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Why insomnia makes you eat

The less sleep you get, the more likely you are to be overweight. Now, The New York Times reports, scientists have discovered one reason why: Sleep loss causes changes in the brain that make you crave high-calorie foods and weakens ...

A Dementia Epidemic

Alzheimer’s and other forms of dementia are afflicting far more Americans than ever before. An alarming new report by the Alzheimer’s Association shows that one in three seniors have dementia when they die, and deaths from the disease increased nearly ...
NASA paid people to lay in bed

NASA paid people to lay in bed

That's right... NASA paid people to lay in bed! NASA asked for volunteers who'd like to lie in bed for 24 hours a day for 10 weeks to volunteer for a program to study prolonged idleness. The test subjects, had ...
Can Best By dates be trusted

Can Best By dates be trusted on meats and fish?

Can Best By dates be trusted on meats and fish? Do you think your local supermarket is practicing truthful Best By dates on that packaged meat, chicken, or fish? Your guess could be quite wrong!! Investigators found that almost every ...

Barking Cop Makes Arrest

■ Police in New Haven, Conn., frightened a pair of suspected car thieves into surrendering by barking at them like dogs. The two masked men had holed up in an abandoned house, where police surrounded them and threatened to unleash ...
Chasing Happiness Might Be Making You Unhappy - Antarctica Journal News

Chasing Happiness Might Be Making You Unhappy

In America most people are chasing happiness in getting a better job, living in a better place, and purchasing stuff to make them happy.  Studies show that this type of searching may be leading to unhappiness.  If you are buying ...

Lady calls 911 due to bad pizza

■    A North Carolina woman called the 911 emergency line to report that Subway had given her a flatbread pizza made with marinara sauce instead of pizza sauce. 'It's terrible, and I got my receipt" Bevalente Hall, 37, told 911 ...

Oregon city fires its grounds-keeping goats due to ‘barnyard aroma’

A crew of goats brought in to devour invasive plants at a popular park in Oregon's state capital, Salem, have been fired because they ate indiscriminately, cost nearly five times as much as human landscapers and smelled far worse, a ...

Neanderthals—the other white meat

Neanderthals, a sturdy hominid species closely related to Homo sapiens, lived in Europe for about 270,000 years until humans arrived on the continent, about 30,000 years ago, at which point they quickly disappeared. The latest theory for their puzzling extinction ...

Too drunk to get married

■ An Australian groom showed up so drunk for his wedding that a minister refused to perform the ceremony and his furious fiancee broke up with him. When Jacob Brookes, 41, allegedly stumbled into the church still drunk from his ...