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Bra Sizes Explained - How the letters are actually used to define bra sizes 2007-10-08 00:44:28 Have you ever wondered Why bras are lettered A,B,C,D,DD,E,F,G,H and how the letters are actually used to define
bra sizes?
A. ALMOST BOOBS
B. BARELY BOOBS
C. CAN’T COMPLAIN
D. DANG!
DD. DOUBLE DANG!
E. ENORMOUS
F. FAKE
G. GET A REDUCTION
H. HELP ME. I’VE FALLEN AND CAN’T GET UP!
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The Office Desktop Is 400 Times Germier Than The Toilet Seat 2007-10-08 00:00:54 When it comes to being clean, your office desktop is far behind your toilet seat.
A new study by a researcher at the University of Arizona has found that when it comes to being clean, your office desktop is far behind your toilet seat.
The study, by Professor Charles Gerba showed that
the average desktop in the office has 400 times more bacteria than the average office toilet seat.
Prof Gerba, who tested more than 100 offices at the university and in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Oregon and Washington, as a part of the study commissioned by disinfectant maker Clorox, also found that a woman¡¯s work area has more germs that that of a man.
This, he found, is due to the habit of women of stashing snacks in their drawers.
Prof Gerba noted that women have three to four times the amount of germs in, on and around their desks, phones, computers, keyboards, drawers and personal items than men.
“I thought for sure men would be germier. But women have more interactions with sma Read more:Desktop
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Diabetic Neuropathy Costs Billions Per Year In Lost Work Time 2007-10-07 23:21:03 Workers who have diabetes with neuropathic symptoms such as numbness or tingling in feet or hands lose the equivalent of 1.4 hours a week or $3.65 billion per year in health-related lost productive time, a recent study finds.
According to a press release from EurekAlert, the 1.4 hours lost was more than twice the amount of lost time of diabetic workers without neuropathic symptoms. For this reason, individuals with diabetes are much more likely to be unemployed.
Geisinger Center for Health Research investigators looked at 19,075 working adults, including 1,003 who were diagnosed with diabetes. Of these workers, 38% reported diabetes-related numbness or tingling in their feet or hands.
When the investigators compared health-related lost productive time, it was 18% higher in diabetics with symptoms and 5% higher in diabetics without symptoms.
Those with diabetes were about twice more likely than those without diabetes to be unemployed.
(Source: Medical News Today | Geisinger)
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4 Times More Men Than Women Commit Suicide 2007-10-19 10:23:56
“Men come from Mars, and women from Venus”, that’s why they feel and behave differently. A new University of Western Sydney research showed that current depression treatments are not very successful with men as they are developed targeting especially women.
“Men and women cope with and receive
treatment for depression in distinct ways. Australia’s suicide rate currently shows men are four times more likely to commit suicide than women,” said Dr Zakaria Batty from the School of Psychology. “Part of the reason for this alarming rate is that men aren’t accessing the therapy services available because the services are not adequately targeting men’s needs.”
The research carried on 400 male subjects detected an array of factors hampering successful treatments for depression, like men’s behavior of denying vulnerability, that impedes them to openly search for help. “Fears of mental health stigma in the community, and la Read more:Times
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The Process of Human Evolution 2007-10-19 07:08:56 There are plenty of stories about life on earth. But the most unbelievable one maybe is the story about how we get our legs. Scientists believe that a fish first ascended land long long times ago. Then he has his first leg, and beginning walking……So somebody made these pictures. However, is that the real evolution process of human beings or not, still waiting for demonstrated by the scientists.
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Are You A Right Brainer Or A Left Brainer 2007-10-19 06:35:48 Do you know you are a right brainer or a left brainer?
Take This Quick Test to Find Out!
Do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?
If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Most of us would see the dancer turning anti-clockwise though you can try to focus and change the direction; see if you can do it.
