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This Is Why Facebook Is Bad For You
04 Jul 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Since the explosion of social media into our world, networking and communication has changed face quite dramatically. Is this causing us to be more lonely in spite of more communication?
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Winning Streaks Are Real And Have Nothing To Do With Luck
19 May 2014 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Your next big win at the roulette table is down to your BEHAVIOUR – and simple mathematics.
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Poor Women Don’t Have As Great Sex As Rich Women
17 Jan 2014 by Jasmine Stone / 3 Comments
A team of researchers have concluded that richer people, particularly women, have better sex than their poorer counterparts of the same gender. At least, that’s true of a control group of Spaniards who took part in the study. The slightly more astounding conclusion is that 90% of the people polled (not intended) in this study were satisfied with quality and quantity of sexy time in their lives.
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New Information And Incredible Footage Of A Shark Giving Birth [VIDEO]
09 Dec 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Researchers have always suspected that sharks, like many other fish, return to their original birthplace to give birth themselves. Now they have hard evidence.
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“Greed Is Good” – Turns Out Money Really Does Make Us Evil
17 May 2013 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Two German economists have released research detailing the stupid and bad decisions we make due to capitalism. Consumers still purchase from retailers that have been linked to the deaths of over 1 000 textile workers.
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You Don’t Need To Stop Smoking Until You’re 40
24 Jan 2013 by Seth Rotherham / 7 Comments
Good news for those of you who promised to stop at 30, but didn’t – you’re good for another 10 years. In the most “recent study,” some nerds “discovered” that you will regain all the years you’ve lost, if you stop at 40. Read on.
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SA Study: Some People Are Capable Of Making HIV-Neutralising Antibodies
22 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A team of South African scientists has discovered that certain people’s blood is capable of producing antibodies that can kill nine of ten known strains of HIV.
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Stellenbosch University Gives Companies Free Access To Its Research
03 Oct 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In a bold move that is the is the first of its kind in the country, Stellenbosch University is making its intellectual property and research findings available to companies and firms, for free.
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Facebook Quadruples Voting Behaviour
13 Sep 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
In another instance of sheep-like behavior, research shows that a banner message on Facebook showing users’ friends who voted drove a third of a million more voters to the poll booths in the 2010 US elections. It’s not simply people responding to a message, but rather seeing their friends had voted, that they then followed suit.
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This 15-Year Old Is Revolutionising The Way We Test For Cancer [VIDEO]
19 Jul 2012 by Jasmine Stone / 4 Comments
For most 15-year olds, the last thing they want to do after school is head to a lab and work on their biology. Jack Andraka however, is not most 15-year olds and after school he heads over to Johns Hopkins University where he’s working on a test for cancer that is leaps and bounds ahead of what’s ahead now.
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Being Overweight May Be Linked To People-Pleasing Behaviour
02 Feb 2012 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
A question for all those hyper-nice, socially aware, dream dinner party guests out there – have you ever considered that your people-pleasing tendencies may be making you fat?
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Facebook Enlarges Social Areas Of Brain
19 Oct 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Neuroscientists have discovered that using Facebook has a measurable impact on the size of particular areas of the brain. The results of a recent study show that the more Facebook friends you have, the bigger and denser become the three parts of your brain which are associated with the power to socialise. It’s unclear whether by ‘socialise’ they mean really, in real life. But maybe.
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New Study Finds Alcohol And Other Drugs Can Actually Help The Brain Remember
13 Apr 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
A new study has found that drinking alcohol primes certain areas of our brain to learn and remember better. In a nutshell, when we drink alcohol (or take certain other drugs) our subconscious is learning to consume more. But it also becomes more receptive to forming subconscious memories and habits with respect to food, music, and even people or social situations. I’ll toast to that!
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SA’s “Leading” Internet Research Company Wakes Up To Twitter
03 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 1 Comment
World Wide Worx, the research company with their fingers on the pulse of SA’s cell phone data usage habits has ascertained, with careful research and tireless data sifting that, yes, Twitter is the next big thing. They estimate that at least 1 million South Africans are “using the service”.
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Oral Sex Will Give You Cancer
01 Feb 2011 by Jasmine Stone / 2 Comments
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you read that right, oral sex will kill you. According to scientists, who are yet to get past first base, people who have had more than five oral-sex partners in their lifetime are 250% more likely to have throat cancer than the orally celibate.
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Is Your Child A Criminal In The Making?
26 Jan 2011 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
Is your toddler impulsive, easily frustrated, restless and unable to think about his/her long-term future? If they are, you’re unfortunately the proud parent of a future alcoholic, drug addicted, criminal with no future prospects whatsoever. No, really, that’s a scientific fact.
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Manufactured Livers A Reality; Students Everywhere Rejoice
01 Nov 2010 by Jasmine Stone / No Comments
The thing about the future that excites me the most, besides the talking monkeys and the sexy robots, is the cure for the hangover. Some mornings I wake up and I just want to pry out my liver with a spoon and get myself a new one – and thanks to the researchers at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine, that dream is a possibility.
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