… Read More
2017-05-11 17:01
A new British study reveals that men have an 11 year lag behind women when it comes to maturing. According to the study, commissioned by Nickelodeon UK, the average man doesn't reach… Read More
2017-05-11 05:00
A Michigan man has reportedly gone to Internet-ready lengths in order to troll his ex-wife with a daily reminder of his feelings towards her.According to a person claiming to be the… Read More
2017-05-10 17:00
Most people are happier when they have a lot of social contact. But Christopher Ingraham points to a new paper suggesting an exception to this general rule: smart people, true to ste… Read More
2017-05-10 05:00
During the second World War, 26 Canadian areas from New Brunswick to Alberta hosted more than 35,000 prisoners of war – soldiers, insurgents, sailors and airmen. These prisons… Read More
2017-05-09 12:55
It is something many of us have long suspected - if only we had time to think about it. The pace of life is speeding up, with stressed-out men and women walking 10 per cent faster th… Read More
2017-05-09 02:45
As tensions mounted in Europe following Germany’s occupation of Czechoslovakia, Mohandas Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, wrote a cl… Read More
2017-05-08 17:00
Move over Kobe beef and aged whiskey. It turns out cheese is the most stolen food in the world, says a recent global study.That’s the finding of a new report by the U.K.’… Read More
2017-05-08 05:00
The twins hatched at the Harbin Polar Land in northern China, and to give both babies the best chance in life the aquarium decided to give one of the twins to another set of parents… Read More
2017-05-07 17:00
Did you know that thinking about sex can help you to hold your pee?According to Larry Lipshultz, chief of male reproductive medicine at the Baylor College of Medicine, thinking about… Read More
2017-05-07 05:00
Cheapest Days to Fly, Cheapest Times to FlyCan’t do the cheapest days to fly or cheapest times in both directions? Do it on one leg of a trip and still reap half the savings.Fl… Read More
2017-05-07 03:22
Excessive worry might not be such a bad thing after all — a new small study suggests that such anxiety may have evolved in people along with intelligence.The results show, amon… Read More
2017-05-05 01:31
Toy Story is a 1995 American computer-animated buddy comedy adventure film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The directorial debut of John Las… Read More
2017-05-04 17:00
It's not news anymore, but it's still a surprise: the poor are more generous than the rich. "For decades, surveys have shown that upper-income Americans ... are particularly undistin… Read More
2017-05-04 05:00
On Earth, gravity pulls us towards the ground. However, the force you notice isn’t the downward pull of gravity, but the upward force of the ground beneath you. The ground push… Read More
2017-05-03 05:00
Hyperthymesia is the condition of possessing an extremely detailed autobiographical memory. People with hyperthymesia remember an abnormally vast number of their life experiences.Ame… Read More
2017-05-02 17:00
Facebook is blue because Zuckerberg is color-blind: According to a 2010 profile from the New Yorker, Facebook’s main color is blue because Zuckerberg has a red-green color blin… Read More
2017-05-02 05:00
How long do we spend in a lifetime with our eyes closed just by blinking???A blink lasts for about 0.3 to 0.4 seconds. It is said that we blink about five times a minute, every minut… Read More
2017-05-01 05:00
MAO Zedong proposed sending 10 million Chinese women to the United States, in talks with top envoy Henry Kissinger in 1973, according to documents released by the US State Department.The… Read More
2017-04-30 17:00
The color yellow relates to acquired knowledge. It is the color which resonates with the left or logic side of the brain stimulating our mental faculties and creating mental agility… Read More
2017-04-30 05:00
The word may come from the Proto-Germanic verb root *brū-, meaning 'to cook, brew, or make a broth,' which was the role of the daughter-in-law in primitive families.[2] But Aoif… Read More
2017-04-29 17:00
Walter Summerford was struck by lightning three times in his life. Lightning bolts can be scary. Given the fact that they are electrically charged flashes and they travel at impossib… Read More
2017-04-29 05:00
