According to a new study, sleeping should not be shared. It has to be done alone, in solitary confinement.
“He said the modern tradition of the marital bed only began with the industrial revolution, when people moving to overcrowded towns and cities found themselves short of living space…Before the Victorian era it was not uncommon for married couples to sleep apart. In ancient Rome, the marital bed was a place for sexual congress but not for sleeping.”
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There is an old mystery why teenagers love waking up late, around close to lunchtime. Although the main culprit is because they stay up late the night before, researchers are trying to get a scientific explanation. And answer they get!
It was found out in a research that teenagers body clock is programmed two hours delayed. Which means that their cognitive performace is at its peak in the afternoon.
Can it be the same for young employees who are already working? I mean, will it be good if they start working in the afternoon until late in the night because they function fully on those times? The normal 8am-5pm work time will de defied. But then again, the study was conducted in a four-season country and ours is a warm country. Due to humid weather especially in the afternoon, it will only makes us lethargic, and not productive.
I have heard those complaints–if you are into Friendster, Facebook or MySpace, chances are you are anti-social. Heck, I beg to disagree. Recent studies have conclude otherwise.
“Researchers discovered Facebook gave people more choice on how they conduct relationships and was “a way of storing biography and enhancing social memory”. The study showed many people used it to track people they liked or to find out what ex-partners were up to. Members log on to Facebook to look at profiles and pictures because more information can be gleaned from it than a phone call or letter, the study said.” The complete article from BBC News.
It is dreading to know that men is being sidelined as years go by. Women has been exerting their power, and dominance in things men has ruled for years. Women are working, while men are being domesticated (that is doing house chores, and sending kids to school). How to get even with the opposite sex?
The balls maybe considered. Scientists has discovered that it might be a good source for stem cells, which means, women might treat us as the hen that lay the golden eggs. Forgive the pun.
In a recent study, premature ejaculation which is quite common among men, might be a result of a defect in the genes.
“A study of nearly 200 Dutch men found those who climaxed too soon during intercourse had a version of a gene that controls the hormone serotonin. Men with this version ejaculated twice as quickly as other men in the study.” That serotonin again.
I wonder how scientists measure brain activity on those Dutch men who were part of the study. Do they have to have sex in a lab, complete with brain-reading (or CT scanners) machines so the scientists can take a closer look on the brain activity during the act?
Haven’t you noticed that scientists almost always “blame” genes to some of human’s frailties? And if genes are to be blamed, can we, heretofore, have the right to blame our parents whose genetic makeup was pass on to their offspring?
I cannot go to the gym without bringing my mp3 player. Without it is like going out of the house without wearing your underwear. It is that important. That is why it has to be tucked in somewhere in my backpack. Always.
Now, what do I listen to when I hit the treadmill, and is running in a 10km/hr speed? Lots of Groove Armada, Daft Punk, and Fatboy Slim. Their music keeps me upbeat and alert. And I can stay focus and stretch my endurance more when I listen to an upbeat song (as opposed to hearing what the gym sound system plays).
In a recent study by Dr Costas Karageorghis, from Brunel University, listening to music can boost endurance by an average of 15%. The full report on the study here.
“Like natural selection and germs, the discovery of cancer stem cells illustrates how the most fruitful scientific findings are often not those of individual experiments, however intriguing, but those that organise knowledge into theory. The chemical industry took off within a decade or so of Dmitri Mendeleev’s arrangement of the chemical elements into the periodic table, just as radio communications followed James Clerk Maxwell’s mathematical unification of electricity and magnetism, and antibiotics came after Pasteur and Koch.”
The complete new findings on cancer and its relation to stem cells.
“Taking more exercise and eating the right foods may help increase levels of an enzyme vital for guarding against age-related cell damage, work suggests. Among 24 men asked to adopt healthy lifestyle changes for a US study in The Lancet Oncology, levels of telomerase increased by 29% on average. These consisted of a diet high in fruit and vegetables, supplements of vitamins and fish oils, an exercise regimen and classes in stress management, relaxation techniques and breathing exercises. ” The complete story from BBC News.
Such is the case that in our office, we have breathing exercises and stress coping programs which aide employees to combat stress, and be in the right mind (think focus) eventhough–and no matter what–pressures come their way. We have to take good care of our health, by all means. Life is too wonderful to be wasted on decadence and devil-may-care lifestyle.
Here’s another reason why we need to discard meat from our diet (aside of course from the fact that it causes us a lot of diseases and complications). According to the new findings from the United Nations, livestock farming constitutes 18% of gas emissions.
Not only that, in a 2006 report, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) concluded that worldwide livestock farming generates 18% of the planet’s greenhouse gas emissions — by comparison, all the world’s cars, trains, planes and boats account for a combined 13% of greenhouse gas emissions. Much of livestock’s contribution to global warming come from deforestation, as the growing demand for meat results in trees being cut down to make space for pasture or farmland to grow animal feed. Livestock takes up a lot of space — nearly one-third of the earth’s entire landmass. In Latin America, the FAO estimates that some 70% of former forest cover has been converted for grazing. Lost forest cover heats the planet, because trees absorb CO2 while they’re alive — and when they’re burned or cut down, the greenhouse gas is released back into the atmosphere. The full story from Time.
I listen to a lot of old songs; songs mostly in the 80s and early 90s. With the exception maybe of Coldplay and Damien Rice which are still doing music until now, but the songs I’m digging are those that I grew up listening to in high school and college.
The research, which was carried out by Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University, is said to be the largest such study ever undertaken. It suggested classical music fans were shy, while heavy metal aficionados were gentle and at ease with themselves. Professor North described the research as “significant” and “surprising”. He said: “We have always suspected a link between music taste and personality. This is the first time that we’ve been able to look at it in real detail. No-one has ever done this on this scale before.”
