A new study has found evidence that drinking protects your brain as you age. Light to moderate drinking may preserve brain function in older people. This is according to a new study from the University of Georgia that looked at the link between booze consumption and changes in cognitive function over time among middle-aged and …
Wait, what? It’s Groundhog Day again already? Whoa. Déjà vu. Since the 1993 comedy film starring Bill Murray, it seems that Groundhog Day has become synonymous in popular culture with repetitive or routine days where the same things seem to happen over and over again. Kind of like falling into a rut in the dead …
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If you live in Toronto, you might be familiar with this scene: You get on a TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) bus or streetcar. It’s insanely packed up front, but you think “Hey, I wonder if there’s more room further back…” so you start muttering “excuse me…pardon me…can I just…thanks…excuse me…” and squeezing your way through …
6 possible reasons why TTC riders won’t move to the back of the damn bus Read More »
Have you ever wondered if your Uber driver has reached into your order and tasted your food? Of course you haven’t, because what kind of gross person would do that? Well guess what… you know where I’m going with this, right? 28% of food delivery drivers have taken food from an order It turns out …
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Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life. I wanted to help you do that so I gathered information and research results from scientific studies all over the internet to find what you should do to live a life free from heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses that will kill you. Here’s what I …
Remember asking your teacher, “When am I ever going to use this?” as they tried to explain sign and cosine and other trigonometric functions to you in math class? Yeah, it turns out you were never going to use that. In fact, there are a great many things we get taught in school that are …
For the record, I am opposed to censorship and banning books. I do think that as parent – especially of very young children – you have a responsibility to make sure your kids are ready to understand and contextualize the information they are receiving. I remember reading a book of classic fairy tales to my …
Of course, we all know what LOL and BRB mean. You’ve probably heard of YOLO. But what about NIFOC or GYPO? Texting and instant messaging is becoming its own language, and there are a staggering number of abbreviations and codes that people are using to communicate succinctly. And because the teenagers of today have grown …
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Canadian employers say that they are struggling to hire the employees they need. More than half of the organizations surveyed (56 per cent) by Manpower for their 2016/2017 Talent Shortage Report say that a lack of skilled workers available is having a medium to high impact on their abilities to meet business needs. This most …
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I spend a lot of time on Facebook – mainly for work purposes – but also because I get bored and, like all normal sane people am afraid of being left alone with my thoughts, because that’s the true definition of hell right there. But it turns out that, like everything else in life, …