When men are walking with the woman they love, they slow down their pace.In general, men tend to walk faster than women (I know ladies, I’m skeptical too). But it’s true… Read More
2017-04-28 17:00
Eminem would spend hours studying the dictionary every day so he could expand his vocabulary for his rhymes. His real name is Marshall Bruce Mathers III, he dropped out of school in… Read More
2017-04-28 05:00
Why does it seem like a person's ears and nose continue to grow until old age? Height doesn't change after puberty (well, if anything we get shorter as we age) but ears and noses are… Read More
2017-04-27 17:00
Humility is a trait that B-school admissions officers say they prize, though research suggests they sometimes choose candidates who are anything but humble. But why waste time with r… Read More
2017-04-27 05:00
Reseach continues to show that meditation has a powerful impact upon regions of the brain associated with stress, empathy, and sense of self. But would you believe it can occur in ju… Read More
2017-04-26 17:00
Are you aware in the early-to-mid 1900’s it was illegal to be “found ugly” on the streets of some mainstream American cities like Chicago, Illinois (Chicago Municipal Cod… Read More
2017-04-26 05:00
Ever heard “Think and Grow Rich”?“Think positive and you’ll attract what you want.”?People ever tell you, “Just be grateful for all the wonderful things… Read More
2017-04-25 17:00
Sleepless nights could prove more damaging than previously thought, after the results of a new study suggested sleep deprivation can lead to a permanent loss of brain cells.The “dist… Read More
2017-04-25 06:44
Finnish researchers have developed a groundbreaking new method that allows to study how the brain processes different aspects of music, such as rhythm, tonality and timbre (sound col… Read More
2017-04-24 17:00
Broccoli is known to be healthy and top notch vegetable which is rich in many supplements. It is said to pack the most wholesome punch of any vegetable. Here are a portion of the advantage… Read More
2017-04-24 05:00
Apple evacuated "I Am Rich" - a $999.99 iPhone application that did nothing - from its iTunes App Store not as much as a day after it went up. So would it say it was worth German coder Arm… Read More
2017-04-24 01:44
In their small and cosy television world, the characters of Friends may seem a little removed from reality.But apparently the sitcom closeness of Rachel, Joey, Chandler, Ross, Phoebe and M… Read More
2017-04-23 05:00
We can admit that sometimes it might make sense to fake your death. You know, like if you're on the run from the mob, or maybe if it's in order to more effectively strike fear into the c… Read More
2017-04-22 17:00
You’ll spend about 4,000 hours of your adult life showering -- possibly more time than you spend reading, exercising or watching TV -- but chances are, you’ve been doing it wr… Read More
2017-04-22 05:00
You're not crazy: Tomato juice does taste different when you're cruising 30,000 feet in the air.And it's not just tomato juice. All food is going to be a little different when you eat on… Read More
2017-04-21 17:00
Flatulence has secret health benefits that could help stave off strokes, heart attacks and dementia, scientists have revealed.Hydrogen sulfide is one of a number of potent smelly gases pr… Read More
2017-04-21 05:00
Coffee offers a wealth of health benefits -- there's its well-known ability to temporarily boost concentration and alertness, and drinking coffee might also lower your risk of liver dise… Read More
2017-04-20 17:00
In the United States, about 15 percent of an average life is spent at school. This assumes that a person completes school from kindergarten through 12th grade and is based on the average… Read More
2017-04-20 05:00
Feodor Vassilyev was a peasant from Shuya, Russia. His first wife lived to be 76 and, between 1725 and 1765, had 69 children (16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadrup… Read More
2017-04-19 17:00
You walk into a room and suddenly your brain goes fuzzy with an overwhelming wave of familiarity -- although this is a totally new experience. Like something out of a sci-fi plot, it alm… Read More
2017-04-19 05:00
Most experts unanimously agree that smoking increases the rate of breast augmentation surgical complications significantly. Just about all plastic surgeons strongly recommend women to… Read More
2017-04-18 17:00
