Dreaming helps ease bad memories.
Fo you want help to ease those bad memories? Well, go to sleep and start dreaming – it can help you deal with bad memories, scientists say.
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Cherpumple, the Turducken of the holiday dessert table
Behold the Cherpumple!
For Charles Phoenix, the turducken apparently wasn’t enough. The turkey stuffed with duck stuffed with chicken – an increasingly popular Thanksgiving treat – was in need of a dessert counterpart.
So he came up with one worthy of the holiday, and he called it … thecherpumple. The dessert is a weighty, three-layer cake with an entire pie baked inside each of the layers.
Phoenix, a humorist from Los Angeles, describes his creation on his website this way: “Cherpumple is short for CHERry, PUMpkin and apPLE pie. The apple pie is baked in spice cake, the pumpkin in yellow and the cherry in white.”
Hmm.
He further explained that the inspiration came from the typical dessert table at his family’s holiday celebrations…
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Daily stress leads to sleep texting
Sleep texting
Sleep texting is a new phenomenon sparked by the stress of daily life. People with the rare condition send incoherent text messages while asleep to their friends and family – completely unaware that they are doing it.
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Picky eaters more prone to develop allergies
Allowing children to be picky eaters could make them more prone to allergies.
Mothers have traditionally been told to ‘cocoon’ their children by avoiding high-risk foods during pregnancy and while breastfeeding to protect them from potentially dangerous reactions. But allowing kids to be picky eaters could make them more prone to allergies later in life, scientists have warned.
BPA levels increase after eating canned soup
BPA is often used to line tin cans to stop them rusting and keep food fresh.
BPA, a hormone-mimicking chemical, used in soup cans could increase your risk of heart disease and diabetes, scientists have warned.
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Honeybees trained to smell TB
Honeybees are such an amazing creature!
New Zealand biologists believe that honeybees can sense the faint floral odor on the breath of people infected with tuberculosis, and are trying to find a way to train bees to help them diagnose TB…
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Donors in Mexico cross the U.S. border to sell their plasma
Mexicans sell their plasma across the U.S. border.
Two times a week, Araceli Duran closes the small store she runs from her home in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico and heads to what she considers “her other job.”
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1am to 5am is worst time for heart attacks: study
The size of a heart attack and the harm it causes a patient can depend on what time it strikes.
Heart attacks are worst when they take place between 1 am and 5 am, acccording to a study published in Circulation Research.
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Mouse fetuses help mother’s hearts
Cardiomyocytes damaged by a heart attack.
As it turns out, nature has its own method for transplanting stem cells. When a pregnant mouse has a heart attack, her fetus goes to work to help repair the damage! The experiment mated female lab mice with males who had the genes to produce green fluorescent protein (GFP). Around half the embryos produced also had the ability to produce the protein. This way, scientists could track fetal cells separately from maternal cells. Then heart attacks were induced in the pregnant mice…
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Taking a multivitamin can lead to poorer health
Could taking one of these vitamins lead you down the path of bad behavior?
Taking a multivitamin may lead to poorer health, not because of what they do to your body, but what they do to your mind.
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Bullying by text message becoming more common
24 percent said they had ever been “harassed” by texting. That was up from about 14 percent in a survey of the same kids the year before.
More and more kids in the U.S. say they have been picked on via text messaging, while there has been little change in online harassment, researchers reported Monday.
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‘Smart bomb’ mouthwash could render cavities a thing of the past
The ‘smart bomb’ mouthwash has the prospect of actually wiping out tooth decay in our lifetime.
A UCLA microbiologist has concocted a “smart bomb” mouthwash that may render cavities and tooth decay a thing of the past.
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