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Is Organic Food Really That Much Better For You? -Or Could It Actually Be Worse? [Video]

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition, Video

Is Organic Food Really That Much Better For You? -Or Could It Actually Be Worse? [Video]


Is The Organic Premise Right In The First Place?:
So, lots of people believe in food that’s decomplicated and grown in ways similar to those of 100 years ago as the path to good nutrition.

And recently, Organic seems to have taken that place at the grocery store for people who don’t hit up the farmers’ markets.

Many people even think that Organic means No Pesticides at-all and that it’s more natural, less dangerous to you and the environment, and ultimately healthier.

But is any of that true? -In this video, ASAPScience decides to find out…

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Video: Conan Finds Out Aubrey Plaza Has Staying Young & Aging-Gracefully Both Figured-Out

Filed Under: Aging, Other, Video

Video: Conan Finds Out Aubrey Plaza Has Staying Young & Aging-Gracefully Both Figured-Out


My Favorite Martian:
In addition to being one of the oddest and most sarcastic people on Earth like, you’ve-got-me-so-confused-I-don’t-know-who-I-am-anymore sarcastic,

Parks & Recreation’s Aubrey Plaza has apparently thought a lot about both staying young and how to behave gracefully if/when she ever does get old.

-As Conan O’Brien finds out in this interview…

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After Long Marketing Battle, FDA Approves “Female Viagra”. -Yay?

Filed Under: News, Noise, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Vitamins/Supplements

After Long Marketing Battle, FDA Approves “Female Viagra”. -Yay?
seductive middle eastern woman in orange headdress showing eyes with wink


Drug researchers have been trying for at least as long as regular Viagra for men to make a version of the same for women.

Sometimes, they’ve even gone as far as testing regular Viagra on women for the same effects.

And of course, results were inconsistent.

Well, just a few days ago, the FDA approved the newest drug-salvo in that pleasure war, Addyi.

But unfortunately, if it’s a victory at all, it’s a Pyrrhic one…

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Idea: Want to Increase Fertility And Father More Baby Boys? Wear A Kilt

Filed Under: Family, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Stupid Health Tricks

Idea: Want to Increase Fertility And Father More Baby Boys? Wear A Kilt
bagpipe players wearing kilts lineup on grass shoes and socks


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…

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Gardasil-9 Bumps Up Already-Impressive Protection Against HPV-Related Cancers

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll

Gardasil-9 Bumps Up Already-Impressive Protection Against HPV-Related Cancers
two cute female captain america cosplayers 1 rabbit


Somehow the wizards at Merck or their original researchers like CSL Ltd. have made the already-impressive Gardasil even more effective.

The new Gardasil-9 protects against even more strains of HPV than before.

The old vaccine protected against 4 varieties & had a 97% prevention rate. And those 4 strains covered 70% of all potentially-lethal HPV.

 
Mystifyingly, even though it covers more than twice as many strains,…

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You Can Probably Guess Another Person’s Political Views. -With Your Nose

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Stupid Health Tricks

You Can Probably Guess Another Person’s Political Views. -With Your Nose
right side view of sleeping corgi muzzle


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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Video: Neo-Hippie Silverstoning-Aside, Why Exactly Do We Kiss?

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Sex, Meds, Rock n Roll, Video

Video: Neo-Hippie Silverstoning-Aside, Why Exactly Do We Kiss?


Though not as cutely-illustrated as ASAPScience’s stuff, Michael Stevens of VSauce goes into some interesting depth and detours here about the science and evolution of kissing.

Some of what he covers in this vid include: Kissing is healthy for us, it’s probably been used as a “Taste Test” part of mate-selection for well; -ever, Don’t go all Silverstone but Kissing was probably used for the world’s first and maybe healthiest baby-food, and into the darker areas of science,…

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