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You take the Yayoi, you take the Jomon, you take em both and there you have, the Japanese. That’s what linguists recently confirmed as they sought to examine dialects in use in modern Japan to find a single common ancestor. The linguists instead found two.
Preliminary research from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine indicates that lost sleep affects women less potently than it affects men. When men and women only snooze for six hours or less throughout the workweek, cognitive performance takes a hit, which accumulates over time as well. Even sleeping in during the weekend isn’t enough to make up the difference — especially in men.
Pandora Radio launched an initial public offering (IPO) of company stock this morning, with some success. According to Wired’s Sam Gustin, the company priced the offering at $16 per share, which would value the company at about $2.6 billion. As it turned out, the stock opened at $20. From there it went up to $26, and dropped somewhat. At the end of the day when markets closed, Pandora ended up at $17.42 per share.
We wanted to let you know that Marshall Brain will be leaving Discovery and HowStuffWorks to pursue new ventures and opportunities. Over the past 13 years, Marshall created HowStuffWorks from scratch and then helped grow it into the company that it has become today – a site with almost 20 million unique visitors a month. [...]
Are you going around and around (and around) in your head about some run-down, played-out issue you should have beat long ago? Then get outta here. There’s some evidence that travel can — at least temporarily — stop that spinning.
A “transformative” travel experience is one in which you escape the structure and norms of your daily life to immerse yourself in the structure and norms of another life. Within this new-to-you social structure, your brain will likely flood with solutions that would have seemed like a square peg for a round hole within your home structure. You may find it easier to shed bad habits and try out new behaviors.
I know, this sounds like a question you’d hear a DJ wail out at a rave. But seriously, ARE YOU READY FOR THE NEO-EVOLUTION?
Humans have been around 130,000, evolving into the charming specimens we are today. But what if you could take an evolutionary process of more than 100,000 years and in just 100 years DIY human evolution? Julie and I discuss if evolution as we know it is over and if we might have the technological power to weed out disease and give our future progeny super-human attributes.
I’ve barely dipped my toes into my late 20s, but I found out today that I’m only a few short years away from feeling old. A survey from a British funeral business, published in March, revealed that women start “feeling old” at 29 years old. We ladies don’t even have to crest the 30-year mark to already start unnecessarily aging ourselves? Heaven help us.
I found this a tad disconcerting, if you will. Back in August, the New Yorker ran a lengthy profile on the Koch brothers, heads of the largest private company in the U.S., Koch Industries. The article focused mainly on David, the less reclusive of the two (the other, older brother, Charles, remains out of the limelight by not doing things like bestowing $100 million to the New York Sate Theater, as David did), and the company the two lead, which rakes in around an estimated $100 billion in annual revenues.
As you know, Father’s Day is just around the corner, which means it’s time to find something spectacular to say thanks for being such a great dad and to show how much you care. Sure a TON of Father’s Day buying guides abound — but do you really need to buy something? Remember when you were little and you made gifts for Father’s Day? Sometimes something homemade is simply the best way to say, “I love you!”
Between 1981 and 2005, AIDS killed more than 28 million people. As of June 5th, it’s been 30 years since the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first identified a group of anomalous infections in LA. Over the decades AIDS spread across the planet, infecting people from all walks of life. Due in large part to a lack [...]
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