Medical studies have shown that hugs and cuddling are important for your mental health. They kill depression, relieve anxiety and strengthen the immune system.Hugs are healing. Cuddling… Read More
2017-04-18 05:00
A vending machine is a machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, alcohol, cigarettes, lottery tickets to customers automatically, after the customer inserts currency or cre… Read More
2017-04-17 17:00
"Hakuna matata" is a Swahili phrase; roughly translated, it means "no worries". It is formed by the words hakuna (there is not here) and matata (plural form of problem). The phrase has b… Read More
2017-04-17 05:00
If I were to say that chainsaws were originally made to deliver babies, what would you say? You would probably think I’m off my face on some hallucinogenic party drug or something… Read More
2017-04-16 17:00
You can forget about Blackbeard. You can forget about Captain Jack Sparrow. You can forget about every other famous pirate ever, actually, because the most successful pirate captain of a… Read More
2017-04-16 05:00
Science gifts us the magic of more bacon (a personal top choice for stress eating) after a stunning reversal of the bacon-destroys-hearts stance.Actually, bacon still destroys hearts (an… Read More
2017-04-15 17:00
According to a report on Chinese television, as translated by Rocket News 24, 'professional fart smellers' in China are being paid upwards of 300,000 yuan a year.These professional hype… Read More
2017-04-15 05:00
In 1970, a document entitled « The effects of sexual activity on beard growth in men » was published in the journal Nature. The scientist who wrote this paper has shown that t… Read More
2017-04-14 17:00
A natural hair loss remedy can be done with herbs, massage or natural diet methods. People doing these remedies with hopes that no side effect would appear. Garlic and onion can be used… Read More
2017-04-14 05:00
Even though listening to sad songs should leave us feeling terrible, we have a tendency to actually kind of like them. Case in point: A 2008 study found that minor-key music sounded sad… Read More
2017-04-13 17:00
Johnny Depp made his return to Jack Sparrow once again, but not on the big screen. Instead, he donned the costume to head to Great Ormond Street Hospital and surprise the childre… Read More
2017-04-13 05:00
Got a treasured memory? It’s okay to get a little sappy, we all do, whether it’s that perfect night with a special someone or that dungeon crawl that finally went exactly acco… Read More
2017-04-11 05:00
Until now anything containing less than 10% alcohol in Russia has been considered a foodstuff.The move, signed into law on Wednesday, will allow ministers to control the sale of beer in… Read More
2017-04-10 17:00
While the idea of cooking with blood probably makes you a little nauseous, the team at the Nordic Food Lab is all about experimenting and pushing the envelope when it comes to cuisine. W… Read More
2017-04-10 05:00
Richardson won Volkswagen’s The Fun Theory, a contest for ideas to make obeying speed-limits fun. Now, less than a year later, his entry is in use in Stockholm, Sweden.Is it possible… Read More
2017-04-09 17:00
Scientists have finally confirmed what the rest of us have suspected for years: Bacon, cheesecake, and other delicious yet fattening foods may be addictive.A new study in rats suggests t… Read More
2017-04-09 05:00
Did you ever experience on meeting someone new. Trying to get along with a stranger, Having a conversation but not a small talk. Well our brain works as twice as fast when you meet one… Read More
2017-04-08 05:00
Penguins are amazing creatures, living in some of the harshest conditions in the world. They have an extremely sociable behavior for birds, they have big egos, busy sex lives, and they a… Read More
2017-04-07 17:00
According to estimates from some headphone experts, it might cost more to get your haircut than it does to make a pair of Dre Beats headphones.The company was sold to Apple in May of 201… Read More
2017-04-07 05:00
When Oreo cookies were first made back in the 1920s, Nabisco used pork fat to make the delicious cream filling. Oreos became kosher in December of 1997 after popular demand.When Oreo coo… Read More
2017-04-06 17:00
It’s a weird thing to see your face on another person’s face.I saw my doppelgänger (or can you have more than one?) in New York years ago around Union Square—same… Read More
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