Why taking risks is vital to your health (Video):
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Could a morbidly obese goalie shut out an NHL team?
's not hard to imagine an owner looking for an unfair advantage to "break" the rules of a sport. Baseball owner Bill Veeck famously batted 3'7? Eddie Gaedel at leadoff in a baseball game despite, or more accurately, because of, his diminutive strike zone. Charlie Finley employed Olympic sprinter Herb Washington as a pinch runner for his Oakland A's. Chicago Bulls GM Jerry Krause once shaved a gorilla and put it in a Bill Wennington uniform in order to get…
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12% of cellphone owners have broken up with someone via text message:
text messaging has become as important as voice calling, the study found that it has changed the way people manage their relationships. Some 31% of people across all the markets surveyed have lied about their whereabouts via text, one in five has set up a first date and 12% have broken up with someone. Synovate suggests that, in some cultures, this ‘hiding’ behind the cellphone enables users to be bolder, or more timid, than they may be in person.…
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How to Lose Weight – Avoid Skinny Overeaters:
a Time.com: If you're looking to lose weight, here's a simple tip: don't dine with the skinny dude who stuffs his face. According to a study that will appear in the April 2010 issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, both the size and the consumption habits of our eating companions can influence our food intake. And contrary to existing research that says you should steer clear of eating with heavier people who order large portions, it's the beanpoles with…
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Meeting someone new? You’re likely to tell 3 lies in 10 minutes:
ldman et al. (2002) told 121 participants they were going to have a chat with someone new for 10 minutes. Then half were divided into 3 groups, each with different goals from the conversation: Competence: try to present yourself so that the other person thinks you're are competent. Likeable: try to present yourself so that the other person thinks you are likeable. Control: no specific goal. All the participants were secretly videotaped during the conversation then, afterwards, asked to point…
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Sex or love: When your partner is unfaithful, what hurts the most?:
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The influence of genes on exceptional mental ability:
a macacinha.com: A new "mega-analysis" of 11,000 twin pairs, aged between 6 and 71, has helped to plug that gap. The results suggest that genes exert a significant influence on exceptional cognitive ability, similar in magnitude to their influence on the normal range of intelligence. The findings challenge versions of the "discontinuity hypothesis" – the idea that the relative contribution of nature and nurture changes for exceptional ability. Claire Haworth and colleagues, of the newly-established Genetics of High Cognitive Abilities…
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Why don’t pregnant women tip over?
’s not really surprising how pregnant women avoid tipping over: they lean back. What Shapiro and the other researchers learned was that evolution has made that (somewhat) easier for women. According to UT, the researchers studied 19 pregnant women, and they discovered that a woman’s lumbar, or lower back, curve extends across three vertebrae. In men, it extends across two. The joints between the vertebrae also are larger in females and angled differently from those of males to better support…
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