08 May 1: Heartache
Days of ‘heartache leave’ that employees of one Japanese cosmetics company are allowed to take each year: 3
08 April 29: ‘1’
Amount a businessman in the UAE paid this year for the nation's license-plate number ‘1’: $14,000,000
08 April 27: Southdale
The Southdale shopping centre in Minnesota is the world's first true shopping mall, making it a landmark as important to architectural history as the Louvre or New York's Woolworth Tower.
08 April 25: Inter@ctive
In 1998, Research in Motion (RIM) released the Inter@ctive Two-Way Pager. A year later, RIM introduced the BlackBerry to the world.
08 April 24: Kitchen
According to a 27-country survey for IKEA by IsoPublic, a polling firm, less than 20% of Chinese families eat in the kitchen compared with 64% of Canadian and over 50% of American ones.
08 April 23: Poiret
Paul Poiret, King of Fashion, liberated women from the ‘stifling, tight-waisted, hoop-skirted monstrosities’ of the 19th century. ‘Poiret effected a concomitant revolution in dressmaking, one that shifted the emphasis away from the skills of tailoring to ... the skills of draping.’
08 April 19: Scenting
A dog's extraordinary scenting ability can distinguish people with both early and late stage lung and breast cancer.
08 April 16: Concrete
In less than 12 years, a Mediterranean weed has adjusted its reproductive strategy to deal with the challenge of concrete.
08 April 13: DPs
Estimates for the number of displaced persons during World War II varies from 11 million to as many as 20 million.
08 April 12: Wine
The brain experiences expensive wine as being more pleasurable than cheap wine even if it recognizes that both wines taste the same.
08 April 11: Skylab
During the skylab missions of the 1970s it was discovered that chicken eggs cannot be fertilized in space.
08 April 9: Cognition
Scents of coffee and chocolate have a significant effect on enhancing cognition and clerical office work.
08 April 8: Aztecs
The ancient Aztecs believed we are born without a face and that we must win our faces bit by bit as we grow.
08 April 7: Signs
In both Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, loss of olfactory sensitivity is thought to be among the earliest signs of the disease.
08 April 4: Factor
For heterosexual women, smell is the number one physical factor in sexual attraction, as well as the most important social factor, aside from pleasantness. Men also tune in to the important scent messages given off by a woman, but they tend to rely more on their eyes than their noses.
08 April 2: Olfactory
The 2004 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Richard Axel (Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York, NY) and Linda Buck (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA) for a series of studies that led to their groundbreaking discovery of the gene family responsible for odorant receptors and clarified how the olfactory system works.
08 April 1: Jubes
In the United States, Jujubes is the brand name of a particular type of candy, whereas in Canada the word is generic, and describes any of many similar confections.
08 March 31: PR
Edward L. Bernays, nephew of Sigmund Freud, is widely recognized as the father of public relations.
08 March 30: Insured
A U.S. study found that most free prescription-drug samples go to wealthy, insured patients, a different study found that black and Hispanic emergency-room patients are less likely than whites to receive narcotic pain medication, and a third study found that blacks receive poorer nursing-home care than whites.
08 March 28: Robot
Japanese scientists unveiled a robot that plays the violin, a robot that solves Rubik's Cubes, a robot that recognizes itself in a mirror, a robot snowplow that eats snow and excretes ice bricks, a robot exoskeleton that can be worn by elderly farmers, and a robot that walks at the command of a monkey on a treadmill in North Carolina.
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