If you dropped all our belongings or needed to borrow a phone, who do you think would be more likely to help you out? People coming out of a Prada store or people coming out of, say, H&M? Alas, all those clichés about the ungenerous and selfish rich seem to have been proven true – …
Do you or a loved one have any upcoming surgeries? See if you can schedule it in the morning. Patients who go under the knife after hours are more than twice as likely to die within thirty days of the operation. Those are the findings of a new five-year study from the McGill University Health …
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Don’t sit so close to the television, you’ll go blind. You have to wait an hour after eating before going swimming. There are tons of health claims that have been thrown at me my whole life, and I’ve never stopped to ask whether or not there was any truth to them. Is the five-second rule …
Most of the health rules you’ve believed your whole life are actually false Read More »
If you had to guess who would be more generous, fat people or thin people, which would you choose? If you guessed fat people, a new study suggests you’d be right. Well, fat men anyway. The study hypothesized – according to the abstract – that “economic decision-making differs between lean and corpulent subjects, [and] that …
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This is pretty funny. Everyone hates waiting for their bags after a flight, but imagine if your bag looked exactly like everyone else’s. This is what some airport in the UK (Heathrow, maybe?) looked like when Team GB come back from the Olympics thanks to what was the probably ill-advised plan to all have matching …
A new report was released this week by the Economist Intelligence Unit on the best places to live in the world. Just as an aside, doesn’t the “Economist Intelligence Unit” sound kinda like some sort of secret service police thing that goes around unearthing conspiracies and bringing economic social science criminals to justice? Because it’s …
Ever wonder why people cheat on their spouses, when they are most likely to do it, and the excuses they use to cover their tracks? New research of actual cheaters provides some insights. It turns out that people are more likely to cheat on their partners in the last year of each decade of their …
If you’ve worked in an office, you’ve probably experienced the politics and power struggles of food. From lunches stolen from the fridge to complaints over smelly foods eaten at desks, I’ve seen it all. At one previous workplace, we actually had a company-wide ban on bringing in any fish for lunch, because one employee was …
People are shaming their coworkers’ lunches on Facebook, and it’s hilarious Read More »
Hey guess what? If you’re reading this while lying around on a pile of dirty laundry, maybe eating leftover chicken wings off your belly, and you just woke up and you’re hungover and it’s 1 pm? You’re probably a f***ing genius, dude. Don’t let anyone tell you different. I just yelled that at my mom …
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Okay, so ghosts are real. A UK women took her kids to watch a movie and accidentally photographed a ghost in the back row watching them. Thirty-five year-old mother of three, Emma Johnson took her three children to see the new Pixar film, Finding Dory. (Too bad they weren’t at a screening of Ghostbusters.) Because …
Scientific proof that ghosts are real (and what to do if you encounter one) Read More »