Stendhal syndrome is a psychosomatic illness that causes rapid heartbeat, dizziness, confusion and even hallucinations when an individual is exposed to art, usually when the art is particularly beautiful or a large amount of art is in a single place. The term can also be used to describe a similar reaction to a surfeit of [...]
September 13, 2009
A new study has found that the thinner your thighs, the greater your risk of heart disease. Not a typo: thin thighs are bad. The research, published in British Medical Journal, reveals that thigh circumference is linked to the risk of heart disease and premature death. The study looked at more than 2,800 men and [...]
September 9, 2009
No, these are not the instructions for a new method to enjoy life to the fullest and achieve everything you ever thought about doing. Rather, these terms have been assigned to three distinct, unidentified, and so far unidentifiable, sounds. The Hum is a generic name for a series of phenomena involving a persistent and invasive [...]
September 9, 2009
It sounds like the avian equivalent of an Ozzy Osbourne legend. Great tits—the songbirds—have been discovered killing and eating bats by pecking their heads open. A bat was first observed being captured by a tit in a Hungarian cave in 1996. Ten years later, 18 examples of pipistrelle bat predation by great tits were recorded. [...]
September 7, 2009
The web community was freaked this holiday weekend when Google’s logo showed a UFO abducting Google’s second O. Speculation was that Google has intercepted an extraterrestrial search query, and that the logo’s appearance may foreshadow an impending visit from beyond. A more conventional, but less romantic, view is that Google was paying homage to the [...]
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