LEFT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses logic
detail oriented
facts rule
words and language
present and past
math and science
can comprehend
knowing
acknowledges
order/pattern perception
knows object name
reality based
forms strategies
practical
safe
RIGHT BRAIN FUNCTIONS
uses feeling
“big picture” oriented
imagination rules
symbols and images
present and future
philosophy & religion
can “get it” (i.e. meaning)
believes
appreciates
spatial perception
knows object function
fantasy based
presents possibilities
impetuous
risk taking
(Source: Herald Su)
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Ejaculate Daily Can Increase The Chances Of Getting Better Sperm 2007-10-18 07:24:09 Sex works on the principle of positive feed back: more sex just improves our ‘performance’. A team from Sydney University says that men with damaged sperm should have sex daily to increase the chances of getting their partner pregnant. In many cases, couples with fertility issues abstain from sex for several days to boost sperm numbers before trying to conceive.
But the new research claims that this could mean lower-quality sperm. The Australian team investigated 42 men whose sperm had been discovered to have an abnormal shape after microscopical investigations. The subjects were required to ejaculate each day for seven days, and these sperms were compared with those collected from them after three days of abstinence.
Except for five cases, all the subjects presented less sperm damage in their samples coming after daily ejaculation, compared to the post-abstention samples. Dr Allan Pacey, the secretary of the British Fertility Society, agrees that daily sex could improve sperm qua Read more:Daily
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Obesity Linked To Cancer,Maintaining Normal Weight Could Diseases Prevention 2007-10-18 06:51:25 Obese people are six times more vulnerable to gullet (esophageal) cancer than people of average weight, as found by a recent British research.
For years, doctors have said that being overweight is dangerous to your health. We have become more aware of the fact that obesity causes heart issues, hypertension, stroke and diabetes.Now Obesity has been linked to cancer.
Levels of esophageal cancer have been rapidly increasing and in some countries even faster than those of any other major type of cancer. The research team compared about 800 people with esophageal cancer and 1600 randomly selected healthy subjects. Men and people under the age of 50 were the most vulnerable categories to this disease.
The acid reflux and gullet cancer connection was well known, and unsurprisingly, repeated episodes of severe heartburn or gastrointestinal reflux disease (GORD) were linked to a much higher risk of the cancer. The more frequent the symptoms, the higher the probability of developing esophageal Read more:Cancer
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10 Unusual Symptoms To Mostly Common Ailments 2007-10-18 04:26:37 When exposed to a constant diet of disease-related information, it is not uncommon for medical students to develop a form of hypochondria called medical student syndrome. And though no one has coined a term for the tendency to self-diagnose rare diseases on the basis of a symptom and an Internet search, the proliferation of health-related information available in the news and on the Web has led many a health consumer to mentally leap from a dull ache to certain death. Common
symptoms usually point to common problems, but that doesn’t diminish our fascination with the subtle, unusual clues our bodies may be sending us. Following are some unlikely symptoms that may send an early warning of trouble ahead. But reader beware: Sometimes a lump is only a lump.
The truly bizarre
And, finally, thank goodness if you don’t have the symptoms of what is currently called Morgellons disease. It’s not common—it doesn’t even have an “official” name yet—but it does have some very strang
Creative Advertising 2007-10-16 09:38:50 Advertisements usually have a negative connotation associated with them and because of this most people don’t like taking the time look at and even read advertisements. The good news is, not all advertisements are bad and some companies have taken the time to design some very clever advertising campaigns.
Razors
I love these adverts which tamper with the environment they are in.
Ann Summers
Watchmaker IWC
An advertisement by Jung von Matt/Alster for watchmaker IWC. Bus straps have been fashioned from images of IWC’s Big Pilot’s Watch to allow bus travellers near the airport to try before they buy at Berlin, Germany. 16 more advertisements after the jump.
Bowling Museum
Non Smoking
This is an advertisement found in Vancouver during the National Non-Smoking Week. The car was placed at the Vancouver Art Gallery and the message reads ‘Death from car accidents: 370, Death from smoking-related causes: 6,027, Quit now before it kills you.’
Street lamps or Table lamps
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Top 10 Things That Tick American People Off 2007-10-16 07:09:23 Americans get really annoyed when people drive badly, smoke in no-smoking zones, or don’t pick up after their dogs, but the rude behavior that bugs them most is workplace discrimination, according to a survey.
A poll released Friday by the Civility Initiative at The Johns Hopkins University and the Jacob France Institute of the University of Baltimore found workplace offenses featured highly on the “Terrible Ten” list of rude behaviors.
In the survey, 615 people from two companies in Baltimore and the University of Baltimore were asked to rank 30 examples of rude behavior ranging from text messaging when talking to someone, taking other people’s food from the office fridge, to snubbing people.
