Crown shyness
Burger King in Brazil has launched a “Hangover Whopper” campaign that provides hungover consumers with discounts on the brand’s sandwiches. Accessible through a microsite and the brand’s mobile app, the effort uses facial recognition technology to scan a consumer’s face, with the degree of hangover detected corresponding with the size of the recommended combo and discount offered.
Our results show that humans engage in self-sniffing behaviour quite often […] respondents with lower standards of hygienic habits engage significantly more in intimate self-inspection (sniffing body parts such as genitals, anus, or navel). Interestingly, individuals who reported more frequent health issues sniff more frequently areas such as the armpits, feet, or own breath (Social acceptability self-inspection), probably to check for possible changes in smell due to illness.
most viewers either did not care about the male ejaculation or its placement, or preferred for it to be in the female partner’s vagina. In contrast to common assumptions found in the literature, very few viewers expressed a preference for ejaculation on a woman’s face or in her mouth and many of them found such practices disturbing.
research suggests that normal body temperature has decreased from 98.6 degrees (37 degrees Celsius) by about 0.05 degrees every decade since the 19th century to about 97.9 degrees (36.6), probably the result of better living conditions and health care that reduce inflammation, which causes temperature to rise
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Not all animals experience ageing during their lives. Some animals’ bodies do not gradually degenerate as they get older the way our bodies do. But for humans once they reach about age 30 their chance of dying doubles roughly every eight years. […] the reason humans age so markedly may be due to the fact our ancestors evolved during the time of the dinosaurs. […] For 100 million years, during the time of the dinosaurs, mammals were at or near the bottom of the food chain. Mammals were more often prey than predators. During this time there was no reason for mammals to keep processes and genes related to long life, such as DNA repair and tissue regeneration systems. My longevity bottleneck hypothesis proposes that repair and regeneration systems were lost, mutated or inactivated by the evolution of early mammals.
‘Zombie deer disease’ epidemic spreads in Yellowstone as scientists raise fears it may jump to humans — Warnings that ‘slow-moving disaster’ in North America raises chances of fatal mad cow-type disease jumping species barrier
An international team of researchers looked for all the cases of infections acquired in a laboratory or times a pathogen accidentally “escaped” from a laboratory setting. They found 309 laboratory-acquired or -associated infections from 51 pathogens; eight of these cases were fatal, including one of “mad cow” disease. The 16 incidents they found of a pathogen escaping a lab setting included well-publicized accidents such as the time where a West Nile researcher became infected with the first SARS virus in 2003 after handling contaminated samples in Singapore.
Crown shyness is a feature observed in some tree species, in which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, instead forming a canopy with channel-like gaps
By the end of the 18th century, however, the Enlightenment dream had become a nightmare. […] Religious superstition was replaced by political enthusiasm. Just as soon as people stopped being willing to kill and die for their religion, they started killing and dying for their country. Human beings are naturally violent creatures, simultaneously suspicious of difference and perfectly content to live within oppressive systems that provide some degree of affluence.
