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The Flu Virus Thrives In Low And Very High Humidity
A Virginia Tech professor and her team figured out why the flu spreads in the winter: indoor heating. When the outside air is heated, it becomes very dry, creating the perfect environment for the...
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The Elderly Are Forgetful Because They Don’t Sleep Well
A study from UC Berkeley shows that the quality of sleep in older people is a lot worse than in younger, healthy people and that this prevents memories from being moved from short-term to long-term...
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To Lose More Weight, Eat Early, Not Late
(That’s right: the headline does rhyme.) Research done in Spain seems to indicate that advice like having a big breakfast and not eating late dinners are actually not old wives’ tales. The study...
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Get Drunk More Quickly With Diet Soda
Finally, a study that tells you how to save money at the bar: people who used diet sodas as mixers, as opposed to sugary ones, got 18% more drunk. The researchers gave two groups of eight people the...
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Divorce And Drinking
Scientists had a lot of data on some 20,000 people in a Norwegian county, so they did a study looking at how alcohol consumption affected their marriages. The percentage of subjects that got divorced:...
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Multitaskers Are Impulsive Risk-Takers… Who Are Also Bad At Multitasking
That’s the conclusion of a study at the University of Utah, that measured four of their subjects’ traits: how good at multitasking they thought they were, how good they actually were, how impulsive...
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Your Feet Pronating While Running Is In Fact Not An Issue
Danish scientists published a study on 900+ novice runners, whose feet they measured and classified to see how much they over- or underpronated. They gave them all the same, neutral shoe — with no...
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Cellphone Use Does Not Cause More Car Crashes
More research has come out against the common belief that being on your phone while driving will make you more likely to crash a car. This time, they took advantage of the cellphone call spike that...
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A Can Of Soda A Day Keeps Your Last Years Away
Researchers from UCSF looked at roughly 5,000 adults with no diabetes or heart problems and asked themselves how sugary beverages affect lifespan. They analyzed drinkers of normal, sugary sodas, of...
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Louisville, KY Is Sorta The Epicenter of Unhappiness In America
The map below shows people’s happiness levels in the United States: red means most unhappy, yellow is neutral, blue is most happy. As you can see, the biggest area of unhappiness is in Indiana and...
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Jogging Creates The Most Brain Cells
The New York Times reports on a new study that had rats try three different kinds of workouts: Aerobic: running on a treadmill or wheel Resistance: climbing on a wall with weights attached, to simulate...
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