Daily sex helps improve sperm quality
Having sex every day improves men’’s sperm quality, an Australian study has revealed. In a study of men with fertility problems, researchers found that daily ejaculation for a week cut the amount of...
View ArticleHappy Rabies Day!
Did you know that today is World Rabies Day? Well, now you do. Our pal Asylum blog has a neat post about rabies trivia, including these gems: People who get rabies don’t go vampire.Somewhat...
View ArticleDestruction Caused By The East Coast Earthquake
The East Coast is still recovering from a less-than-devastating earthquake that shook walls, knocked stuff over on desks and generally didn’t do a whole lot of damage. The folks over at BuzzFeed have...
View ArticleFEMA Looks to Waffle House for Data
Craig Fugate, the current head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), knows a few things about how to assess damage in a disaster area. There’s hard data, and then there’s a sense of how...
View ArticleBrain Damage May Be an Advantage for Gamblers
by Alice Shirrell Kaswell, Improbable Research Staff Brain damage has its disadvantages, but an American study suggests that it can sometimes give gamblers a winning edge. The researchers take a flier...
View ArticleElephant Underpass Reuniting Kenya Herds
Migrating elephants are just doing their thing, but cause damage to farms and fences, and run into trouble on highways. But an underpass beneath Nanyuki-Meru road in northern Kenya, built just for the...
View ArticleIntegrated Pest Management of Manifestations as Infestations
or, Angels Are Insects by Sally Y. Shelton, Washington, DC, USA John E. Simmons, Lawrence, Kansas, USA and Tom J. K. Strang, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (With profuse apologies to A. S. Byatt) The...
View Article7 Stories of People Who Refused to be Limited (in 2012)
Is it just me, or are there more and more global news stories about disabled people accomplishing feats that would be quite newsworthy for able-bodied people? I believe it is happening more and more,...
View ArticleThe Most Dangerous Drug On Earth
Heroin and crack aren’t nearly as addictive and they won’t do as much damage to your body -ok, that last part might be an exaggeration. Sure these syringes may be dangerous, but it’s hard to resist...
View ArticleStorms on the Sun
We have seen a couple of solar flares this year that gave us beautiful auroras in areas that don’t normally see such lights. But that was nothing compared to the coronal mass ejection known as the...
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