-
How Music Listening Habits Affects Mental Health
The Centre for Interdisciplinary Music Research at the University of Jyväskylä, Aalto University in Finland and Aarhus University in Denmark conducted a study to try and understand if there’s a link between music listening habits, mental health and neural responses to the different types of musics through a combination of behavioural and neuroimaging data.
-
Trailer of ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ Helps NFL Ratings
The NFL doesn’t usually need anything external to help boost its ratings, but playing the last ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ trailer before the film come out during the Monday Night Football game between the New York Giants and Philadelphia Eagles was very helpful.
-
Nighttime and Daytime People Significantly Different Genetically
Geneticists from Leicester University in England have identified via a recent study, for the first time, some genetic differences between nighttime and daytime people.The study is based on findings and analysis of fruit flies, leading to discovering nearly 80 genes which can be associated with owls (eveningness) and larks (morningness).
-
Italian Supreme Court Says It’s OK to Watch Porn During Your Lunch Break
A judicial saga that’s been going on for five years is finally over when the Supreme Court in Italy upheld Palermo’s court of appeal ruling that a Fiat Employee who watched porn during his lunch break cannot be sacked by the automaker.
-
Top 30 Greatest Seinfeld Quotes
It’s almost impossible to pick the best lines, quotes and dialogue bits from nine seasons and 180 episodes of Seinfeld. But we still managed to do it, narrowing it down to the greatest 30.
-
In China, it is Better to Hit to Kill Than to Hit and Injure
In China, if you run over someone with your car, you’re more likely to make sure you finished the job and killed that person than try to make sure the injured person gets medical treatment.
-
Nations With the Most Gold Medals in the 2015 Swimming World Championships
The 2015 Swimming world championships in Kazan are over, with the United States once again finishing on top of the medal count, gold and overall, this time thanks to one swimmer, Katie Ledecky. Australia follow with three swimmers (Mitch Larkin, Bronte Campbell and Emily Seebohm) all taking double golds in their individual events while China […]
-
World Records Broken in the 2015 Swimming World Championships
A world record was broken 12 times in the 2015 Swimming world championships in Kazan, often by the same person in the same event day after day. Those who stood out were Sarah Sjostrom of Sweden in butterfly events, Adam Peaty of the United Kingdom in the breaststroke and above all of them was Katie Ledecky of the United States with an incredibly dominant week, taking no less than five gold medals.
-
Swimming World Championships – Day 8 Results, Gold & Medal Table
The final day of the swimming world championships was packed with events, and saw one American gold medal with the 4×100 men’s medley relay, enough to put them on top of the medal table in both overall and golds. Gregorio Paltrinieri of Italy won the men’s 1500 meters freestyle; Camille Lacourt of France took the men’s 50 meters backstroke; Daiya Seto of Japan won the men’s 400 meters individual medley; Bronte Campbell of Australia won the women’s 50 meters freestyle; Jennie Johansson of Sweden won the women’s 50 meters breaststroke; Katinka Hosszu of Hungary won the women’s 400 meters individual medley and China won the final race of the championship, the women’s 4×100 medley relay.
-
Phelps vs Le Clos – The Best (and only?) Feud in Swimming
It seems that Michael Phelps posting impressive times in butterfly swims away from the World Championships is re-igniting something a personal feud between him and Chad Le Clos, who has been doing a lot of trash talking (Phelps does too, on a more minor scale), already getting ready for when the two clash in the pool a year from now in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.