Some people with anxiety may actively resist relaxation.
A study suggesting that it's a way to avoid a large jump in anxiety if something bad really does happen
2019
Trying to find a cure for AIDS, the Mayo Clinic made glow in the dark cats.
cats are much better models for AIDS viruses than are mice and other animals.
2011
Phosphate (P) is an essential macronutrient for plant growth. Roots employ adaptive mechanisms to forage for P in soil. Root hair elongation is particularly important since P is immobile. Here we report that auxin plays a critical role promoting root hair growth in Arabidopsis in response to low external P.
More Phosphate less root hairs
Selfies kill more people than sharks.
Between 2011 and 2017, at least 259 people died taking selfies, compared to just 50 people killed by sharks in the same period.
2019
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.
They need social interaction to be happy, so owning a single guinea pig is considered harmful to its well-being
2020
There are approximately 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way.
Out of all the known galaxies, the Milky Way is the one that contains the most stars.
2017
Cheese is the most stolen food in the world.
Cheese is stolen at a much higher rate than other foods, according to Global Retail Theft Barometer and Checkpoint Systems.
2012
Shawshank Redemption prison converted into a tourist attraction.
The abandoned prison was purchased for $1 and converted into a tourist attraction that nets $16 million annually.
2020
Eating fast food regularly has the same impact on the liver as hepatitis.
One month of eating fast food can cause significant changes to your liver
2013
John Mackie.
Tried to define causation in terms of sufficient and necessary conditions, but he tried to do so without appealing to complex metaphysical entities (such as Lewsi's possible worlds).
To do so, Mackie introduced the term "INUS Conditions". Event A is a cause of Event B if A is an INUS condition for B: A is an "Insufficient yet Necessary" condition for some other "Unnecessary yet Sufficient" condition for B.
In simpler words: If A was a necessary part of another event C (C could not occur without A), and C is sufficient to bring upon B (C is enough to bring upon B, but B could occur in other ways as well), then A is a cause of B.
1965
In 1986, the night before the Challenger shuttle exploded, Allan McDonald, the Director of the Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Project, Refused to Sign the Launch Recommendation over Safety Concerns..
The resulting improvements led to 110 shuttle missions in which the boosters came back pristine.
There are more volcanoes on Venus than any other planet in our solar system.
There are more than 1,600 major volcanoes across the surface of Venus
2020
