Category Archives: Human Interest

Scents improve memory formation

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The scientific community knew that scent is closely related to memory, as people can recall events / places with a certain smell when they smell the associated scent easily.
Now, they’ve found out that if you have a task that requires studying, then associate that with a smell and then throw that smell at you during deep sleep, you will have remembered what you studied very much better than if you hadn’t used the smells.
Interestingly this doesn’t work if you replay the smell during REM sleep, as the hippocampus isn’t activated, making researchers think that REM sleep accounts for absorbion of activity and emotive memory.

Toxic Wife Syndrome

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The new generation of gold diggers see it as their responsibility to be high maintenance and do nothing.

The danger signals of a wife going toxic are all too plain:

— She gives up work to care for the children and then sends them to boarding schools as soon as they outgrow their nannies.

— She demands wall-to-wall help with a maid hired to work up to 14 hours a day six days a week.

— Cooking and housework are strictly out of bounds.

— They have to live in a country mansion, forcing the husband to commute daily to London.

BASE Jumping Legal in US

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A NY state judge has ruled that since Jeb Corliss was very aware of the risks involved and attempted to mitigate them as much as possible, his attempt to jump off the Empire State Building was not reckless and endangering behaviour and thus legal.
Of course those namby pamby pussies who get adrenal rushes from watching their garage doors open with a remote control are all up in arms about it, but from me that gets a ‘Top Bloke’ award to that judge.

Earthship

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These structures are built with fully recycled materials and make you almost totally independant from the city in that you don’t need heating, sewage or other facilities. The walls are made of filled tyres creating the brickwork. As each area where the earthship is placed is unique, so is the design and as the materials are recycled and cheap, you have a custom built design to suit your needs at a fraction of the price of a ‘normal’ house. Sounds like an ecologically sound and attractive idea. Am I turning into a tree hugger?