Dr P M Forni, director of the initiative which promotes civility in the workplace and conducted the survey, said he was surprised discrimination topped the list above other more usual peeves in the workplace such as colleagues brushing their teeth in the water fountain,
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“Smart bra” To Help Detect Breast Cancer 2007-10-16 06:59:32 Soon, a bra, universally used to provide support and comfort to the breasts, might offer health benefits, for scientists at the University of Bolton are developing a bra that can detect if the person wearing it is suffering from early-stage.
Experts working on the &ldquo
;smart&rdquo
; bra say that it will be able to spot cancer before a tumor can develop and spread.
Professor Elias Siores, inventor of the bra, who works in the Centre for Research and Innovation at the University of Bolton, also claims that the undergarment will be able to assess the effectiveness of any breast cancer treatment its wearer is undergoing.
“It could emit two warnings, audible or visual or both. If the warning persists, you would see a specialist,” Discovery News quoted Siores, as saying.
The smart bra works by using a microwave antennae system, which can easily be woven into fabric. The antennae pick up any abnormal temperature changes in the breast tissue, which are linked to breast cancer cells.
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Top 12 Severe Secondary Effects of Stress 2007-10-15 06:41:53 You eat the same food, do the same exercises and almost the same things and yet… something is different. Are extra pounds the reason why the metabolism slows down? No, it’s the stress. The main negative effects of the stress are caused by the cortisol, secreted during tension moments. In the wild, we had to prepare our organism when confronted with a danger or a challenging situation. But the daily urban stress puts the body in too many tension situations, exhausting it.
About 20 % of the population experience severe stress at work and over 500,000 Americans need spare time to solve the problem.
1.Studies have shown that stressed women depose fat inside the abdomen (this is the most harmful for the heart diseases). Cortisol directs
more fat towards this area. Not even skinny women can avoid the storage of abdominal fat. Starving is not a solution, only sport and stress can help you get rid of the extra pounds caused by stress.
2.Stress lowers immunity. Our body reacts to stress Read more:Secondary
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Self Cleaning Surface Made by Laser 2008-03-09 19:35:57 After a drinking session with your buddies while watching a game, the last thing you would like to do is wash after.
But what if the cups you have used do not require washing?
This could be soon possible, as a research has investigated a way to make a self-cleaning surface like that of the leaf [...] Read more:Cleaning
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Ghost Beetles and White to the Extreme 2008-03-09 19:35:56 Scientists have started looking to nature in order to develop better designs and materials, like adhesives based on geckos’ foot pads, coating surfaces imitating shark skin to easy-clean surfaces inspired by lotus leaves.
Now, they have found a new model. It looks like a ghost beetle. Or like being covered by an extremely white mold. [...] Read more:Ghost
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How Do Bats Fly? 2008-03-09 19:35:50 Putting bat wings on the mythical vampires makes them more efficient than suspected.
Because a study using the last technology on high-resolution, three-dimensional video recordings offered for the first time details on how these amazing mammals fly, discovering unique abilities.
The research showed that bats use a totally different lift-generating mechanism than birds and [...]
Polymer Wrinkled Skin 2008-03-09 19:35:50 An American-Korean team developed a new method for making wrinkled hard skins on the surface of polymers employing a focused ion beam.
By controlling the direction and intensity of the ion beam, they literally carved patterns on flat areas of polydimethylsiloxane, a silicon-based organic polymer (the main ingredient in Silly Putty), by changing direction and [...] Read more:Polymer
University of California is ready to bid for Los Alamos Lab 2008-03-08 04:12:44 The University
of California
has managed the nuclear weapons lab in the New Mexico desert since it was created in 1943 as part of the top-secret Manhattan
Project.
The past several years, however, have included repeated security lapses and procurement abuses. The Energy Department decided to allow other universities, corporations and nonprofit organizations to bid on the [...] Read more:ready
Hydrogen Powered Cars Will Save Lives 2008-03-08 04:12:42 Most of us know that by using fossil fuels we are slowly but surely destroying our atmosphere and implicitly our health. And one of the biggest sources of pollution resulted from fossil
fuels is represented by cars. The solution is relatively simple: switching to hydrogen fuel-cells.
