Lack of sleep can make you fat as it trigger the “munchies” lowering self control, according to new research. The study suggests that losing sleep boosts hunger and makes people more likely to scoff sugary snacks or unhealthy junk food. Sleep-deprived participants in this study—all young, healthy volunteers—were unable to resist what the researchers called “highly palatable, rewarding snacks,” meaning ... Read More »
Manfred Fritz Bajorat, Mummified Body Of Explorer Found Sitting At Desk On Drifting Yacht. Manfred Fritz Bajorat, 59, was slumped beside the ship’s radio telephone, long dead and apparently mummified by the ocean’s hot temperatures and salty, dry winds, the Mirror reports. Read More »
US actor George Kennedy, who won an Academy Award for playing a hulking chain gang convict who pummels Paul Newman in the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke and later earned laughs in the Naked Gun comedy films, has died. George’s grandson, Cory Schenke, confirmed his death to TMZ who reported that he had been in hospice care for the last ... Read More »
The analysis of a long-forgotten femur bone has revealed just how large a predatory dinosaur called an abelisaur might have gotten, according to a new study in the journal PeerJ. Alessandro Chiarenza, a PhD student from Imperial College London, last year stumbled across a fossilised femur bone, left forgotten in a drawer, during his visit to the Museum of Geology ... Read More »
Microsoft will begin accepting HoloLens developer kit pre-orders later today, the company has officially announced. The $3,000 kit will start shipping in the U.S. and Canada on March 30, bundled with three games, a variety of holographic experiences and documentation on how to build HoloLens-compatible Windows 10 universal apps. Read More »
A nanny carrying the severed head of a 4-year-old child shouted near the entrance of a subway in Moscow, threatening people as they passed by, before being arrested, Russian media reported Monday. Videos posted on Russian news websites show a woman dressed all in black, holding the severed head and shouting, “I am a terrorist” in Russian, although most of ... Read More »
Monarch butterfly numbers rebound, but still well below 20 years ago. Despite reaching dangerously low numbers in the past, monarch butterfly populations are on their way to recovery as more and more of the orange and black insects have been spotted in recent months. Read More »
Ashley Guindon dies and two other colleagues injured in shooting incident following emergency call-out. Ashley Guindon was gunned down about a “verbal argument,” a spokesman for the Prince William County Police Department, Virginia, said. Officers received a call around 5:30 on Saturday evening in Woodbridge, about 30 miles south-west of the nation’s capital. Read More »
A new University of B.C. research has found that one in five lesbian teens who are sexually active say they have recently had sex with a male partner, yet only a third discussed using condoms. The research, which used data from nearly 3,000 girls between the ages of 13 and 18 in the United States, found that lesbian and bisexual ... Read More »
The Mounties aren’t commenting about the 910-hundred-thousand dollar overtime bill that officers and others racked up during an undercover terrorism operation. Documents obtained by The Canadian Press show the operation netted former drug addicts John Nuttall and Amanda Korody, who were found guilty of plotting to blow up the B-C legislature on Canada Day, 2013. Read More »
Canadian cable providers must make a basic package available to subscribers for no more than $25 per month as of March 1. New, cheaper cable packages are becoming available after the CRTC ruled that companies have to make an “entry-level service offering” available to all customers as of March 1. Read More »
Maci Lilley, A missing 4-year-old girl has been found alive on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in Montana after she was reportedly abducted. Maci Lilley was the subject of a 38-hour manhunt and a statewide Amber Alert until late Sunday morning when Roosevelt County Undersheriff Corey Reum found the girl outside of town. Sheriff Jason Frederick made the announcement just ... Read More »
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