After banning smoking everywhere in England, people there have made the startling discovery that their pubs stink just like the Irish and Scottish ones. Stale beer, sweaty people and flatulence aren’t great smells at all. How long before they discover that being outside in the rain, snow, wind and cold is making more and more Read more about England discovers that pubs stink[…]
There are several different types of learning styles. People usually learn best when they learn using all of the senses, but learning is much improved by utilising the style you are best at. Find out here what style suits you best.
Using fat-derived stem cells allows patients to have fat taken from the belly, the stem cells extracted and put into a cartridge and injected into the breasts. The procedure takes around an hour and costs the same as similar surgeries. After doing this, the breasts grow over a period of months. Since they are ‘real’ Read more about Use your own fat to grow bigger breasts[…]
Interesting article with some truths about people and their behaviour that we’d really rather not face…
And they recognise it in Denmark – it’s normal for a certain breed of people to just want to wake up late, so it’s also logical to have companies and schools starting a bit later to accommodate these people. Let’s hope it comes over here too!
This site allows you to register your number and 10 overseas numbers. You dial the access number and the extension and you enjoy free calls for unlimited time.
And of course it does. Allthough sex therapy only uses intercourse in around 15% of cases, so don’t get too worked up. Oh and the sample size of the brave doctor who has ressurrected this practice is only 30 people, but the results from this group is very promising indeed. So, where can we sign Read more about Sex Therapy works[…]
Interestingly, slobs may look messy but their mess is organised. Neat freaks are so busy tidying up, that they lose productivity. The book “A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder,” by Eric Abrahamson and David Freedman has studied the dynamics of neatness and come to this conclusion.
The scientific community knew that scent is closely related to memory, as people can recall events / places with a certain smell when they smell the associated scent easily. Now, they’ve found out that if you have a task that requires studying, then associate that with a smell and then throw that smell at you Read more about Scents improve memory formation[…]
The new generation of gold diggers see it as their responsibility to be high maintenance and do nothing. The danger signals of a wife going toxic are all too plain: — She gives up work to care for the children and then sends them to boarding schools as soon as they outgrow their nannies. — Read more about Toxic Wife Syndrome[…]
This site takes historical data about traffic jams from the past three years and uses it to predict the amount of traffic jams in the Netherlands on a graphical map for the date and hourly time period you select. NB it’s slightly confusing: you go to ‘verkeersweergave’ -> ‘Intensiteiten’ -> ‘Topdrukte’ and on the page Read more about Predict your traffic jams[…]
A NY state judge has ruled that since Jeb Corliss was very aware of the risks involved and attempted to mitigate them as much as possible, his attempt to jump off the Empire State Building was not reckless and endangering behaviour and thus legal. Of course those namby pamby pussies who get adrenal rushes from Read more about BASE Jumping Legal in US[…]
In a study under around 700 participants in the South of Spain, it turns out that women discriminate most against women (as opposed to men) and display much more controlling leadership styles… This is called the ‘Queen Bee Syndrome”. Guess women will have to emancipate themselves!
An inhabited island, which used to house 10,000 people, has sunk beneath the waves off the coast of India.
This site has a huge database of Gods from different cultures online. You can search per culture (eg. aztec, caribbean, egyptian, etc), then per letter, or you can search on the top ten lists per culture or of all the cultures. The results page is a little story about the god, interlinked with the other Read more about Find your God[…]
A real advancement in technology! This condom is now in testing, but is touted as being faster to apply, fit better and not slip. It works by inserting your penis in a casing, press the button and it would spray a liquid which solidifies quicly around your dick. They plan to have it apply within Read more about Spray on Condom[…]
Sitting at 90o is bad for you, 135o is much better as it places the stresses all along your spinal chord, this study conducted with positional MRIs has found. What they haven’t found is the best position though, as they only tried 3 positions out.
In Drachten they’ve gotten rid of almost all traffic lights and road signs, leading to the death toll going to 0 over the past 7 years (where they used to have 1 death per 3 years), no more traffic jams and much faster goings from a to b. They figure it’s because they take the Read more about Traffic lights and road signs are dangerous[…]
This site has a whole load of strange and unusual maps – from fantasy lands to Europe in the 15th century as well as how the states formed in the Australia.
Several virusses such as HIV and herpes are known to be able to cross over to the brain and then start eating it up. There are several more of these types of virusses, which when taken over the lifetime of the individual, will eat up enough brain matter to impair cognition. This takes on forms Read more about Brain eating virusses[…]
Odds are if you’re not a teenager you won’t hear a thing. Your hearing degrades after a while. Dogs will go crazy with this sound on.
Strange people and even stranger that they became celebrities
These structures are built with fully recycled materials and make you almost totally independant from the city in that you don’t need heating, sewage or other facilities. The walls are made of filled tyres creating the brickwork. As each area where the earthship is placed is unique, so is the design and as the materials Read more about Earthship[…]
But slap it on, do not spread it into your skin. The best defence is getting no sun.
This Java applet shows how many people (y-axis) were born in a given year (x-axis) with a given (part of a) name (area under the curve) on a graph comparatively to other names starting with the same letter.