Difficulty Sleeping? Try Sex.
Though humans sleep away about one-third of their lives, sleep science is relatively new. But the latest results show that sex trumps sport as a sleeping aide. These are just some of the results presented at the annual convention of the German Sleep Society (DGSM) in Kassel, central Germany, where 1,500 scientists [...]

 
Children Living With Adult Smokers More Likely To Be Hungry
SmokingResearchers at the New York University School of Medicine and Bellevue Hospital Center found that children living with adult smokers are more likely to be underfed.
Data was analyzed on 8,817 households with children for a period of 3 years. In that time they found that 15% [...]

 
New Miracle Drug Restores Muscle Mass
A daily dose of an investigational medication has been found to restore muscle mass in the arms and legs of older adults and improve some of their biochemistry to levels found in healthy young adults, suggesting an anti-frailty drug has been found.

Women More Dirty Than Men
Wash your hands, folks, especially you ladies. A new study found that women have a greater variety of bacteria on their hands than men do. And everybody has more types of bacteria than the researchers expected to find.
“One thing that really is astonishing is the variability between individuals, and also between [...]

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 Bladder Blunder
A healthy adult bladder can hold up to 16 ounces (2 cups) of urine comfortably, according to the National Institutes of Health. How frequently it fills depends on how much excess water your body is trying to get rid of.

San-Zhi Pod Village
Nestled along a short stretch of coastline in Northern Taiwan lies a strange complex known as The San-Zhi Pod Village. This abandoned futuristic luxury vacation spot remains a complete mystery to locals and tourists alike. There are several stories surrounding the circumstances that led up to its abandonment, but no one seems to [...]

 Kowloon Walled City
 Sunlight comes only rarely, with a sliver slicing down between the ramshackle towers. The light here is fluorescent and the people packed sardine tight amongst twisting corridors. Some of the lower levels are widely considered uninhabitable due to trash. Up the street (if it can be called that) there’s a drug parlor with [...]

The Abandoned Ryugyong Hotel
The Ryugyong Hotel resides in N. Korea. Work began in 1987 and was abandoned in 1992. At 105 stories, with 7 revolving restaurants, it would have been the tallest hotel in the world. However, word has it that is suffers from crumbling concrete, problems with the elevator shaft, and funds to complete [...]

Future Edisons will be out in force at the Inventor Showcase
Are you still on the fence about exhibiting at the Colorado Inventor Showcase? Well, the good news is you still have a couple days to decide, until Wed Nov 5th. The bad news is that we only have a limited few [...]

Lean Times Causing Obesity To Increase
The prices of shares are plummeting, but the food prices are going up at the grocery store. Just thinking about it could make you lose your
appetite and inspire belt-tightening–or, alternatively, give you a serious craving for some comfort food.

 Pointing fingers in an era of confusion and distrust
The financial crisis has put a spotlight on the obscure world of credit default swaps – which trade in a vast, unregulated market that most people haven’t heard of and even fewer understand. Will this be the next disaster?

The World Future  Society has released a 10-page report forecasting more than 70 major global  developments for the coming year and beyond. The OUTLOOK 2009 report examines  the key trends in technology, the environment, the economy, international  relations, etc., in order to paint a full and credible portrait of our likely  future. Among the most [...]

 
Nearly all American women office workers say they like or love this major player in their lives, even if it causes many of them pain, a study showed Monday.

Coffee Can Be Breast Shrinking
Ladies, please note — drinking coffee in moderation may be okay, but downing more than three cups daily can shrink the size of your breasts, a new study has revealed.
Researchers in Sweden have carried out the study and claimed that women who take more than three cups of the caffeine-fueled drink [...]

 
I think I can, I think I can. Believe. You can fly if you just believe. I won’t die if you just believe.

 
 Only a small percentage of people in the US are able
to identify Condoleezza Rice and Gordon Brown
When the Pew Research Center tested the public’s political knowledge earlier this year, the best-informed news audiences crossed the ideological spectrum. Nearly half of regular readers of The New Yorker, The Atlantic and Harper’s Magazine (48%) answered three political [...]

 
Is Self Check-Out Really Faster?
For an impatient geek there is nothing…NOTHING more annoying than standing behind someone in a grocery store that has the audacity to write a check in the 21st century. That is why I head for the self-checkout lines.
 

 
A new study suggests that taking an aspirin a day may lower the risk of breast cancer in women.

 
Women are more virtuous than men, suggests a survey which found that females outscore males on every moral conscience.
 

 
A culture of neglect and, at some age levels, outright social ostracism, is derailing a generation of students, especially girls, deemed the very best in mathematics, according to a new study.

 
 
A study done by Yale University states that treating old people like children may cut up to 8 years off their lives.

 
Remarkable movies like “Flash of Genius” can cause huge demands on bandwidth
Online video is creating huge increases in bandwidth usage. According to Cisco Systems, PC online video will make up 25.3% of each month’s worldwide consumer Internet traffic in 2008.

Exercise
Get moving: New exercise guidelines released on Tuesday set a minimum sweat allotment for good health. For most adults, that’s 2 1/2 hours a week. How much physical activity you need depends largely on age and level of fitness.
Moderate exercise adds up for sluggish adults. Take a quick walk around the block or suit up [...]

Representative Patrick J. Kennedy speaking at a rally in March on Capitol Hill. Mr. Kennedy
and Representative Jim Ramstad, third from left, led the fight in the House for mental health parity.
More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments because of a new law that, for the first [...]