How do phones affect your brain and your sleep? Let’s talk about it. Technology Is your mind too busy to sleep, does your mind turn off as soon as your cell does? Technology has made life easier, more efficient and more fun, but at what cost? We are always checking emails and obsessing over social …
There are a lot of sleep myths out there and a lot of conflicting information. Here are some myths and a couple of relaxing exercises for sleep help, if you need it. Eight Hours of Sleep This idea of eight hours of sleep is more of an average than an actual goal. For most of …
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Space is the place for weird stuff and the far reaches of the universe can get downright bizarre. But you don’t need to go that far to find some strange things. In fact, you don’t have to leave the solar system in the first place. There are plenty of fascinating phenomena happening right here on …
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Since the dawn of time, mankind has gazed into the star-filled night sky. Silently, we’ve wondered: “What would it be like to have sex up there?” What, you haven’t? It’s just us? It can’t be just us. If it was, NASA wouldn’t officially have a policy of silent disapproval toward space sex. But sooner or …
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Many religions around the world have institutions comparable to monks and nuns. A crucial part of these traditions is denying yourself some basic aspects of human life — like having children, or sex in general. But there’s also one issue — having sex and producing children is a basic aspect of human and, frankly, all …
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Out-of-control animals appear to be wreaking havoc all around the globe. In Japan, marauding monkeys are harassing people, while Hawaiians battle feral chickens. We can now add Australia to the list of countries locked in combat with an animal menace. But in this case, the enemy is much more intelligent than in the earlier wars. …
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They say that the eyes are the windows of the soul. That may be true for humans, but things get a bit more convoluted when you consider animals. It’s a tough world out there in nature, and you need to constantly look for danger. And while our two front-facing eyes serve humans just fine, they’d …
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Were you aware that you’re a superhero? That’s right, you! Please don’t go and try to fly off a building or anything, though — that’s not the kind of powers we’re talking about. But comparatively speaking, the human body is capable of absolutely incredible feats. Some of them are unique to humanity. Others are shared …
Did you read Ocean Fun Facts That Will Blow Your Mind: Part One? Because this is part two. There’s a lot of Gold In the ocean, they say that if all the gold was distributed to us as a people, we would all have nine pounds of our own gold. It’s basically a big gold …
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The ocean is vast, mainly unexplored, and a bit of a mystery to us all. Here are some ocean fun facts you never knew, you never knew. The Ocean Glows Or at least, the ocean can glow. It can look like sparkling stars, and it’s all from tiny marine organisms that live in the ocean. …
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