08 June 30: Anaesthesia
The 1 or 2% of people who are redheads may require as much as 20% more anaesthesia than blonds or brunettes.
08 June 28: Chain
On December 11, 2004, over 5 million people joined hands to form a human chain, 1,050km (652.4 miles) long from Teknaf to Tentulia, Bangladesh.
08 June 26: Hummer
On July 19, 2007, Paris Hilton attempted to demonstrate her environmental consciousness by telling Us Weekly magazine that she had ordered a Hummer Hybrid.
08 June 22: Eusocial
‘Some insects, such as ants and bees, live in eusocial groups, in which different members carry out specialized jobs to help maintain the colony.’
08 June 21: Ozone
‘A major component of smog, ozone is a by-product of chemical reactions involving nitrogen oxides and other pollutants. It oxidizes lung tissue, causing inflammation. This exacerbates asthma and leads to other respiratory problems.’
08 June 20: Venography
venography: ‘injecting radioactive material into veins for medical examination’
08 June 19: Dyslexics
‘All dyslexics are not alike. According to new research, Chinese- and English-speaking people with the disorder have impairments in different regions of their brains. The findings shed light on the neurological basis of dyslexia and reveal fundamental differences in how brains process the two languages.’
08 June 18: Birdseed
People dish out 500,000 metric tons of birdseed each year in the United States and the United Kingdom.
08 June 17: Cereal
Mothers who eat at least one bowl of cereal per day are more likely to bear sons.
08 June 16: Choice
Researchers have found patterns of brain activity that predict people’s decisions up to 10 seconds before they’re aware they’ve made a choice.
08 June 15: Arsenic
Scientists warn that some rice products for infants contain worrisome levels of arsenic.
08 June 14: Mobile
Minimum number of South Africans who do their banking entirely by mobile phone: 500,000
08 June 10: Rococo
During the Rococo Period, men's clothing became so colourful that women began to feel threatened.
08 June 9: Splashy
152,000 votes were tallied in an online Greenpeace poll last fall to name a humpback whale in the South Pacific; 79 percent favoured the name Mr. Splashy Pants.
08 June 8: Blood
In an average healthy adult, the volume of blood is about one-eleventh of the body weight.
08 June 5: Memory
A team of neuroscientists reports results suggesting that the continuing activity of a particular enzyme is somehow necessary to maintain long-term memory, something that's not predicted by most current hypotheses on the mechanisms of memory.
08 June 2: Shaadi
Number of different skin tones that members of the South Asian matchmaking site Shaadi.com can register as having: 6
08 June 1: Academy
The 1st Academy Awards ceremony was held Thursday, May 16, 1929, at the Hotel Roosevelt in Hollywood to honor outstanding film achievements of 1927 and 1928.
08 May 29: Bruxism
Bruxism - the grinding of teeth at night - affects anywhere from 15 to 96 percent of the adult population at some point in their lives.
08 May 28: Zappos
Zappos offers new call-centre employees US$1,000 on top of what they have earned after a few weeks of intensive training, if they want to quit. The theory is that the people who take the money ‘obviously don't have the sense of sense of commitment’ Zappos requires. About 10% of its trainees take the offer.
08 May 24: Victoria
Victoria Day, colloquially known as May Two-four, May Long, or May Run is a federal Canadian statutory holiday celebrated on the last Monday before or on 24 May, in honour of Queen Victoria's birthday.
08 May 22: Cathode
The origin of video games lies in early cathode ray tube-based missile defence systems in the late 1940s.
08 May 20: Gravity
Without the compressive force of gravity, your spinal column expands and you grow taller, usually by between 5 and 8cm.
08 May 16: Uniforms
Biologists found that those English soccer teams with red uniforms tend to win more often.
08 May 13: Eudaimonistic
On Happiness, two theories predominate:
‘The first says happiness comes when pleasure is at a maximum – the ‘hedonistic theory.’ The second holds that we are happy when we find meaning, even if it is through effort and frustration – the ‘eudaimonistic theory,’ from the Greek daimon, our true self.’
‘The first says happiness comes when pleasure is at a maximum – the ‘hedonistic theory.’ The second holds that we are happy when we find meaning, even if it is through effort and frustration – the ‘eudaimonistic theory,’ from the Greek daimon, our true self.’
08 May 12: Taboo
‘During the war, Chinese feminists continued their struggle on two fronts. In 1938, Mao Liying founded the Chinese Career Women's Club in Shanghai, which addressed both their society's gender assumptions and the Japanese occupation.
In Shanghai, where public baths were closed to women, members of the club held ‘bathing parties,’ during which they rented a hotel room, and in which they sang, danced and ate, as they took turns taking baths. Club members also bicycled around Shanghai in groups, breaking another cultural taboo.’
Source: ‘Shanghai in 1942’
In Shanghai, where public baths were closed to women, members of the club held ‘bathing parties,’ during which they rented a hotel room, and in which they sang, danced and ate, as they took turns taking baths. Club members also bicycled around Shanghai in groups, breaking another cultural taboo.’
Source: ‘Shanghai in 1942’
08 May 11: Benz
The film version of Sex And The City has just about as many Mercedes-Benz cars as it has pairs of Manolo Blahniks.
08 May 10: IAT
The Implicit Association Test is based on the observation that we make connections much more quickly between pairs of ideas that are already related in our minds than we do between pairs of ideas that are unfamiliar to us. Try a computerized IAT at https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/.
08 May 9: Lavender
Whiffing lavender oil during your next dental visit may blur the memory of your pain.
08 May 8: Pashmina
The test for a quality pashmina has been warmth, feel and the passing of the shawl through a wedding ring.
08 May 6: Facial
The Geisha is the latest facial to hit New York City. It is a $180 mask made with bird excrement. Article here.
08 May 5: Advertising
2 in 3 U.S. public schools accept advertising from corporations that sell junk food.
08 May 4: Anvil
Anvil has released thirteen studio albums, and has been cited as having influenced many notable heavy metal groups.
08 May 2: Intervention
The Snobby Coffee Intervention at Un-Snobby Coffee is a Washington McDonald's marketing campaign designed to ‘help a friend kick their snobbish habit.’
08 May 1: Heartache
Days of ‘heartache leave’ that employees of one Japanese cosmetics company are allowed to take each year: 3
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