Sure, the TSA has made getting through the airport security a living hell. You can’t step foot on a plane anymore without getting your junk fondled or getting seen naked but that is no reason why your on flight experience shouldn’t be completely fabulous!
Richard Simmons is here to inform you of all the basic in flight passenger knowledge with this Air New Zealand, instructional how to fly video called “Fit To Fly with Richard Simmons”…
Instructables has a very informative and interesting post on more uses for baby oil.
Have you heard that joke about baby oil? The one that goes something like:
If corn oil is made with corn and peanut oil is made with peanuts, then what is baby oil made with?
The answer: Baby oil is made with mineral oil and fragrance by industrial professionals; babies don’t have the fine motor skills or chemistry knowledge to create baby oil, duh.
Baby oil is useful for a lot of things beyond baby bottoms. It’ll smooth, soften, lubricate, refinish, clean, and so much more. It also has some usual uses for which it really oughtn’t be used. Read on for some tips and tricks that’ll help you step your baby oil game up.
Continue reading… “Unusual Uses for Baby Oil”
Teens don’t want to miss emergency texts, even late-arriving ones.
10th-grader Ashley Olafsson sleeps with her cellphone under her pillow so she doesn’t miss “emergency’’ texts — “like if a friend broke up with her boyfriend.’’ Stephanie Kimball of Waltham, 14, is also available for urgent overnight correspondence, such as, “Hey, seeing if you’re awake.’’ Dedham ninth-grader Courtney Johnson gets as many as 100 texts while in bed. “I just don’t feel like myself if I don’t have my phone near me or I’m not on it,’’ she said.
Continue reading… “Texting Teens Exhausted by Being ‘On Call’ All Night”
Our happiest years come in retirement and decades after the age of 70.
If your carefree youth is a distant memory and you’re entering middle age with a sense of gloom . . . cheer up. The happiest time of your life is probably yet to come.
Continue reading… “People are Happiest After Age 70 and Don’t Become Grumpy with Old Age”
A deadly drug-resistant bacteria is spreading to elderly patients in nursing and long-term care facilities in Los Angeles County, according to CBS Local Los Angeles. Today 350 cases have been counted, most found in the elderly population. It’s called the CRKP bacteria and currently, it has no cure…
Continue reading… “Drug Resistant Superbugs Hit U.S. Hospitals and Nursing Homes”
Researchers have shown that the sensation of an itch can be caught visually in the same way as yawning.
It is a phenomenon that can leave entire rooms full of people scratching at the merest mention of fleas or lice. Now scientists have proven for the first time that itching really can be contagious.
Women could have womb transplants as early as next year.
Womb transplants that would allow childless women to have babies could be available as early as next year, a leading researcher said last night.
Continue reading… “Womb Transplants for Childless Women Could be Available Next Year”
Where are all the nuclear power plants?
At Nature blogs, Declan Butler has put together a really info-dense mapping of the world’s nuclear power plants, using Google Earth. Nifty stuff for anybody whose interest in nuclear power has gone up significantly in recent weeks…
Continue reading… “Google Map of the World’s Nuclear Power Plants”
Artificial dyes in food are not just limited to candy.
Push a cart down a supermarket aisle, and you’ll pass a kaleidoscope of color. The use of artificial dyes by foodmakers is up by half since 1990, and it’s not limited to candy. The list of foods made pretty by chemicals now includes pickles, bagels and port wine cheese balls.
Continue reading… “Food Dye’s May be Linked to Hyperactivity in Children”
Frequent churchgoers frequently fatter.
An inactive lifestyle, watching TV and eating too many fatty foods are all to blame for many Americans being overweight and obese. We may have to add religion to that list.
Continue reading… “Obesity Rates Higher Among Church-goers”
‘Blackberry thumb’
Tennis elbow, writer’s block and even athlete’s foot are problems than can cause considerable discomfort and more than a little embarrassment. Adding to the list of potential health hazards, the widespread use of hand-held devices at work has spawned a new condition.
Seratonin levels have been found to affect animal’s sexual choices.
There’s a new peer-reviewed research paper out this week that purports to show a link between an animal’s levels of serotonin—a brain chemical probably best known for its association with happy feelings—and who that animal chooses to be its sex partners…
Continue reading… “Low Serotonin Levels Make Mice More Bisexual”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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