People who napped for between 45-60 minutes were found to have significantly lower blood pressure rates.
Researchers say that having a 45 minute catnap helps lower a person’s blood pressure more quickly after a stressful event.
The Internet in Numbers 2010
What happened with the Internet in 2010?
How many websites were added? How many emails were sent? How many Internet users were there? This post will answer all of those questions and many, many more. If it’s stats you want, you’ve come to the right place.
Pathways to Prosperity – Is College the Only Option for Career Success?
Students need more options to career success.
Despite decades of efforts to reform education, and billions of dollars of expenditures, the harsh reality is that America is still failing to prepare millions of its young people to lead successful lives as adults. Evidence of this failure is everywhere: in the dropout epidemic that plagues our high schools and colleges; in the harsh fact that just 30 percent of our young adults earn a bachelor’s degree by age 27; and in teen and young adult employment rates not seen since the Great Depression.
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Stallion Semen to be Served up in New Zealand as New Energy Drink
Now THAT’S an energy drink with some real spunk!
The extreme of food now has a new treat du jour – shots of stallion semen. New Zealanders will be serving up glasses of horse semen at the famed Hokitika Wildfoods festival next month, a “delicacy” that racehorse owner Lindsay Kerslake says will have extreme foodies “raring to go”. “Horses are pure testosterone, you know. They have hardly any cholesterol, so the idea is you knock it back and feel like a stallion yourself,” said Mr Kerslake, of Christchurch. “You’ll have as much zizz as a stallion for a week afterwards.”
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Psychologists: People with Full Bladders Make Wiser Decisions
To pee or not to pee. That is the question.
Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands found a positive correlation between the need to pee and impulse control:
Their findings contradict previous research which found people who are forced to “restrain themselves” put more pressure on their brain and found it difficult exerting self-control…
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The Carlin Step Step
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Thanks to auto-tune and video editing, the late George Carlin can add singing and dancing to his repertoire of stand up comedy. Remix by by DJ Steve Porter & DJ Eli Wilkie (Agent 001).
What Every Entrepreneur Could Learn from Justin Bieber
Teen heart throb or creative entrepreneur?
I know what you’re thinking – link bait title, right? Wrong. I will stand 100% behind my assertions in this post. Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. I promise you can learn from him and this movie. I’m also betting that in 10 years he’ll be a mainstream talent rather than a pre-teen girl wonder. Read on . . .
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WikiLeaks Is Up for a Nobel Peace Prize
WikiLeaks could win a Nobel Peace Prize this year.
WikiLeaks is among the 241 Nobel Peace Prize nominees this year. The nominees come from 53 organizations and are greater in number than in any previous year.
Other nominees include the European Union, former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya Sardinas, Russian rights group Memorial, Afghan rights advocate Sima Samar and the Internet. That’s right — the Internet as a whole has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize…
The Top 20 Rudest Cities According To Foursquare
A lot of valuable information can be gleaned from location-based service Foursquare. Foursquare’s engineers have compiled this list of the cities with the highest percentage of tips containing curse words. So is it rude to say your service was fucking incredible?!
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Loneliest Whale in the World Sings at the Wrong Frequency
World’s loneliest whale.
We’ve heard about whales suffering from loneliness due to overhunting. There’s simply fewer of their species for them to communicate with. But what about a whale who sings at the wrong frequency? One whale, recorded since 1989 and tracked since 1992, sings at a frequency of 51.75 Hz, whereas others of her kind sing at 15 to 25 Hz. She’s lonely because no one else can hear her.
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World’s Hairiest Girl Celebrates Newfound Fame
Supatra Sasuphan, an 11-year-old from Bangkok, Thailand, has been named
“Hairiest Girl in the World” by Guinness World Records
Supatra Sasuphan doesn’t mind being called the “World’s Hairiest Girl.” She and her family even sought the title from Guinness World Records.
The 11-year-old from Bangkok is likely to become a future Guinness star. She has a condition known as hypertrichosis, otherwise known as “Werewolf Syndrome.”
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Porn Filtering Software for Kids’ Mobile Phones Sends Images to Parents
Mobile filtering software is limited or non-existent.
Parents who want to prevent their children from accessing pornographic material online normally only worry about traditional PCs, but what’s the use of installing filtering software now that kids can get porn on their phones? Internet-enabled smartphones can access any pornographic website, but mobile filtering software is limited or non-existent. And with the rise of sexting, children can even share their own indecent images.
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