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"The Great Male/Female Survey 2011"

By Rob Winters - Published on Friday, 05 August 2011 06:33

"It's 2011 right? Sometimes we need to check when surveys like the AskMen's 2011 Great Male Survey, turn up some incredibly old-fashioned results.

Odds are fairly good that sometime over the course of your career you'll meet someone at work whom you'd like to date. After all, you do spend most of your time there. But as Business Insider reports, 27 percent of men said they would only date someone in their office in a lower level position. And we thought power was supposed to be a turn on?

More than 70,000 men from Canada, the United States, the U.K. and Australia took the survey, weighing in with their thoughts on how....."

"Scientists find 'no fingerprint' gene mutation"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 04 August 2011 20:13

"A study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics looked at one Swiss family, many of whom have no fingerprints.

By analysing their DNA, researchers identified the SMARCAD1 gene.

Researchers said "virtually nothing" was known about how the gene functioned in the skin.

Normally fingers are covered with ridges called dermatoglyphs which are fully formed before birth.

Passport problems

Only four families have been diagnosed with the fingerprint-less condition known as adermatoglyphia."

"Secret to long life lies in genes, not lifestyle"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 04 August 2011 20:05

"Israeli researchers studied a population of Ashkenazi Jews who have lived to age 95 and older and found that their eating and lifestyle habits were no better than those of general population.

In fact, men in the longlived group drank slightly more and exercised less than their average counterparts, said the findings in the online edition of Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

"This study suggests that centenarians may possess additional longevity genes that help to buffer them against the harmful effects of an unhealthy lifestyle," said senior author Nir Barzilai, director of the Institute for Aging Research at Yeshiva University's Albert Einstein College of Medicine."

"Sept. 11 Revealed Psychology’s Limits"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 04 August 2011 19:59

"The mental fallout from the Sept. 11 attacks has taught psychologists far more about their field’s limitations than about their potential to shape and predict behavior, a wide-ranging review has found.

The report, a collection of articles due to be published next month in a special issue of the journal American Psychologist, relates a succession of humbling missteps after the attacks.

Experts greatly overestimated the number of people in New York who would suffer lasting emotional distress. Therapists rushed in to soothe victims using methods that later proved to be harmful to some.

And they fell to arguing over whether watching an event on television could produce the same kind of traumatic reaction as actually being there."

"This LED Bulb Is Officially the Greenest Lightbulb Ever"

By Rob Winters - Published on Thursday, 04 August 2011 19:47

"This lightbulb is officially the greenest replacement for a 60-watt bulb. It’s a light-emitting diode—commonly known as an LED—bulb made by the Dutch company Philips, it clocks in at under 10 watts, and it’s a bright, Big Bird yellow when it’s not illuminated. It also won its makers $10 million in the Department of Energy’s L Prize competition, which sought “high performance, energy-saving replacements” for the incandescents most of us still use.

If consumers are worried they’ll be burned by buying this bulb, they shouldn't be: It was “probably the most tested lightbulb in history,” said James Brodrick, the Energy Department’s light program manager."

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