Mosquitoes suck. They are the most deadly creature on the planet. They fly around, sharing diseases like dengue fever, malaria and yellow fever, infecting 700 million people a year, and killing over 2 million. In an effort to reduce their negative effects on our population, scientists have begun fighting back. Some of the methods scientists [...]
Continue Reading →Prior to a recent study done at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, scientists believed they only way to kill a virus, once it enters a cell, was to kill the entire cell. No longer the case for some viruses – including the common cold. On a molecular level, this is huge. I’ll give [...]
Continue Reading →About 45% of humans experience contagious yawning. Even seeing an animal yawn can trigger the same in a human. Mid-descent during a plane ride, Molly Helt, a clinical psychology researcher at the University of Connecticut, tried to encourage her autistic son to relieve the pressure change by yawning in front of him; however, he did [...]
Continue Reading →Have you ever been on Facebook wanted to download… all of your pictures and videos? all of your wall posts? all of your messages? Psst. You can. Under your Account Settings, there is a link next to Download Your Information. Guess what it allows you to do. Download your photos, videos, posts on your wall, [...]
Continue Reading →My mom sent me this pin and I found it quite humorous (and timely). If you’re like many people my age, you’re probably looking for a Halloween costume, or have been for a while now. Originally, I planned on going as a Wilderness Explorer (think Russell from Up), but then realized the monetary sum of [...]
Continue Reading →A new online dating service enables computer gamers to search, meet and even setup play dates with other like-minded anti-socialites. Sorry for the somewhat negative stereotype. Disclaimer: I will admit I know a few gaming friends who actually do socialize (face-to-face), but I [don't] know far more that don’t have offline social lives.1 Similar to [...]
Continue Reading →Earth’s strongest creature meets its mate in a pile of shit. Talk about a turnoff. It is estimated that the appropriately named dung beetle, or Onthophagus taurus, can pull 1,141 times its own weight. Mind boggling. Why would anything need to pull that many times its own weight? Female dung beetles will burrow into a [...]
Continue Reading →In addition to your [Facebook] friends and family knowing what’s on your mind, who you’re friends with, (and a handful of other info), you can now keep them apprised of where you are, using a service other than Gowalla and/or foursquare. If you don’t already use foursquare or Gowalla, then you are like me (and [...]
Continue Reading →I once heard that the majority of sales revenue from in-flight magazine purchases is generated from pet-related products. Most people are without their pets while on vacation, so they miss them and think, “Oh, that padded stepladder for Mittens will help her get hair all over our clean sheets!” Or, “Baxter will love that modern [...]
Continue Reading →In Bigger and Blacker, Chris Rock notes that the only thing worse than getting taxed is paying for insurance. He continues, saying: “They shouldn’t even call it insurance. They just should call it ‘in case shit.’ l give a company some money…in case shit happens. Now, if shit don’t happen, shouldn’t l get my money [...]
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