Jeremy Taylor
Good Looking People Are More Selfish — Study
Attractive people are less likely to cooperate with others, and more likely to focus on their own interest, according to a new study
Spanish researchers had volunteers participate in “Prisoner’s Dilemma“-type games and found that those with the most symmetrical facial features generally took the selfish option, whereas less symmetrically-faced folks tended to cooperate for the greater good.
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Working In an Office Makes People Less Productive
The communal offices that were introduced during the ’50s to boast creativity and problem solving are actually reducing productivity, according to new research.
Neuroscientist Dr. Jack Lewis conducted brain scans on office workers and found that those who work in spaces with few walls are plagued by intense bursts of distraction.
Pentagon Releases Names of 30 Troops Killed in Afghan Helicopter Crash [VIDEO]
The Pentagon has released the names of 30 American troops who were killed when a rocket-propelled grenade downed their Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan last weekend
The attack represented the biggest single day loss of military personnel America has suffered during the nearly ten-year Afghanistan war. Overall, 1648 Americans have died in the conflict.
US Olympic Committee Demands Redneck Olympics Change Its Name
The first annual Redneck Olympics, which took place in Hebron, Maine earlier this month, featured events such as wife-carrying, bobbing for pig’s feet, lawn mower races, mud pit belly flops and toilet-seat horseshoes.
It also posed a threat to the real Olympics, apparently, because lawyers for the US Olympic Committee have contacted Redneck Olympic organizer Harold Brooks and told him to cease and
Seth MacFarlane Will Host ‘Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen’
‘Family Guy’ and ‘American Dad’ creator Seth MacFarlane will be the emcee of the ‘Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen.’
Facebook Can Cause Psychological Disorders and Other Issues in Teens
A new study suggests that using Facebook too much triggers the development of anti-social behavior in teenagers.
Did Woman Who Won Four Lotteries Cheat Her Way to a Fortune?
Since 1993, Joan R. Ginther has hit the lotto jackpot four times, to the tune of $2 million, $3 million, $5.4 million and $10 million.
The chances of this happening are one in 18 septillion. For a point of reference, there are about one septillion grains of sand on earth.
What’s the Key to Living to 100?
According to a new study, people live to 100 because of good genes and luck, not healthy living habits.
Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York interviewed 477 Ashkenazi Jews between the ages of 95 and 112 on their lifestyle choices. They found that this long-lived group was just about as likely to smoke, drink, eat poorly, be obese and shun exercise as a control group of ab
What Are the Most Depressed Countries in the World?
According to a multi-national survey of over 9,000 adults by the World Health Organization, France and the United States are the two most mentally depressed countries in the world.
Twenty-one percent of French citizens have had a major depressive episode, followed by the United States, at 19.2 percent. Belgium, New Zealand and The Netherlands are also among world’s most depressed nations, by this
Dieting Forces the Brain To Eat Itself
When you’re trying to lose weight by cutting down on your food intake your brain is busy chomping down — on itself.
Chimp Bottle-Feeds Milk to Baby Tiger [VIDEO]
Dodo, a two-year old male chimp who resides in a animal park in Thailand, has been trained to bottle feed the zoo’s tiger cubs.
He’s been doing this inter-species act of parenting for about a year now, although his trainer concedes that the young chimp sometimes ignores his feeding tasks and just wants to play with the cubs.
College Wrestler Executes Rare ‘Flying Squirrel’ Move [VIDEO]
During the Greco-Roman wrestling Junior World Championships, American Ellis Coleman pulled off an amazing aerial move called the ‘Flying Squirrel’ that would seem more at home in the WWE than it does in traditional wrestling.