In a recent study published on Thursday, it was shown that [...] Read more:Lives
Danish Researchers Announce a New Type of Plastic Solar Panels 2008-03-08 04:12:36 According to AP, a team of Danish
researchers said on Friday that
they have developed a new type of plastic solar panel that has a much longer life span than the previous versions. In the same time, it
Related PostShanghai Will Have Rooftops with Solar
PanelsAnother Type of Nano-technology Inspired by NatureA New Type of Three-Dimensional Microscope [...] Read more:Plastic
iRobot launches PackBot Explorer 2008-03-08 04:12:33 iRobot Corp. today introduced the iRobot PackBot Explorer
, a new addition to iRobot’s combat-proven line of PackBot robots.
With new intelligent surveillance equipment, including three cameras, and greater flexibility to customize with sensors and other tools, PackBot Explorer is the ideal all-purpose robot for searching hazardous areas before soldiers and first responders are exposed to risk. [...]
Shanghai Will Have Rooftops with Solar Panels 2008-03-08 04:12:33 According to China Daily, a government-funded project, to turn Shanghai
’s roofs into sites for solar-energy production, will soon be submitted for final approval.
If the project becomes operational, 100,000
of the 6 million roofs in Shanghai, a city plagued by chronic power shortages, will be used to supply solar energy to local residents, revealed Professor Cui [...] Read more:Solar
‘Gadonanotubes’ Greatly Outperform Existing MRI Contrast Agents 2008-03-08 04:12:24 Researchers at Rice University, the Baylor College of Medicine, the University of Houston and the Ecole Polytechnique F
Related PostDesign of Robots and Buildings Greatly Improved by A New Set of Theorems
Ice Zipping 2008-03-11 20:44:14 A new Yale-Cambridge research reveals how ice sheets sometimes interlace when they shock, rather than overriding each other; researches
assesses the implications of these phenomenon for other phenomena, from plate tectonics of the Earth’s surface to the development of self-assembling nanostructures.
“A surprising pattern, much like the meshed teeth of a zipper, is frequently seen [...]
Light Sensitive Nanoparticles Can Lead to Artificial Retina 2008-03-11 20:44:10 A breakthrough in creating robocops has been achieved: the world’s first direct electrical link between nerve cells and photovoltaic nanoparticle films.
The achievement made by a team at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) and the University of Michigan is the first step towards an artificial retina, opening the door to exploiting [...] Read more:Sensitive
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The Secrets of the Water Molecule Decoded 2008-03-11 20:44:08 Water may seem simple when we see it like that: H2O, two hydrogen atoms bound to an oxygen one.
Or not?
A research team at the University of Delaware and Radboud University in the Netherlands have employed high-speed computers and physics to peek into the hidden properties of water.
Their novel first-principle simulation of water molecules, [...] Read more:Secrets
Water Computer Employing Microfluidic Tubes 2008-03-11 20:44:04 If your PC gets into the water, after that you can throw it to trash.
But the future philosophy of making computers may be based on a watery support.
Plain nitrogen bubbles, directing the flow of liquid through networks of microscopic microfluidic tubes, could act as computer bits by sending liquid in one way or
another. [...] Read more:Computer
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A Vibrator That Measures Up Women’s Fit Penis Length for The Partner 2008-03-11 20:44:03 All the thin or short guys (and by this I do not refer to height or body weight) will tell you that techniques, not size, do matter!
If it’s of any comfort to them, so be it, but a new unique vibrator
explains more on the issue.
In fact, Inch Perfect is different from other sex toys [...] Read more:Vibrator
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How to Travel in Time? 2008-03-11 20:43:58 Would you like to have the chance of taking advantage of all the missed opportunities of your youth?
Only a time travel could fix it.
It looks like fiction, but some scientists imagine this possibility.
“There are a handful of scenarios that theorists have suggested for how one might travel to the past,” said Brian Greene, a [...] Read more:Travel
Glass That Bends, Not Breaks 2008-03-11 20:43:57 When you hear “glass”, a window pane comes to mind.
Ever tried bending one?
Surely not, since most people are not very fond of glass shards.
And yet, a new type of metallic glass bends in more than acceptable physical limits and “bends” again in commercial products like electric transformers, golfclubs and more.
Ask a [...] Read more:Glass
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