A firm handshake could be a sign of a longer life expectancy, according to British researchers. Scientists at the Medical Research Council found that elderly people who could still give a firm handshake and walk at a brisk pace were likely to outlive their slower peers. They found simple measures of physical capability like shaking [...]
September 7, 2010
Every coffee lover has a term of endearment for his or her cup of brew. Here are the stories behind some of the more frequently used expressions, like cup of Joe and java. (Also, if you’re curious about the mystery of where the word coffee comes from, look here.) According to the folk etymology of cup of Joe, the [...]
September 7, 2010
The British Royal Mail on Friday issued what it called the world’s first “intelligent stamps”, designed to interact with smartphones using image-recognition technology. The Royal Mail’s latest special-issue stamps, devoted to historic British railways, are designed to launch specially developed online content when a user snaps them using an image-recognition application available on iPhone or Android [...]
September 6, 2010
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, right? So that means beauty treatments are also in the eyes of the participant. But sometimes, these eyes are smeared with snail ooze. Or maybe they’re splashed by a ramen noodle spa or slithered across by snakes during a massage. Some beauty treatments around the world seem [...]
September 4, 2010
First there was the discovery of dozens of bottles of 200-year-old champagne, but now salvage divers have recovered what they believe to be the world’s oldest beer, taking advertisers’ notion of ‘drinkability’ to another level. Though the effort to lift the reserve of champagne had just ended, researchers uncovered a small collection of bottled beer [...]
August 30, 2010
The trophies from the big award shows all have cute little names (Oscar), and the Emmys ceremony is getting all the attention. Emmy must be very excited, right? Some Emily who was so important to the TV industry that an honor was named after her? Nope. Emmy isn’t human, is a feminization, and is totally obsolete. The television industry [...]
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