Love bug salad
Would you like a bowl of scorpion soup? How about a mixed locust salad with bee crème brûlée for dessert?
Scientists identify part of brain responsible for the impulse to conform
Scientists have identified the part of the brain responsible for controlling whether we conform to expectations and group pressure.
The researchers found they were able to control whether volunteers conformed to social pressure by using powerful electromagnetic pulses that changed the activity of a small part of the brain.
Space junk at a ‘tipping point’: study
Space junk: a conceptual artwork representing defunct satellites, failed missions, and shrapnel orbiting Earth.
“A tipping point” for collisions has been reached with the amount of debris orbiting the Earth, which would in turn generate more of the debris that threatens astronauts and satellites, according to a U.S. study released on Thursday.
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Fort Collins, Colorado has nation’s safest drivers: study
Second year in a row Fort Collins takes top honors.
The Allstate Insurance Company has released its seventh annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report™.” The report ranks America’s 200 largest cities in terms of car collision frequency to identify which cities have the safest drivers, according to Allstate claim data.
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Top 25 CEO’s earned more than their company’s tax bills
The gap between CEO and average U.S. worker pay rose from a ratio of 263-to-1 in 2009 to 325-to-1 last year.
A report released Wednesday from the Institute for Policy Studies shows many large companies pay more to CEOs in compensation than they did in corporate income taxes to the federal government in 2010.
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Top two foods linked to weight loss: Surprising study results
This is one of the foods that is linked to weight loss.
A Harvard School of Public Health study provides lots of information that could help you eat healthier and gently lose excess pounds. The study covered a 20-year period and involved over 120,000 people, so these were not conclusions based on skimpy data. One goal of the study was to analyze specific foods and activities that seemed connected to long-term, gradual weight gain–or loss.
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For the unemployed, more sleep and tv but also more unpaid work
About 35 percent of time is spent doing unpaid but nonetheless important work, like child-care and housework.
At a time of record-level long-term unemployment the question everyone asks, even the jobless themselves, is what do the unemployed do all day?
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Teens, young men consume way more sugary drinks than recommended limits
Men aged 20 to 39 consumed 252 calories a day from beverages containing added sugar.
Almost half of the population drinks a sugar-sweetened beverage on any given day. But teenagers and young men consuming way more than recommended limits for staying healthy.
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‘Automation addiction’ – Have pilots forgotten how to fly?
Wreckage of a Turkish Airlines aircraft.
“Automation addiction” has eroded their flying skills of pilots to the point that they sometimes don’t know how to recover from stalls and other mid-flight problems, say pilots and safety officials. The weakened skills have contributed to hundreds of deaths in airline crashes in the last five years.
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‘Baby fever’ is real and men suffer from it too: study
Overall, men still want sex rather than fatherhood.
“Baby fever” — that sudden, visceral, and almost irresistible urge to have a baby — not only exists, it can be found in both men and women, according to a new study in the psychological journal Emotion.
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Why women get more scared watching horror movies than men
The study found that women get more scared than men during horror films.
Have you ever wondered why some women get scared watching horror films while most men stay calm? It’s actually their brains which make females more likely to be terrified by the flicks, a new study has claimed.
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90% of plant and animal species on Earth not yet discovered
There are approximately 8.7 million different types of plant and animal on Earth.
About 90% of the plant and animal species on Earth have yet to be discovered or classified according to scientists. Earth is estimated to be home to just under 9 million species, a study says.
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