Be sure to double check your hotel room before handing back your key card. It turns out that almost half of Canadians admit to leaving personal items behind when they check out. A new survey by Leger marketing found that 43 per cent of us have forgotten something in a hotel room. I once forgot …
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Wondering how long you’re going to live, and how it will all end? Here’s what the numbers say – according to the experts. The average life expectancy in North America right now is 78 years. That’s going up, however. By 2030, which sounds like way in the future, but is just fourteen years from now, …
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Stop me if you’ve heard this one. iPhones are just the worst. No, it’s not a joke, I’m just wondering how many people are saying it now that science has confirmed what we all suspected. I’ve never been a big fan of Apple products. Their tight control over every aspect of devices and the content …
File this one under “Why Did I Bring A Kid Into This Terrifying World Again?” North Korea reportedly conducted its fifth nuclear test today, claiming to have successfully detonated a warhead that could be mounted on ballistic rockets. The explosion apparently set off a 5.3 magnitude earthquake. According to CNN, the POTUS “warned North Korea that …
Ever wonder if you’re a psychopath? Well, now there’s a test for that. OK, there’s probably always been a test for that. But this is a new one. According to the Indy100, Daniel Boduszek of the University of Huddersfield devised the Psychopathic Personality Trait Scale (PPTS) by conducting research on inmates in a Polish high …
I hope you got along with your college roommates. You may have to live with them for quite a while after graduating. You already know that you can’t afford a house. Now you can forget about even renting your own place as well, even after you land your first professional gig. Making a lot of …
The Canadian cities where the average young person can’t afford to live Read More »
Wondering what kind of wine to pair with your Bic Mac? That’s a no brainer. It’s Champagne, obviously. The Big Mac being the Champagne of fast food burgers. That is what the experts say, anyway. Now, I’m not a sommelier, but I would suggest that the perfect drink to accompany a Mac would be rum …
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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 »