Leave that earwax alone
Discovering some of that yellowish, mixture of viscous secretions from sebaceous glands and waxy substance secreted in the ear canal -better known as earwax- in someone you are talking to, can just take away all your focus in the conversation. There is only one thing in you mind, and that is the thought that somebody needs urgently some clean up to do.
What you don’t know is that all this time you have been doing the wrong thing in the name of hygiene, because as experts found out, that gooey, golden stuff that builds up inside your ears should stay there.
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Filed Under Research, World Health
Facebook, the movie
Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer and playwright, has agreed to make a film about the founders of social networking site Facebook. But because he did not really know or understand what it was, he joined with his own page, were he will rely on fans to help him with the screenplay.
Filed Under Media & Society, Modern Life
Expensive rat meat
These days, everything seems to be more expensive: gasoline, electricity, mortgages and yes, rat meat. The price of the popular food has quadrupled in Cambodia this year as inflation has put other meat beyond the reach of poor people.
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Filed Under Diversity, Food, Modern Life
Miss Sister 2008 canceled
Because “nuns are often not sufficiently appreciated by society,” and “because there is a stereotype of them as being old and dour,” an Italian priest who said he wanted to hold the world’s first beauty contest for nuns, has decided to cancel the project, saying he was misunderstood.
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Filed Under Diversity, Media & Society
Unforgettable Olympics
Despite fears over security, pollution and humidity, the 2008 Games will be remembered for some record-breaking achievements.
During the sixteen days of action, there were about 10,000 athletes from 204 nations participating in the many competitions. We saw more than 40 world records and also, more than 100 Olympic records were set.
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Filed Under Events, Human Rights, Media & Society, Politics, Sport
Smells like cancer
Here is what it may be a cheap and painless form of testing for skin cancer: just smell the suspicious area and compare the odor with healthy skin, because as experts found out, a common form of skin cancer could be diagnosed by the distinctive chemical “scent” it gives off.
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Filed Under Research, Technology, World Health
French babies without TV
To watch TV or not to watch TV? What a dilemma. For one side, TV can certainly waste an important amount of our lifetime with improvident programming, but for the other, is just hard to be away from it. People love the box, and some of the biggest fans and followers are the little ones. As little as brand new, because, believe it or not, there are TV channels entirely dedicated to babies.
But no more in France, since the authority has banned French channels from airing TV shows aimed at children under 3 years old to shield them from developmental risks it says television-viewing poses at that age.
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Filed Under Media & Society, Modern Life, Research, World Health