Are your cheeks & jowls starting to sag? Smile lines starting to show?
Well look no further for your solution!
Because in an awesome throwback from at least the 80’s, we learn at some near Kristen-Wiig-ian-scale silliness…
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Look Out Schwarzenegger, China’s Making Superdogs!
-And one day, maybe Super-You. Or your super-grandkids.
So a short while ago, Chinese researchers pulled-off some of the first gene-modifications with that new technique from “BREAKTHROUGH”.
What they did with it is to create a new generation of dogs with a very uncommon trait: Super Muscles.
What it could mean for us one day is another set of radical changes; maybe whether we like it or not…
19 Of Buzzfeed’s Tweets About Exercise Should Prep You For All Your New Year’s Workout Resolutions
With the New Year approaching soon and marathons over recently, I agree with BuzzFeed that a few pick-me-ups of sadly-accurate exercise humor is just what the doctor ordered to psych you up for all your Get-in-shape resolutions & new gym memberships!
And your trainer (or WebMD’s Fit-O-Meter) should Absolutely be able to tell you how many calories you’ve burned sliding down that wall crying.
Now check out the other 18!…
Video: ASAPScience Answers Internet Daredevil Question, “How Much Of Something Will Kill You?”
[to which some YT-er will post the inevitable response-vid saying, “Hey Y’all, Watch This!!”]
-Ever wonder how much of something, harmless or not, that it would take to kill you?
Well from Mercury, to Polonium, Coffee, Alcohol, Water, Dehydration, Salt, Lack of Oxygen, Cherry Pits, Altitude, Height, Chocolate Bars, Marijuana, …
ASAPScience breaks out the numbers to answer your burning questions…
Read More >Idea: Want to Increase Fertility And Father More Baby Boys? Wear A Kilt
Thus far in human history, wearing a man-skirt seemed only good for making a guy look like a trainspotting soccer hooligan to be avoided at all costs.
Well now SCIENCE! has come to the rescue and theorized an actual benefit to the traditional garb, besides winning your FREEEDOM! from the English.
The Kilt-loving Dr. Erwin Kompanje from Erasmus Medical Centre in the Netherlands has done a meta-analysis of the sparsely-available literature.
And his conclusions are that regimental-style kilt-wearing provides perhaps the perfect environment to boost male fertility…
Big Data, Social Media, & Negative Language Means Tweets Predict Health Problems #SayWhat?
Somebody get Freakonomics’ Stephen Dubner on the phone, because it sounds like an enormous leap, but apparently it’s true.
In a study by U. Penn’s Johannes Eichstaedt, it seems that certain tweets are correlated with people having an increased-risk of heart problems not of the OKCupid variety.
Honor Code Fail: The Houseplant In Your Echinacea And The Laxative In Your Mood-Booster
We’ve blogged about contamination here and here before, but this development seems even more audacious than before.
And Look, we all know (at least here on HT) that selecting & taking supplements is a bit of a Bro-Science. -Or if we’re Really honest, it’s Amateur Human-Guniea-Pig Biochemistry Gambling.
Well, thanks to what we’re learning from NY AG, Eric Schneiderman, and Canada’s University of Guelph, the truth is a lot worse than that…
You Can Probably Guess Another Person’s Political Views. -With Your Nose
On the sillier end of things, another pheromone study has come out.
And it says, somehow mystifyingly, that people can more-or-less smell each-others’ political beliefs.
Whatever the influence is, it’s got to be extremely-subtle given all possible environmental variables (if this study is not completely BS, of-course).
SO: What the researchers did was to set things up similar to the er, ~somewhat-proven Immune-System…
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